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Cretourism

EUTeens4Green Team

05/05/2023 18:27

💡 Description: 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. "During Summer the island of Crete in Greece receives millions of tourists, who choose to spend their vacation on this island. The hotspot of tourism is the City of Chania with the famous areas of Seitan limania, Elafonisi and many other beautiful places. Adding the fact that most young people in high school and in university are off from their studies. Most of these young people choose to work during their summer vacations so they can earn extra money or to combine vacation and work. The tourist industry is rapidly growing to such a level that the terms of sustainability and adherence to the sustainable development goals are not being addressed. The project seeks to address the young people in this sector which are unaware of good practices in terms of green management in the tourist industry, and to empower them in making an impact thus turning the tide, and making the tourist industry more green. The project seeks to achieve the following objectives as described in the guide. Support for building skills for green jobs or new small business Training programmes on sustainable living, green skills Intergenerational projects (or actions to foster connections between generations) The Activities will be focusing on Awareness-raising/communication non formal activities Capacity-building actions (education, training, mentoring, events) The results of this project are the following: Better understanding of the transition to a more sustainable tourism industry in Chania Acquiring green skills in order to follow more green jobs or to get involved in green entrepreneurship, especially in the tourist industry Transferring the knowledge they gained to their older people working together or working for them, therefore turning the tide in making them more eco friendly. In order to achieve that, we the youngsters, alongside Startup Greeces guidance, will engage the young people, in beocming more active in the field of green transition, on the Tourist Industry."
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🌱 Expected Results: "The series of activities will be held in the city of Chania in Crete. The city was chosen due to its proximity to various tourist businesses and the fact that most young people working in those industries live in the area, which will be organized by volunteers(16-24) Under the guidance of Startup Greece. The volunteers will be allocated in various departments nessecary for the smooth implementation of the project and their interests. As mentioned before the activities will be focused on Awareness-raising/communication non formal activities Capacity-building actions (education etc) Namely some the activities are: 1)Visiting locations that are implementing eco-friendly activities where the participants will gain insight about the practises being implemented 2)QA s with local,regional,national and European authorities of representatives that will explain more about the initiatives towards moving to a more green tourist industry, the activity will take place on a virtual platform so we can engage more stakeholders in this conversation, like MEP’s and EU commission representatives 3) Workshops in understanding terminology used in policy papers and in EU guidelines towards a more green environment 4) Tourist Green Hackathon, where the participants will engage in a theoretical problem solving scenario. They will be divided in teams, with the purpose of turning a tourist business in to a green business 5)Workshop on Tourist Entrepreneurship and how it can be mixed with Green entrepreneurship and the stimulation of innovative ideas in this business area 6) Young tourist workers multiplier, where the participants will express the outcome of the project and they will present ways of how they can contribute in bringing change. Contemplating these activities we foresee in creating a document that will present the timeline of the project and the outcomes from each activity.This will be used as a dissemination file which will be used both as a tool for young people to bring an impact but also to be shared with relevant stakeholders. This file will be digitally created and the main actors in creating this will be the participants of the project as they will also act as ambassadors of the project.Adding to that the e-book will be disseminated in media and social media. Finally an evaluation based on quantitative and qualitative measures will take part, so we can measure the impact of the project. The total participants are at least 50"
✉️ Contact: projects@startup-greece.org
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