V2 Take your chance, Go responsible! Unlocking the potential of Youth Entrepreneurship through Responsible Tourism Erasmus Project

Project Title

V2 Take your chance, Go responsible! Unlocking
the potential of Youth Entrepreneurship through
Responsible Tourism

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The Charter of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) specifies that responsible tourism must be
“sustainable in the long term, ecologically, economically viable, ethically and socially equitable for the
local population”.

In Europe, the tourism sector now employs around 17 million people. Its overall contribution to the
economy is close to 10% of the GDP of the European Union. However, European tourism faces many
challenges, starting with the need to constantly innovate and improve the quality of its services. The
sector must adapt quickly to the digital revolution, with its new marketing methods, online
reservation, … It must also develop new attractive products while being respectful of the local
population and the environment (EU Commission).
At the same time, in a Europe in crisis, the youth unemployment rate averages 17.2% for those under
25 years old. In Martinique, Bulgaria, and Greece the rates are even more alarming: respectively
58.9% (INSEE), 25.90% and 46.5% (EU).
However, Responsible Tourism, still a “niche sector”, with a strong potential for development and
boosting of the territories represents a source of jobs little exploited for young people. Based on this
analysis, the consortium identified the following needs:
– the impossibility of entering the labor market (increasingly competitive and demanding) without the
acquisition of key skills
– the difficulty of taking part in a training for young people leaving the formal education system
– get out of precarious jobs and boost self-esteem
– the lack of resources and tools for professionals facilitating the training and support of young people
towards an entrepreneurial career
– the virtual absence of data and analysis on Responsible Tourism (RT) opportunities
So, the project Take your chance, Go Responsible! wants, on one hand, to reinforce the key
competencies and entrepreneurial knowledge of young people, in the RT through mentoring, nonformal
education, e-permanence support, and e-commerce tutorials, and on the other hand provide
to the professionals working in the field of youth, OER tools, and resources adapted to their needs. In
addition, the consortium members will conduct research in their local contexts, in order to identify
employment opportunities (through entrepreneurship) related to the TR and thus contribute to the
development of favorable public policies.

General objectives
– Training young people far from employment and improve their key competencies and
entrepreneurial skills in the TR;
– Providing to the professionals working in the youth field, tools, and methodologies for training and
supporting young people in setting up micro-enterprises in the RT;
– Promote the development of an environment conducive to the implementation of public policies
regarding entrepreneurship in the region.

Specific objectives
– Develop the entrepreneurial spirit among young people and thus contribute to the reduction of
unemployment
– Facilitating youth learning through non-formal education by reducing geographical and learning
disparities
– Promote the potential of ITCs in an entrepreneurial approach
– Contribute to the development of the training offer and free educational resources for professionals
– Facilitate the sharing and exchange of good practices between the private and public sector
– Make professionals and politicians aware of RT opportunities as a response to youth
unemployment
– Promote a cross-sectoral and European network to facilitate the collection and analysis of data on
youth employment opportunities linked to the RT

Target groups
– Disadvantaged young people, unemployed, NEET, young people targeted by national policies for
professional inclusion.
– Professionals working in the field of youth, socio-professional inclusion and tourism.
– Institutional and private actors intervening in the field of youth, employment, social entrepreneurship
and Tourism (tourist offices, elected representatives, authorities …)

The consortium will pool its knowledge and experience to develop 6 complementary and accessible
OER tools in order to strengthen and develop the skills of youth workers, provide them
methodologies and thus promote youth entrepreneurship in the field of RT.

The project is part of the EU 2020 strategy (employment, sustainable development, fight against
poverty and exclusion) and the objectives of the KA2 youth sector program (Strengthen skills and
employability, foster inclusion, to develop transnational mobility). In addition, the project is part of the
European Year dedicated to the enhancement of cultural heritage (2018).

Project Website

https://goresponsible.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 174931 Eur

Project Coordinator

D’ANTILLES ET D’AILLEURS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• MONOPATIA ALLILEGIIS
• Balgarska asotsiatsiya za alternativen turizam