HED: Hike the Entreprenerurial Dream
Topic: Sustainable Tourism & Slow Travel
Context:
The “Via degli Dei” is an ancient roman path 130km long which connects Bologna to Florence and is currently experiencing a huge amount of trekkers and peregrines everyday. APG and Arousa Moza decided to create a Youth Exchange that will bring participants to experience the hike by themselves in order to gain competences and attitude for developing an entrepreneurial mindset, focusing on sustainable tourism as a means to create new job opportunities in a sustainable context.
Objectives:
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Foster a critical look with the emerging tourism model that we want to build, based on the defense of heritage, respect for nature and thought to be sustainable
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Regain confidence in the european market as a prolific environment for entrepreneurs
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Foster an entrepreneurial mindset in the youth
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Improve the self-confidence and sense of initiative of youths
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Provide useful tools for future entrepreneurs
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Rise awareness on the sustainability of different business models, meant as social, environmental and economic sustainability
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Value the material and intangible heritage of our region
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Understand the potential of slow travel as a sustainable way of tourism
Estonian partner in this project: MTÜ Noored Ühiskonna Heaks
The application period has ended, all participants have been selected
