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4.1. Tourism Learning Area Governance Papers Policy Grid

Learning Areas Governance Papers Policy Grid

Name of Policy Document

Target group SMEs /Micro enterprises

Co-ordination

Target group Workforce individuals

Administrative / Geographical Level

Global

UN (CSD 2002) WSSD Plan of Implementation

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

European

DG EaC R3L Initiative (2003)

X

X

X

DG E&C Grundtvig Programme 2001-06

X

X

DG Regio Innovation Strategy 2005

X

X

X

DG Enterprise DG Employment Working together for the Future of European Tourism (2001)

X

X

X

X

X

DG InfoSoc Elearning 2005

X

X

X

Sec Gen SD Strategy 2001 Better regulation Package (June 2002)

X

National

The Ministry of Education/Labour/research Law 28th March 2003, n.53 Delegation of powers to the government for defining the general norms on education and the essential level of vocational training performance

X

X

X

The ministry of welfare Mobility of jobs and enterprises south-north-south " Ministero del Welfare: " White book on the labour market in Italy"

X

X

X

The Ministry for the environment and the territory "national Plan for Sustainable development"

X

X

The Ministry for the Technological Innovation Government guidelines for the development of the information society during the period in office of the legislature. E-commerce action plan (2001)

X

Regional

Lombardy region. DG Training, Education and Labour Guidelines and directives for the offer of vocational training in the Lombardy region in the year 2004/2005

X

X

Lombardy region "Agreement for economy, labour, and quality and social cohesion development in Lombardy during the seventh period in office of the legislation "

X

X

X

X

Local

The Bergamo Province - Sector for vocational training, economy and labour - service for vocational training P rovince trends and planning guidelines for preparing the offer of vocational training Year 2004/2005

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X

X

The Bergamo Province - Sector for vocational training, economy and labour "Proposals of activity plans for interventions of labour proactive policies in the Bergamo Province"

X

X

X

X

The Bergamo Province Mountain Communities "Territory agreement for the integrated and sustainable development of the Orobie Bergamasche"

X

X

X

X

X

The Bergamo Province Protocol for the defence and development of the employment

X

X

X

X

Summary of Learning Area Experiences

The Learning Area in Province of Bergamo is taking form as a network of actors - coordinated by ACTA and University of Bergamo - involved in the fields of education/training on tourism, at a provincial and local level, which affects a territorial system with at least 2 points of application: the town (City of Bergamo); pedemountain and mountain areas (in particular Val Brembana and Val Seriana). These two systems, even if distingueshed by different social, cultural, environmental peculiarities, are in search of synergies and opportunities in order to realize an integrated, quality, innovative tourist system for Bergamo.

To implement the Learning Area, the team has thought useful the official involvement of the Province Adminsitration of Bergamo, in particular of the Assessorships of Tourism and Training. Infact, the project is part of the objectives of the Province of Bergamo government, in the employment policies and in education/training activities. Moreover, the spirit of the Learning Area coincides with the statutory purposes of the territorial agencies of tourist development. For these reasons, the team, through different working meetings, has demanded the collaboration of the two Assessorships and of the Tourist Agency for promotion of Bergamo. The former has granted the sponsorship for the workshop and has shown its interest in the follow up the process. The latter has offered important information in order to guide the actors's choices, to identify the more suitable actors and to stimulate the actors's partecipation to the Workshop.

The workshop has represented an important occasion to define t he local contexts, politically and professionally, and to understand the level of interest and involvement of the local actors in the implementation of a Tourism Learnign Area in Bergamo.

A qualified and diversified audience has taken part in the Workshop (25 people).

The workshop has been structured in two moments:

1. the first one, based on the transfer of important information on the concept of the Learning Area;
2. the second one, developing an interactivity to stimulate exchange of information, perceptions and expectations concerning the implementaion of a Tourism Learning Area in the Province of Bergamo.

The stakeholders have expressed appreciation towards the project and their availability to a collaboration.
The feedback has been encouraging. The actors have comprised the opportuniteis of the project, but further meetings will be organized. These meetings should identify the procedures and activites for the development of future activities. The following themes will be investigated:

• how to make the tourism industry in Bergamo more competitive and innovative
• how to make the partnership efficient
• how to promote the shift from training to learning

A final meeting should collect and summerize the results of the meetings and, in cooperation with the actors, define the contents of the protocol of collaboration to be sent in the Province Administration of Bergamo for its subscription. The protocol, which should state a calendar of short-medium term activities, will represent therefore the first step to make the Learning Area an official activity.