Erasmus + Project : Sävar IK- Youth Empowerment in Sport YES Project in Arona –Tenerife EC Project Number: 2017-2-SE02-KA105-001854 National Project ID: 894000-8181 Project title: Youth Empowerment in Sport Organisation Legal Name: Savar IK From the 26th to the 31st October 2017 During five days we had the opportunity to work with 60 young people from … Continue reading
We have been busy this week with the teachers from EPFA secondary school in Vidigueira, Portugal. During their job shadowing visit in Tenerife we have visited diferent institutiosn and companies for the future Erasmus + students and of course to learn from the educational centers. This is an amazing way of learning on the spot, open your vision, get new ideas, find out how and where your students are doing their Erasmus placements.
During the visits we have discover an amazing Erasmus +project to connect companies, schools and students: TALENTED EUROPE Find out how to be part of it ¡¡
Find down at the end of this post the interested places we all visited.
Radio Sur Adeje, a place to learn for the audio visual students
CIFP Las Indias, experts in European Projects and mobility, learning from them
Development area of Adeje townhall, training courses to be back on the labor market. Pastry students during a practical exam
CIFP Cesar Manrique, learning about audiovisual techniques
With the audiovisual students of CIFP Cesar Manrique
With Isidoro, the protocol manager at Adeje townhall
PPC Events, the place to learn everything about events, audio, special effects and unique scenery for celebrations
Tenerife Top Training, where the sport students can learn about professional sport competition trainers
Chatur Hotel Playa Real Resort, enjoy paradise after work.
Monday 15th May: Pick up at 9.15am by Tenerife Job Training staff at main entrance Playa Real Hotel.
Meeting educational Center IES Las Galletas ( education sport trainer )
11.30am Meeting Playa Real Resort manager and learning animation, sport training activities for students
http://www.hotelplayarealresort.com/
Tuesday 16th May : Pick up by Tenerife Job Training at main entrance Playa Real Hotel.
Visiting Adeje townhall protocol/ communication department.
Development, tourism and Youth department visited.
Visiting Hacienda Cristoforo, Waldorf educational system, children childcare
http://www.haciendacristoforo.com/en/
Wednesday 17th May: Pick up at 9.15am by Tenerife Job Training staff at main entrance Playa Real Hotel. .
10.30am Visiting educational Centre CIFP César Manrique in Santa Cruz ( audio visual education)
12.00 Visiting educational Centre ES Las Indias ( experts in European Projects)
http://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/edublog/cifplasindias/
https://www.facebook.com/ieslasindias.tenerife/
Thursday 18th May: Pick up by Tenerife Job Training staff at main entrance Playa Real Hotel. .
9.15 Meeting PPC Events, training company for audio visual students:
11.00h Meeting T3, professional sport centre for athletes, swimmers and soccer’s international teams:
http://tenerifetoptraining.com/es/tenerife-top-training-3/
Friday 19th May:
12.30 Visiting Guia de Isora townhall, youth counsellor and Miradas Doc documental festival:
http://www.guiadeisora.org/corp/
http://miradasdoc.com/mdoc2016/
Training seminar in Tenerife from the 6th to the 17th March, training mentors and building a sustainable training tool for the rural tourism:
All the European partners in the project: Estonia, Czchec Republic, Iceland, Poland, Spain and Lithuania.
Desayuno servido por los alumnos de Adeje Impulsa: RESTUR ADEJE
http://www.adeje.es/empleo/informacion-de-interes/1006-restur-adeje-participa-en-una-convivencia-con-alumnado-erasmus
With Denis Devaris manager and founder of Hacienda Cristóforo, a different concept of rural tourism and natural therapies in the south of Tenerife
At PLaya Real Resort learning and having fun about cooking PAELLA
With Matthias Saas Manager at Playa Real Resort, learning about hotel businesses
Punta del Lomo, south Tenerife, a banan plantation and rural tuorism business.
Hotel Villalba, a four star hotel near the stars, Vilaflor.
Working time with the team members
Bodegas Reveron, canarian wines and canarian food, time to relax
San Miguel de Abona, a different concept pof rural tourism, art and nature together. Gracias Samuel de Leon
Teresa from tenerife Job Training explaining the history of Casas Alberto
Gracias Samuel de León and thank you Hanisna for the amazing and simple Icelandic presents for our stake holders
With Manuel Luis, Adeje Townhall Development Councelor and Pablo Pastor, chef president of ACYRE, The Tenerife Asociation of Chefs.
Minds into Matters es el nombre que lleva el presente proyecto europeo cuya idea principal está orientada en incrementar y potenciar las competencias de empleabilidad, sostenibilidad e innovación en el sector turístico, mediante un proceso que abarcará dois años de trabajo (2016-2018), auspiciado por los programas Europeos Erasmus + en el ámbito de la educación de adultos y la educación no formal.
Tenerife Job Training, como miembro socio del proyecto en representación de España, ha organizado el primer Training Mentors Seminar en Tenerife durante el mes de Marzo 2017. Hemos diseñado un calendario de operatividad y planes de trabajo consensuado que nos ha llevado a mostrar a los participantes diversas empresas y entidades de la isla muy relacionadas con el turismo sostenible.
Los seis países participantes en el proyecto, Islandia, Polonia, República Checa, Lituania, Estonia y España, analizaremos, diseñaremos herramientas sostenibles para empresas del sector turístico conscientes en la elaboración de manuales de operaciones para la mejora de los procesos operativos tanto como la optimización y calidad de las diferentes áreas y departamentos. En este mismo orden de cosas el proyecto contempla la formación de la figura del mentor para que puedan llevar a cabo el seguimiento y control de los procesos a implementar.
La creación del “The Book of Business”, será el manual de operaciones que reunirá la operativa, calidad, profesionalidad y aprendizaje, convirtiéndose en una herramienta clave para la empresa turística.
La formación de mentores nos sitúa en un ámbito que Erasmus + está potenciando en su nueva etapa 2014-2020, la educación de adultos y la educación no formal. Bajo el lema “long life learning”, concebimos un elemento potenciador de la empleabilidad y profesionalidad en la empresa turística del siglo XXI.
Cada país participante en este proyecto seleccionará una o 2 empresas turísticas locales para trabajar conjuntamente durante los dos años del proyecto, asignando un mentor para cada una de ellas. La formación del mentor es clave y objetivo fundamental del proyecto. En el caso de Tenerife, las dos empresas turísticas seleccionadas para participar en el proyecto son:
Hovima a La Pinta: http://www.hovima-hotels.com/es/hoteles-en-tenerife/hovima-la-pinta.html
Casas Alberto: http://www.casasalberto.com/
Desde Tenerife Job Training hemos seleccionado dos tipos de empresas turísticas de diferentes mercados turísticos y con infraestructuras muy dispares. Hovima La Pinta, un referene en la zona costera de Costa Adeje y a punto de entrar en una transformación profunda que le va a dar una nueva imagen. Y Casas Alberto, un pequeño alojamiento rural con encanto situado en San Miguel de Abona. Con ambas empresa vamos a desarrolar la herramienta de turismo sostenible que nuestro poryecto abandera, Th Book of Business, con la figura de los mentores en cada una de las empresas.
English:
The main goal of Minds into Matters project is to try out and develop a sustainable training tools for SME in the tourist rural business – called Book of Business or BoB.
The core idea in this project is that in the business owners head’s (Mind) – there is a lot of knowledge’s – which needed to be visualized ( into Mattes) for others for future development and training. By making his knowledge’s visual – and the process of working with that, create not only a BoB – but it also builds up competence and professionalism in each businesses, and by doing so this work might be the pathway to a more formal learning in the future.
BoB is a visual business tool – especially designed for each business to help the business owner to have something visual in their hands to be able to train their staff in shorter time. By doing this they also have in one place all the info about developing of the business, the business concept, the business etic, the core of the business and the business values as well.
BoB has proved to be an easy sustainable tools to work within couple of Icelandic pilots project.
Iceland – The project leader
Step by Step is a research and training organization, established in 1987 by Hansína B Einarsdóttir cand.polit and Dr. Herdís D Baldvindóttir in their university years.
The organisations has 30 years of experience in project managing and training, in different areas and within very different fields.
Our major emphasize has been on VET and WBL for adults, working with and for all kinds of companies. Over the years we have been involved in many research programs within the field of adult training and learning with the aim of having people to understand the importance of life long learning.
We have been managing several big training projects for example for airlines, shipping companies, banks and many official organizations, as well as working with small innovative enterprises. We have comprehensive and even unusual experience by using all kind of field and action research (like having to sail all over in Europe and USA to learn about the fascinating live at sea) in order to design the right approach for our customers.
We have undertaken and managed several different projects, both on local and governmental level, and all with the aim of new job creations as well as competence building in the rural areas of Iceland. the company has been in a leading position in its work by designing inside training and peer-to-peer programs for diverse companies. The company has been developing over the years and uses innovative approach in its training and in its implementation of knowledge to enhance skills for adults’ learners, both skilled and unskilled. In the years 2012 – 2014 we did an extensive survey among tourism companies in
Iceland (we interviewed more than 100 regional companies) where among other things, we discussed product development, quality control, management and staff training within the companies.
Among the things noted was a great interest from the companies in having specifically designed educational and training material that would be sustainable so that each company would own their own material and hence could teach and train within their own workplace.
This is the foundation of our project Mind into Matter – making BoB.
Hansína B. Einarsdóttir is the managing director of the company and has been responsible for carrying out many rural research projects as well building up a boutique hotel in rural Iceland (www.hotelglymur.is).
Dr Herdís D. Baldvinsdóttir worked for almost 7 years for the Nordic Council of ministers as the Coordinator for Consumer Research in the Nordic Countries. The main objectives in that job was to develop and support research networks and their activities, promote dialog and cooperation between relevant actors to foster consumer research of relevance to consumer policy and to broaden the interaction between consumer researchers and policy-makers in government, agencies, and organizations.
Czech Republic – with Eva Svobodová from Podebrady school
Podebrady school is the body of the long educational tradition on the local, regional, national and international levels, having at present more than 400 students. The school, founded in 1968, evolved from a small provincial school into the top hospitality and tourism school in the country.
The institution is promoting in its projects in most of European countries
Eva has broad knowledge’s of working with in the Tourist field, training both in a formal and unformal educational level.
Estonia – With Ruta Pels from EESTI people to people.
Eesti People to People is a non-profit organisation registered in Estonia in 1997 and with activities since 1993 as a chapter of People to People International (www.ptpi.org). The purpose of People to People aims to enhance international understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences directly among peoples of different countries and diverse cultures. Eesti PTP is committed to enhance cross-cultural communication within each community, and across communities and nations. Tolerance and mutual understanding are central themes. Ruta has worked in WBL training and organized seminars
Lithuania – With Daine Rinkeviciute from Kurybiniu iniciatyvu centras
Center of Creative initiatives is a vocational training provider with experience on the integration of new technologies in teaching practices, accredited by Lithuanian Government and operating with a Quality Assurance System in the following sectors: Initial vocational education; Apprenticeship; Continuous training for companies and professionals; Vocational guidance and orientation.
Póland – With Wiesia Gasiorowska from EUROPEA Polska
EUROPEA Poland is an association of agricultural and forestry schools and institutions. We are a member of EUROPEA International, http://www.europea.org, which was founded in 1993 by the Belgian Law and we are a non profit institution. In the network EUROPEA INTERNATIONAL there are currently 26 EU members and one associated country Norway. We are very keen to assist and encourage new members of the EU to become members of EUROPEA International. More than 700 schools and other institutions related to agricultural education are members of our association; therefore we interact with ten thousand young people daily.
Tenerife – With Mariví Gracia from Tenerife Job Training
Tenerife Job Training was established in 2007 and based in the south of Tenerife, one of the main tourism centers in Spain. Our commitment is to organize and evaluate vocational training for tourism, hospitality and language students mainly. Tenerife is a multicultural island receiving more than 3 million tourists per year, offering a professional net of companies working on tourism market for more than 50 years experience. As a mature tourisms destination, Tenerife is the perfect field to have the first contact with the labour market surrounded by tourism experts.
Our aim is to offer our wonderful Canary Islands, as the perfect Educational Tourism destination, combining the amazing landscapes with our unique position in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, sharing our expertise in the field of tourism.
These are the participant in the Mentor semiar taken place in Tenerife on the 6th – 10th of Mars
Iceland: Hansína B Einarsdóttir,Jón Rafn Högnason, Bryndís Óskarsdóttir, Herdís D Baldvinsdóttir
Spain: Marivi Gracia, Pepa Ruiz Perez, Teresa Martins.
Czech Republic: Eva Svobodová, Zuzana Hummelová
Estonia: Ruta Pels, Leonid Smulskiy and Pavel Smulski.
Poland: Wiesislava Gąsiorowscy, Krzystof Gąsiorowscy.
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See the English version at the bottom. Tenerife Job Training participa como socio en el Proyecto Europeo Erasmus + K2 “Minds into Matters”. EC Project Number: 2016-1-IS01-KA202-017090 Project title: MINDS into MATTER – the “Book of Business” sustainable training tool in the tourism industry. La empleabilidad y la innovación en el sector turístico fueron objeto … Continue reading
http://alacarta.aragontelevision.es/programas/adn_aragones/cap-8-27042016-2132
Si vais al link podéis ver un reportaje hecho por una TV autonómica que cuenta mi historia en Tenerife y la de mi empresa Tenerife Job Training a la vez que os enseño Costa Adeje.
If you go to the link you can learn through a TV programme my story since I arrive to Tenerife and the story of my company Tenerife Job Training.
Today we were broadcasting at Radio Sur Adeje, speaking with Shauna and Laura from Galway Technical Institute about their experience of 3 weeks through Erasmus + Programme training at companies of beauty treatments in Adeje, south Tenerife. HERE YOU CAN LISTEN TO US: http://englishtimeadeje.com/english-time-31st-march-2016/
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It was just like a movie It was just like a song……. As Adele says, this is the feeling of creating an amazing costume like this and get to the end of the process to discover that She is elected The Queen of Tenerife Carnival 2016, the best, the only one: … Continue reading
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Uno de los positivos argumentos promocionales que escuchamos en los últimos años sobre nuestra isla es que TENERIFE ES UN DESTINO SEGURO y seguidamente unos convincentes argumentos: tenemos una red de hospitales públicos y privados con buen servicio, el índice de criminalidad se reduce a pequeños incidentes en pick- pockets y pequeños robos en coches de alquiler.
A mi parecer, un destino es seguro por muchos factores más relacionados con la seguridad y la salud. Me gustaría hacer hincapié en dos de ellos:
1.-Un destino es seguro cuando circular por sus carreteras también lo es:
Como residente en el sur de Tenerife estoy acostumbrada a circular en el Gran Premio de Formula I que disputan los taxis en la TF-1 los días de grandes llegadas de vuelos de turoperación al aeropuerto Sur, especialmente los viernes. Decidme cuantas veces os habéis encontrado con un taxi por el carril izquierdo a más de 150km/h echando las luces para que te apartes si estás adelantando, porque no sé si sabéis que ese carril es de su propiedad o eso parece. Cuando me sucede esto siempre me pregunto lo que ese turista recién aterrizado en Tenerife estará pensando mientras se agarra a su puerta de su taxi con tensión, y duda de si llegará a su destino sano y salvo para poder relajarse finalmente.
Jamás he visto a la Guardia Civil interviniendo con taxis a gran velocidad o haciendo soplar a los taxistas ¿Alguien lo ha visto? No digo que no se haga pero por favor necesito que me lo confirmen, tengo mis dudas.
Me he decidió a escribir mis pensamientos cuando he leído esta semana que una turista murió en un accidente en la TF-1 en el trayecto al aeropuerto en taxi, el taxista dio positivo. Y diréis que es un incidente aislado, sin embargo para quienes circulamos por esta carretera todos los días no nos extraña nada.
La Opinion de Tenerife 14/10/2015:
http://www.laopinion.es/sucesos/2015/10/14/imputado-taxista-sufrir-accidente-murio/633167.html
2.-Cuando necesito atención médica y el registro en el hospital es un trámite sencillo:
Como ya dije antes soy residente en el sur de Tenerife, sin embargo hace ya 6 años que acompaño a extranjeros a servicios médicos en los hospitales del Sur. Me siento seguro en un destino cuando mi al correr peligro mi salud llego a un hospital y se preocupan de atenderme cuanto antes y no de intentar cobrarme cuanto antes.
La premisa principal al llegar al hospital es: si tienes un seguro internacional vas a tener que pagar y cuando llegues a tu país reclamarlo, eso sí……..como te tenemos que ingresar deberás hacer un depósito de una mínima cifra de tres ceros en euros si tu estado puede requerir intervención quirúrgica. ¿Habéis pensado lo que puede llegar a estresar esto? ¿Estoy seguro en este hospital? ¿Les importa curarme o cobrarme? He asistido a extranjeros a los que se les dice que como no pueden responder a esta situación deberán coger un taxi, trasladarse al norte de la isla e ingresar en un hospital público para que les atienda el servicio público, claro, ambulancia no podemos ponerle porque usted no se está muriendo……..
¡¡¡Si antes no me sentía seguro ahora ya me estoy muriendo de miedo ¡!!
Ante la repetida situación mencionada, desde hace ya más de tres años colaboro con Quirón Hospital adelantándoles el seguro médico que mis alumnos Europeos traen. Quirón comprueba su cobertura y registra los nombres. De este modo durante su estancia pueden acudir en cualquier momento y emergencia sabiendo que les atienden y que su cobertura es segura. Personalmente me aseguro de que mis clientes/alumnos se sienten seguros en Tenerife. Y Quirón por su parte les da un gran servicio.
Cada uno debemos de poner nuestro esfuerzo en este tema, somos las personas quienes hacemos que este destino sea seguro.
Mariví Gracia
Octubre 2015
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One of the most positive arguments that we’ve been hearing in the last years about our island it’s that, TENERIFE IS A SAFE DESTINATION. This is followed with some convincing arguments: we have a good service on public and private hospitals, the criminality its reduced to some small incidents like mobile phones by pick-pocket robberies, small robberies of rental cars and how safe it’s to walk around late at night.
In my opinion, a safe destination it’s much more than that:
I would like to remark 2 arguments:
– A destination is safe when driving is safe:
As a resident in south Tenerife, I am used to drive among the Formula 1 Grand Prix TF-1 main road where taxi drivers compete in days of big amount of arrivals or departures at sout airport Reina Sofia (mostly on Fridays). Tell me…… how many times have you seen a taxi driving over 150km lightening to you get out of their left way? (For your information, they are the owners of that part of the road).
Every time this happens to me, I wonder if the visitor/foreigner inside is feeling safe, or horrified and praying to get alive to his destination. It’s this a relaxed way to start or end their holidays?
I have never seen a taxi being stopped by police controls, neither for alcohol texting, nor speed control. Does anybody ever notice it? If somebody saw it, please tell me because I doubt about it.
I decided to write this post when I saw this week on the news that a tourist died in a traffic crush in TF-1, on the way to the airport, in a Taxi, and that the taxi driver was positive on the alcohol testing. You will say that this things happens, but to me, it’s something predictable, not casual.
(press news) La Opinion de Tenerife 14/10/2015:
http://www.laopinion.es/sucesos/2015/10/14/imputado-taxista-sufrir-accidente-murio/633167.html
As I told you before, I live in south Tenerife, but in the last 6 years I’m helping some foreign visitors to medical services in the south Hospitals. I feel safe in a destination when I arrive to a hospital for an emergency and they are more interested in attending me than in taking my money.
You arrive to the hospital and you are informed about this: if you have an international insurance you have to pay in advance for the services and when you get to your country you ask for the money back to your insurance company. And if you need to be hospitalized, you have to pay a deposit of at least …000€ in case you need surgery. Have you ever thought about how stressful this can be? Am I safe in this hospital? What’s more important, to save me or to charge me? I was present in one of these situations when a client was told that if he couldn’t pay the money, he should take a taxi to the north public hospitals of the island to be attended, …..”and sorry Sir we cannot offer an ambulance to you because you are not dying.”
Well, if when he arrived to hospital he was not feeling safe due to his illness/accident, now he’s scared to death!
After suffering these type of situations during my first years working with foreign students, three years ago I started a cooperation with Quirón Hospital to increase safety and health situation with my students:
I send them in advance medical insurance of my students, they check it and register their names as well as the period of stay. This way the students can get there any moment and get their medical assistance.
Personally I do my best for guests / students to feel safe in Tenerife, and thanks to the good work of Quirón Hospital we make it.
If we all make an effort, we can help Tenerife to become a safe destination, because it’s people who make things work.
Mariví Gracia
http://www.tenerifejobtraining.com
Octubre 2015
La Universidad de La Laguna recibe 305 estudiantes ERASMUS de Europa durante el primer trimestre del año:
305 estudiantes visitantes de un destino que han elegido entre muchos, por el motivo principal de aprender, y también con la motivación de conocer su clima, su paisaje, su gente, su cultura:
¿Cuándo nos vamos a dar cuenta que no solo el turista de hotel y agencia de viaje es quien visita nuestra isla?
¿Cuándo nos vamos a dar cuenta que queremos viajar por muchos motivos más allá de la playa y el sol?
¿Cuando nos vamos a dar cuenta que ese viajero más allá de la playa y el sol enriquece la economía de la zona en toda su extensión?
Vamos a volver al viajero Erasmus de la ULL y a esa otra cantidad sin cuantificar de alumnos ERASMUS que vienen para prácticas formativas en empresas:
Ellos no se alojan en hoteles sino en los barrios más castizos.
Ellos compran en mercados, en pequeños comercios locales.
Nunca sabremos cual es su gasto medio por visitante pero si se quedan 3 meses, imagina cual puede ser, aun siendo estudiantes.
Ellos tienen mucho más tiempo para visitar esos pequeños rincones que hacen especial nuestro destino.
Ellos tiene mucho más tiempo para conocernos y hablar en la redes de la parte humana y cercana de Tenerife.
Ellos traen a amigos y familiares que viene a visitarles y se convierten en vendedores activos de nuestro destino.
Hay 100 razones para viajar, 100 tipos de turistas ¿Los conocemos? ¿los cuidamos? Yo creo que no.Solo nos interesa el viajero que busca un cinco estrellas o un spa o un congreso o un todo incluido:
Ese que se queda menos de una semana….
Ese que no sale del hotel……..
Ese que solo conoce nuestra isla desde una guagua …..
Ese que no comerá en un Guachinche……
Ese que solo hablará de nuestras playas y su hotel.
En TJT recibimos a estos visitantes tan especiales y les enseñamos a querer Tenerife y a vivir durante 3 meses entre su gente, para mí lo que más valor tiene de un destino, lo que realmente te hace conocerlo. Esa es la verdadera esencia de viajar. Que nunca la perdamos.
Feliz Semana,
Mariví Gracia
The University of La Laguna receives 305 ERASMUS students:
305 students visitors to a destination that theyhave chosen among many others, for the main reason to learn, and the motivation of its climate, its landscape, its people, its culture:
When are we going to realize that not only tourists visit our island?
When are we going to realize that we travel for many reasons beyond the beach and the sun?
When we will realize that the traveler beyond the beach and sun enriches the economy of the area?
Let’s talk about the Erasmus students from Universidad de La Laguna and so many others coming for internships period:
They do not stay in hotels but in the most traditional neighborhoods.
They buy in markets and small local shops.
We will never know w their average spending per visitor but if they stay three months, you can imagine…..,
They have much more time to visit the little corners of Tenerife.
They have much more time to meet and talk in internet about the most human part of Tenerife.
They bring friends and family who comes to visit them and become active sellers of our destiny.
There are 100 reasons to travel, 100 kinds of tourists: Do we know about them? Do we care about them? I don’t think so. W only care about the traveler looking for a five-star hotel or a spa or a conference or an all-inclusive resort:
The one that stays less than a week ….
The one that does not leave the hotel ……..
The one that that only see our island from a bus …..
The one that will not eat at a “guachinche” ……
The one that will only you speak of our beaches and hotel.
In TJT we receive these special students visitors and teach them to love Tenerife and live for 3 months among its people, to me the real value of a destination That is the true essence of travel, its people. Never forget that when you travel which ever the reason taking to that place.
Happy week,
Mariví Gracia
tenerifejobtraining.com 
