EUTEENS4GREEN Projects

Empower young workers in Chania's booming tourist industry with green skills and knowledge for a sustainable transition, and foster intergenerational connections to promote eco-friendly practices.\n\"During Summer the island of Crete in Greece receives millions of tourists, who choose to spend their\nvacation on this island. The hotspot of tourism is the City of Chania with the famous areas of Seitan limania,\nElafonisi and many other beautiful places. Adding the fact that most young people in high school and in\nuniversity are off from their studies. Most of these young people choose to work during their summer\nvacations so they can earn extra money or to combine vacation and work. The tourist industry is rapidly\ngrowing to such a level that the terms of sustainability and adherence to the sustainable development goals\nare not being addressed. The project seeks to address the young people in this sector which are unaware of\ngood practices in terms of green management in the tourist industry, and to empower them in making an\nimpact thus turning the tide, and making the tourist industry more green. The project seeks to achieve the\nfollowing objectives as described in the guide.\nSupport for building skills for green jobs or new small business\nTraining programmes on sustainable living, green skills\nIntergenerational projects (or actions to foster connections between generations)\nThe Activities will be focusing on\nAwareness-raising/communication non formal activities\nCapacity-building actions (education, training, mentoring, events)\nThe results of this project are the following:\nBetter understanding of the transition to a more sustainable tourism industry in Chania\nAcquiring green skills in order to follow more green jobs or to get involved in green entrepreneurship,\nespecially in the tourist industry\nTransferring the knowledge they gained to their older people working together or working for them, therefore\nturning the tide in making them more eco friendly.\nIn order to achieve that, we the youngsters, alongside Startup Greeces guidance, will engage the young\npeople, in beocming more active in the field of green transition, on the Tourist Industry.\"

\"The series of activities will be held in the city of Chania in Crete. The city was chosen due to its proximity to\nvarious tourist businesses and the fact that most young people working in those industries live in the area,\nwhich will be organized by volunteers(16-24) Under the guidance of Startup Greece. The volunteers will be\nallocated in various departments nessecary for the smooth implementation of the project and their interests.\nAs mentioned before the activities will be focused on\nAwareness-raising/communication non formal activities\nCapacity-building actions (education etc)\nNamely some the activities are:\n1)Visiting locations that are implementing eco-friendly activities where the participants will gain insight about\nthe practises being implemented\n2)QA s with local,regional,national and European authorities of representatives that will explain more about\nthe initiatives towards moving to a more green tourist industry, the activity will take place on a virtual platform\nso we can engage more stakeholders in this conversation, like MEP’s and EU commission representatives\n3) Workshops in understanding terminology used in policy papers and in EU guidelines towards a more\ngreen environment\n4) Tourist Green Hackathon, where the participants will engage in a theoretical problem solving scenario.\nThey will be divided in teams, with the purpose of turning a tourist business in to a green business\n5)Workshop on Tourist Entrepreneurship and how it can be mixed with Green entrepreneurship and the\nstimulation of innovative ideas in this business area\n6) Young tourist workers multiplier, where the participants will express the outcome of the project and they\nwill present ways of how they can contribute in bringing change.\nContemplating these activities we foresee in creating a document that will present the timeline of the project\nand the outcomes from each activity.This will be used as a dissemination file which will be used both as a\ntool for young people to bring an impact but also to be shared with relevant stakeholders. This file will be\ndigitally created and the main actors in creating this will be the participants of the project as they will also act\nas ambassadors of the project.Adding to that the e-book will be disseminated in media and social media.\nFinally an evaluation based on quantitative and qualitative measures will take part, so we can measure the\nimpact of the project.\nThe total participants are at least 50\"

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