TourX
CoVEs for the Tourism Industry
TOUR-X is a Center of Vocational Excellence (COVE) Project for the Tourism Industry.
TOUR-X envisions creating excellence in Tourism through a bottom-up approach where the Education providers of the partnership will enhance their ability to adapt skills provision to everchanging economic and social needs.
The TOUR-X project, co-funded by the European Union is led by a Consortium of 23 experienced partners representing the most prominent VET providers, the Tourism sector and Regional Authorities of the seven countries that the project brings together. Moreover, TOUR-X is going to establish partnerships on a regional level, titled Knowledge Triangles in Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain, four of the leading countries in the Tourism sector of Europe. The Knowledge Triangles are gathering VET providers, representatives of the business sector and public authorities in order to better collaborate and contribute to regional development in the Tourism sector.
Objectives of the project
- Foster national and transnational collaboration among all partnering stakeholders through the establishment of TourX Transnational Ecosystem for Excellence in Tourism
- Foster national and transnational collaboration among all partnering stakeholders through the establishment of TourX Transnational Ecosystem for Excellence in Tourism
- Increase sectoral employability and foster competitiveness
- Increase investments in tourism-related human resources
- Achieve a fairer and more sustainable and more resilient model in tourism
- Foster internationalization to address long-standing structural weaknesses
- Creation of feedback loops to adapt VET provision
- Increase the image of VET in the tourism sector
Expected Main Results
- Creation of TourX – Transnational Ecosystem for VET Excellence in the Tourism Sector
- Design of a TourX “Hospitality Labs” ToolBox for Excellence
- Pilot Operation of “Hospitality Labs” for the Creation of Excellence at a Regional Level
- Creation of sustainable, systemic impact
Project Activities
Funding Programme: ERASMUS-EDU-2021-PEX-COVE
Duration: 06/2022 – 05/2026, 48 months
Budget: 4.000.000,00 €
Countries: Greece, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, China, Belgium
Project Number: 101056184
Project Partners
- AKMI SA – Greece
- Greek-Italian Chamber of Commerce of Thessaloniki – Greece
- IME-GSEVEE – Greece
- Regional Development Fund of Attica (RDFA) – Greece
- Hellenic Open University – Greece
- EOPPEP – Greece
- Confindustria Veneto SIAV – Italy
- Regione Del Veneto – Italy
- ENAIP Veneto – Italy
- Skills Together – Italy
- Asociacion Mundus – Spain
- Ayuntamiento La Oliva – Spain
- ASOFUER – Spain
- Escuela De Hosteleria Europea (EHE) – Spain
- University of Aveiro – Portugal
- Landkreis Spree-Neiße – Germany
- DEHOGA Brandenburg – Germany
- AVT Bildung – Germany
- BK Consult – Germany
- European Vocational Training Association (EVTA) – Belgium
- European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB) – Belgium
- European Entrepreneurs CEA PME – Belgium
- EU Project Innovation Centre (EUPIC) – China
Latest Project News
The Design and delivery of Open Educational Resources Training Programme is OUT!
The AcTiOn project aims at promoting inclusion and labour market integration of immigrant learners, through the design and delivery of training to VET staff, teachers, and stakeholders as well as to involve more VET education providers and experts, in immigrants'...
TourX – Event with Mystery Tester Group of Brandenburg Hospitality
On Saturday, February 25, 2023, the german TourX-Team and the management team of the Quality Initiative BRANDENBURG HOSPITALITY met with the mystery testers at the Mercure Hotel Potsdam to exchange ideas on the current requirements for quality testing in 2023....
Up-Sailing – Newsletter Issue 2
The Up-Sailing project intends to introduce a holistic methodology that will bridge VET Education and the Maritime/Shipping Industry, promote a green certification system, and contribute to the respective policy dialogue with lessons learned and good practices that...