• Implementation period: 28.02.2022. – 27.02.2024.
• Project Coordinator: HOTEL SCHOOL Hotel Management College
• Project No. 2021-1-LV01-KA220-VET-000033140

The practices of sustainable hospitality digitalisation are yet underrepresented, and in some regions especially. As there is the difference in concept between sustainable hospitality and hospitality, digitalisation and sustainable digitalisation and digitalisation leading to sustainability, it is important to unite the capacities from the transnational consortium, which is unique and specific for that topic by expertise. Such countries as Denmark, Sweden are especially developed by means of technological development, digitalisation, sustainability practices, and it is useful to transfer knowledge and practices across all countries.

The project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit“, No. 2021-1-LV01-KA220-VET-000033140, gathers together six partners: HOTEL SCHOOL Hotel Management College, City Unity College Nicosia (Cyprus), Dania Academy (Denmark), DigitalGuest APS (Sweden), INERCIA DIGITAL SL (Spain) and Italian Hospitality School SRL (Italy). The international cooperation between the partners helps to unite the capacity for R&D, share existing practices and develop the working consilium on best solutions to address the needs of all involved countries and beyond at the level of VET learners, VET educators and the labour market, covering the interests of increasing digital and digitalisation skills capacity in EU.

The aim of the project is to enhance access to training and qualifications for all, supported by pooling of resources, providing initial and/or continuing training to the staff, and strengthening further the key competences in initial and continuing VET, in particular digital skills, green skills, employability.

The project objectives:

• Develop the Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Guidebook for initial and continuous VET Learners;
• Provide practical guidelines “Pedagogy of Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation” to VET Educators and coaches of initial and continuous professional hospitality education;
• Produce a digital course “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit” with teaching and learning resources for initial and continuous VET education and professional field workshops;
• Produce series of webinars to demonstrate how to use the resources and the course by the educators and learners from the two perspectives, and produce reviews on related sustainable digitalisation subtopics;
• Improve VET educators’ knowledge about hospitality digitalisation and approaches to embed digitalisation in the units;
• Mobilise social capital to raise awareness and promote the need to improve digital and digitalisation skills in Hospitality VET education and in the hospitality industry;
• Improve the intellectual and digitalisation competence of the project participants.

Project news:

• August 29-30, 2022: 1st Transnational meeting of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”

• March 7-8, 2023, 2nd Transnational meeting of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”

• May 8-12, 2023, Workshop in Pedagogy for Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation for Hospitality VET Educators

• June 6-7, 2023, 3d Transnational meeting of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit” and 1st webinar

• September 4, 2023: 2nd webinar of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”
• September 12, 2023: 3d webinar of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”
• September 19, 2023: 4th webinar of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”
• September 19-20, 2023: 4th Transnational meeting of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit”

• October 24-28, 2023: Workshop Training in Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation for Hospitality VET Learners
• October 27, 2023: Dissemination Conference of the project “Sustainable Hospitality Digitalisation Toolkit” in Rome, Italy