Restoring Disaster Area through Community Based Tourism Youth-Led Erasmus Project

Project Title

Restoring Disaster Area through Community Based Tourism Youth-Led

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The DisArTY project is aiming to promote the cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Asia in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to increase social entrepreneurship and employability of the young people in the field of community based tourism which represents a great potential for them and represent an important tool for restoring the areas damaged by natural disaster. It is essential to develop strategies that guarantee countries affected by natural disasters the recovery of their human activity, for this reason this project it will incentive to community-based tourism youth-led because this involves the communities that control, manage and develop their own tourism industry and represents a sector in which specially young people have an important role to play as the most dynamic and innovative part of this field. The project activities will be based on the identification and valorization of local community assets that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities of disaster areas. In order to promote this objective, DisArTY project will organize four main activity clusters: First, research on the principles and best practices related with community based tourism with local youth. This research will also include the identification of important local assets that could be valorised for a tourism related product in each of the local communities that the partners are going to focus their activities on. Second, the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of community based tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international exchanges in Italy, Mexico and Philippines. Third, the development of innovative community based tourism offers at local level with active involvement of youth, many with few opportunities and/or hit or threatened by unemployment caused by the disaster. Fourth, the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, business plan development and community based social entrepreneurship. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and a new platform with contacts of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship tutors. It is expected that more than 100 youth workers from all the partner countries are going to be involved in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and the participation in the e-learning course that the project is going to develop. The project is going to be implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 European countries (Italy, Greece), 1 Asian (Philippines) and one Latin American country (Mexico). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, universities and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149045 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE RESTORING ANCIENT STABIAE ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• BRIDGING THE GAPS ORGANIZATION BTGINC
• UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA PEGASO
• INICIATIVAS INTERNACIONALES PARA LA COOPERACION
• ACTION SYNERGY SA