11/01/2018
The WELVET project
The WELVET project is based on transnational cooperation effort of VET providers and economic actors in the field of wellness tourism. The project’s core intellectual output, a VET course for the emerging “wellness instructor” occupation, is addressing a pressing need of the European wellness tourism industry, namely the lack of trained staff to deliver high quality specialised customer service.
The WELVET project will equip VET providers with new curricula to apply when delivering continuous VET (C-VET) to professionals already holding a vocational qualification in some of the occupations included in the professional field of Tourism and Hospitality. This would lead to filling in the gap for qualified staff to act as wellness instructors, due to this vocation still not being formalized in many countries at secondary education level. Our ambition is to also ensure that the continuous training process to be delivered, adds additional units (learning outcomes) to already acquired qualifications and levels, thus contributing to increasing employability and consistency with the tourist and hospitality sector’s current needs.
WELVET Partners
The WELVET partnership is a joint effort of 7 organisations (2 associations, 3 VET providers and 2 SMEs) from 5 European countries, encompassing 4 main regions of Europe (South-Eastern, Central, North and Western). The project is 24 months and the main activities are grouped into 5 work packages, covering all main processes such as management, research, development, testing, dissemination and exploitation. The main partners in the project are:
Samokov Borovets JSC, Bulgaria - Lead partner (www.samokov.com)
BEST Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH – Austria (www.best.at)
The Balkan Cluster for Health, Wellness and SPA Tourism – Bulgaria
The Federation of Sports Pedagogues of the Republic of Macedonia – Macedonia
Progress and Knowledge (PKVET) – Bulgaria
Stevens and Associates (SA) – UK (www.stevensassoc.co.uk)
Kuressaare Ametikool (KAK) – Estonia
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