Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Tourism Development

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The aim of the project is to improve the quality and suitability of knowledge and skills of tourism (and related) major students’ in 4 universities. These will be done by development, testing and implementation of innovative training on usage of ICT in sustainable tourism development. What is more the universities curricula will be adjusted to meet the current labor market requirements by XII 2021.

The achievement of the aim will also introduce the real changes on the university level (subjects’ topics, educational methods and techniques) by adjusting educational content (projects’ outcomes, syllabuses etc.) to job market current requirements. The project’s activities undertaken will also significantly improve teaching quality of every single student (new skills and competences, innovative tools for career development, increased students’ consciousness concerning the sustainable tourism development).

The main participants of the project are 45 tourism science students that will take part in International Summer Schools run by partner universities (3 editions x 5 students x 3partners) and 20 universities teaching staff members (5 staff members x 4 partners) who will participate in International Academy of ICT for sustainable development. The seminars that will disseminate project results will be attended by 200 people including higher education sector (students, graduates, universities teaching staff members), government and self-government administration representatives, NGO, media and tourism experts.

The most important project’s results are the following:
• Course “ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development”
• Casebook “Treasury of knowledge”
• A set of 8 e-learning courses for the course
• Educational board game on sustainable tourism development
• Student’s Guidebook and Teacher Toolkit
• Scientific publications

All the project’s results will be in English version (part of the deliverables will be translated to native languages of partners) and will be made available as an Open Educational Resources, what will enable the project to have a wider and more significant effect on target audience.
As a result of project’s realization universities educational offer will be extended by new innovative training course “ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development” which will be the reference model for further development of curricula. All the project’s results may be used by the universities in Europe and all over the world. The project will also create solid base for international cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of creating sustainable tourism between universities from Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Serbia.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228071 Eur

Project Coordinator

WYZSZA SZKOLA INFORMATYKI I ZARZADZANIA Z SIEDZIBA W RZESZOWIE & Country: PL

Project Partners

• HOCHSCHULE FUR NACHHALTIGE ENTWICKLUNG EBERSWALDE
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU
• UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA