Virtual Entrepreneurial Rooms

Overall objective

To encourage cooperation and networking between business entities, policy makers and training and education institutions to develop innovative learning system, increase skills and foster entrepreneurial learning in the field of tourism.

Specific objectives

SO 1: To boost and expand the capacity for development and sharing entrepreneurial skills in the tourism industry through modern technologies, with the aspiration of increasing the employability of young people in an accessible and attractive environment for cooperation;
SO 2: To map and assess the potential and the impact of entrepreneurial learning in the field of tourism;
SO 3: To establish an accessible transnational online tourism environment for young people in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, FYRoM;
SO 4: To encourage young people in the border regions to develop their own business in the field of tourism;
SO 5: To improve innovation capacities through knowledge and new skills promotion in the tourism field

Key Activities:

Collective needs for capacity building

Entrepreneurial learning in the field of tourism

Elaboration of practice-oriented training materials
Elaboration of innovative online tools for education in the field of tourism and related industries - online educational platform with interactive modules, business simulation game
Creation of Virtual and Physical Entrepreneurial Rooms

Transnational dimension of VET learning

Organisation of transnational knowledge transfer trainings, educational camps, workshops and Start-up Competition aiming to strengthen and support youth employment across borders.

Project Outputs:

Transnational strategy for organization of trainings and curricula towards growth and employment of young people in the tourism
Joint road-map for the educational materials and features
Multilingual online training manual for entrepreneurial education
Elaborated curriculum models in entrepreneurial learning
Online educational platform with interactive modules
Virtual and physical Entrepreneurial Rooms as a tool for transnational entrepreneurial mentoring
Created virtual business companies
Multilingual educational business simulation game in the field of tourism and related industries
Organized innovative trainings and modern tools for education

Project Partners:

National Tourism Cluster, Bulgarian Guide – Sofia, Bulgaria (https://www.bg-guide.org/)
AULEDA - Local Economic Development Agency of Vlora Region – Vlora, Albania (http://auledaphp.auleda.org.al/)
Municipality of Kichevo – Kichevo, FyROM (https://kicevo.gov.mk/)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Special Account for Research Funds, Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering - Thessaloniki, Greece (http://www.auth.gr/ )

Project co-funded by the European Union and National Funds of the participating countries.

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