Portugal’s Employment and Vocational Training Institute (IEFP), through its Lisbon centre, won the Best Innovation Project award at the Hospitality Education Awards, Portugal’s tourism training prizes, it announced on 9 October.
The winning project, “É UM RESTAURANTE” (“It’s a restaurant”), is a partnership between IEFP and the CRESCER association. The jury highlighted its impact as an innovative response promoting the social and professional inclusion of highly vulnerable people.
Since 2020 the project has offered qualification pathways, hands-on experience in a real restaurant and personal support. So far it has reached 439 trainees across 35 training courses.
