The Institute of Tourism Studies, together with a broad European partnership, has just been awarded an EU grant to carry out a project aimed at promoting transparency and recognition of competencies and qualifications, across Europe, in the tourism sector.
The two-year project, entitled YES Employability – Young Europeans, Skills for Employability in Tourism, is financed by the European Union as part of the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme. The project proposes to tackle the need of the Tourism Education and Vocational Training sector for a workable system of validation, transfer and recognition, of skills and competencies achieved during formal, informal and non-formal circumstances, expressed in transferrable units, and that can be linked to national and european frameworks presently in use. View Full Article »
The new TEEMPASS online database of competencies and learning pathways in the Hospitality Industry has been tested in Cyprus, Italy, and Portugal, the partners countries in the YES Employability Project. Below there are a picture gallery and two videos (in the Italian language) that document this testing. Similar testing has been conducted in Malta too, organised by the Institute of Tourism Studies, the leading partner of the project.
The sixth edition of the YES Employability Project e-Newsletter has been published. This newsletter contains updated news about training, qualifications and education in the tourism and hospitality industry in Europe, especially from partner countries in the Project. The contents are of interest to stakeholders in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry.
This edition is particularly important as it announces the launch of the Tourism Educators Network – MT, a new organisation that will maintain the teempass.eu online database of comptencies and learning pathways in the tourism hospitality industry. TEEMPASS is a product of the YES Project.
Martin Debattista (left) and David Pace (centre) presenting the YES Employability Project, next to Antonio Olivari (EUPA) (Photo courtesy of EUPA)
The YES Employability Project was presented at a National Thematic Monitoring Meeting organised by the Maltese National Agency, the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA), at Dar l-Ewropa (Europe House), Valletta, on Wednesday 9th November 2011.
During the meeting several projects part-funded by the EU and in which Maltese organisations are taking part were presented.
David Pace and Martin Debattista from the YES Project presented an overview of the Project, its objectives, and the progress registered so far. The Institute of Tourism Studies is the leading partner of the Project, which has website accessible at www.yesemployability.eu
The fifth edition of the YES Employability Project e-Newsletter has been published. This newsletter contains updated news about training, qualifications and education in the tourism and hospitality industry in Europe, especially from partner countries in the Project. The contents are of interest to stakeholders in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry.
The progress registered in the building of a new online skills database for the Hospitality Industry and securing its future where some of the main issues discussed in the steering committee meeting of the YES Employability Project which was held on the 27th and 28th June 2011 in Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal.
The eight partners of the YES Employability – Young Europeans, Skills for Employability in Tourism Project, have been working for months on a database of skills and competences in the Tourism Industry that will lead to the creation of a specific Europass CV that will facilitate the mobility of workers in Europe in this particular industry.
This database is called TEEMPASS and is expected to be officially launched towards the end of this year, just a few months before the end of the EU-funded project. View Full Article »
On Tuesday 21st June 2011 the Malta Hotels and Restaurant Association (MHRA), a partner in the YES Employability Project, organised a consultative meeting for the Maltese tourism and hospitality industry about the YES Project. The meeting was organised in St. Julian’s, Malta.
ITS have conducted testing sessions with students on the YES Employability skills database. This has been documented in a video that is available below and on the YES Employability YouTube Channel:
The fourth edition of the YES Employability Project Newsletter has been published. This newsletter contains updated news about training, qualifications and education in the tourism and hospitality industry in Europe, especially from partner countries in the Project. The contents are of interest to stakeholders in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry.
