General objective: • knowing and being able to respond more effectively, efficiently and proactively to the challenges that the students of the partner schools of the consortium are called to face in the current job market. Specific objectives: • observe and learn strategies, methods, procedures, models, tools and techniques: - didactic - as well as organizational and managerial - different, innovative, qualified and effective adopted by equal foreign VET institutes - different, innovative, qualified and effective service delivery, organization, management and marketing adopted by tourism businesses • achieve professional updating and higher qualification of teachers and staff in terms of sectoral knowledge, skills and professional abilities • understand and strengthen the interconnections between training and the labor market • achieve greater modernization and internationalisation • improve the foreign language knowledge and skills of teachers and staff, to encourage the implementation of the "CLIL" methodology • improve one's planning skills and one's extra-curricular teaching offer • favor the human and individual growth of the participants.
Following the "TOUR.I.S.MA." project, aimed at students and recent graduates and already participated by some members of the consortium, the latter wanted to carry out this project with the aim of improving its overall quality and that of the individual institutes partners in terms of methodology, models and both didactic and organizational contents and overall services offered to students, acting directly on the teaching staff and on the administrative staff employed (target participants). Also in line with the European Strategy 2020 and with the ET2020 Strategy and according to the suggestions contained in the handbook of the DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission entitled “Innovation in tourism. How to create a learning area. Developing thematic, destination-level and regional tourism knowledge networks". In the context of an increasingly urgent need to respond more effectively, efficiently and proactively to the challenges that students and young people are called to face in the current job market, or in the changed and complex economic and social scenario. Which in Calabria sees youth unemployment at 65.1%(!), worst among the regions of Europe (source: Eurostat).