Virtual & Augmented Reality Trainers Toolbox To Foster Low Carbon Tourism & Related Entrepreneurship
▶Summary
At the time of the proposal submission stage, the VINCI partners realised that there was a need to foster low carbon good practices in the tourism sector. The EC had launched the 'Green Deal' a...
▶Objectives
By implementing this project, the partners aimed to foster a shift towards low carbon tourism (LCT) and foster related entrepreneurship. To achieve this, the VINCI project pooled experts on Climate Change/Sustainability, Tourism, Entrepreneurship, work-based training, VET Curriculum development and digital technologies. The partners thus set these objectives: OB1: to develop an innovative curriculum on LCT activities and related entrepreneurship; OB2: to raise awareness through 'best practice' case-studies of how tourism stakeholders can generate less CO2 emissions in all three phases of travel tourism; OB3: to develop a set of modular training resources on LCT activities and related entrepreneurship, some of which will be Augmented and/or Virtual Reality based to better engage learners; OB4: to develop the VINCI Toolbox consisting of a repository of digital training resources on LCT, including an m-/e-Learning platform to help stakeholders acquire skills on LCT even at their place of work & home; OB5: to develop a Trainer's e-book intended to guide VET trainers on specific training units and/or styles relevant to different tourism stakeholders; OB6: to widely disseminate the project results and how to manage LCT.
▶Activities
The main project activities implemented during the VINCI project were as reflected in the rest of this final report related to: - Preparatory activities; - Project management activities; - Results (R1 - R4) planning and development work; - Results peer reviewing, testing and refinement activites ; - Knowledge sharing/exchange activities between the partners including via online meetings and face to face meetings - Knowledge sharting outside the partnership through press releases, newsletters, social media posts, multiplier events, project webpage updates and other means.
▶Impact
The conrete outputs /results that emerged from the VINCI project are: R1: An Innovative Curriculum on Low Carbon Tourism concepts and related Entrepreneurship; Besides access from the webpage at www.vinci.eumecb.com, the Curriculum can be directly accessed from: https://tinyurl.com/b7wv3m3k R2: A Set of Twelve AR/VR based Case-studies of how stakeholders can generate less CO2 emissions in different phases involved in tourism; During the course of the project, these case-studies were found useful by stakeholders and as a matter of fact, the partners produced more i.e. a total of 34 case-studis. Besides access from the webpage at www.vinci.eumecb.com, the R2 case-studies can be directly accessed from: https://tinyurl.com/2xtuctmk R3: The VINCI 'Low Carbon Tourism and related Entrepreneurship' Digital VET Toolbox; The toolbox integrates the different resources together including the curriculum, case-studies, fact sheets e-/m-learning course etc. Besides access from the webpage at www.vinci.eumecb.com, the R3 VINCI Toolbox can be directly accessed from: http://www.camis.pub.ro/vinci/ R4: The VINCI Trainers Guide e-Book on Low Carbon Tourism and related Entrepreneurship. Besides access from the results section on the webpage at www.vinci.eumecb.com, the R4 Guide can be directly accessed from: https://tinyurl.com/9mtdbp7n In addition to the above, other concrete results that emerged from the project as detailed later in this report include: - Various VET trainers/learners, EU citizens and tourism stakeholders becoming more knowledgeabl on low carbon tourism - Various VET trainers/learners, EU citizens and tourism stakeholders willing to use the VINCI toolbox and results - VINCI partners willing to apply the project concept to new sectors - Better visibilty of the partners at both the EU and national level.