Cross-sector Tourism Networks for Sustainable Tourism Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cross-sector Tourism Networks for Sustainable 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

In recent months we have seen how students around all Europe and the world have called weekly strikes to protest against climate change and the lack of specific actions against climate change. VET Students do not want to be mere spectators of policies to combat climate change, but to be themselves agents of change, and for that we must equip them with knowledge and tools. The transmission of knowledge is fundamental, and therefore we also need that VET teachers are trained in the skills and knowledge that their students are demanding.
The main topic of this project is the Cross-Sector Tourism Networks for Sustainable Tourism (CSTN). As a strategy, this is a novel philosophy of grouping small tourism entrepreneurs in a sustainable destination and act as an umbrella environment to help entrepreneurs.
During this project, the following Intellectual Outputs will be produced:
– IO1: Online course with the management tools of CSTN.
– IO2: Digital manual for sustainable tourist destinations and EcoBrand.
– IO3: APP for the establishment of the CSTN.
The course, along with the other IO of this project, will seek the incorporation into touristic market of new micro, small and medium enterprises, while boosting existing ones.
The generation of CSTN has a double mission; to value unexplored territories that receive a reduced number of tourists and provide sustainable management tools for those territories that receive a high number of tourists in certain periods. It seeks to generate entrepreneurship opportunities for young people through a model of sustainable and deseasonalized tourism; which allows to generate stable and quality jobs even in rural areas.
This project will:
● Train VET teachers in elearning methodologies, sustainability and innovative methodologies for tourism management. (IO1)
● Train VET students in sustainability and entrepreneurship. (IO1)
● Create an enabling environment for entrepreneurship and support networks for new entrepreneurs and support to the tourism entities that are already operating. (IO2 and IO3).
● Encourage the implementation of sustainable practices in tourism companies. (IO2)
The main target groups of this project are:
● VET teachers
● VET students
● Entrepreneurs and small tourism companies interested in tourism networks and sustainability.
Due to the importance of Greenland in the world climate change, it will be a key element to foster conscience in VET students about the importance to fight against climate change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 264025 Eur

Project Coordinator

Arctic Circle Business & Country: GL

Project Partners

• MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
• METODO ESTUDIOS CONSULTORES SL
• Centro Integrado Público de Formación Profesional Misericordia
• EMIN KASAPOGLU COK PROGRAMLI ANADOLU LISESI
• ASOCIACION PARA LA GESTION DEL CENTRO EUROPEO DE EMPRESAS E INNOVACION DE BURGOS
• Visit Greenland