Specialists in Cultural Heritage and Attractive Living Environment (SPECHALE)

1. Lead Partner – Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Concelho de Moura (ADC Moura) (Portugal)
2. Associação Transfronteiriça de Municípios do Lago Alqueva (Portugal)
3. Le Terre dei Savoia Association (Italy)
4. eConsulenza Agency (Italy)
5. Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
6. IZTZG Institute for Tourism (Croatia)
7. UESS Université Européenne des Saveurs et Senteurs (France)

Associated Partners:

1. Dark Sky Alqueva Association (Portugal)
2. Fondazione Artea; Castello di Racconigi - Polo Museale del Piemonte (Italy)
3. Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (Latvia)

1. Implementing actions to support skills development, social inclusion, critical thinking and new participatory andintercultural approaches to heritage, as well as educational initiatives aimed at fostering the interculturaldialogue;
2. Creating an innovative training path in the field of promotion of territories in order to foster the profile of the“Specialist in Cultural Heritage and Attractive Living Environment;
3. Achieving the skills development of adult learners, above all the ones with low skills and/or unemployed,citizens, including migrants, by developing useful tools and methods, improving their soft skills;
4. Contributing to raising awareness of the importance of Europe' s cultural heritage – tangible and intangible -through education, informal and non-formal learning, in the context of the European Year of Cultural Heritage2018.

1. Mapping of existing initiatives and training opportunities in the fields of cultural heritage, tourism, local development, environment and eco-tourism and identification of missing supply through interviews and surveys;
2. Development of training modules for pilot courses (teaching materials and resources) based on the specific needs of the area; testing of a pilot course (at least 150 hours);
3. Policy recommendations and recommendations for the inclusion of tested competences in ECVET (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training).

1. Learners with new competences and skills for high quality services; the knowledge gained will be used to promote cultural and tourism heritage more effectively;
2. Innovative training tools assigned to adult learners, above all to participants with low skills and unemployed,including migrants;
3. Concrete specialized skills for territorial specialists in order to better gather the opportunities given by 2018European Year of Cultural Heritage and by Europe 2020 challenges.

Lienīte Priedāja-Klepere

Phone: +371 26133028