PESCAVET – Professionals’ innovation for pesca-tourism activities
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnerships for VOCATIONAL EDUCATION and TRAINING
Reference: 2020-1-LV01-KA202-077503
Start: 01/10/2020
End: 30/09/2022
PESCAVET’s main objective is to create favourable conditions for increased opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship in the pesca-tourism sector and to contribute to the development of coastal communities in the Mediterranean and Black sea basins.
A relatively new concept of fisheries related tourism aiming to support the supplement incomes of fishermen and their families and to provide knowledge on mechanisms for creating attractive activities for tourists visiting the coast.
- To contribute to society awareness about the problems of the marine sector and traditional fishing culture and to the improvement of entrepreneurial skills via the implementation of a benchmark exercise on new processes and marketing techniques for designing, promoting and review of products or services in pesca-tourism;
- To create a Gateway for technical support with specific training and coaching activities;
- To develop an e-course on enhancing entrepreneurial skills in pesca-tourism.
- Benchmark Synthesis Report on new processes and marketing techniques for designing, promoting and review of products or services in pesca-tourism;
- PESCAVET Gateway for technical support to the beneficiaries for specific trainings and coaching;
- PESCAVET E-course for young people on enhancing entrepreneurial skills in pesca-tourism.
Results
- Change the way of thinking of different communities in the Mediterranean area and Black Sea, to a more comprehensive approach, establishing the pesca-tourism concept in one of the most attractive areas in Europe;
- Boost the sustainable economic growth of the European maritime sectors, upgrading the services of the marine environment, its resources and the cultural heritage in the most sustainable way.
- Improvement of the employ ability skills related to fisheries related tourism and competences of professionals planning to choose a career path in this field;
- Increased awareness of pesca-tourism potential and increased visibility and attractiveness of blue career opportunities not only for professionals but for the wider public;
- Increase of the awareness of benefits from the modernisation and transformation of the pesca-tourism sector for society and the local economies;
- Building and strengthening partnerships between the organisations participating in the project;
- Fostering sustainability of blue growth.
Co-Experts
- Professionals either currently employed in or/and unemployed desiring to enter the pesca-tourism sector wishing to develop their competences.
Keywords
Pesca-tourism, professional innovation, VET, Blue economy.
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