Еmployment in tourism using the new technologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Еmployment in tourism using the new technologies

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Regional dimension and cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Tourism is a leading and dynamically developing sector in the world economy. It is one of the accelerators of globalization, increasingly embracing the various aspects of socio-economic, cultural and political development worldwide. The importance of the tourism industry is explained by its contribution to economic activity, namely – 10% of world GDP and 1 in 10 jobs generated, according to UNWTO data.

The epidemiological situation since the beginning of 2020 led to the collapse of the sector and the loss of jobs. The rebuilding of the industry requires the adaptation of human capital to new business models, products and services, to digitization and robotics. In this context, human resources competencies, knowledge and skills will be key to returning to the labour market and developing it in the new conditions.

The project “Employment in Tourism Using the New Technologies” (E-tour.net) creates an opportunity for cooperation between non-governmental organizations in order to improve key skills and acquire digital competencies of adults in the field of new technologies, thus promoting employability and helping their return to the labour market as employees or freelancers. This highlights the main objective of the project – to help overcome the economic downturn and emerging structural unemployment with specific elements of age unemployment, a consequence of the epidemiological situation in one of the most affected sphere – tourism, by improving and expanding the opportunities offered by modern digital technologies to learn and build knowledge, skills and competences.

In addition to the economic implications, the epidemiological situation has raised new questions regarding multicultural dialogue and highlighted communities and the issue of open borders. In this regard, the specific objective of the project is to support social cohesion in the context of new challenges. E-tour.net focuses on cultural heritage, on the one hand, as a resource for tourism development and as an opportunity to reflect on cultural diversity within the pan-European historical experience, on the other.

Through transnational cooperation, the project will improve intercultural dialogue and facilitate the exchange of good practices and the integration of innovative ideas with a view to social inclusion and overcoming the crisis and the development of the labour market. The involvement of specific partners Association “Svetlina za Belogradchik”, …………………. provides enhanced cooperation between organizations whose profile and activity are in different fields but are intertwined and mutually supportive in the process of developing economic and human capital in their regions and countries.

E-tour.net will use the innovative 3D augmented reality technology as a major solution to achieving its core and specific goals – enhancing key competencies, acquiring new digital skills from target groups and enhancing intercultural dialogue through a focus on pan-European cultural heritage.
Within the project partners:
– will create educational videos on technology opportunities and training resources to acquire digital skills;
– develop a common product based on innovative technology – a mobile application with the restoration of destroyed cultural heritage monuments;
– conduct joint trainings with target audiences to work with the application;
– will present to the general public the possibilities of applying the created product;
– develop a website that will be accessible to all training materials developed within the project. This will reach a wide audience of stakeholders and will ensure the sustainability of the project, promoting the activities and results achieved.

Through the implementation of the planned activities, the project will enhance the knowledge and skills of the target groups and stakeholders, on the one hand, and on the other – will create a quality intellectual product that can be successfully integrated and upgraded as a tourist service in the target territories (regions of the partner organizations).
The restoration by 3D technology of augmented reality of destroyed cultural monuments will focus the public’s attention on cultural diversity, focusing on similarities in pan-European history. In particular, the threat of its deletion and the possibility of joint recovery, is a reference to dealing with the current crisis.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 213200 Eur

Project Coordinator

Svetlina Za Belogradchik & Country: BG

Project Partners

• MANCOMUNIDAD DE LA RIBERA ALTA
• Fondazione per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione