The project is called European Cultural Heritage and Ecotourism (e-CH@T).

The main objectives of our project are the social and educational value of European cultural heritage and its contribution to job creation as well as the responsible citizenship in promoting tourism based on the local cultural heritage by using eco-friendly ways of transport. The result of cultural awareness should be ideas for a development of concepts for sustainable tourism and an entrepreneurial attitude of the students taking part in the project.

In our four partner schools in Austria, Finland, Italy and Spain we noticed a certain lack of awareness of the importance of cultural heritage and an urgent need to increase the awareness and the responsibility about the consequences of continuing today's way of life that means wasting energy and ressources with little self-responsibility about the consequences for nature, environment and the next generations.

We will work about self-directiveness in taking initiatives to preserve nature and environment and take care of cultural heritage. Furthermore students should find out possibilities to present the cultural heritage in an interesting and reasonable way by using ecologic transports like bicycles or segways, by walking or using other eco-friendly possibilities.

Ecotourism should open students' minds for entrepreneurship and possibilities of work in new careers and let them find out ways how to preserve energy or protect the nature and the environment in touristic sites and how to implement cultural heritage and nature in business at local level. Local sports offers should be included in the development of touristic entrepreneurship, so that the ecological thinking is not only referred to nature and ressources, but also to the personal health of students and people.

Healthy food is a natural consequence of this attitude, so that there will also be activities dedicated on this argument by including preparation of typical food of every country, that is also part of the cultural heritage. There will be an international evening during every short term mobility and students shall bring healthy and ecological food of their own countries.

In the project, we try to capture the cultural heritage and concretise the idea of changes and opportunities that new technology and innovative business can offer locally. For example, what the existing environment together with local stakeholders and innovative minds can offer to present day people by using ecologically and sustainable its human and natural resources.