The objectives of the Project:
- The General Objectives:
- Promoting the reform and modernization of higher education in partner countries;
- Improving the quality and relevance of higher education in partner countries;
- Encouraging of the human resources development;
- Improvement of the higher education institutions and research institutes network between Partner Countries and EU Member Countries;
- Modernization of the identified priority academic disciplines of curricula by partner countries, through the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), the three-cycle system (BA-MA-PhD) and the diploma recognition;
- The Specific Objectives:
- To compensate for the lack of qualification for the management of organizations and the design and development of projects in Sustainable Tourism, improving the employability of students and improving the executives ;of companies
- To support a profound change in professional practices through the deployment of a complete modular system covering all the needs of initial and continuing training in sustainable tourism trades and accessible in FOAD from digital resources;
- To professionalize educational programs in the field of sustainable tourism in line with the Bologna process and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and relocate them partly to a company;
- To create 2 new courses accessible in FOAD for the development of sustainable tourism: a Professional bachelor in "Management of sustainable tourism establishments" and a professional Master in "Sustainable tourism development strategy";
- То train 20 university teachers in the EU;
- To train on these new courses in face-to-face or remotely in each of the countries on almost 270 students;
- To create a center of excellence in each country, resource center, support of the new offer and consultancy and expertise in sustainable tourism.
- To create a modular system of FTLV, transversal to sustainable tourism, accessible in FOAD from digital teaching resources and train 50 professionals per country.