International Master Programmes TOURISM for Siberian regions

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International Master ProgrammesTOURISMfor
Siberian regions

• 3-year TEMPUS project
• coordinated by Aalborg University, Denmark

Professor Henrik Halkier halkier_at_cgs.aau.dk
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International Master ProgrammesTOURISMfor
Siberian regions

1. Project aims and partners
2. Organisastion Individuals and institutional
   support
3. Project activities
4. Siberian partner experiences
5. European experiences and future activities

Professor Henrik Halkier halkier_at_cgs.aau.dk
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PROJECT AIM

• New tourism education, new tourism
• establish European quality International Master
  Programmes "Tourism" in three Siberian regions
  Tomsk, Altai and Khanty-Mansiysk
• direct participation of EU universities and
  regional tourism authorities and enterprises
• build educational capacity and human competences
  in regions with considerable, but hitherto
  under-utilised, touristic potential
• contribute to economic diversification in regions
  otherwise depending on primary or secondary
  sectors of activity

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PROJECT PARTNERS

• University partners
• Aalborg University, Denmark (grant-holder)
• Tomsk Polytechnic University (Siberian
  coordinator)
• Altai State Technical University
• Yugra State University
• Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
• Vienna University of Applied Sciences
• Partners
• Regional government, Tourism organisations

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PROJECT ORGANISATIONIndividual creativity,
institutional support

• Driving forces
• Strategic thinking, happy coincidences
• Mapping and building roads
• Political and administrative support

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PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• Programme preparation
• development of course structure
• quality control and coordination
• development of courses
• visits to EU partners by Siberian teachers
• quality control and coordination
• guest lectures by EU-based teachers
• new pedagogics
• Hardware, training seminars

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PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• Programme implementation
• Master programmes start autumn 2010/2011
• Siberian students visiting EU partner
  universities
• guest lectures by EU-based teachers
• distance learning between Siberian universities
• distance learning between Siberian and EU
  universities
• dissemination of experience to interested
  institutions

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Preliminary project budget
TOTAL ELIGIBLE COSTS 0.88 mio (33 mio rubles)
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SIBERIAN PARTNER EXPERIENCE PRESENTATIONS
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CHALLENGES AND FUTURESSustainable Master
Programmes in Tourism

• 1. Tailor-making Master programmes
• Stakeholder engagement, destination development
• 2. Meeting of cultures
• Language, learning, exchanges, networking
• 3. Sustainability
• New programmes, continued networking, joint
  research
• 4. Extending cooperation
• New applications Tempus and beyond

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MORE INFORMATION
Websites http//www.tempus-tourism.aau.dk/ http//
www.tempus-tourism.tpu.ru/ E-mail Henrik
Halkier halkier_at_cgs.aau.dk Liliya Kiriyanova
kiriyanova_at_tpu.ru