Promoting Sustainable Tourism in Europe
Resource Nodes for Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship Training - RN-KCET - aims
to enhance a common understanding and commitment for sustainable tourism by SMEs
that fosters a profitable tourism industry while minimizing negative social,
cultural and environmental impacts. The
Knowledge Exchange Platform (KEP) that constitutes the project’s keystone – a
community of practice - maps
relevant opportunities for tourism sector SMEs to become more sustainable.
The project presents a framework for analysing
the current capacity in our regions to present a comprehensive picture of the
state of sustainable tourism and its trends in order to produce credible data
that is key for effective evidence-based management in the industry. This helps
localized tourism-related SMEs surmount challenges and capitalize on
opportunities for actions that drive economic growth and social development by
promoting entrepreneurship that improves tourism management and creates jobs
while leading SMEs toward sustainability.
RN-KCET is
positioned to support the creation of an ecosystem developed for the project’s
target group with capacity building centered in the virtual Knowledge Exchange Platform
(KEP) as that needed information base and related activity orchestrated by
resource nodes that are assumed within each partner’s operations in areas that are in most need of supporting growth phases and technological change for tourism-related SMEs:
* SMEs can gain 24/7 access to
the resources supported by the Knowledge Exchange Platform, to avail themselves of
information and resources that include entrepreneurship education and training
and best practice that will help them grow with solution-driven services that help them transform
innovative ideas into commercial successes. These resource nodes
become hubs networked through the KEP as efficient user-centric environments to
support tourism-SMEs needs to access information and resources that will help
them grow and achieve sustainability. Resource
nodes facilitate training that will lead SME operators toward acquiring skills
and competences in management and services, and inform policymakers and other stakeholders
at local and European levels.
* Via a community of practice for training,
collaboration and mobility, networking and mentoring, and a web of knowledge, the
KEP serves as the axis of communication for free-flowing interchanges of information.
Thus, the ecosystem brings together a host of elements SMEs need to become
sustainable:
⮚ Training
is centered around a model for building and upgrading competences and skills based on EntreComp, the European
Commission’s framework for entrepreneurship, coupled with inquiry-based
learning for critical thinking and exercises for acquiring a growth mindset
needed for successful entrepreneurship. By engaging in entrepreneurship,
SMEs can experiment with carrying
out a diversification of products and services that will not only lead toward
achieving sustainability but also allows SMEs to surmount challenges
and engage in actions that drive economic growth, social development and job
creation in their local communities;
⮚
Linkages are created with local stakeholders like entrepreneurship
ecosystems and idea centers, public agencies, the investment community and
others that create pathways within enabling environments needed for SMEs to
access resources such as financing, business acumen and risk management, brand
development, marketing and product positioning expertise, as well as
technology, complementary entrepreneurship education and training especially
for acquiring competences, soft skills and a growth mindset, job fairs,
opportunities to collaborate with each other and open new markets, among
others.
⮚ SMEs are
introduced to the United Nations Global Goals and connected with the global community to spark
interest in creating and co-creating products and services that accelerate and/or
achieve the Global Goals via a diversification of operations that focus on the SDGs,
as every societal issue presents opportunities for new business ventures.
⮚ Resource nodes will define the status of
sustainable tourism in their areas with data produced by the resource nodes. By
identifying gaps and through the training component of the project, SME
operators acquire skills and competences to experiment with carrying out a
diversification of products and services that will lead toward achieving
sustainability. An open call requests proposals that are analysed against
criteria for challenges defined for the sector, open innovation and
the SDGs; target groups gain 24/7
access to the resources supported by the KEP to avail themselves of information
and resources that help them
transform innovative ideas into commercial successes. By sponsoring workshops to teach
beneficiaries how to utilize the KEP resources as well as organize peer-to-peer
meetings and other events, resource nodes become capacity builders for
tourism-related SMEs, bolstering their support by forming liaisons with other
stakeholders conducive towards supporting SMEs to complete their journey toward
becoming sustainable.
⮚ Meanwhile,
the resource nodes reach out to local stakeholders, including policymakers, job
market actors, formal and non-formal learning environments and others to
disseminate RN-KCET outcomes on local, provincial, national and pan-European
levels, and at international levels in the context of addressing the Global
Goals. These can include creating policy briefs that demonstrate the myriad
benefits sustainable tourism brings to a region including measuring tourism and
its contribution to the economy and to trade, investment and the business
environments, reference targets for tourism developers at the regional and
country levels, good practice for more sustainable ways to manage tourism
business, etc.
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RN-KCET was submitted to COSME COS-TOURCOOP-2019-3-01: Boosting sustainable tourism development and capacity of tourism SMEs through transnational cooperation and knowledge transfer. RN-KCET is sponsored by a consortium of cross-sectoral stakeholders, led by the Municipality of Corinthion and including the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Corinth), Global Skills Network (Barcelona), Smart & Lean Hub (Lahti), Czech Center of Science & Society (Záryby), Regional Cluster "North-East" (Varna), Escola de Comercio (Lisbon), Institute IPR (Northern Portugal), Harghita Community Development Association (Miercurea Ciuc) and the Turkish Ministry of Education (Ankara). The RN-KCET consortium activities administrator is EntreComp Entrepreneurship Education & Training. Inquiries on the project can be directed to our email at info@EntreCompEd.eu.
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