The Cooperating Tourism Spider Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Cooperating Tourism Spider

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

In order to achieve the maximum use of the potential of tourism it is necessary to understand tourism as a complex of fields that complement each other and that relate to the local specifics of individual regions and localities. As the currently existing learning programmes do not consider this fact enough, the applicant’s organization together with the project partners started looking for a way to approach tourism as a complex that would equip the graduates with competences that are comparable with the current employer’s needs.The main objective of the project was to create an innovative learning programme consisting of 5 modules and 25 sub-modules that will embrace the complete sphere of tourism industry. The project implementation was performed by 4 schools with different specializations and from different countries and the Chamber of Commerce. Nevertheless, the outputs will be fully available to any subjects within all European Union. The individual participating schools have been selected in order to add the benefit of the variety of the gathered expertise from different fields. Each partner elaborated one module. The learning programme has been designed to develop the skills and awareness of students from various tourism related fields of study, as well as their entrepreneurship and language skills. As a result, this is increase the students’ employment chances on the job market.The general usability and availability play a significant role for the project creation. In order to achieve that, the programme was published in English and in an e-learning form. Due to these features, the project may also inspire others to the innovative approach to education that links individual fields of study, allows a cross-border sharing of best practices and general knowledge and creates opportunities for further cooperation in terms of exchange programmes and traineeships thanks to the use of ECVET system.
The project involved 4 schools from 4 countries – The Grammar School and Secondary vocational school Plasy (Czech Republic),Grammar school Steyr (Austria), Smiltenes tehnikums (Latvia) and The Secondary vocational school of hotel services and Business in Zvolen (Slovakia). The professional extension was the involvement of the Chamber of Commerce in the project. The main activities of the project were the creation of intellectual outputs that corresponded to the needs of all partners and the organization of subsequent transnational meetings for verification of completed teaching materials. The benefit of project is to improve the level of key competences and skills pupils (communication, cooperating, sharing of information, self-presentation), with particular regard to their relevance to the labor market market and their contribution to a cohesive society. One of the specific objectives pursued by the Erasmus+ Programme in the field of education and training (“Strengthening cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work”) was achieved by creation of the partnership between the four schools and the Chamber of Commerce.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 171926,05 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnazium a Stredni odborna skola, Plasy & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Smiltenes tehnikums
• BRG Steyr Michaelerplatz
• Regionalni hospodarska komora Plzenskeho kraje
• Stredna odborna skola hotelovych sluzieb a obchodu