Next meeting: London - United Kingdom (UK) - 26/02 to 02/03 2018

Next meeting: London - United Kingdom (UK) - 26/02 to 02/03 2018

Sintra: 5 days in 10 minutes.

Until 2018 in London.

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Sintra 4th Day

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Sintra 1st Day

Palácio da Pena

Marike

Castelo dos Mouros

Welcome to Sintra

Everyone arrived safely. Have a nice stay.

Memories of old Sintra

The "coolness" of Sintra because of the fog, Sintra's old hotels, the arrival of the train in Sintra in the end of 19th century, the tram going from the old town till Azenhas do Mar near the Ocean (you can see the building of our kindergarten there) people on the beach, Praia das Maçãs' swimming pool.

Next meeting: Sintra - PORTUGAL - 15th to 19th october 2017

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Transnational Meeting@ Campus Redingenhof, Leuven - Belgium

TRANSNATIONAL MEETING@ CAMPUS REDINGENHOF, LEUVEN - 27-29/9

Agenda

Steps for every country

PORTUGAL:
exchanging SWOT-analysis on traditional tourism in our regions

Ø  Seminars on SWOT-analysis on traditional tourism

Ø  Dissemination of exchange activities

Ø  Photo exhibition of past and present tourism

Ø  A seminar on tourism development: how a balance among environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects may guarantee its long-term sustainability

Ø  A video clip about the above-mentioned topics

Ø  Meeting with experts about going green in tourism

UK:

GOING GREEN

Ø  … in natural heritage, hotel management, waste, jobs, travel, transport, ecological footprint, Green Flag award (eco-schools), …

Ø  Dissemination of exchange activities

Ø  Meetings with experts: how tourism may play its part in the preservation of cultural heritage

Ø  Pockets stories: ideas and samples of preserving cultural heritage in tourism

ITALY:
GIVE WINGS TO OUR ROOTS

Ø  Dissemination

Ø  Seminars about start-ups in tourism

Ø  video

BULGARIA:
CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCY

Ø  Dissemination of results

Ø  Workshop to implement online agency

Ø  Seminar on advertising

BELGIUM:

entrepreneurship –
how to promote your region? How to develop an innovative idea?

Ø  Dissemination and exchange activities

Ø  Advertise the ideas in the online agency

Ø  Each school will present a favourite destination with a plan to reduce seasonality in different ways, UK (videoclip), Portugal (booklet), Bulgaria (poster), Italy (leaflet), Belgium (collect everything on virtual agency)

Presentation

Step up is a project on sustainable tourism and European entrepreneurship, it will last two school years and it has as partners, besides our school from Portugal and the coordinator school coordinator (Go! Atheneum Redinghof of Leuven from Belgium), an English school from London, an Italian school from Martano, near Lecce and a Bulgarian school from Sofia.

The first meeting of the Step up project, a transnational meeting of teachers, was held in Leuven, in Belgium, between 26th and 30th September, where the different stages of the project were decided.

The first meeting of this project will take place in Sintra, between 15th and 19th October. It will have the participation of teachers and students from all the involved countries *and there will be a sharing of experiences and knowledge about entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism practices and measures that have been and will be taken to create a brighter future for future generations, avoiding negative aspects of tourism, such as the loss of cultural heritage and ecological degradation.