Tourism is the field that brings great opportunities for our students' future careers and is of vital importance for the regions in which they live. The project originated as a need to improve our everyday classroom work and a way to motivate the students in informal learning through new and innovative teaching methods and approaches in order to gain new skills needed in the tourist industry and at the same time to get the students engaged in extracurricular activities. The objective of the project is to improve the skills of our students, especially of weaker students with low basic skills and motivate them to acquire skills and knowledge through the process of learning from experience and peer learning. It also aims to provide an opportunity for high-flying students to achieve more and use their talents and skills out of the classroom and at the same time get a unique experience that can be gained only by participating in such a project on European level. It will enable them to develop their basic and transversal skills, with highlight on entrepreneurship in the tourist industry and improving ICT and digital technology skills. The activities to be undertaken throughout the project are innovative and creative, thus our students will have a chance to prove themselves in extracurricular tasks that cannot be covered during the regular lessons and will be useful for them in searching their inner motivation to achieve more. In this project students from different cultures and studying in different educational systems in Europe will work together. The tourism sector includes different cultures, different languages, different customs and traditions. Innovating skill development approaches will be used to create documentaries and other outcomes that will be used at local and wider level. Realistic ICT goals to present culture, tourist attractions and values have been set up with the main aim to facilitate young learners. The expected results are different activities to be accomplished, which will result in documentaries which will promote our towns and regions and footages of the regions visited, in which we will show our experience while working on the project. Workshops will be organized for both the students and the teachers with the topic related to tourist industry. Workshops will cover a wide range of different activities, based mostly on learning by experiencing and peer learning, like exploring a town or a city, exploring flora and fauna of our national parks, visits to different institutions to get to know how they operate, and factories to see the process of production of things important for the tourist industry. All of these activities will help our students become more open-minded about their work life and prepare them for the European job market. They will gain self-confidence to deal with the important step in their career, develop their communication skills and other skills needed to be more qualified for a job. The target groups are students, teachers and non-teaching staff in our schools. All our activities are student-oriented, useful and doable by them, and conceived to increase their motivation and improve their skills and knowledge. Each partner will include all the students and teachers interested in the project and it will be part of school curriculum so all the students and teachers at our schools will indirectly participate in it and have benefit from it. All the students interested in the project will participate actively in it, regardless what their basic skills are, as the aim of the project is to motivate them through informal learning to achieve more. The desired impact of the project at the local, regional, national, European or international levels is its recognition as a promotional tourist material that can be used in high schools or other educational organizations for adult learners or as a promotional material in tourist offices for introducing destinations chosen by youth .
The completed project “Recording Our Training Experiences in Documentaries” was dedicated to the field of tourism. In this project students from different cultures and studying in different educational systems in Europe worked together. All participating schools are located in the areas where tourism has important role in each country’s economy. The project originated as a need to improve our everyday classroom work and a way to motivate the students in informal learning through new and innovative teaching methods and approaches in order to gain new skills needed in the tourist industry and at the same time to get the students engaged in extracurricular activities. The topic of the project was making footage and documentaries related to tourism and youth oriented. The project was aimed at young people who wanted to boost and benefit from their creativity, potential and ambition. It was intended to promote the benefits of IT and digital competences. The project main aim was improving ICT and digital technology skills of both the students and the teachers, to enrich their knowledge of a wider European environment through the use of IT and digital technology. ICT and digital technology were used to create youth-oriented documentary films about tourist regions of their countries with emphasis on the country's heritage, traditions, customs on one hand and things to do for young people on the other hand. Realistic ICT goals were set up, which were students-oriented in order to present their culture, tourist attractions and sights in the eye of young people. One of the objectives of the project was to improve the skills of our students, especially of weaker students with low basic skills and motivate them to acquire skills and knowledge through the process of learning from experience and peer learning. It also aimed to provide an opportunity for stronger students to achieve more and use their talents and skills out of the classroom and at the same time get a unique experience that could be gained only by participating in such a project on European level. One of the goals of the project was to motivate the students through informal learning, to stimulate students through doing and creating to achieve more The target groups of participants were young students, teachers and non-teaching staff in participating schools. All our partners were skilful in various fields like business management, tourism and catering, marketing, foreign languages, history, geography, entrepreneurship, ICT, multimedia design, recreation, hospitality service, communication and dissemination, event organization, agriculture as a source of tourist income. Before the actual project activities took place Erasmus+ Route Docs Clubs were formed at each partner school. The activities undertaken throughout the project were innovative, creative and student-oriented. Our students had a chance to prove themselves in extracurricular tasks in addition to their regular lessons. Most of the project activities were done in schools through involving them in the school curriculum and also through extra-curricular activities. The possibility to participate in various learning, teaching and training activities with European peers was an invaluable opportunity to learn from practical experience. For example, exploring a town or a city, exploring flora and fauna of our national parks, visits to different institutions to get to know how they operate, and factories to see the process of production of things important for the tourist industry. The results of our completed project are different accomplished activities that resulted in 25 documentaries that all introduce our regions and share our experiences while working together. Participating in the project enabled the students to develop their basic and transversal skills, with highlight on entrepreneurship in the tourist industry and improving ICT and digital technology skills. The project promoted the EU Citizenship, enabled all the participants to improve their European awareness and intercultural understanding by experiencing life in another country, observing and noticing cultural differences and similarities; it boosted cooperation between students from other countries. The impact of the project at the local, regional, national, European or international levels is its recognition as a promotional tourist material that can be used in high schools or other educational organizations, in tourist offices for introducing destinations chosen by youth.