Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The Tourism Research Innovation And Next Generation Learning Experience (TRIANGLE) Project (November 2016 – October 2019), had the objective of establishing a European-wide knowledge alliance of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to link research and higher education bodies to tourism sector SMEs through the creation of a common knowledge development and training process. In this 3 year time frame, a European wide knowledge alliance of over 22 HEIs in 18 countries has been established to date, along with other key deliverables that were designed to bring European added value to the work of the member state HEIs and their business networks. As its central objective, the Alliance has developed the Tourism 2030 Knowledge Base into an online, HEI supported, collaborative learning delivery system to address tourism sustainability challenges and opportunities identified at the global and European level, including: Climate change, biodiversity loss facing European tourism stakeholders, the need for sustainable consumption and production in tourism destinations in or near protected areas, and the changing training and education skills required by the fast-moving global tourism market-place with its multi-sector SMEs and diverse destinations. This sustainable development of tourism-focused Collaborative Content Management & Database System and its user-designed information tools developed by the project partners has enabled the HEIs to work in collaborative European-wide process to develop and implement national and international next-generation learning experiences. The TRIANGLE ICT innovation-driven sustainability learning environment consists of online and in situ formal and informal courses, an internships system as well as mentoring and network experiences. It has engaged students and tourism SME training institutes to promote sustainability innovations based on product and service certification with the aim of improving their environmental impacts, cutting costs and building Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) maps and supply chains. A body of pilot students has been trained to have the gain basic sustainable tourism auditing competences based on global industry criterial. As a result the project has accelerated and improved in-country sustainable tourism learning processes to enable to the HEIs, the SMEs and students to use their European connectivity to better compete in the global tourism market-place, and ensure they act in a sustainable and responsible manner. At the conclusion of the project the Higher Education Institutes at the core of the process have implemented their program calendar targets with regard to the knowledge base development, the graduate course development and intern programme and the mapping of tourism SMEs in the Going Green process. A post-project continuation structure has been elaborated and agreed so that the partners can do more work to target and then link up with tourism SMEs to implement the project innovations designed to help SMEs improve sustainability learning processes in the future, to establish better links to protected areas, and to contribute to the European implementation effort towards the SDG goals 8, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the UN Agenda 2030.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 809461 Eur

Project Coordinator

HOCHSCHULE FUR NACHHALTIGE ENTWICKLUNG EBERSWALDE & Country: DE

Project Partners

• EAU DE WEB SRL
• FORUM ANDERS REISEN E.V.
• UNIVERSITE PARIS I PANTHEON-SORBONNE
• UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE
• MODUL UNIVERSITY VIENNA GMBH
• ECOTRANS E.V.