FUTOUR ALLIANCE - Future Tourism Skills Alliance for a Resilient and Innovative Europe
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Funded under the EU Erasmus+ Blueprint framework aimed at transforming the European tourism sector through robust, future-focused skills development.
About the Project
Building on the legacy of projects like PANTOUR and TourX, FuTourAlliance brings together a broad multi-country partnership of industry, education, and policy actors to deliver a comprehensive upskilling and reskilling agenda.
The project addresses digital, green, and inclusive competencies, with a strong emphasis on AI, robotics, and new occupational profiles—driven by cutting-edge online micro-courses and work-based learning opportunities.
The initiative prioritises workforce resilience, social dialogue, and sustainability in response to sectoral challenges such as staff shortages, digital transition, and environmental imperatives.
It is structured around an integrated methodology combining intelligence gathering, curriculum innovation, and regional skills partnerships, seeking to create a truly pan-European impact by fostering high-quality training, skills accreditation, and sector cooperation across 13 countries, aiming to shape the tourism workforce.
Objectives
- Το develop a Skills Strategy for the Tourism Sector (Destination Europe Sectoral Skills Strategy) for the upskilling & reskilling of the tourism workforce.
- To bridge the existing gap in data coverage on skills gaps and mismatches underpinning the severe labour shortages affecting the sector.
- To design new learning methodologies, ensuring high quality delivery, relevance of training interventions and EU level standards of recognition through microcredentials.
- To strongly and extensively upskill and reskill tourism professionals to seize the socioeconomic potential of tourism demand and increase its resilience.
- To update and upgrade occupational profiles in line with industry’s needs and trends as well as relevant EU frameworks (e.g. ESCO) for an innovative resilient and sustainable tourism industry.
- To set up comparable and aligned skills partnerships at regional level in Europe, building upon the collaboration of educational providers & industry representatives under the coordination of the Tourism Large-Scale Partnership (LSP).
- To design new business approaches building upon transformative technological processes, sustainable practices and examples of socially-responsible forms of tourism, by fostering knowledge exchange processes (large companies-SMEs).
Results
Expected Main Results:
- Project Management Handbook
- Quality Assurance Plan
- Tourism Skills & Training Intelligence
- Country-based reports and European Report
- High-resolution system model for the Intelligence Platform
- Online intelligence platform
- Tourism Skills & Training Strategy
- Synthesis & Benchmarking Report on Tourism Occupational Profiles
- New Occupational Profiles (NOP) Handbook
- Implementation Guide and Tourism Skills and Competencies Matrix
- Microcredential Guidelines
- Learning Material’s compendium
- Position Paper on Portability of Skills
- Country-based Training Methodologies
- Blueprint report
- Training Curricula
- LSP report 2026/27/28/29 N/RSP turnkey solution with annual update
- Annual report of N/RSP coordination
- A Union for Skills-strategy document
- Communication and dissemination plan
- Final report on performed activities
Activities
Work Package 1: Project Management & Quality Assurance
Work Package 2: Tourism Skills & Training Intelligence
Work Package 3: Occupational Profiles and Curricula for Tourism Operators-Revision & Update
Work Package 4: Competence-based training materials for the upskilling and reskilling of tourism professionals
Work Package 5: Implementing the Blueprint-Pilot Training Implementation
Work Package 6: Building a Union of Skills for Tourism-LSP Governance for on-the ground impact
Work Package 7: Communication and dissemination
Partners
- EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF INSTITUTES FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING (EVBB)
- RURALTOUR - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE TOURISME RURAL
- FEDERTURISMO CONFINDUSTRIA (FC)
- CONFEDERACION ESPANOLA DE HOTELES Y ALOJAMIENTOS TURISTICOS (CEHAT)
- HOTREC, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & CAFES IN EUROPE (HHRC EUROPE)
- TURISZTIKAI ES VENDEGLATO MUNKAADOK ORSZAGOS SZOVETSEGE (VIMOSZ-HU)
- ASOCIACION INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO HOTELERO (ITH)
- STICHTING BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES (Buas)
- IPCENTER AT GMBH (IPCENTER)
- AKMI ANONIMI EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIRIA (AKMI)
- APRO FORMAZIONE SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA (APRO)
- CENTER REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE ZA POKLICNO IZOBRAZEVANJE (IRSVET)
- AGENCE NATIONALE POUR LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE DES ADULTES (AFPA)
- TUI Care Foundation (TUI Care)
- EUROPEAN FORUM OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (EfVET)
- LEARNINGDIGITAL SRL (LD)
- IZSLEDOVATELSKI INSTITUT V ZANGADOR (ZANGADOR R)
- EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR ACCESSIBLE TOURISM ASBL (ENAT)
- TURISMO DE PORTUGAL I P (TDPIP)
Funding Programme
ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-ALL-INNO
Duration: 01/01/2026-31/12/2029 (48 months)
Budget: 3.999.010,72 EUR
Project Number: 101246930
Countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Portugal
