Know and Can Association’s project by programme „Leonardo da Vinchi Mobility”
SUMMARY
The project aims at answering the need of improving the professional skills of 15 young people newly graduated in the sphere of tourism, who are on the labour market and who intend to find their future realization in tourism, mainly in the sphere of restaurants business.Nowadays Bulgaria is still falling behind from a number of tendencies of the competitive, dynamic and globalizing European market of tourist services.
Participants in the training will have the opportunity to improve their knowledge and skills in a country with leading European practices in this field.
Know and can Association, the initiator of the present project and guarantee for the system of valuation of the project and for the training of every single participant, in cooperation with the other partners of the project from Bulgaria and Italy, intend to send 15 unemployed young people, newly graduated in the sphere of tourism, in Italian restaurants with the following training purposes: to get acquainted with the working system in the sphere of restaurants business in Italy; to have close contact with the European experience in a country with century old traditions in culinary art and tourism, a country where cuisine is an attractive tourist product; to improve their own competences in one new intercultural surroundings.
The result of this training will be multiplication, dissemination of the participants’ acquired knowledge and practical skills in the professional circles of the Bulgarian restaurants business and tourism, where there is a strong lack of staff with new thinking and new professional culture. The planned duration of the project is 21 weeks, in which the stage of the preliminary preparation is included.
