<< Objectives >>In this project there are 3 different countries. All these countries’ cuisine has been influenced by other neighboring countries and from its heritage cultures. The teachers and students in the project will experience these 3 complex cuisines. For teachers they will integrate it to their curriculum as a new course innovation food from traditional to world cuisine. For students, they will adapt to their work and in their working life they will create a new part in menus, innovation food.<< Implementation >>In this project 4 main activities are planned to improve institutional capacity of students and teachers of food and beverage department with cooperation of 3 partners organizations;1- Innovation and culinary arts training for teachers in Turkey2- Food Innovation and Creative kitchen management training for students in Latvia 3- Online workshops of students of 3 partners organizations'4- Presentation of innovation food of students and final activitie programme in Romania<< Results >>In this project total 36 teachers&staff and 93 students in 3 institutions will benefit. We would like our students to experience different cultures and cuisine, and also encourage them to learn and create new things continuously. With teacher and student trainings the innovation food and creative kitchen will be more popular in VET. and start to take place both in menus and high school curriculum.

"<< Background >>The project consortium consists of the six participants: SIA ""HOTEL SCHOOL"" Viesnīcu biznesa koledža (E10176704 - Latvia)- the project coordinator; ERHVERVSAKADEMI DANIA (E10102026 - Denmark) – the project partner; DigitalGuest APS (E10277526 - Sweden) – the project partner;INERCIA DIGITAL SL (E10145080 - Spain) – the project partner; Italian Hospitality School SRL (E10242654 - Italy) – the project partner; City Unity College Nicosia (E10155506 - Cyprus) – the project partner.The project consortium applied with the project proposal because each participant is interested in its performance for own needs, national, regional needs for such cooperation and development of useful qualitative resources and advancing these organisations during the cooperation and after.The project will meet the needs of each participant: to advance own representation in the market, apply own competence, merge the competences and develop the project results of demand in all partnership countries and other EU countries. All of the involved educational organisations would like to enrich own educational resources with new updated modern resources. The topic of our consideration is represented in different resources fragmentally and not yet as the whole. The necessity to updates resources, however, comes within rather short period, especially on the topic of sustainability integrated with technical solutions – digitalisation. it is a unique opportunity to unite minds and capacities of the organisations for development of resources and building additional new capacities bythem upon development for open access of the users in EU, directly aiming at VET educators, VET learners, covering the needs of labour market to advance skills of current and upcoming staff. What is difficult to finance and develop for the educational organisations individually, can be qualitatively developed by united efforts and shared as free access. The project consortium have conducted the survey ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation’ and analysed the results, which demonstrate the needs to design the intended project results and teaching and learning activities with 36 responses by VET educators, Hospitality VET educators, Hospitality VET Learners and Hospitality professionals or related to education or hospitality. 72.2% of all respondents said that they have not studied sustainable hospitality digitalisation before. 94.4% of the respondents said that consider that free available modern educational resources on sustainable hospitality digitalisation would be useful for them.What is difficult to finance and develop for the educational organisations individually, can be qualitatively developed by united efforts and shared asfree access for increasing professional capacities with of the EU. The survey on the needs was conducted and publicly shared on e-learning platforms, the link www.visidati.lv/survey/1732288611/ . It consists of 12 questions on Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation. The number of respondents is 36 with current location in 6 different countries. All respondents are involved in VET education or hospitality, respondent’s registered for survey with names for validity. 11.1% (4respondents) said that do not agree to share data, so only general information is provided for analysis. 32.6% are VET (vocational) hospitality learners, 30.2% are hospitality professionals, work in the hospitality company, 16.3% are VET hospitality educator. 75% answered that are hospitality stakeholders, other 20% also include VET teachers, learners, researchers. 72.2% answered that have not studied sustainable hospitality digitalisation before. 94.4% of the respondents said that free available modern educational resources on sustainable hospitality digitalisation would be useful for them. The consortium will use proposals on the topics and titles of the webinars to make them appealing to attend, as from this survey and future surveys o come.<< Objectives >>KA220-VET Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit’ in the field of VET (both initial and continuing) is aimed to enhance access to training and qualifications for all by support to pooling of resources, and providing initial and/or continuing training to the staff, further strengthen key competences in initial and continuing VET, in particular digital skills, green skills, employability. Organisations also want to achieve the availability of modern resources on sustainable hospitality digitalisation that can be offered to VET educators and VET learners for learning and teaching activities, as well as achieve getting the grant for cooperation and development of the resources as well high level of project results and increased interest to that topic and competence development of all involved parties, as well as build the basis for even future developments of effective solutions, resources and innovations, as well as recognition of the project results as valuable resources, and recognized successful strategic partnership with future potentials. The consortium want to achieve that resource users will develop their digital skills, green skills, transferable skills and sustainable hospitality digitalisation skills and will enjoy the process of learning and teaching by using them and participating in different activities of the project and post-project. The project partners would like to achieve that participation, activities, developed materials will help the users to get benefits of advanced competences and networks to become sustainable hospitality leaders or strengthen existing leadership.The project supports the uptake of innovative approaches and digital technologies for teaching and learning, as outlined in Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027).The project and the project results further disseminated as OER aim to equip VET educators and VET initial and continuous learners with knowledge, review of current know-how, digital skills, digitalization updates and/or competences required in for hospitality qualifications as well as required in hospitality business including field workshops for further professional education with respect to diffusion of environmentally sound technologies according to the target 17.7 of SDG 17.The objectives of the project:• Develop Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Guidebook for initial and continuous VET Learners;• Provide practical guidelines ‘Pedagogy of Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation’ to VET Educators and coaches of initial and continuous professional hospitality education;• Produce digital course ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit ’ with teaching and learning resources for initial and continuous VET education and professional field workshops;• Produce series of webinars to demonstrate how to use the resources and the course by the educators and learners from the two perspectives, and produce reviews on related to sustainable digitalisation subtopics; • Improve VET educators’ knowledge on hospitality digitalisation and approaches to embed digitalisation in the units;• Mobilise social capital to raise awareness and promote the need to improve digital and digitalisation skills in Hospitality VET education and in the hospitality industry;• Improve the intellectual and digitalisation competence of the project participants;The expertise of transnational project consortium and hospitality business networking in the countries of the project participants will help to exchange the experiences and develop the high-quality digital materials for digital teaching and teaching digitalisation and learning, for application in VET learning environment and in professional hospitality environment, where the additional advantageous benefit is for hospitality amateurs, field coaches and team leads, social event enablers who can gain training from the open educational resources internationally<< Implementation >>The project consortium will implement the following activities within the scope of the project as listed. The activities will include the four Transnational Project Meetings including the 1st Transnational Project Meeting in Sweden, Stockholm hosted by Digital Guest ApS), the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting in Denmark, Randers hosted by Dania Academy, the 3rd Transnational Project Meeting in Cyprus, Nicosia hosted by City Unity College Nicosia, the 4th Transnational Project Meeting in Latvia, Riga hosted by HOTEL SCHOOL Hotel Management College. The project activities include Project Management activities and the four Project Results including PR1 Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Guidebook for VET Learners and Professionals, PR2 Pedagogy of Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation, PR3 Course ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit', PR4 Series of Webinars on ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation'.The project activities also include the six Multiplier Events including Dissemination Conference in Denmark, Randers by Dania Academy, Dissemination Conference in Italy, Rome by Italian Hospitality School SRL, Dissemination Conference in Latvia, Riga by HOTEL SCHOOL Hotel Management College, Dissemination Conference in Cyprus, Nicosia by City Unity College Nicosia, Online Dissemination Conference in Sweden, Stockholm by Digital Guest ApS, Online Dissemination Conference in Spain, Aljaraque by INERCIA Digital.The two Learning and Teaching Activities are included in the project: Workshop in Pedagogy Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation for Hospitality VET Educators in Spain, Aljaraque, hosted by INERCIA Digital and the Workshop in Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation for Hospitality VET Learners in Italy, Rome hosted by Italian Hospitality School SRL. In addition the project participants will proceed Dissemination Events co-financed by the participants, translations in all partner languages, co-financed by the participants and post-project activities, co-financed by the participants.The international cooperation of that partnership helps to unite the capacity of R&D, share existing practices and develop the working consilium on best solution to address the needs of all involved countries and beyond at the level of VET learners, VET educators, labour market: hospitality company and already digitalised hospitality company, covering the interests of increasing digital and digitalisation skills capacity in EU. The practices of sustainable hospitality digitalisation are yet underrepresented, and in some regions especially. As there is the difference in concept betweensustainable hospitality and hospitality, digitalisation and sustainable digitalisation and digitalisation leading to sustainability, it is important to unite the capacities from the transnational consortium, which is unique and specific for that topic by expertise. Such countries as Denmark, Sweden are especially developed by means of technological development, digitalisation, sustainability practices, and it is useful to transfer knowledge and practices across allcountries. Also, transnational cooperation will help to mobilise social capital to raise awareness and promote the need to improve digital and digitalisation skills in Hospitality VET education and in the hospitality industry. And directly improve the intellectual and digitalisation competence of the project participants by sharing practices, formulating and solving challenges, trainings. It is important to visit the companies indifferent countries, to study how they are dealing withdigitalisation and what are their sustainable hospitality practices for own and overall better financial and non-financial performance and sustaining.<< Results >>The project partnership makes expert and motivated consortium to develop internationally valuable, modern, content-wise and technically innovative, necessary educational resources. This consortium includes the two organisations with expertise in digital skills and complementing each other with varied focuses of main activities what is especially advantageous for the development of educational resources. The organisations are Digital Guest (Sweden) with their know-how platform for hospitality companies, that will serve as basis for the development of the course and guidance, and expert company in digitalisation Inercia Diigtal (Spain), who provide trainings in digitalisation, develop digital products and participate in conceptual frameworks in digitalisation for Europe, for example, Inercia Digital was appointed a new member of the “Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition” division of the European Commission in 2017, and AENOR awarded us the Certificate of Compliance with AENOR EA0043 as a Young Innovative Enterprise in 2015. In 2019, they have participated in the Code Week organised by the European Commission. High level expertise of such partner as Dania Academy and their Hospitality Centre, experiences of Italian Hospitality School, CUCN, and Latvia demonstrate representation of different experiences and needs from different EU countries, including different level of development of educational resources in digitalisation - nationally and locally. It is especially relevant in the context of sustainable hospitality digitalisation, which is not extensively represented in all countries of the partnership, and other countries to which these resources will be available upon development. The project will deliver innovative OER, Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit, consisting of the four project results: PR1 Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Guidebook for VET Learners and Professionals (initial, continuous learners); PR2 ‘Pedagogy of Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation’ for VET Educators and hospitality business field coaches and team leads, PR3 digital course ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit' with materials; PR4 Series of the five webinars on ‘Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation'. The course elements will be integrated with Moodle system but CMS system for hotels and tourism companies is expected to be the cornerstone for the digital solution by Digital Guest (Sweden) embedded in this course. The course will include elements and features for 8 learners' styles. The course can delivered by VET educators, hospitality business coaches, team leads as a separate online course online, as the digital course for in-class or hybrid fulltime studies, as field workshop course. The course can be delivered as individual course and as embedded sustainability hospitality digitalisation content in other units. The course can be delivered by educators and acquired by VET learners, professionals and amateurs individually.The project will work out the Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Competence Framework for VET educators for VET Learners on the basis of DigComp (JRC, 2019), and will carry actions needed to accompany transformation beyond skilling and training including open transformation approaches, group sharing sessions, and support the development of self-confidence respect to green, digital and digitalization skills.The developed resources will include the elements, features to meet the needs of all styles of learning digitalisation. As the course is aimed at wider audience,to make more effect of the course, it will be based on the principles of including the elements and activities according to three Learning ApproachesThe consortium wants to develop the needed modern educational resources considering 8 learner styles to integrate elements and features that would foster and attract effective learning sustainable hospitality digitalisation by all learner styles."

This project was about promoting education for sustainable development (ESD) and Global Citizenship (GC) in adult education. It aimed to develop a strategic approach and build capacity in education and training organisations by developing a competence frameworks for sustainable development and global citizenship to improve staff competences. The main objectives of the project were to: 1. Develop a sustainable development competency frameworks for (a) Adult Educators (b) Adults 2. Provide practical guidance to adult educators on approaches and methods of reflecting sustainable development and global citizenship in the core curricula 3. Produce teaching and learning resources in which sustainable development and global citizenship are embedded 4. Improve adult educators’ knowledge and understanding of sustainable development issues, and their pedagogic competence to deliver ESD 5. Mobilise social capital to promote ESD and global citizenship to adult learners 6. Improve the intercultural competence of participants. The project was developed against the background of what is arguably the largest set of complex and multi-faceted challenges that humans have ever faced including: climate change, depletion of natural resources, human rights violations, pollution, environmental degradation, the widening gap between rich and poor, food security, violent conflicts and the impact of globalisation. Following Agenda 21, Kyoto Agreement, COP 21, The MDGs and now (SDGs) countries have been working towards “sustainable development”, defined as ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987, p. 43). Sustainable development efforts are now focused on achieving the 17 SDGs, and most countries have a sustainable development strategy, which stresses the important role of education in achieving the goals. Education was seen as having a key role to play in achieving the SDGs, not only in terms of informing and encouraging engagement with SD, but crucially, in acquiring the skills and competence to act and bring about the required changes in the social, economic and environmental domains of sustainable development. The need for ESD was exemplified by the fact that all EU member states have the equivalent of a sustainable development strategy, and ESD now forms part of the school curriculum in compulsory and in some higher and further education institutions. Main project activities included 4 Individual Outputs: ESDGC Competence Framework for Adults, ESDGC Competence Framework for Adult Educators, A Course in ESDGC for Adult Educators, Teaching Learning Resources in the form of embedded materials and Guidance for Adult educators. It involved two training activities of a week's duration for adults involving 20 participants and for adult educators involving 12 participants at which the two competence frameworks and the materials were piloted and evaluated. The overall feedback from the multiplier events was that the project would make a valuable contribution to helping adults understand some of major challenges facing us with training organisations, especially NGOs expressing an intention to engage more actively with the whole issue of sustainable development. One unexpected benefit or outcome from the project was the importance attached to role of digital skills in adult education in general and education for sustainable development and particular, and the need for adult educators to have digital skills so can include the use of digital technologies in the their teaching.