Promoting Youth-Led initiatives in the Responsible Tourism through Circular Economy applied in the Handicraft Sector Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting Youth-Led initiatives in the Responsible Tourism through Circular Economy applied in the Handicraft Sector

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The objective of the project CYRCLE is to encourage cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Africa, promoting youth initiatives in the field of responsible tourism, through the implementation of circular economy principles in the craft sector, as a strategy for sustainable development and economic growth in vulnerable communities. CYRCLE project will incentive to youth-led responsible tourism initiatives in order to contribute to the maintenance and protection of the heritage, cultural and natural assets of the destinations, and allow the young people to contribute to the strengthening of the local economy, to create collaborations between the different parties involved of the local community which can become an alternative recipient of tourism. The project activities will be based on the identification and valorization of local community assets, especially in the field of handicraft, that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities. In order to promote this objective, CYRCLE project will organize some main activity clusters: a) research on the principles and best practices related with responsible tourism with local youth. This research will also include the identification of important local assets that could be valorized for a tourism related product in each of the local communities, the analysis of circular economy strategies which can be applied to the responsible tourism and the research about the local handicraft sector.b) the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of responsible tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international Meetings in Italy, Mexico and Kenya. c) the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, and responsible tourism offer through the youth-led initiatives. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and the creation of innovative CYRCLE platform for the circulation of best-practices, studies, responsible and alternative tourism offers, sharing of experience, circulation of human resources for the local promotion.It is expected that more than 100 youth workers (also with fewer opportunities) from all the partner countries will be involved in the activities both through the participation in the transnational events and the participation in the e-learning course. The project is going to be implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 EU (Italy, Greece), 1 Africa (Kenya) and 1 Latin American (Mexico). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149993,12 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE RESTORING ANCIENT STABIAE ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• KIPEPEO COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
• ASSOCIAZIONE 4D SOLO CHI SOGNA PUOVOLARE
• FAMILIAS DE LA PROMESA AC