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Name: VALidating Informal Transversal Skills of young workers in seasonal tourism Throughout the EU tourism sector, a majority of people work on short term employment contracts and follow a pattern of intense high season economic activity followed by unemployment in the low season. Yet these workers possess a variety of valuable transversal skills. The main objective of the VALITS project is to help young seasonal workers break the cycle of high season activity followed by low season unemployment. This will happen by creating a tool for validating their informal transversal skills which include key competences such as language skills, interpersonal skills, customer service and organizational skills and that have been gained through their informal and non-formal work experience and learning. The project aims at recognising the most valuable for employers transversal skills and ECVET and EQF principles, validating them with the help of the online Tool application, and using the Career Giudance Application to offer suggestions and advice on career opportunities based on personal skillset. |
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InfoNumber: N°: 2016-1-ES01-KA202-025068 |
VALITS’ PRESS RELEASE 2 - December 2017
VALITS project progresses. Over 530 human resource professionals, employers and managers have been involved in assessing which are the most valued transversal skills in tourism and in different sectors. In the next step the Validation Tool will be developed.
The VALITS project is developing the VALITS Validation Tool for informal skills of seasonal workers in the tourism sector.
VALTIS’ PRESS RELEASE 1, February 2017
From 30th to 31st January 2017 the Kick-Off-Meeting of ERASMUS+ project VALITS – Validating Transversal Skills of young workers in seasonal tourism work – was held in Saalfelden, Austria near Salzburg.
VALidating Informal Transversal Skills of young workers in seasonal tourism
Project number: 2016-1-ES01-KA202-025068
Implementation period: 01.12.2016 – 30.11.2018
Project description: The issue of seasonality in tourism has long been a source of concern expressed in EU publications and it is feared that the intense concentration of touristic activities in a relatively short period of time “may have dramatic negative impact on local economies for the whole year” (Ecorys, 2013).
The main objective of the VALITS project is to help young seasonal workers break the cycle of high season activity followed by low season unemployment. This will happen by creating a tool for validating their informal transversal skills which include key competences such as language skills, interpersonal skills, customer service and organizational skills and that have been gained through their informal and non-formal work experience and learning.
