<< Objectives >>- To provide students with basic technical skills that can be used on the labour market for new professions in the tourism and culture sector;- To put students in contact with local companies, interpreting their needs and understanding the real future possibilities of employment and development;- To contribute to the enhancement of the local and European cultural heritage, putting students at the centre through the exchange of European values.<< Implementation >>Activity 1: Project managementActivity 2: Research on skills mismatch in the labour marketActivity 3: Creation of a database of OERs on ARActivity 4: Realisation of a project in ARActivity 5: Dissemination of results and workshop on tourism marketing<< Results >>Thanks to the project, students and teachers will be able to acquire basic digital knowledge on some advanced technologies such as AR, thus being able to acquire skills necessary for their future work in the marketing and tourism sector, becoming the professionals of the future.

<< Objectives >>Tourism has a pivotal role to play in achieving the objectives at the heart of the 2030 SDGs, in particular the commitments to gender equality/the empowerment of women of SDG 5. WE LEAD’s overall objective is to improve the quality & relevance of women leadership in tourism education so that women are better equipped to use their skills to embrace leadership roles & empower them to face challenges, especially transition towards climate neutrality.<< Implementation >>Our activities include-Equip VET educators with EYE OPENER knowledge of current facts and best practices relating to challenges, development needs & opportunities faced by women in tourism, hospitality & leisure. -Develop pedagogic and digital competencies of VET educators aligned with the principles of SDG5 to develop practical skills needed to become agents of change-Empower women to develop their ‘voice’ & become confident about taking on greater challenges in their careers<< Results >>We create 6 PROJECT RESULTS including Tourism Gender & Climate action: Discovery Report (R1), to improve understanding of the status of women in the sector with current statistics, trends, development needs and outlooks, A Compendium of European Best Practices (R2) of Women Making a Difference in Tourism, Gender, and Climate Action spheres, Educators Guide to Innovative VET Pedagogies (R3) and Advocacy toolkit including an online forum,Facilitator’s Manual & A Guide to Online Campaigning (R5)

Learning & education can play a very important role in reducing age segregation, as it regulates imbalance between generations and opens up new opportunities for social inclusion to older adults. Despite the fact that there is a need for providing better opportunities for education of older adults & intergenerational education & learning, education of the elderly is still a peripheral activity today, which is reflected in the development of theory and practice of this area (in particular, the development of programs and skills of education providers for older adults).The training of older adults requires andragogically well-trained providers, who are familiar with the theory and practice of adult education, know the characteristics of the life course of the members of different age cohorts and those effects on the readiness for education, understand that older adults are an extremely diverse group of adults with very different needs and require tailor-made approaches and modes of work in educational programs.The main problem that IT educators are facing is that they don't have the needed skills and competences to educate older people in new technology. Educators of elderly, and specifically IT educators, need knowledge of older and contemporary image of old age in society. On one hand they are aware that older people are not all the same, that they are very different, that they are more different from each other than different members of the younger generations, but on the other hand they also know, they lack knowledge both in theory and practice on better working methods with this target group. Lot of teachers are more pedagogues (school system of teaching) than andragogists with merely basic knowledge on working methods for seniors. Partnership of the project is composed of the following organizations:- Ljudska univerza Ptuj (Slovenia)- Age UK (United Kingdom)- SOSU Østjylland (Denmark)- p-consulting (Greece)- CDEA (Spain)- Estrategia y Organización SA (Spain)Main objectives of the project are: - Better understanding of senior expectations & needs in learning environments, focusing on IT training;- Improved knowledge & use of pedagogical tools, new technology in educating seniors;- Exchange of good practice among partners;- Create the basic theoretical foundations for the implementation of education of IT to older adults;- Get to know older adults as an extremely diverse group of adult learners for whom education is being prepared according to their needs and for themPrimary target groups of the project are adult educators, teachers, mentors, trainers, professionals in IT, who will:- gain necessary awareness, knowledge and pedagogical tools;- develop key competences for working with older adults- adopt practical skills for increasing the quality and efficiency of the implementation of non-formal IT programs for seniorsSecondary target group are seniors who will be be impacted with an increased accessibility to non-formal IT learning activities, especially adapted to their needs & expectations.Short description of the results:- Compendium of existing innovative and effective practices and tools in teaching technology to older people- Job Profile of IT trainers of older people- Training programme for IT trainers- Video for sharing the successful experiences by teachers and older peopleImpact envisaged and the potential longer term benefits:- Created tools will remain within the work culture of the organizations involved and will become a new way to implement strategic actions aiming at the building of professional job profile for IT trainers of older people- Training methodologies and tools will be available on the website and in the community of educational providers and IT professionals. They can be used, replicated or adapted to new forms in unpredictable ways, reaching an indefinite number of people- The network of this project will also become a space where the organizations will be able to share its best practices, tools, methodologies and difficulties and its obtained results.Foreseen sustainability on the project:- Training program will be used by partners and their networks even when the project will be finished- Partners will make effort to validate the Job Profile.- Job Profile will be used by partners and their networks to the implementation of IT training programs for seniors. - Compendium will be disseminated and use by the partners after the end of the project- All information will be published in partners' websites- Project website with all intellectual outputs will be maintained by p-consulting at least 5 years.

<< Objectives >>The specific objective of the project is to reduce skills gap between schools and tourism industry through three results:1. Improved digital competences of teachers and students;2. Improved soft skills of students;3. Improved professional competences of students and professionals. The project will lead to a better quality of VET provision, to an increased employability of students and professionals, and to an improved quality of the tourism offer in the partners’ tourism ecosystems.<< Implementation >>The project develops blended upskilling activities for teachers and trainers (courses, masterclasses, workshops, community of practice) and innovative learning activities for students (blended skills competitions and online contests). The partners are going to constantly map the tourism ecosystem needs, setting up CVET courses, micro-credentials and sectorial initiatives (Pact for Skills on tourism) to provide training activities aligned with economy and society.<< Results >>The project produces the following results:- 1 course catalogue for teachers;- 6 masterclasses, 2 thematic workshops and 1 community of practice for teachers;- 2 blended skills competitions for I-VET students; - 2 online contests for I-VET students;- 2 guides about blended skills competitions and online contests;- 1 toolkit to analyze tourism skills and trends;- 9 C-VET courses based on skills intelligence and micro-credentials;- 6 Pact for Skills on tourism initiatives.

Food 2030 (EU food innovation policy) highlights boosting innovation and empowering communities as a key priority. It wants value-added products to meet the needs, values and expectations of society in a responsible and ethical way. However, the food service market (caterers, cafes, takeaways, pubs/restaurants, café, food trucks, contract caterers, hospitals, schools etc.) is challenged by a lack of growth ( just 5%in three years in the UK), price pressure from food retailers and changing consumer behaviour. Obesity is a public health time bomb but as consumer interest in healthy and sustainable food continues to rise, European food service businesses face a win-win opportunity: they can grow their businesses AND empower consumers to make healthier choices. Stimulating Healthy Food Service Innovation (SUSTAIN) seeks to empower food service SMEs with the innovation knowledge and skills to introduce healthy, affordable products to market, thus boosting their competitiveness and contribution to a healthier society. To ensure our approach seeks maximum reach and impact, we will provide enterprise support centres - the main source of training and support for small businesses –with the resources they need to radically improve the innovation training they provide to small food service firms. Our SMART objectives are closely linked to our project outputs:i. Provide SMEs, VET trainers and policymakers with rigorously researched, up-to-date knowledge on the business opportunities arising from the healthy food agenda. (IO1: Good practice healthy food service compendium)ii. Provide food sector trainers with new resources to introduce healthy food innovation courses for their client base reaching 2,000 food service SMEs (IO2: OERs)iii. Boost the effectiveness of the aforementioned courses and widen access to food service SME owners and employees by developing an online platform, “Healthy Food Innovation and Digitization for the Food Service Sector” (IO3).iv. Widely disseminate our resources, particularly with VET and food sector policymakers to maximise uptake in the short to medium term.SUSTAIN will impact the following participants:-1 Organisations linked to target groups: organizations providing VET to food service companies and representative bodies for food service companies 2 Policy makers in terms of public health and economic development 3 Partners’ links to associates, peers, stakeholders and policy makers at regional, national and EU (e.g. the Regions of Gastronomy network, the Balkans sustainability development network).In terms of results, SUSTAIN will - Provide 500 SMEs, VET trainers and policymakers with rigorously researched, up-to-date knowledge on the business opportunities arising from the healthy food agenda. (IO1: Good practice healthy food service compendium)- Provide 100 food sector trainers with new resources to introduce healthy food innovation courses for their client base reaching 2,000 food service SMEs (IO2: OERs)- Benefit 1,000 food service SME owners and employees through the online platform, “Healthy Food Innovation and Digitization for the Food Service Sector” (IO3).SUSTAIN partners will : - gain distinctive insights and strategies into food service innovation that arise from the unique combination of perspectives and types of organizations involved in the knowledge sharing process. Their new expertise will help their positioning and competitive advantage in their respectivespheres of work.- acquire new didactic strategies and will improve their own competences in knowledge sharing and strategic relationship building and have a clear understanding of how to sustain and grow the project in the long termSUSTAIN has been designed to impact positively in the long term to build the capacity of food service SMEs to introduce healthier options leading to more growth in the SME sector, greater choices of healthier food service offerings for the consumer and ultimately, improved health in communities and reduced health care costs. Such an initiative has never been more important. Obesity is rising at an alarming rate with estimates indicating over 51% of EU adults are overweight and 20% are obese.