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 »
These are the guidelines for participation in the network and management of a team of trainers specialised in the use of the output adapted TEEMPASS tool and of the tools for the transparency of competencies and qualifications within relevant educational institutions.
The seventh and last edition of the YES Employability Project e-Newsletter has been published. This newsletter contains an update of the concluding work done in the project.
The contents are of interest to stakeholders in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry.
This edition reports on the Final Conference, the fourth Steering Committee Meeting, and the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding to create the Tourism Educators Network, held in Cyprus in February. TEN is 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.
TEN will issue its own e-newsletter in the near future to continue promoting TEEMPASS.
Raymond J. Vassallo, co-ordinator of the YES Employability Project, showing the TEEMPASS online database. The research of the project and the CD versio of the database are shown inset.
MHRA CEO Andrew Agius Muscat (standing) and Raymond J. Vassallo, YES Project co-ordinator, at the launch of the book and presentation on TEEMPASS at the HR Forum.
The book “Tourism Education, Employability and Mobility in four Mediterranean Countries” published as part of the YES Employability Project, was officially launched at a meeting of the HR Forum of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) held on Friday 2nd March 2012 at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, Malta.
“Tourism Education, Employability and Mobility in four Mediterranean Countries” is the name of a book edited by Raymond J. Vassallo that was published as part of the YES Employability Project. This book is available for download in PDF format here.
The Memorandum of Understanding leading to the creation of the Tourism Educators Network (TEN) was signed in Larnaca, Cyprus, on the 17th February 2012, on the occasion of the concluding conference of the YES Employabilty Project.
The signatories of the MoU are the partners of the YES Employability Project, namely the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) as the lead partner, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Tourism (Italy), ARTES srl ( a research firm from Italy), the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, the Portuguese Association of Hotel Directors (ADHP), and INSESP/ SOFATI (Portugal), the Technical Institute of Larnaca and the Cyprus Chefs Association.
TEN will take over TEEMPASS.eu, the online database of competencies in hospitality produced by the YES Employability Project and will make sure it is sustained and developed in the future.
TEN chapters are being formed in the YES Employability partner countries and other European countries, with TEN-MT, the Malta Chapter, playing a leading role.
The YES Employability 4th Project Steering Committee Meeting and Final Conference were held in Larnaca, Cyprus, between the 15th and the 17th February 2012. These two videos document these events that conclude the Project.
The YES Project final Steering Committee Meeting, Final Conference and the signing and launch of the Tourism Educators Network (TEN) were officially held in Larnaca, Cyprus, between the 15th and the 17th February 2012. This is the picture gallery of the three events.
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.
