Capacity Building for Youth Workers to bring tourism bridges between Africa and Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Capacity Building for Youth Workers to bring tourism bridges between Africa and Europe

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The TBridges project is aiming to promote the cooperation between Europe and Africa in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to increase the employability of the young people in the field of tourism which is one of the most promising industries both in Europe and in Africa.
In order to promote this objective, TBridges organised 1 transnational seminar, 2 capacity building training courses and 1 e-learning course in order to train the youth workers from the Partner Countries in the organisation of non formal and informal learning activities for the development of the skills of young people related to tourism and the development of the entrepreneurial spirit of the young people related with the industry. More than 50 youth workers from all the partner countries were involved in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and through their participation in the e-learning course developed. The main emphasis was given to the youth workers from the Partner Countries (Cape Verde and Ghana). 50 youth workers participated from each of the Partner Countries (30 youth workers through the participation in the transnational training events and 20 youth workers through the participation in the e-learning course). These youth workers are then going to implement practically the knowledge obtained through their participation in the training events with their activities with the young people. It is expected that at least 300 young people are going to benefit indirectly from the activities of the project through their youth workers. The project, in order to achieve its objectives, also involved significant multipliers and stakeholders from the tourism sector. The consortium of the project is multi-actor, it has a great experience in the field and it has complementary competencies. It is constituted from 6 partners from 5 countries (Greece, Spain, Romania, Cape Verde and Ghana). The partners from the Partner Countries (Cape Verde and Ghana) are youth organisations that are willing to build their capacity to support youth exchanges and also to support the youth in their local community. The European partners include organisations experts in entrepreneurial related training, experts in youth exchanges, experts in e-learning courses and experts in the field of tourism.
The transnational seminar was organised in Athens Greece (July 2015) and the two capacity building training courses were organised Cape Verde (January 2016) and Ghana (September 2016). The last training tool in Ghana was combined with a final conference and a docufilm was produced available here: https://youtu.be/AkaPW_uXfDQ. The organisation of the project’s e-learning tool will increase significantly both the time that a youth worker could dedicate in the training course and the number of people that will be able to attend the it. The content of the tool is divided in six chapters: Learning on Tourism, Gastronomic Tourism, Cultural and Art Tourism, Experiential Tourism, Communication and Marketing, Policy and legal issues regarding Tourism. The e-learning platform is available here: http://www.actione-learn.eu/t-bridges/frontpage/index.php/en/.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150000 Eur

Project Coordinator

ACADEMY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASTIKI ETAIREIA & Country: EL

Project Partners