Tavoite

The From Research to Working life -project (ReWo) project aims at creating permanent methods and practices for developing education and research structures within educational institutions and in collaboration with international working life. The project will focus on developing the joint education and research structures of the participating educational institutions. Better collaboration between HE and the industry is the primary goal – not just in the tourism industry, but to develop approaches that can be applicable to other fields. Better collaboration between all the participants included in this process (HE, the students, and the tourism sector) will be beneficial to all: it will bring useful changes in the HE curricula, more suited for the needs of the industry, it will improve the students’ employability and empower them to use their knowledge and ideas for the improvement of their workplace, and inform the industry representatives about the benefits of implementing new knowledge and ideas into practice.

Tulokset

WP 1 ManagementWP 2 Analysis of best practices and developing innovative procedures/methods for the transfer of final study phase research projects into working lifeWP 3 Testing procedures for fast implementation of research results into working lifeWP 4 Transferring ‘Generation Z’ students and their knowledge into the working environmentWP5 Developing role/position of ‘Idea manager’ for tourism enterprises and DMO’s for applied research

Tulosten hyödynnettävyys

The results of the project can offer methods and inspiration for student and teachers in HEIs to explore different possibilities to apply students knowledge to working life and enhance cooperation with industry representatives. ReWo project has produced an eBook Best Practices for Transferring Students Knowledge which presents case examples from all partner countries, Slovenia, Finland, Portugal and Norway and encourages readers to take advantage on these ideas. In addition, project team has created generation info cards to enhance cooperation between different generations. The project will also introduce a MOOC presenting an idea of students as idea managers. The MOOC provides information about idea management process and proposes that idea management skills could be useful to students.