The project aims at experimenting the educational and training process of a brand new professional profile, not available in the labour market yet, as a result of a mixture of different but complementary competencies drawn from operators from different professional fields: the sailing, waitering, cooking and touristic guidance. The peculiar training process, designed by the Scientific Committee of the Hotel and Catering "IPSEO Aldo Moro" Institute, representative of different and complementary professional skills, will provide and ensure a complete achievement of competencies to the target groups of students from the partner countries (15 students of each group) through a mixed methodology that includes traditional classes, learning by doing, cooperativelearning. The didactic modules (48 hours of theory and 32 hours of on the field training activities) will be held in different learning environments, such as classrooms, tourist agencies, yachts. That has requested the participation of two companies operating in those peculiar business fields. The final output will be a new professional profile not only able to welcome guests on board, but to manage all aspects of life on board, from to cooking to organising entertainment activities and excursions. Such a very high professional profile could easily be appreciated in the labour market (expecially in the nautic field) because a Skipper/Chef possesses the skills of four different professionals. The model of this experimental project and its achievements will be formalised in order to be spread in the international labour market.
The project has experienced a new professional figure with skills taken from various kinds of professionals: the sailor, the cook, the maître, the tourist guide. The training course provided the full training of three target groups of 15 students from each partner country: Turkey, Poland, Ireland. The training process, involving schools and firms, has been carried out in multiple learning environments: from the classical "classroom" to the tourist agency, to the yacht. The final result is the model of a new professional figure able to accommodate on board, to cook, to organize and manage the typical activities of the cruise, to act as a guide for organized excursions. All of this is summarized in a manual in Italian and in English available both in paper version and e-book and in a dedicated website www.sullacrestadellonda.eu and it has been started the process of recognition of that new professional qualification at the Regione Puglia.