Completed project · 2011–2014
Teacher Education and Training in Tourism in Belarus
TETVET serves the cooperation of higher education institutions from the EU and Eastern Europe, in this case Belarus. The aim is to improve the tourism business in Belarus by supporting the higher education institutions where the teachers study who will later train, at colleges, the skilled workers who will subsequently work in hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, etc.; this support consists in the modularisation of teacher education.
One of the Belarusian project partners is RIPO (Republican Institute for Vocational Education). It contributes centrally, according to the old Soviet-Russian concept, to the training of vocational school teachers by developing the curricula for the occupations. With its concept of learning field development, the ITB plays an important role in this question, because it thereby conceptually brings the authority and the imperatives of the labour market into the structures of national education systems.