Keep in Touch: Make Tourism Sustainable! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Keep in Touch: Make Tourism Sustainable!

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Environment and climate change; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The ‘Keep in Touch: Make Tourism Sustainable’ project has arisen from the desire, on behalf of all partner countries, to take action towards giving our young people the skills they need to create a sustainable future in a global world. The five communities involved in this project are located in seats of natural and cultural beauty, and so sustainable tourism is the perfect way to incite interest in the future of individual native territories as well as on the importance of a united Europe. In fact, partner communities are either already dependant on the tourism industry for their economies or have the potential of creating a sustainable tourism enterprise. For this reason, it is important for our European youths to learn how tourism can implement the sustainable development goals by learning from one and other as well as from teacher-experts and local NGOs who are passionate about their work and communities.
The main aim of this project is to focus upon sustainable education and raise awareness of the environment and climate change. By introducing such an important topic into our curriculums, we aim to foster inclusive education and encourage a systematic and long-term learning perspective involving the whole school and even whole communities. Additionally, it will help overcome barriers and strengthen ties among partner countries and thus facilitate integration and communication within the European community itself. Moreover, it will cultivate learners’ sense of initiative and sustainability as one of the key competences that is an EU and UNESCO concern and to make the formal and non-formal learning environment life more relevant for their personal and professional lives. In sum, the project aims to:
1. Involve young people into positive sustainability and cultural activities of the country, to acquire students with skills for sustainability awareness initiatives in the world of Tourism, to enable access to the traditions, changes in the region, country, the European Union and the world;
2. Provide varied knowledge needed for sustainability awareness;
3. Educate sustainability, creativity, responsibility, diligence, integrity, achievement of the objective values needed for a responsible citizenship;
4. Present the professional courses as a valuable alternative in which young people can not only
achieve various competences but also, conclude their compulsory education and create conditions
for a transition to working life.
Partners from Italy, Greece, Romania, Croatia and Turkey were selected from previous Erasmus+ partnerships as well as from the eTwinning platform and the target group are students aged between 14 to18.
Activities will be varied and focalised on sustainability. Firstly, all partners will use eTwinning as their central platform where they will plan and organise all activities as well as communicate and record all steps taken. Teaching/learning activities will be organized so students will work together in multinational and multidisciplinary groups. The creation of a single group, with members from different countries, cultures, genders, religions, and social and economic conditions, will work on transnational themes using eTwinning using a task-based learning perspective that will create an authentic community of practice, involving different strategies and methods with the same goal. The skills and competences that students acquire will be useful in different contexts nowadays and in future mobilities and experiences within Europe or worldwide where might find employees/employers from different cultures and different working conditions and methods.
During the project a few final products will be prepared:
1. An eBook and hardcopy creating an assembly of the research done by students throughout the project. It will include the best local, regional, national sustainable tourism practices;
2. Commercials/advertisements/brochures about: local/ regional/ national sustainable hotspots and the tourism sustainability situation in each country;
3. Sustainable tourism e-dictionary in partners’ languages.
For educational purposes all the materials will be free and open to everyone. As a result, this partnership will not only help our learners to develop spoken skills in foreign languages and build their European citizenship but will raise their future social inclusion opportunities as well.
Teachers involved will be given the opportunity to develop their language skills and learn from the teaching practices related to their subjects in the partner countries, how to incorporate innovative digital and ICT teaching tools in their practices and the value of task-based learning and social-constructive teaching methods. Moreover, partner communities will be better educated and informed on sustainability and the industry of sustainable tourism.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128880 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO OMNICOMPRENSIVO GUGLIONESI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• EKONOMSKO-TURISTICKA SKOLA
• Kadinhani Zeki Altindag Anadolu Lisesi
• 1st Lyceum of Rhodes – Venetokleio
• Colegiul Ion Kalinderu