The DisArTY project is aiming to promote the cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Asia in the field of youth and explore the potential of youth work in order to increase social entrepreneurship and employability of the young people in the field of community based tourism which represents a great potential for them and represent an important tool for restoring the areas damaged by natural disaster. It is essential to develop strategies that guarantee countries affected by natural disasters the recovery of their human activity, for this reason this project it will incentive to community-based tourism youth-led because this involves the communities that control, manage and develop their own tourism industry and represents a sector in which specially young people have an important role to play as the most dynamic and innovative part of this field. The project activities will be based on the identification and valorization of local community assets that could be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities of disaster areas. In order to promote this objective, DisArTY project will organize four main activity clusters: First, research on the principles and best practices related with community based tourism with local youth. This research will also include the identification of important local assets that could be valorised for a tourism related product in each of the local communities that the partners are going to focus their activities on. Second, the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of community based tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of three international exchanges in Italy, Mexico and Philippines. Third, the development of innovative community based tourism offers at local level with active involvement of youth, many with few opportunities and/or hit or threatened by unemployment caused by the disaster. Fourth, the creation of networks and information for entrepreneurial training, business plan development and community based social entrepreneurship. It will include the development of material for an eLearning course offered for youth and a new platform with contacts of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship tutors. It is expected that more than 100 youth workers from all the partner countries are going to be involved in the activities of the project both through the participation in the transnational training events and the participation in the e-learning course that the project is going to develop. The project is going to be implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners from 2 European countries (Italy, Greece), 1 Asian (Philippines) and one Latin American country (Mexico). The project consortium includes NGOs, SMEs, universities and foundations which have diverse and complementary skills.
The DisArTY project aims at promoting the cooperation between Europe, Latin America and Asia in the field of youth and exploring the potential of youth work in order to increase social entrepreneurship and employability of the young people in the field of community based tourism which represents a great potential for them and represent an important tool for restoring the areas damaged by natural disaster. It is essential to develop strategies that guarantee countries affected by natural disasters the recovery of their human activity, for this reason this project incentives to community-based tourism youth-led because this involves the communities that control, manage and develop their own tourism industry and represents a sector in which specially young people have an important role to play as the most dynamic and innovative part of this field. The project activities are based on the identification and valorization of local community assets, cultural, economic, physic, social, etc..., to be used in order to achieve sustainable tourism that will benefit local communities of disaster areas. The project is implemented by a consortium that includes 5 partners: 2 from European countries (Italy, Greece), 1 from Asia (Philippines) and 1 from Latin American (Mexico). In order to promote this objective, DisArTY project implemented four main activity clusters: - First: the research on the principles and best practices related with community based tourism with local youth. This research includes the identification of important local assets that could be valorised for a tourism related product in each of the local communities that the partners are going to focus their activities on. The research regards also the best practices analyzed at national and international level and the design of a CBT methodology.- Second: the enhancement of skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of community based tourism and youth entrepreneurship within the framework of the Training program. This includes 3 Transnational Meetings and Mobility in Italy (Castellammare di Stabia), Mexico (Jalpan de Serra) and Philippines (Bataan, Batac). The Transnational Meeting provide the youth workers involved with theorical and practical tools, using the non formal learning methodology, and working on the field to a direct contact with the local communities. - Third: the development of innovative community based tourism offers at local level with active involvement of youth, many with few opportunities and/or hit or threatened by unemployment caused by the disaster. This is achieved through the interaction and the cooperation with the local actors and the putting in practice all skills and competences acquired about the Community Based Tourism, the youth strategies, the restoring policies in the case of natural disaster.- Fourth: the creation of an international network and information for entrepreneurial training, business plan development and community based social entrepreneurship. It includes the development of all research and training material for the eLearning course that has been offered to youth all around the world.The project involves more than 140 among youth workers and young peoople from all the partner countries in the activities of the project through the participation in the 3 transnational training events and the participation in the e-learning course (2 months). The e-learning regards the main themes of the projects, the methodology, the development of practical tools and a project work.The project consortium includes 1 Foundation (coordinator of the project) 2 NGOs from Mexico and Philippimes, 1 SME from Greece and 1 online University from Italy, which have diverse and complementary skills.