Donors: ERASMUS+ PROGRAME (KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good)
Partners: Institut pro regionalni rozvoj o.p.s. - Czech Republic, leader; Ecocenter Alapítvány - Hungary; Academia Postal 3 Vigo S.L. - Spain; Association of Environmentally Sustainable Development Green Institute Skopje - North Macedonia and ASK Development d.o.o. - Slovenia.
Implementation time: 09/2020-8/2022
Total budget: 182 309 EUR
Green Institute budget: 27.143,00 EUR/2 years
Overall objective: To enhance the competitiveness of the European tourism industry, increasing the professional knowledge of people employed in the sector and quality of its services, through
developing an innovative educational platform for e-learning.
Specific objective 1: То develop sustainable tourism and ecotourism in the 5 partner countries.
Specific objective 2: To increase new opportunities for employability, develop already existing small businesses, and potentiate new ones to emerge.
Specific objective 3: To establish an innovative e-learning platform and educational materials to train the tutors in the fields of ecotourism and sustainable tourism.
Specific objective 4: To make thematic booklets with thematic tours, based on cooperation between local organisations, stakeholders, municipalities and entrepreneurs.
Brief description: Aims at developing sustainable tourism and ecotourism in the partner countries by establishing an innovative e-learning platform and educational materials to increase the number of tourism professionals, raise entrepreneurial skills and local cooperation among educational companies, people working in the tourism sector and tourists themselves. The project consortium consists of 5 partners from 5 different countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Macedonia, Slovenia.
Outputs:
1. A Country Research describing the development of ecotourism in each partner country in order to give the participants a general overview of the current situation.
2. Country research-based training material (creation of methodology, competency validation tool, tutoring training material) and project website containing information about it.
3. STEFAN E-learning Platform to train the tutors in the fields of ecotourism and sustainable tourism through 5 steps:
- creation of 6 learning modules
- training the tutors
- preliminary version of the e-learning platform
- online pilot testing
- final version of STEFAN e-learning platform.
4. Thematic booklets based on developed thematic tours, highlighting the cooperation between local organisations, stakeholders, municipalities and entrepreneurs, bringing potential and attractiveness of the thematic tours over mass tourism.
Products:
STEFAN e-learning platform with 6 moduls
- Introduction to ecotourism and sustainable tourism
- Ethical Issues
- Safety and quality in ecotourism
- Promotion of ecotourism
- Ecotourism management
- Tourism for people with disabilities.