Enterprise! Retea Europeana de Turism Educativ pentru Tineret Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enterprise! Retea Europeana de Turism Educativ pentru Tineret

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Europe goes through a period of socio-economic crisis which, particularly, affects young people. There are many students who abandon school and, in this way, they lose many job opportunities. They have no qualifications, no personal development skills, they are not aware of the opportunities they have, they do not own an European consciousness that allows them to study and get a job in any of the European countries. They do not know to actively get involved in the democratic life of the European countries, they have no idea about other cultures and civilizations, and they do not have entrepreneurial skills that allow them to start a small business to provide a decent standard of living.
OBJECTIVES
The main goal of the project was to create an European Network for Educational Tourism among schools, youth associations, local communities, universities, enterprises, museums, travel agencies, hostels. The educational network intended to offer information about facilities, accommodation and a practical guide for the young people who visit new countries in relation to work, studies, entrepreneurship.
Throughout the activities undertaken the project improved the quality of education in the partner schools, involving more than 200 students and 20 teachers from each school participating in project. Students and teachers could develop important key skills like social entrepreneurship, digital skills, foreign languages through weekly activities of the project. The project was an opportunity for all participants to promote intercultural dialogue, solidarity, social inclusion by involving students with limited opportunities (minimum 20% of all participants).
Teachers and, above all, students shared knowledge and good educational practices, the most important outcome of this project being the optional course: “Entrepreneurial abilities in tourism”.

THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR PROFILE
The project lasted 24 months and gathered participants from Romania (the coordinating country), Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Apart the monthly activities identified in the the common activity schedule the participants were involved in 4 mobilities which included 20 students and 8 teachers from all partner countries. In the end of the project, Romania organized a final multiplier event in order to disseminate the optional course and the project website.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES
Being a strategic partnership, there has been many diversified activities such as:
PERMANENT ACTIVITIES
– dissemination of project in the beginning, during and at the end of the project implementation;
– monthly communication with partners and within the project team;
– virtual meetings via skype and facebook page;
– preparation of mobility: transportation, accommodation, educational materials;
– use of IT resources;
– activities of linguistic training;
– workshops;
– dissemination, monitoring and assessment activities;
– writing reports, creating the project website, uploading information and materials.
DURING THE MOBILITIES
– meeting at school;
– visit to universities, museums, sites of cultural interest, enterprises;
– on site gathering of information;
– presentation of the materials prepared.
THE METHODOLOGY USED IN THE PROJECT
• Use of education in non formal or informal context;
• Focus on cross matters related to youth policy, education and training;
• Innovative practices through IT;
• International & virtual mobility;
• Exchange & share best practices;
• Social Innovation.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RESULTS.
– Documentation on 40 educational tourist sites;
– A website for young people to present tourist opportunities;
– A Facebook page of the project;
– A new optional course: Entrepreneurial Abilities in Tourism
– Teaching aids: Power point presentations, films, moodle page of the project, etwinning page of the project;
– A film of the project.
IMPACT
The impact of the project has been both on direct and indirect beneficiries (students, teachers, community), and national and international level through the dissemination of the project results to a large number of young people from the 4 participating countries.
LONG-TERM BENEFITS.
On the long term, the site can be used by any European young person who desires to travel in Europe for touristic purposes, to discover new opportunities to study or work. Teaching auxiliary materials and the optional course can be used both by the partner schools, as well as by any other school, as they are free. The young participants are better prepared to face the challenges of a very competitive society, they also acquired linguistic, cultural and entrepreneurial skills that offer them more opportunities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul Teoretic Nicolae Balcescu Medgidia & Country: RO

Project Partners

• 4 GEL Hrakleiou
• Mardin Mehmet Kavak Anadolu Lisesi
• ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE F. MENEGHINI