PROJECT PRESENTATION

Four partner schools from European Union countries announces the implementation of the partnership project

„LET'S LIVING AND MOVING CONSCIOUSLY IN OUR EUROPE!”, carried out within the European program Erasmus+,

Key Action KA 2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices,

project type KA 201 – Strategic Partnerships for school education.

The project, which will take place over the period 01.09.2018-31.08.2020, has been approved by ANPCDEFP (Agenţia Naţională pentru Proiecte Comunitare în Domeniul Educaţiei şi Formării Profesionale) ROMANIA, receiving the identification number 2018-1-RO01-KA201-049106, having approved a budget of 128.000 Euro.

Within this strategic partnership, Colegiul Economic „Delta Dunării” Tulcea is coordinator, having as partners 3 other schools in the European Union:

- Istituto Professionale di Stato – Servizi per l’Enogastronomia e l’Ospitalità Alberghiera – S. Savioli, Riccione, ITALIA;

- Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias, Agualva Sintra, PORTUGALIA;

- Srednja skola Hrvatski kralj Zvonimir Krk, CROAȚIA.

This strategic partnership of the 4 states of the U.E. it aims to raise awareness and empower students about tourism in the ecological version.

The CONTEXT and the OBJECTIVES of our project

THE NEEDS AND TARGET GROUPS TO BE ADDRESSED

The schools involved in this project are placed in countries with a strong touristic identity or that are now trying to develop this economic field. We aim at enhance the local heritage, spread it internationally and strengthen the relationships with the stakeholders and public bodies. We mainly intend to address our project to the students from the tourist course, aged between 16 to 18, without excluding students from the other school courses and the staff of the schools.

According to the specific features of each organization and its environment, this project pursues the objectives defined in „Europe 2020 policy”, aiming at a responsible and quality sustainable tourism, with a keen eye on the favorable attitude towards citizenship, active/inclusive learning, development in project competence and consciousness in the globalized tourist sector. Even if, countries all over the world are affected by a severe economic crisis, the tourist market still retains its leading role with its pros and cons and has to comply with contemporary challenges. As established by the Lisbon Treaty, Europe has the responsibility to act out activities to encourage, support and promote eco-sustainable tourism, thus valuing social justice, enhancing culture and preserving the environment. The new trend in tourism is to offer everyone the most suitable, vacation itinerary taking into account personal preferences and requirements with the least negative impact on the territory. Every single country in its administrative management, public bodies, private stakeholders has a main role in assuming social responsibility as concerns the historical, cultural, geographical, economic aspects, entwined with the European macro policy.

With this project we aim at:

- create new educational courses to enrich curricula to face challenging issues on tourist sustainability

- help students acquire responsibility to enhance the historical, cultural, artistic, natural heritage

- reinforce collaboration with local enterprises, municipality and public boards to develop further marketing strategies

- enhance usability of results with a keen eye on human relationship and interaction

- add value to cultural, historical differences to be shared by larger groups within the European area

- implement knowledge and acquired competence via educational courses in the job market

- acquire competence in the administrative legislation and in environment preservation policy

- develop and promote ethical/moral respect in tourism through learning strategies, exchange of good practice in a European perspective

- encourage youth mobility thanks to cultural exchange between countries in order to widen their horizons on future working careers

- improve cultural professional preparation of school staff through exchange of good practice, sharing common experiences

- acquire personal satisfaction and better understanding of sustainable issues in a global society

- encourage transnational experiences for an exchange of ideas, increasing team project work to produce eco sustainable products, loaded on the net and enjoyed by international audience

- exploit the use of technology as a means of inclusive and up to date educational approach and as a means to communicate within partnership and with stakeholders.

- provide students with new professional and highly qualified careers conscious of new demanding issues as concerns eco tourism.

Main general targets:

- learning about students' own regional natural and cultural heritage;

- learning about the effects of mass tourism on environment and natural landscape and tourist sites.

Main related topics:

- the impact of globalized tourism on environment

- the changing attitudes towards tourism and new trends in eco-sustainability

- strategies to help preserve historical and natural heritage within the partnership

Expected results:

- to raise students' awareness of the negative aspects of mass tourism on famous landmarks

- to get students actively involved in the creation of unconventional tourist packages based on sustainability

- to make students understand the matter of eco-sustainable tourism and become eco-friendly tourism

Summary:

Firstly students reflect on issues based on eco-sustainability and tourism with brainstorming among partners, attending meeting with experts, making research and finding solutions based on PBL methodology. Secondly they are involved in a task of reality where they build up a blog within the partner project to share eco-sustainable itineraries of their own regions.

The final result will be the creation of unconventional packages based on global tourism which connect different subjects of their curriculum as English, Economics, Management, Civilization, History, European citizenship and ICT.