Walking Towards Employability: unlooking the entrepreneurial skills of vulnerable communities through Walking Tours Erasmus Project

Project Title

Walking Towards Employability: unlooking the entrepreneurial skills of vulnerable communities through Walking Tours

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Rural development and urbanisation; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

The Walking Towards Employability project arises by the need to identify sustainable and transferable models for youth entrepreneurship able to respond to socio-professional inclusion especially in vulnerable situations. Specifically, the project designs and tests an innovative Skill Path for youth built around the Walking Tour Model and based on five innovative modules:
Module 1. How to start up a sustainable Walking Tour Collaborative Business?
Module 2. Asset Community Mapping through Street Audit and digital: Let us discover new perspectives!
Module 3. Key Resources: Local guides. How to do tourism where apparently there is nothing?
Module 4. A FAM Trip. What is and how to organize it?
Module 5. Marketing: convivial and collaborative communication Transversal Module: How to create a Sustainable Scattered Tour Package?
The Path combines forms of entrepreneurship (Business Network and Collaborative economy) with the educational values of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible, community-based Tourism).

Walking Towards Employability:
– Contribute to the social professional inclusion of youth through Responsible Tourism
– Contribute to the valorisation of underprivileged communities and/or neighbourhoods in by celebrating their cultural assets and history through Community-based Tourism
– Promote sustainable tourism as sector combining youth employability and communities’ culture promotion and contribute to policies recommendations
Its specific objectives are to:
– Design and test a new skill pathway for youth based on the Walking Tour Model combining innovative forms of entrepreneurship to educational value of Cultural heritage and social cohesion (Responsible Tourism)
– Create the opportunities to 40 European youth for acquisition of innovative entrepreneurial competences and valorisation of their entrepreneurial ideas within the Responsible Tourism sector
– Extend and develop the competences of 18 youth educators in 4 countries in collaborative and social entrepreneurship, community mentoring approach and Responsible Tourism
– Contribute to the Development of Open educational resources for youth and youth workers on social and community-based entrepreneurship
– Make 40 youth aware of new perspectives and long-term potentialities of social and community-based forms of entrepreneurship
– Support the establishment of an international network to facilitate development and sustainability of youth entrepreneurial initiatives and the exchange of innovation in EU.

The project links the design of Walking Tours to the promotion of youth social entrepreneurship by transforming communities in open incubators where the centrality, in the learning path is given to individual youth entrepreneurial ideas. Specifically, youth, during the Walking Towards Course are guided and challenged (together with youth workers) on designing a sustainable and valuable proposal of a Scattered Walking Tour offer in their communities that arises through the collaboration between different youth start up, ideas, initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219064 Eur

Project Coordinator

D’ANTILLES ET D’AILLEURS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• GROUPE ONE ASBL
• KARPOS KENTRO EKPAIDEYTIKON DRASEONKAI DIAPOLITISMIKHS EPIKOINONIAS
• AITR-ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA TURISMO RESPONSABILE
• TAMAT CENTRO STUDI FORMAZIONE E RICERCA