The developed courses will be registered in the 6 participating Universities’ offer, as elective courses, open to their own students, but also made available/open to students/participants from other HEIs, in MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) format. A 12-month pilot delivery of the courses will take place with 480 students in total.
As part of the pilots, a number of placements/traineeships for the students in hospitality and tourism enterprises will be organized by the 6 Asian HEIs for a total number of approx. 125 students (40 for Thailand, 50 for China and 35 for Lao PDR) for a period of 3- 6 months, either during or after the courses’ completion.
The online courses (MOOC) will also be made available/open to enterprises of the hospitality and tourism sector in all 3 Asian countries. In total, 60 enterprises are foreseen to collaborate and 170 employees to be trained across all three participating Asian countries.
