The Next Tourism Generation Alliance project will establish a BluePrint for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism to provide concrete innovative and highly relevant Skills Products and Tools for improving the relationship between Industry and Education Providers in the Tourism sector and respond to skills needs. The project will develop, deliver and test the new Next Tourism Generation (NTG) Skills Products for professionals, trainers, students, university tourism departments, local authorities, companies to respond to the fast changing and increasing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets and Specialist Sub-Sector Tourism Skills such as Destination Management, Blue Economy Tourism, Heritage Interpretation, Gastronomy and Collaborative Economy provision with appropriate, flexible learning and training methods to enhance skills responses and training provision to ensure a more competitive, sustainable and contemporary and authentic visitor experience. The Blue print strategy will directly assist destinations, enterprises and higher education institutions to support regional strategies and plans in employment and sustainable development. The new modules and learning methods will be integrated into the current European VET system, providing a standard benchmark for sustainable tourism management, digital and technological innovation and social skills in tourism. The consortia is a multi-disciplinary partnership which comprises 14 partners: 7 Industry Partners and Tourism Sector Representatives(Federturismo, UnionCamere; Eurogites; IHK Academy Chamber of Commerce; People 1st; VIMOS; CEHAT); 6 Universities (Dublin Institute of Technology, University of Sopron, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Alicante University, NHTV Breda Applied Sciences University, Varna University) and ATLAS-Europe, the Association of Tourism Lecturers and Students in Tourism in Europe.

The WASTELESS project will develop and test a mix of innovative tools and methodologies for Food Loss and Waste (FLW) measurement and monitoring. A bottom-up approach will be followed: starting from defining an harmonised methodological framework and set of standards for the testing activities, the evaluation of the tools implementation and the quality and integrability of the data produced in other frameworks and finally recommend sustainable policies and business strategies to set the ground for a harmonised Framework at EU level. Additionally to the measurement and monitoring tools, WASTELESS will carry research activities on innovative processes and streams to valorise unavoidable FLW. With the ambition to make existing FLW quantification solutions and WASTELESS ones usable by all food actors, it will be developed a Decision Support Toolbox for any stakeholders to access to the most appropriate methodology, digital tools and solutions for FLW valorisation all that aggregated with the Environmental and Socio-Economic impact associated to the implementation of the solutions. This will enable the replication of data collection hubs accross Europe feeding the model developed by JRC with robust, reliable and comparable FLW data.

The Pact for Next Tourism Generation Skills (PANTOUR) is a consortium that seeks to boost innovation through cooperation to develop activities, strengthen partnerships and produce resources to implement the Blueprint for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism in Europe. PANTOUR is composed by a transnational alliance of 13 partners from the vocational training, life-long learning and higher education landscapes, and all the tourism industry sector representatives from all over Europe: CEHAT (Spain), Ruraltour (European), Federturismo Confindustria (Italy), VIMOSZ (Hungary); ETOA (European); Landurlaub Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Gestlabor Hostelería (Spain), DSFT (Germany), TU Dublin (Ireland), BUas (Netherlands), University Of The Aegean (Greece), SAMK University (Finland) and ZRI (Bulgaria). The knowledge and background of the partnership acquired in the Next Tourism Generation Alliance (NTG) project (2017-2022) will provide the necessary tools and conditions to successfully implement the Blueprint from the first moment, thus being able to deliver immediate reactive response. The consortium aims especially at designing innovative and cooperative solutions to address skills needs in the all the tourism ecosystem, with the development of outputs such us: the Sectoral Skills Intelligence Monitor, the Skills Lab, a Resource Books for Trainers, the implementation of the NSRGs, a Skills Strategy Plan for 2026-2036, among others. With the exploitation of its outputs, PANTOUR seeks to benefit job seekers, unemployed and employed workers from the industry, employers and SMEs, dedicating a special attention in reskilling and upskilling the workforce on future skills needs after the Covid-19 impacts in the industry. Public and private training institutions will benefit from new innovative content and teaching methods on core skills. The number of people benefiting from this proposal will be over 10 million that work across the tourism sector in Europe.

The EU food system is under considerable pressure for change due to its negative climate, environmental and health impacts. Food system transition will require changing dietary habits of millions of Europeans. PLAN’EAT aims at advancing the scientific basis on factors influencing dietary behaviour and the health, environmental and socio-economic impacts of dietary patterns and deliver solutions for transition through a transdisciplinary and multi-level approach. PLAN’EAT will co-create data and interventions in pan-EU network of 9 Living Labs and a Policy Lab. These living labs will focus on a broad range of population groups, varying according to age, culture, health and socio-economic status. PLAN’EAT entails four steps that feed into each other: (1) Dietary patterns of 9 different target groups from 9 regions will be mapped together with their food environments (2) Factors and drivers influencing dietary behaviour at macro- (food system), meso- (food environment) and micro- (individual) levels will be deeply investigated. (3) A True Cost Accounting database and methodology will be developed and applied, for the first time, on dietary patterns, providing integrated insights into the diverse impacts of current and future diets, including possible synergies and trade-offs. (4) A solution package will be co-developed with food chain actors, consumers and policymakers, incl.: i) a Food System Dashboard, setting out context-specific food policy recommendations; ii) interventions targeting Farm to Fork actors, for farmers, food industries, retailers and food services to create suitable food environments; iii) advisory tools to empower consumers; and iv) improved dietary advice and communication strategies to target populations at large. PLAN’EAT will allow for realizing a transition of 58500 consumers to healthier and sustainable dietary patterns by 2032, reducing premature mortality by 20% and greenhouse gases emissions of local food supply chains by 23% in 39 areas.