Erasmus Key Action 220 – Collaboration in Higher Education

INSPIRE

Innovative Support for Promoting Refugee Entrepreneurship in Tourism

Project Duration: November 2023 – November 2025.

Partner Instutions:

• Businet
• KHNU and DVA (Ukraine)
• DEU (Turkiye)
• PAR (Croatia)
• PXL (Belgium)

Project Summary:

The INSPIRE project, led by Technological University of the Shannon. (Ireland) will support the needs of refugee led tourism entrepreneurs. The project will identify good practice case studies, barriers to success case studies, and lessons applicable across the partner countries in the EU dealing with the refugee crisis. The project will produce a detailed report conducted from primary and secondary fieldwork in Ireland, Belgium, Croatia, Turkiye, & Ukraine, and will create a good practice user guide for refugee tourism entrepreneurs.

This will be supported by course materials, a website and mobile application. A final resource will be the publication of a searchable databank of supports for refugee tourism entrepreneurs, including education and training supports, finance options, networking and business supports.

Objectives:

• Developing resources to support the social integration of refugees in Europe.