The Erasmus+ project E-tour.net (Employment in tourism using the new technologies) is managed by the Bulgarian National Agency. It started in September 2020 and it lasts for 23 months. The partners are: the Bulgarian Coordinator Svetlina Za Belogradchik, the Spanish partner Mancomunidad de la Ribera Alta and our Foundation for Italy.
The project creates an opportunity for cooperation between non-governmental organizations in order to improve key skills and acquire digital competencies of adults in the field of new technologies, thus promoting employability and helping their return to the labor market as employees or freelancers. E-tour.net focuses on cultural heritage, on the one hand, as a resource for tourism development and as an opportunity to reflect on cultural diversity within the pan-European historical experience, on the other.
Through transnational cooperation, the project will improve intercultural dialogue and facilitate the exchange of good practices and the integration of innovative ideas with a view to social inclusion and overcoming the crisis and the development of the labour market.
E-tour.net will use the innovative 3D augmented reality technology as a major solution to achieving its core and specific goals – enhancing key competencies, acquiring new digital skills from target groups and enhancing intercultural dialogue through a focus on pan-European cultural heritage.
Within the project partners:
– will create educational videos on technology opportunities and training resources to acquire digital skills;
– develop a common product based on innovative technology – a mobile application with the restoration of destroyed cultural heritage monuments;
– conduct joint trainings with target audiences to work with the application;
– will present to the general public the possibilities of applying the created product;
– develop a website that will be accessible to all training materials developed within the project. This will reach a wide audience of stakeholders and will ensure the sustainability of the project, promoting the activities and results achieved.
Through the implementation of the planned activities, the project will enhance the knowledge and skills of the target groups and stakeholders, on the one hand, and on the other – will create a quality intellectual product that can be successfully integrated and upgraded as a tourist service in the target territories (regions of the partner organizations).