Empowering Rural Communities with Sustainable Tourism Education and Vocational Training

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EduTourism4Africa aims to be developed a sustainable tourism strategy using the guidance tools in order to enhance broad stakeholder engagement in planning, development and management of sustainable tourism, by building a set of capacities of VET providers in tourism sector, to strengthen cooperation between private and public stakeholders in the field of vocational education and training for demand-oriented and opportunity-driven VET interventions, in 3 phases: - Tourism Development, by exchanging good practice between VET providers in EU & Sub-Sahara - Tourism Capacity Building and Training Programme, by creating tools & training schemes to build the capacity of sustainable tourism in Sub-Saharan (practical training schemes training programmes for validating learning outcomes in VET, action plans for participating institutions; counselling and coaching methods) -Follow up & transferring pedagogical approaches, by involving non-teaching staff such as VET leaders & counsellors with high quality work-based experience. EduTourism4Africa’s concept focuses on: 1. to enhance the capacity of VET providers and tourism stakeholders, by sustainable tourism practices, including environmental conservation & social inclusion by developing a best practices learning portal and an action plan for transforming the current capacities to the green economy in sub Sahara; 2. to foster collaborations among stakeholders in tourism industry, including public & private actors, local communities&NGOs, to promote sustainable tourism practices foster exchange transnational good practice among organisations and target group representatives from Sub-Saharan Africa -Europe, by developing a virtual learning environment as an educational and networking space for strategic sustainable tourism promotion in Sub- Sahara and 3.to promote sustainable resource management practices, by developing a capacity building programme divided in 4 thematic pylons and dissemination the European Year of Skills 2023.