ECHO-Tourism Erasmus Project

Project Title

ECHO-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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Access for disadvantaged; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

The ECHO-Tourism project is inspired by the functioning of energy sobriety awareness-raising schemes that it aims to change scale and reinvent. Its name comes from a desire to propagate practices of sobriety to limit the ecological footprint related to the tourist activity by allowing flexible swarming in 4 countries of an adaptable and reproducible model that can reverberate by dissemination and multiplication.

This project is conducted in a transnational way, because it comes in response to common challenges for the European Union in terms of energy and environmental policies, citizen engagement, equality for access to training and preservation of resources on the territories. Coordinated by a French cooperative society specialized in energy and sustainable development called the 7 Vents, the project is supported by a partnership made up of multi-faceted and complementary actors in their areas of expertise, including the Greeks of MCE, the Italians of CESIE, Croats from UDRAGA BRAC, Belgians from CESEP and French from INISEO.

The implementation of the project-developed instrument enables the training of professionals in the tourism sector to pass on their eco-friendly practices to their customers on the topics of energy, waste management, mobility, preservation of vernacular fauna and flora. Through experimentation and the cross-cutting nature of knowledge transfer, it promotes, through the interest it arouses, an informal increase in skills of participants who wish to promote the use of these practices. The added value of the model stems from its commitment to promoting an offer of content and transmission tools that are intelligible, flexible and adapted to the needs of the population while promoting equal opportunities for access to training.

Overall, the ECHO project aims to ensure that more and more tourism stakeholders are able to appropriate the training offer and the related awareness-raising mechanism by production of 3 intellectual productions, organization of 3 trainings and 5 multiplier events. In concrete terms, the results and impact sought are at the same time:

– An increase in the global competence of the actors wishing to engage in the promotion of this type of approach in terms of methodological, technical and contextual analysis;
– The spin-off of the device to reduce disparities in access to training in the territories;
– The good co-ordination of the project and the effectiveness of the dissemination actions: the objective is to allow to answer to the stakes of quality but also of durability of the actions after the period of ERASMUS + financing.

Project Website

https://echo-tourism.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297932 Eur

Project Coordinator

Les 7 Vents & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Centre socialiste d’éducation permanente
• Mesogeiako Kentro Perivallontos
• CESIE
• Udruga za otocni razvoj Brac
• laurent gounel