The Erasmus+ Ecoblue Tourism project, coordinated by the FUE-UJI, aims to increase entrepreneurship opportunities in blue ecotourism in coastal countries, through an innovative training methodology (in the Entrecomp framework), to improve the business skills of young people. long-term unemployed who want to develop their own ideas and businesses in this sector.  The project will implement a training course in training centers and organizations and will develop its own content on this subject to provide more information and opportunities to both interested users and their trainers. 

The main beneficiaries of the project are long-term unemployed young people who want to improve their entrepreneurship skills and trainers who will learn a new entrepreneurship training method aimed at creating businesses in blue ecotourism. The project is aimed at other stakeholders such as training centers, entrepreneurial organizations, chambers of commerce, business associations and local, regional or national authorities related to entrepreneurship and tourism. The following intellectual products will be developed:

– A training guide on blue ecotourism business plans: aims to teach how to prepare a blue ecotourism business plan.

– An Ecoblue tourism mobile learning application: is an application that will run on smartphones and tablets compatible with Android and iOS systems. The contents will be related to entrepreneurship to acquire business skills aimed at creating a blue ecotourism company.

The project includes a training activity (Ecoblue Tourism for trainers) aimed at teachers specialized in entrepreneurship. Finally, it is planned to design a training course to meet the business needs of the blue ecotourism sector. To meet this objective, the course content will follow the ECVET methodology within the EntreComp framework. This will be incorporated into the training offer of different training centers so that they can help unemployed young people to enter the labor market through self-employment.