"<< Background >>Albert Einstein once said ""Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them"". In the case occupational violence, preventive measures may not eliminate incidents of violent behaviours completely, but they will reduced them considerably and discourage future ones. HORECA is a sector where occupational violence thrives, primarily because it is manned by people with lower formal qualifications or very little training, or come from vulnerable groups of the population such as young people, women with family responsibilities, migrants or members of ethnic minorities. Workplace violence is a health and safety hazard . All hazards require preventive measures in order to minimize the risk of them occurring. It is important therefore for HORECA management to know how to effectively defuse any such threat. In business, all these hazards are identified and described within a Risk Assessment Plan which is a part of a wider Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management plan. Most OHS plans, although they recognise Occupational Violence as a risk, they often offer superficial remedies that touch the awareness level.HORECA faces chronic labour shortages, and the current levels of workplace violence may demotivate people to seek employment there. Furthermore, workplace violence has a ripple effect on the society, the economy and the quality of life of the Europeans. There is a need for drastic actions to defuse the situation and reverse the current negative labour conditions in the HORECA sector. People working in the HORECA sector are entitled to have safe and healthy working environments. It is time to ""Weed out Occupational Violence from HORECA""!<< Objectives >>Objectives of the project: - Enhance the role of VET in the effective prevention and management of workplace violence in HORECA;- Increase awareness of occupational violence among HORECA management and stakeholders;- Offer HORECA managements training to further develop their Occupational Health and Safety management plans against workplace violence including third party violence;- Foster inclusive, healthy and safe HORECA employment;- Improve the Occupational conditions in the HORECA sector to attract more labour;- Manage the emotional, social and psychological stress of the workplace violence victims;- Contribute to a violence free Tourism and Catering sectors in Europe.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives WEED OUT will implement the following activities:- develop a WEED OUT VET Training course designed to be delivered in a physical, blended or virtual learning environment;- create a board game and its equivalent online version to be used as a learning tool during the WEED OUT course;- design an occupational prevention and management strategy, which constitutes a set of actions leading to the deactivation of the possible instigation sources of violent behaviour in the workplace, to improve the Occupational Health and Safety Plans of HORECA enterprises;- organise a training the VET trainer event which will aim to equipped VET trainers with the additional knowledge and skills to train HORECA managers on the prevention and management of workplace violence;- organise four transnational project meetings to coordinate all other project activities;- six multiplier events with a total of physical participation of 175 members of the target groups and virtual of 120 members, to disseminate the project results and activities of WEED OUT.To successfully implement the above activities, the WEED OUT consortium will also deploy:Project Management activities:- Four transnational project meetings in the Czech Republic, Austria, Greece and Lithuania;- online partnership meetings every 2 months;- bi-annual financial internal reports to manage budget expenditures; - Interim and Final reports to the Czech NAQuality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation Activities:- Drafting and implementation of a Quality Evaluation Plan- Evaluation of consortium meetings- Gathering and processing feedback from participants of project activities- Monitoring of project indicators and ensuring high quality of project resultsDissemination Activities:- Preparation and implementation of a Dissemination Plan- Development of the WEED OUT project visual identity- Development of a project website and promotional material- Creation of project social media page<< Results >>The WEED OUT consortium expects the following Project Results and Outcomes:- The VET WEED OUT Curriculum- The WEED OUT VET Course- The Workplace Violence Prevention and Management Strategy- The Board and Online Game ""Recognise and Act""- The WEED OUT Project Management Handbook- The WEED OUT Quality Assurance Plan- The WEED OUT Dissemination Strategy Plan- PR1 Pilot Training Activity- The WEED OUT C1 Activity- The WEED OUT project website, social media page and other dissemination material- 6 x Multiplier Events in Greece, Latvia, Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, and Lithuania"