Centers of excellence in sustainable tourism to boost economic development and enhance university-business cooperation in Southern Asia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Centers of excellence in sustainable tourism to boost economic development and enhance university-business cooperation in Southern Asia

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 in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in IN, SR & NP & is therefore steadily rising in importance to national development & advancement of its people. Still, through the fast growth the industry is facing disparities in social, environmental & economic aspects which will lead to a loss of benefits now experiencing from this industry, having extreme consequences for the population.Therefore, the development of a robust ecosystem for sustainable tourism (ST) on HEI campuses & beyond academic borders to foster uni business cooperation & to enhance the awareness of the concept is key for sustainable growth. Despite this thrive of innovation, there is lack in understanding & applying ST as the concept itself as it is rather new to HEIs. HEIs need to update their physical infrastructure &upgrade&professionalize teaching capacities to be able to react to current educational trends & to develop future change makers.CESTour is designed to create awareness of the concept ST & to develop innovations through disruptive yet sustainable ideas focusing on changing the perception towards ST through a blended learning approach applied for capacity building on a local & regional level.Results & impact:• Strengthened teaching staff capacities & student skill sets through innovative teaching & learning methodologies by offering ST trainings• Modernized technical infrastructure of HEIs by creating, equipping & putting in operation the centers of excellence for ST• Enhanced HEI-business cooperation & students learning experience by developing ST Case studies, to prepare students for innovative thinking in “real life” contexts• Greater awareness & reach of high-quality training material & publications by providing access to Open Educational Resources to regional & international academic community• Extended intern. networks in ST education & innovation in national & intern. HE contexts by joint publications & organising the intern. conference

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 901914 Eur

Project Coordinator

FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• GLOBAL COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL
• NIRMA UNIVERSITY
• THE SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
• UVA WELLASSA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
• TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY
• LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI LINGUE E COMUNICAZIONE IULM
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE