Project partners
Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences is the third-largest college in Lithuania with strong academic reputation. The initial target of the University of Applied Sciences is an ensuring of high quality of academic teaching and research facilities. The University of Applied Sciences focuses on study programs that lead to a profession. The graduates of the University of Applied Sciences gain professional Bachelor degree. The studies are practice orientated; students are able to apply successfully their knowledge in a real working environment. There is Tourism administration department already working with local tourist guides, organizing workshops, participating in local initiatives. Department specializes in creating touristic routes.
Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences is very much orientated towards adult teaching. Training centre for adults have been established and successfully operating since. We have many formal and informal courses for adults already in workplace to increase their skills and help to meet the challenges of modern citizenship. University promotes adult lifelong learning.
Project team:
Laurencija Budrytė-Ausiejienė (Project manager, Head of Business Administration Department, Lecturer)
Eglė Černeckienė (Project Coordinator)
Jurgita Kasparienė (Dean of Business Faculty, Lecturer)
Jolanta Baronaitė (Lecturer, Business Faculty)
Kurzeme Tourism Association - NGO based in Kuldiga, association of tourism specialist working in Kuldiga, Latvia. This partner is very important, as they represent our target group. Also association has a lot of experience in creating web page, promoting routes, disseminating touristic products. They will act first as point of feedback after creating methodology.
Project team:
Artis Gustovskis (Chairman of Kurzeme Tourism Association, Manager of Kuldiga Tourism Development Centre, Latvia)
Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK), was founded in 1992. KAMK offers higher education to experts, supports professional growth and carries out R&D activities. For years, KAMK has been regarded as one of the best Universities of Applied sciences in Finland.
KAMK has three different schools and one of these is Business, including Tourism, Sports and Business (also in English) . Research and development (R&D) are one of the key functions of Kajaani University of Applied Sciences. KAMK is a nationally and internationally appreciated R&D partner, with tens of new projects starting every year.
Project team
Nina Jyrkäs - Project manager
Mobilizing Expertise AB (Sweden) is a SME working in the field of non-formal education and trainings. Focusing on providing training, creating educational tools, tourism, mobilizing volunteers to professionalism, project management, promoting entrepreneurship among youth and adults. One of their activities is to develop training courses for the tourist sector through the use of non-formal educational games, digital learning, cooperate social responsibility, etc. Also hosting tourism students in Sweden as part of their studies or internships in catering and hospitality.
Project team:
Meletli, Charlotte Elisha - CO- Founder
Meletli, Necmettin - CEO
Self, Karen- Project Manager
Karuskose OÜ is Estonian for profit company, established in 1999. A local nature tourism company, operating in Soomaa National park, and known on the market by its web domain www.soomaa.com. Karuskose OÜ has been certified in 2019 by PAN Parks for excellence in sustainable tourism. Company is providing guided wilderness experiences, organizing self-guided and guided canoe trips, bog-walking and bog-shoeing trips, and other types of nature experiences. Aivar Ruukel, the founder of Karuskose OÜ also acts as a consultant in ecotourism development and social media marketing, and a lecturer in the University of Tartu Pärnu College. He is since 2011 a BOA member of EDEN Association, the largest European network of sustainable tourism destinations (https://youredenexperience.com/boa-members/).
Since 2018 a member of the Board of Directors at the Global Ecotourism Network (https://www.globalecotourismnetwork.org/who-we-are/). He has organized traditional dugout-canoe building workshops in Soomaa since 1996, and has currently working in cooperation with Ministry of Culture on the proposal to nominate Soomaa dugout canoe culture to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.
Project team:
Aivar Ruukel - the founder of Karuskose OÜ