Pathway To Hospitality: Restoring the pride of belonging to the hospitality sector
Programme: Erasmus +
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training
Project Number: 2021-1-FR01-KA220-VET-000029695
Duration: 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2024 (3 years)
Coordinated by: IFPRA Normandie (France)
Project website: https://www.pathway2hospitality.org/
Facebook: @PathwayToHospitalityErasmusProject
YouTube: Pathway2Hospitality Channel
EU Projects Database: Pathway To Hospitality
Partners
IFPRA Normandie (France) - coordinator
Magyar Máltai Szeretetszolgálat Óbudai Technikum és Szakképző Iskola (Hungary)
Associazione N.E.T. – Networking Education and Training (Italy)
AJA - Associazione Jesolana Albergatori (Italy)
36,6 Competence Centre (Poland)
MOSQI.TO (Poland)
VOCO Tartu Rakenduslik Kolledž (Estonia)
Kuressaare Ametikool (Estonia)
Les Petits Plats Dans Les Grands (France)
IHI Magyarország Zrt (Hungary)
Project description
The hospitality sector is both a rewarding and a highly demanding career choice. There is an imbalance between skilled labor supply and demand, as well as to an overall poor image of the hospitality industry. The project will create ways to develop a new momentum in favour of vocational training and occupational inclusion in the trade by undertaking concrete learning actions with potential staff.
Objectives
Address the issue of understaffing and staff turnover in the hospitality industry. Hospitality suffers from this structural problem which was paramount before the pandemic and which has now worsened drastically since a lot of staff left the trade without any intention to return.
Fill in the gap in the occupational guidance offer with regards to hospitality jobs. We will work with vocational guidance agents, training centers and businesses on ways to enhance the image of employment in the trade by fostering the various opportunities it offers, by improving the image of employment drastically deteriorated by the crisis, by promoting the corporate branding of the trade for potential staff, youngsters in search of vocational project, job seekers.
Strengthen the cooperation between the vocational training sector and the businesses in the hospitality industry. The cooperation between the training sector and the industry is a key issue all the more as the combination of work based and school based learning (apprenticeship, traineeship…) is to be developed and highly promoted.
Promote the engagement of the trade in favour of sustainable practices and CSR. The project is based on the implementation of CSR policies of businesses which will include practices on the ways hospitality goes green as a decisive contribution to the corporate branding of the trade.
Target group
hospitality companies employers and managers
hospitality companies employees
hospitality VET schools trainers and students
Results
To enhance the standing of the trade and make young people and potential workers aware.
A trial in where a trade is accused
not to be attractive enough
and witnessing the defense.
Ambassadors of the trade will be ready to intervene in secondary schools, job centers etc.
For more information on project results go to the project website here.
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