Shaping the Future Education in Tourism Erasmus Project

Project Title

Shaping the Future Education in 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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

It was recognized by the partners in this project that the education process in their organizations needed to be upgraded, in a meaning to offer to the new generation of students a new approach in knowledge transfer process. Many surveys had proven that the students (and the employers) are demanding skillful labor when entering their enterprises, instead of an individual who knows how it should be done but does not have the skills to do it.
In that manner, at the beginning the project was aiming to provide the following objectives:
– Create user friendly IT based tools for knowledge transfer in two disciplines:
o Nutrition
o Management of accommodation facility
– Connect professors and employers while establishing the elements that would become part of the future IT learning tool
– Train students to perform research in order to create promotional tools for the tourist offer while developing new learning tool
Four HEI took place in implementing this project:
– University Goce Delchev in Shtip, Republic of Macedonia acting as Beneficiary
– Prof Dr Asen Zlatarov University from Burgas, Bulgaria,
– Veleuciliste u Sibeniku, Croatia and
– Alexandreio Technologiko Ekpaideitiko Idryma Thessalonikis from Greece
as partners in this project.
As far as outputs development is concerned, for the forst output research and selection of recipes that are part of the electronic edition were completed on time and after 4 sets of workshops on which numerous testings were taking part, the Electronic calculator now is operational and is used by the professors, students and any other interested party. Since the first output was divided in two subsections, the second one was to search for traditional meals within the countries of the region, to publish a National Menu booklet and to the train professors from the HEI in preparing these meals, thus building up capacity in foreign countries and enriching knowledge to the students in the countries abroad. On the each of the workshops, which were taking place at each of the participating country, participants were exposed in practical training, the best in transferring knowledge. The hosting institution was in charge of preparing the training, on which the participants were preparing meals of the hosting country.
The second output, although similar, had a bit different approach. It was performed in a form of a Blended course of Distant learning method. As in the previous output, during workshops the participants were testing what’s been done in time between two workshops and agree on what needs to be done in the next period of time. The software is already in use by the professors and students from all the institutions and as by several users from the rest of the world.
During implementation phase, UGD staff had organized a promotion activity for other HEI and high-schools. All of them participated in the testing period expressing their feelings. Their level of satisfaction is expressed by receiving Letter of support for the job done and a request to continue developing similar tools which make knowledge transfer process much easier.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167958,64 Eur

Project Coordinator

REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA GOCE DELCEV STATE UNIVERSITY STIP & Country: MK

Project Partners

• ALEXANDREIO TECHNOLOGIKO EKPAIDEITIKO IDRYMA THESSALONIKIS
• PROF DR ASEN ZLATAROV UNIVERSITY
• Veleuciliste u Sibeniku