The project aimed to give teenagers interested in a career in hospitality from vulnerable and disadvantaged environments the opportunity to discover different departments from the industry and understand this field of activity better. Through the implementation of this project, we managed to provide career guidance, share theoretical information, and cover some practical elements about the field of European Hospitality, alongside a brief overview of the Greek language, culture, and civilization. Improving participants’ English vocabulary and grammar English was also another mentionable goal, as in the mobility flow activity they discovered all the departments and their associated functions and responsibilities through discovering different accomodation structures and travel agencies. Regarding the achievements of the project: • career guidance and practical experience in the field of European hospitality to 10 Romanian teenagers from secondary schools; • improvement of many key competences such as fluent communication in English and raising digital, entrepreneurial and cultural awareness of 10 Romanian teenagers; •professional psychological evaluationand career guidance sessions for 30 Romanian teenagers.
Fundaţia pentru Educaţie şi Vocaţie has applied with the project „MyWaY to a Career in European Hospitality“ in order to provide career counseling and guidance for high school students who, although come from disadvantaged areas around the country, and want to continue their studies and build a career in European hospitality. Through this project, the target group had the opportunity to visit and understand the main activities that the hospitality field entails and experience what they study at school, as they are students from technological highschools and focus on tourism and hospitality profiles. Many teenagers are disoriented when it comes to choosing the right career path and often make a wrong choice following friend and family advice (usually due to lack of counseling/evaluation and mentorship). An important reason of the school dropout rate in Romanian universities consists of the lack of compatibility between the student’s profile and the chosen field of study. This situation is becoming even more acute when we talk about teenagers from vulnerable backgrounds and disadvantaged environments, which we have selected.