ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS IN THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR

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ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS IN THE HOSPITALITY
SECTOR FOR TRANSPARENCY AND RECOGNITION WITHOUT
BORDERSNO-BORDERS EUROPEAN WORKERS
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• Project financed by the European Commission -
  Education and Culture Leonardo da Vinci
  Programme
• Leonardo da Vinci Italian Agency (pilot project,
  procedure B, 2006)
• Coordinator Italian Centre for Advanced Studies
  in Tourism and Tourism Promotion (CST), Assisi,
  Italy

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Partnership

• Italy
• Italian Centre for Advanced Studies in Tourism
  and Tourism Promotion (CST)
• Federalberghi
• Unione Italiana Lavoratori Turismo Commercio e
  Servizi (UIL Tu.C.S.)

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Partnership

• Bulgaria
• Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)
• National Tourism Research Institute

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Partnership

• Malta
• Institute of Tourism Studies
• Malta Union of Teachers (MUT)

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Partnership

• Romania
• Camera de Comert, Industrie, Navigatie si
  Agricultura
• Constanta (CCINA)
• Ovidius University of Constanta Faculty of
  Economic Sciences
• Transnational Association for Training and
  Vocational Mobility (AS.FOR.M)

AS.FOR.M.
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Partnership

• Slovenia
• Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Vocational
  Education and Training (CPI)
• Trade Union for Workers in Hospitality and Tourism

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General objectives

• Priority Promoting transparency of
  qualifications
• Objectives
• To promote the skills and competences of workers
  in the hotel system
• To improve the quality of and access to the
  continuous professional training system

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Specific objectives

• To produce a kit of methodological instruments
  for the analysis and description of the
  professions in the hospitality sector
• To analyse the competences and skills of
  professional profiles (classical and emerging)
• To promote the transparency of competences

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Final output

• Electronic database of the competences which will
  allow the assisted compilation of the European CV
  (in the section of the professional competences),
  in order to guarantee the legibility and
  transparency of its contents

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Target

• Direct targets
• Hospitality industry workers
• European educators and trainers
• Indirect targets
• Unions and category associations
• Political decision-makers who regulate
  orientation, training and the labour market

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Phases

• Operational research phases
• Methodology
• Desk research and context analysis
• Field research
• Development of the NEW HOSPITALITY EUROPASS

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New Hospitality Desk Research

• Section I
• Shared Economic Analysis of the hospitality
  systems of the partnership nations
• Section II
• Map of competences, at trans-national level, by
  work macro-areas
• Section III
• Synthetic analysis of the certification systems
  of the partnership nations

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New Hospitality Field Research

• Results of national field survey
• Description of worker and employer survey samples
• Analysis of responses
• Comparison of results
• Individuation of competences considered most
  important or less important by work
  macro-activity
• Aggregation of results
• Analysis of responses
• Analysis of competences that need strengthening
• Common repertory of the competences