SustainTour

Capacity Building of VET providers in the Sustainable Tourism

SustainTour

Enhancing the skills and capabilities of VET providers in sustainable tourism

The SustainTour project aims to upskill VET teachers and the human capital of the tourism sector in the Western Balkans. The project will focus on fostering the links between the tourism labour market and VET providers, promoting skills matching, developing their competencies in sustainable tourism, and integrating social, green and digital skills, in tourism-related VET curricula.

About the Project

The partnership’s vision is to create new opportunities for the tourism sector in the Balkan region. More specifically:

a) Introduce a new occupational profile, the “Sustainable Tourism Advisor”, who will support SMEs in the Tourism and Hospitality sector on how to transform their businesses to become sustainable (responsible, green, social and digital).

b) Develop a training course with the title “Sustainable Tourism Advisor” as a blended learning course, combining face-to-face and distance learning offered via online environments.

c) Training of trainers in the methodology and the curriculum of the new profile in order to create a significant number of trainers in Albania and Kosovo.

d) Develop a “Toolkit of Pedagogical Resources” & a “Digital Online platform” for the Advisor. There will be a number of tools and diagnostics, that will support the advisor in identifying strengths and weaknesses in hospitality and tourism SMEs and how sustainability can improve them, and the acquisition of the above competencies for tourism SMEs.

f) Create a Community of Practice to promote transnational cooperation of trainers and training institutes in the fields of vocational education and labour market towards sustainable transformation in the Tourism sector to enhance the project’s impact and sustainability.

g) Implementation of dissemination activities to promote the above competencies among trainers, facilitators, and trainees in Albania and Kosovo, in VET, for implementing the sustainable transformation in the tourism sector with a focus on hospitality.

The project will be developed through the following steps:

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Objectives

The objectives of the project are the following:

Develop cooperation between VET providers in the area of development and validation of enhanced sustainable tourism skills and competences

Implement together the whole cycle of the VET educational programme developed (from the design, to the evaluation and validation)

Co-design, co-develop VET curriculum and training material for new occupational profile, the “Sustainable Tourism Advisor”, who will support SMEs in Tourism and Hospitality sector on how to transform their businesses to become sustainable (responsible, green, social and digital) and to align them with a specific EQAVET standards

Develop the competences of VET providers of third countries not associated to the Programme on the design of curricula and materials aligned with EQAVET standards

Co-develop an assessment tool for the developed curriculum to be used for the validation of the non-formal learning provided to the learners

Develop and validate the competences of the learners

Empower the VET providers in the third countries not associated to the Program through the implementation of capacity building activities such as joined workshops, training of trainers, pilot trainings etc.

Promote these capacity building results to other trainers and VET providers in the countries of the consortium as well as outside of the consortium area.