The objective of the project is to define a list of study and/or professional training paths addressed to this sector operators or to young people inserted in pertinent or similar study paths and public administrators, able to offer solutions of the highlighted lacks.There will be created training materials and online applicated structural study paths. Training materials contents will be issued by comparing our continent areas that successfully created and integrated with the rest of the territory maritime tourism. Reference areas are Valencia, Malta and Portsmouth, the 3 cities having a structured and modulated maritime and nautical tourism almost in the whole year.Activities will be the following:Study tables in Italy and between the various public and private actors taking part in the nautical tourism, education and professional training in order to find existing specific criticalities; public and private actors will visit local governance, companies, high schools, important sector consortiums situated in the 3 countries of reference (Spain, Malta and UK). Comparison with the individuated countries in order to verify the adopted solutions, supporting nautical tourism; collection of exchange experiences and analysis of criticalities; definition of educational and professional training paths in order to build up and attract the interest of the local actors; production of educational and promotional materials making use of the partners’ contribute; structure organization of work training paths; promotion and diffusion of the project’s activities.The study subject of these areas as follows:1. Process of management of the tourist offer during autumn and winter seasons and evaluation of the process of de-seasonality ( extention to full year functioning), if present, and the role of each public or private actor2. Solutions allowing an eventual extention to full year functioning of the offered nautical services (target, events, manifestation ecc)3. Process of management of the charter services, including observed quality and service norms 4. Organization process and integration between territory offer and customer target5. Differentiated steps of territory promotion as nautical tourism goal, aiming at a long-term functioning during the year. Addressees: professional training specialists, nautical and touristic sectors entrepreneurs, institutional contact persons acting in the tourist, productive and Blue Economy sectors, teachers and contact persons working in vocational tourist and/or nautical high schools.The project concerns the realization of the following products:a research that will be available online or in ebook formatan online training course for employed people that will last 100 hoursan online training course for unemployed people or people attended the last year of High School; it will last 250 hoursEach product will be developed by a working group of 10/11 people related to the institutional organizations, the labor market, the vocational training sector and the educational field. They could be supported by IT and language experts.Each training course will be divided in units included the interactive learning materials, through a particular system of learning assessment that could certify the knowledge, skills and abilities acquired by participants. All the products will be translated in English and everyone, who will be interested in the project, could look them up.Three different events will take place in Italy to develop and enhance these final products.The last project phase will regard the dissemination actions.
The project carried out a research and 2 online training courses that strengthen the link between the tourism sector and recreational boating. Northern Tuscany and Eastern Liguria are productive excellences in the nautical sector worldwide, but with limited tourist development in space (coastal areas) and over time (summer season). The 2 sectors have difficulty in creating synergies, despite the strong potential. With the made products, 4 European areas were confronted with 4 different ways of living and integrating the sea element (UK, Spain, Malta).The initial research (output 1), turn with the data collection, information and direct testimony of experts in the sector, provided indications for the construction of the 2 training products; one, aimed at operators in the nautical and tourist sector and one, aimed at new graduates or individuals without specific experience. The comparison of the tourist, nautical and training offers of the 4 countries is at the base of the structuring of the 2 training courses created. The 5 Italian partners, each for their own areas of expertise, have turned research and provided guidance for the 3 foreign partners on the areas of investigation. The information was sent to Serindform who, coordinating the 3 outputs, systematized and shared them to receive contributions from everyone. The first of the 3 multiplier events, held in Viareggio in October 2017, was not limited to making the research and the project known; thanks to the different moments of discussion foreseen during the event it was possible to unite stakeholders with common objective.The research was at the center of discussions that in the course of 2018 allowed the development of 5 training and transnational projects in the nautical and tourism area, funded by the Tuscany Region: Fourseansos, APOMA, AMCO, Blue Skills and S.O.F.T. In the projects there are several partners and different TNT ideas, together with new subjects who have shared the objectives. The construction of products 2 and 3 saw the initial participation in the choice of topics to be developed. In product 2, addressed to sector operators, two partners played a central role: “Navigo”, the main consortium of companies in the nautical sector in Versilia and also at national level, and “Gente di Mare onlus”, active in the sector. In product 3, addressed to new graduates, the two higher institutes, "Arzelà" and "Pertini" have made the greatest contribution. The foreign partners, based on the indications received in itinere, have enriched the 2 products with the collection of materials and testimonies of sector operators and providing added value with insights and suggestions useful for the construction of training courses. The products allow to develop skills that integrate recreational boating with the resources of the hinterland, creating synergies able to collect the various added values. Businesses and new employees will be able to effectively use the new technologies to promote the services offered, to structure offers that integrate the present services and to attract boaters and tourists to the territory; this is the first step to lengthen the tourist season by encouraging the encounter with the cultural, natural and food and wine heritage of northern Tuscany and eastern Liguria. The online courses provide indications about market trends and examples of success to be imitated. A long-term goal is to be attractive to the great tourist flows of Tuscany and the Cinque Terre, present throughout the year and geographically close to the project areas. Thanks to the action of the partner "Pertini" the courses were included in the UIBI platform (ww.uibi.it) the distance learning network based on Moodle, which shalls collect together all the high schools in the provinces of Massa-Carrara, Lucca and Livorno and to which students, teachers and trainers join; the insertion allowed to directly reach the target of the product 3 and a part of the target of the product 2, giving visibility to the research. Following the last 2 multiplier events, several institutes requested information about the products and said they were interested in their use. Next 10 April, at the Ist. Pertini di Lucca, project partner, will take place an event which will be attended by the students of the senior year, teachers, representatives of other Institutes: in this meeting will be promoted the project and the realized outputs, with the aim of promoting the products as standard training in tourism. There have also been close agreements for the dissemination of products with organizations and associations that carry out training, tourism and boating activities. The products produced are a training tool that is always available and accessible; that has the effect of creating an ever-present strategic training offer, not linked to isolated and sporadic initiatives.