TEMPUS Su To Ma
TEMPUS Su To Ma is an international triennial project (2012-2015) aimed at the modernization of educational programmes in the sphere of sustainable tourism management, elaboration of subjects corresponding to the Bologna standards, comprising course-books as per the final results, presenting new methods for training the lecturers, including practice as an essential component. Within the frames of the project, 12 modules were elaborated with proper course-books and educational final results:
1. Tourism destinations management
2. Sustainable tourism
3. Ecotourism
4. Agrotourism
5. Practice management
6. Tour-guiding
7. Capacity building for sustainable tourism
8. Inter-cultural communication and management
9. Language for special purposes – tourism
10. Innovative medium-sized and smaller enterprises in sustainable tourism
11. Cultural heritage management
12. E-learning
The project coordinator is Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
The Armenian partners are:
RA, Ministry of Economics
Yerevan State University
Armenian National Agrarian University
Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University
Yerevan State Linguistic University
Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute
“Berlin Gguest-House” LLC
Guest-Service
Foreign partners are:
Worms University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Centre for Higher Education (CHE), Germany University of Reseknes, Latvia Tralee Institute of Technology, Ireland Jakov Gogebashvili Telavi State University, Georgia Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia Ilia State University, Georgia Agrarian University of Georgia Transboundary Joint Secretariat for Nature Conservation, Georgia
Caucasus Regional Environmental Centre, Georgia “Aragvi Adventure Centre” LLC, Georgia Tourism University, Azerbaijan Mingachevir Tourism Institute, Azerbaijan Nakhichevan State University, Azerbaijan Azerbaijani State Agrarian University Baku State University, Azerbaijan Baku Tourism Information Centre, Azerbaijan NGO “Friends of Nature”, Azerbaijan Azeri Tourism Association
“Ecosphere” Social-Economic Centre, Azerbaijan “Millennium Tourism and Congress” LLC, Azerbaijan Project website: http://www.sutoma.eu/
Project information materials:
ARMENQA project booklet: SuToMa-Leaflet
Sustainable tourism management.Teacher’s manual on elaboration of new modules for Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes: Teachers-book Armenian