WP3 – TouriCulture Tales through Storytelling

The aim of WP3:

TouriCulture is a project that will have a positive impact on rural economies and traditional cultures. For this reason, it is particularly important to ensure that its effectiveness lasts over time and that its results can be applied by different stakeholders. For this reason, Touriculture Tales through Storytelling” and “TouriCulture Labs” will be created. The main objectives of this Work Package are, on the one hand, to facilitate the access of educators, students, and entrepreneurs to the training content from anywhere and at any time, and on the other hand, to facilitate the creation of a network of professionals interested in entrepreneurship combining culture and tourism. The Platform will connect all those involved in the project, allowing them to work collectively during the project, networking between the trainees and trainers, delivering the training program and sharing best practices. The TouriCulture Platform will play a crucial role in this project, offering final users the tools to share ideas, future collaboration spaces between entrepreneurs, etc. To this end, within the Platform, all users must be able to interact with the community, and share experiences and knowledge. With regard to the objective of offering a training package available to everyone, this platform will be implemented through the training modules included in the previous Work Package in the Mentor Booklet, with the aim of supporting the delivery of learning objects specially designed to provide target groups with useful insights both for the training phase and the action setup.This kind of interactive content will also aim to develop self-reflection skills and other self-development skills related to cultural and rural tourism entrepreneurship in order to start a new business upgrading plan and an additional learning path through storytelling.

Results of WP3:

The main result of the Work Package “TouriCulture Tales through Storytelling” and “TouriCulture Labs” is the creation of a platform that contributes to educational and social enrichment. Within this main result, TouriCulture offers a digital space in which to find all the training content of the Mentor Booklet. So, the result is the possibility for VET trainers, as well as indirect targets such as entrepreneurs or organisations focused on rural and cultural tourism to access this content. The online platform will be able to be used by VET trainers to provide online training as well as by learners as a self-directed learning tool and will establish Interactive storytelling with decision making scenarios, quizzes, dilemmas, role-playing elements, etc. The Platform will offer not only theoretical modules aimed at the creation of new business models combining tourism and culture, but will also provide training materials, contributing to the integration of VET centres and students into an innovative and digitised education system. The other expected result “TouriCulture Labs” is the creation of a real professional network where, thanks to the platform, rural and cultural tourism entrepreneurs can upload their tourist offers, experiences and knowledge. The intention is that at the end of the project this platform will become, on the one hand, a digital space with educational content on the subject, as well as a tourism portal where businesses focused on tourism and culture, are carried out. The online community will allow peer learning and exchanges between participants. The whole platform represents a business and social environment and e- learning space and then it will be developed according to the technical specifications and the structural peculiarities connected to these two-different interactive scenarios