FREE OF CHARGE SPECIALISED INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SEMINARS FOR CULTURAL AND GREEN – ECOLOGICAL TOURISM

The ERASMUS+ CULTOURA BRIDGES programme invites young professionals in the tourism sector or people who would like to work in the tourism sector to participate in specialised professional training courses offered online and free of charge.

More specifically, the ERASMUS+ CULTOURA BRIDGES programme offers the following specialised courses:

• Understanding the concept of cultural tourism, green tourism and heritage tourism and its value
• Customer interaction and customer experience management
• Planning and management of cultural diversity
• Management of specific activities for cultural heritage tourism and events
• Management of specific activities for green tourism
• Ensuring the safety of the sites and visitors
• Marketing and communication

The courses will be organised during the period April-June 2024. The total duration of each of the courses is approximately 30 hours. The courses will be held face-to-face in your country as well as online with the cooperation of experts from all participating countries. Participants can choose to participate in one or more courses, will be assessed and certified separately for each of them. Successful participants will receive a certificate under the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

Course participants should have an intermediate level of English and at least basic digital skills.

The face-to-face courses will be organised at the following locations:

• Mindelo, Cabo Verde
• Ziguinchor, Senegal
• Luanda, Kenya
• Mytilene, Greece
• Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
• Seville, Spain

If you are interested in participating, you must complete the application form below by 31 March.

There will be a limited number of places and there will be a first come, first served basis.

Successful applicants will be notified by 4 April. Courses will start on 8 April.

The ERASMUS+ CULTOURA BRIDGES project is funded by the European Union. It is coordinated by Action Synergy (Greece) and the partners are the Research, Education, Innovation and Development Company of the North Aegean Region, ELORIS S.A (Greece), the University of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), the University of Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (Senegal), the Chamber of Commerce of Seville (Spain), the RAS Foundation (Italy) and the NGOs Associação dos Amigos da Natureza (Cabo Verde), Plateforme des Femmes pour la Paix en Casamance (Senegal) and Kipepeo Community Empowerment Program (Kenya).

Blended Montessori-Creative Technologies approach for successful inclusion in Multicultural Schools (MonTech) project will foster social inclusion and equity in multicultural schools across Europe through highly innovative and engaging activities based on a new approach that blends the Montessori method with cutting-edge Maker Education learning experiences.

The main objective of MonTech is to foster the social inclusion of children with refugee, migrant, or minority backgrounds in their school environment. The first specific objective is to support educators that are teaching in multicultural schools to effectively increase their educational performance by implementing activities inspired by a new approach (Montessori + Creative Technologies). The second specific objective is the measurable increase of the educational performance of these children.

PARTNERS

Seville Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation- Spain

Lapland University of Applied Sciences- Finland

Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Vratsa- Bulgaria

Marche Region- Italy

North Aegean Region- Greece

Experience Bremerhaven, Tourism, Marketing and Events Company- Germany

Carlow County Council- Ireland

PORA Regional Development agency of Koprivnica Križevci County- Croatia

The aim of these activities is the training of teachers in audiovisual and cinematographic education regarding the fostering of cinematic culture in schools, the knowledge and approach of the tools of cinematic technology and the methods and techniques used to produce a cinematic product.

They also aim to develop critical thinking in relation to film products, the use of audiovisual material for the development of personal expression skills, the organisation and creation of audiovisual presentations in schools. Interdisciplinary approaches with other disciplines such as photography, visual arts, music, movement, literature, creative writing.

Participating teachers will be trained on issues related to film literacy, participate in film screenings and workshops with groups of students from their schools, become multipliers by organising workshops in their schools and create film content.

Young people aged 15-24 represent 20% of the African population but over 40% of the total unemployed people in Africa. There arises the need to encourage young people in Africa to pursue vocational education, and to better connect the existing vocational education structures with the private sector, and the labour market in general. Therefore, the aim of this project is to upskill VET in African countries (Cape Verde, Senegal, Kenya) in order to increase employability of young people and to connect VET with the rising sectors of the labour market in the private sector. A sector that can be targeted for this initiative is the cultural tourism sector. African countries have a wealth of local assets that can serve as a motivation for cultural, green, and responsible tourists to visit the continent. In this project, we aim to create channels of communication between VET centres and the private sector, to create a joint vocational education curriculum on green, cultural, circular, responsible tourism among the partner countries of Europe and Africa, to strengthen the connection between vocational education and work, by introducing the concept of micro-credentials and to provide opportunities to students for Green Apprenticeships/Mentoring with private sector professionals The following steps will be taken in order to achieve the objective: creation of local and international networks, focus groups with the created networks (first local, then international) in order to assess the educational needs associated with employment in the touristic sector, and to create the learning objectives and micro-credentials, development of a joint qualification profile and joint curriculum, organisation of blended courses on the issue, organisation of e-apprenticeships (digital exchange) of students to private institutions from other partner countries and assessment of students, and awarding of micro-credentials in a digital portfolio.

The project is aiming to build the capacity of key actors in VET (VET institutions, intermediary organisations and companies) to support the organisation of apprenticeships in a digital and virtual way. This includes the use of digital skills and methods, the design and implementation of digital strategies in relation with the organisation of online apprenticeships that will fit their own needs, the implementation of EFQEA online and the digital adaptation of their apprenticeship procedures

The project is going to develop 3 project results: – A collection of best practices from all over the world in the field of virtual apprentticeships – Handbooks with step by step guides, tips and templates related with the organisation of online apprenticeships – Online and blended courses at national and European level. At the end of the project, it is expected that the VET actors will increase significantly their skills, capability and willingness to organise online apprenticeships.

The vision of MOVE2CCAM is to:

Explore the multisystems impact of CCAM passenger and freight solutions; define use cases, business models and Key Performance Indicators through co-creation activities with the “MOVE2CCAM Satellites”, & develop a practical system dynamics-based impact assessment tool that will enable the evaluation of CCAM interventions’ impact on mobility-, socio-economic-, public health- and environmental-related aspects considering diverse European region specifics and different actors’ needs, objectives and perceptions.

GreenHeritage aims at developing a holistic, innovative and inclusive approach toward direct and indirect climate change (CC) impact on intangible cultural heritage (ICH), a topic which has received little or no attention at all.

The project seeks innovative tools and methodologies able to promote adaptive and systemic approaches to better manage CC. The GreenHeritage proposal aspires to function as an urgent reminder that climate change is present, affecting both directly and indirectly all aspects of Europe’s cultural heritage. It is also an urgent call to stir up collective action.

The project “Empowering Culture through Business: Introducing Business Academies for Culture and Creative Young Professionals in rural and remote areas” is funded under Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ Programme and aims at the development and enhancement of the skills of Culture and Creative Young Professionals (CCYPs) living and working in rural and remote areas.

To achieve the goal of the project, the consortium will establish Business Academies aimed at educating young people through innovative training programmes with the involvement of specialists and professionals from the business and cultural sector.

The culmination of the efforts of the partners under this project, will be the creation and development, in a sustainable manner, of a prototype HUB in a remote, non-urban area in the Nicosia district. The HUB will provide the necessary support to young people for their professional development and especially access to funding tools in order to support their work. The creation of the original HUB and its sustainable development guide, aim to be a remarkable tool of development policy for local authorities and a best practice for remote communities.

The project started in January 2022 and it will be implemented until July 2024 with a total budget of € 207 445. The consortium comprises of 6 partners: the Nicosia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (coordinator), the European Office of Cyprus, Matera Hub in Italy, Danmar Computers from Poland, the Company of Research, Education, Innovation and Development of the North Aegean Region (ELORIS S.A.) and the training consulting company Catro in Bulgaria.

More information can be found on the website of the project: https://empoweringculture.business/.   

The kick-off meeting of the project took place on 28 January 2022. Due to restrictions because of the pandemic, the partners of the project met online.

At first, the coordinator of the project, the Nicosia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), welcomed the partners and then each of them presented their organisations and core activities.

Later on, the coordinator presented the project objectives and the key results and milestones. Then, partners discussed the Intellectual Output 1 (IO1) of the project which is aims at finding the employability challenges faced by the Culture and Creative Young Professionals in rural or remote areas in each one of the participating countries through the use of surveys and desk research and then producing a consolidated report with the state of the art. 

At this point the partners discussed each activity that has to be undertaken under IO1 and defined the role of each of the partners under each activity.  Afterwards, the coordinator presented the reporting templates to be used by the partners so as to ensure the smooth development of the project.

Finally, the partner responsible for the Dissemination activities of the project, the European Office of Cyprus, presented some options for the project’s logo for which the partners had to vote which one was their preferred one and the Communication and Dissemination plan of the project was presented. 

The partners of the project met physically for the first time in the project’s first transnational meeting in the island of Lesbos in Greece. The meeting was hosted by the Company of Research, Education, Innovation and Development of the North Aegean Region (ELORIS S.A.).

During the meeting the partners discussed the progress of the activities of IO1 and especially the results of the survey and desk research and the subsequent delivery of national reports for each partner country.

Then the partners discussed the activities of Intellectual Output 2 (IO2) of the project which aims at the creation of Business Academies for Culture and Creative Young Professionals through the design and delivery of a VET course. The partners had a lively discussion as to the number and context of the courses which will be designed by CATRO with the assistance of the rest of the partners of the consortium. 

Materahub, also presented to the consortium their plan for the delivery of Intellectual Output 3 (IO3) under which the partners will provide guidelines through a guidebook for the creation of culture and creativity Hubs in a rural or remote area. This guidebook will mainly target rural local and regional authorities and administrations. 

The partners also discussed about the design and creation of the e-learning platform of the project. The e-learning platform will be accessible to all young creative professionals and rural regional and local authorities and it will contain the national reports developed under IO1, the courses to be developed under IO2 and the guidebook produced by IO3. The e-learning platform will also serve as an online forum where the users of the platform will be able to discuss with each-other and exchange ideas, find partners and inform their colleagues about good-practices.

This Thursday 23th of June at 20.00 ΕΕΤ cinematopedia project is organizing an online event to talk  about how cinema is approaching the subject of gender inequality and gender-based violence. 

Cinematopedia is a Creative Europe MEDIA project which aims to use cinemas as innovation hubs for  local communities. 

In this European event there is participation from four different countries: Italy, France, Lithuania and  Greece. The Cinematopedia partners from these countries will present case studies, films that addressed  the subject of gender, and will then discuss them with the people attending the event. 

The list of films that we are going to talk about and the partners presenting are the following: 

• Rencontres Audiovisuelles (Lille, France) – Où vont les sons (2020) Five friends meet on Skype and a sixth one hasn’t appeared yet. Little by little, we discover what binds  them: the memory of the “Talk to me about love”, an evening organized by a certain Clémence. The  story alternates between the Skype discussion and the memory of that evening. Director: Florent Gouëlou 
• Politistikos Syllogos Fortetsas (Crete, Greece) – Little England (2013) An epic tale of lost love and a beautiful story of the love between sisters, set in the Greek island of  Andros at the beginning of the 20th century. Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
• Kino Pasaka (Vilnius, Lithuania) – And then we danced (2019) A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows  Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with  a rebellious streak. Director: Levan Akin 
• Callysto APS (Napoli, Italy) – Women of the Land (2021) WOMEN OF the LAND is a documentary that tells the stories of a group of Italian women who moved  from the city to the countryside to make their dream come true: live in harmony with nature through  the self-production of organic food, learn the arts of cultivation, transformation, preservation, restore  local communities and promote an alternative lifestyle against over-consumption. Director: Elisa Flaminia Inno 
• ELORIS (Mytilene, Greece) – Petite Fille (2020) The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the  sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking. Director: Sébastien Lifshitz 

Participation 

There are going to be a few participants from each country for this event, so fill the form as soon as  possible and we are looking forward to seeing you on Thursday 🙂 

The event will be hosted on Zoom and will be in English.

Here are the details you need in order to log in: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87127092203?pwd=bXgwWHFlNzQvN3RXQkhBUlBFcnRCdz09 Meeting ID: 871 2709 2203 

Passcode: 406986