HyPro4ST - Hybrid Project Management Skills for Sustainable Tourism, is a project funded by the Erasmus + program, under Key Activity 2, Alliances for innovation, 1. lot: Alliances for education and enterprises.

HyPro4ST comprising of 17 partners from 6 European countries. This alliance is built around the idea that collaborative, transnational activities offer opportunities for boosting innovation and progress by pooling resources and the deep knowledge of markets required in a fast-changing tourism sector.

It aims to develop a new job profile “Sustainable and Hybrid Project Manager” for the Sustainable Tourism Sector. Further, it aims to upskill professionals in sustainable, hybrid, digital, creative and entrepreneurship project management, helping alleviate the job losses, inequalities, and other risks, and to build a talent pipeline that tourism sector can mine for future growth. Project also proposes the upscaling of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and higher education (HE) trainers’ skills, to be able to adapt to the tourism labour market needs.

Through six seminars, six online courses, two work-based learning activities and transnational mobility will enhance the competencies of 700 professionals, tackling skills mismatches and supporting the formation of an effective higher and vocational education system for the sustainable tourism sector. HyPro4ST develops all the outputs in seven EU languages, ensuring their cross-border transferability. Furthermore, it assures the long-lasting effect of the project results by elaborating Policy Recommendations, able to inform the policy agendas at the national and EU level.

This project’s target groups are existing and prospective project managers of the tourism sector, travel agency managers, destination managers, tour organizers, travel consultants, tour operators managers, corporate responsibility managers, event managers, and other similar professionals, office administrative, students, trainers and educators of HE and vocational practitioners, HE and VET organizations, academia, VET and enterprises’ training/teaching staff, SMEs and micro-business.

Project start date: 01/07/2022

Project duration: 36 months

Project manager: Marko Perić (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Total eligible budget: 1.374.630,00 EUR

Project partners: Sustainable city - Cities network for sustainable development and circular economy  (Lead partner, Grčka), Post-innovation For Sustainable Development (Grčka), Razvojni Center Srca Slovenije Doo (Slovenija), Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenija), Institut za Poljoprivredu i Turizam (Hrvatska), Sveučilište u Rijeci, Fakultet za menadžment u turizmu i ugostiteljstvu (Hrvatska), Cesie (Italija), Corinthia Hotels Association (Grčka), Olyimpic training & consulting Ltd. (Grčka), Research Innovation And Development Lab Private Company (Grčka), Kozep-dunantuli Regionalis Innovacios Ugynokseg Nonprofit Kft (Mađarska), Domínio Vivo - Formação E Consultoria, Lda. (Portugal), Universidade De Aveiro (Portugal), Confederação Do Turismo De Portugal (Portugal), Confesercenti Provinciale Di Palermo (Italija), Minerva 90 Vocational Education Kft. (Mađarska), Tüv Austria Servis d.o.o. (Grčka).

Official website of the project: https://hypro4st-project.eu/