European Association of Hotel and Tourism Schools ... · partner restaurants of DAL, a number of local sponsors such as Redbridge College, Zenith ... Hygiene Group, Shining Dance

EuropeanAssociationofHotelandTourismSchools

(AssociationeuropéennedesEcolesd’HôtellerieetdeTourisme)

ACTIVITYREPORTAcademicyear2016/2017

Activityreport2016/2017 Page2

1. 29thAEHTAnnualConferenceinLondon(UK)

1.1.Generalaspects

The Annual Conference is the AEHT’s flagship event and is held once a year in a differentcountry; the programme includes meetings of t he Presidium, the Executive Board and theGeneralAssembly,aswellasaseriesofcontests,whichenablestudentstocompetewitheachotherinavarietyofdisciplines.The29thAnnualConferenceof theAEHTwasheld inLondonbetween23rd-28thofOctober in2017with the participation of 544 guests from23 countries. The conferencewas hosted byDocklands Academy London (DAL), a higher education institution of tourism and hospitalitywithanEnglishschool, located inCanaryWharf, the financialhubofLondon,andworking incollaborationwithpartnerrestaurants,TAS,HAZandHAZEVgroup,whichsupporttheactivitiesoftheAcademyinprovidingtargetedworkexperienceforstudentswithinthehospitalityandtourismsector.

TheConferencestartedwithanopeningceremonywithdancesandmusicallovertheworldintheglamorousvenueofChurchHouse,theheadquartersoftheChurchofEnglanddatingbacktothe1880sandlocatednexttothePalaceofWestminsterandWestminsterAbbey,whicharebothWorldHeritagesites.

All participants stayed at the spectacular four-star Guomon Hotel at Tower Bridge, which isonlyashortwalk fromthehistoricWorldHeritagesiteof theTowerofLondon,thecastleofherMajesty’sRoyalPalaceandFortress.

Thecompetitionswereheldin10categoriesonthepremisesofDALandRedbridgeCollege,apartnerschoolwhichprovideditsexcellentkitchensandvenuesformostcompetitions.

Masterclasseswereheldforbothkitchenandnonkitchenstudentsandtheorganisersoffereda variety of workshops on “Cocktail Making”, “Wine Tasting”, “Cognac Project”, “EffectiveTeaching&ClassManagement”and“EUFunding”.Significantnumberofparticipantsattendedtheworkshops.TheworkshoponEUFundinggivenjointlybythePrincipal,AysegulYesildaglarand theAcademicHead,MurrayCooper,ofDAL, subsequently yielded to implementationofjoint projects between DAL and some member schools of AEHT. One good example was aproject titled “General English and Teacher Training Programme with CLIL methodology forTeachers”, which was successfully implemented by DAL as the host school and IstitutoSuperioreMagnaghiasthevisitingschool.Theorganisersbelievethatmemberschoolsshouldbe increasinglyencouraged todevelopprojectswith respect to trainingandworkplacementbetween each other. The organisers also think that the future annual conferences shouldincludeactivitiesorworkshopstofacilitateanddevelopthiscollaboration.

TheorganisersprovidedparticipantswithOystercards,atravelcardenablingthemtousethepublictransport,themostefficientwayofcommutinginacitylikeLondon,andtoseethemainattractions,withaguidepreparedbytheorganisers.Therefore,theparticipantshadachancetomovearoundandenjoyLondonfullyattheirownpacewithoutexperiencingthehustleofthecity.TheorganisersalsoarrangedaboattourtakingtheparticipantsfromtheHoteltotheOpening Ceremony giving them the chance to see most of London on the first day of theConference.TheparticipantswerealsoprovidedacablerideallowingthemtoseeremarkablelandmarksanddevelopmentssuchasO2Arena.

TheConferencewasmainlysponsoredbytheregistrationfeesreceivedfromtheparticipants;however, the partner restaurants of DAL, TAS HAZ and HAZEV restaurant group, sponsoredmealsattheirvenuesandalsoatRedbridgeCollegethroughouttheConference.Alongsidethepartner restaurants of DAL, a number of local sponsors such as Redbridge College, Zenith


HygieneGroup, ShiningDanceAcademy, Emirates Airlines, Guoman TowerHotel, Centre forTurkey Studies (CEFTUS), T-Vine, Drury aswell as AEHT sponsors, Villeroy&Boch and CognacEmbassy,supportedtheConference.

TheConferenceendedwithaGalaDinner,which lasteduntil theearlyhoursofthemorning.Most of the participants expressed their satisfaction with the Conference giving good andencouragingfeedbacktotheorganisers.

1.2.Programme

1.3.Statistics

Theeventattracted544participantsintotalfrom104schoolslocatedin23Europeancountriesasfollows:

TotalfromAEHTschools 450

• Students 277

• Teachers 118

• Directors 62

• Partnersandotherguests 43

TotalfromDALOrganisingCommittee 94

• Students 2

• Teachers 10

• Directors 3

• AEHTcoordinators 10

• ExternalPartners 18

• Guests 51

TOTALnumberofparticipants 544

Participationinthecompetitions

DuringthisAEHTAnnualConference,competitionswereheldin10categories:

*COMPETITIONS PARTICIPANTSCulinartyarts-A2 45Decathlon-A2 22Pastry-A2 31Barista-B1 16Cocktailbar-B1 21Wineservice-B1 14RestaurantService-B1 28FrontOffice-B2 21TouristDestination-B2 26HotelManagement-B2 10TOTAL 234

ParticipationattheAEHTAnnualConference

Year Location Organisingcountry Schools Countries Participants

2016 London UnitedKingdom 104 23 5442015 Cervia Italia 118 29 6032014 Belgrade Serbia 94 28 5692013 Savona,Barcelona,

Palma,Ajaccio,Marseille

AEHTHeadOffice 112 33 721

2012 Ohrid Rep.ofMacedonia 117 30 5752011 TheHague TheNetherlands 109 32 6172010 Lisbon Portugal 143 29 6522009 Dubrovnik Croatia 132 30 6902008 Kuressaare Estonia 130 32 6602007 JesoloLido Italy 137 33 6502006 Killarney Ireland 136 32 6602005 Antalya Turkey 130 31 6462004 Bled Slovenia 135 34 6202003 Copenhagen Denmark 140 28 5642002 SanRemo Italy 139 29 7052001 Linz Austria 105 33 6012000 Berlin Germany 120 23 6411999 Luxembourg Luxembourg 127 24 9401998 Faro/Vilamoura Portugal 123 21 6401997 Zandvoort TheNetherlands 115 23 5961996 LaRochelle France 101 19 8141995 Gothenburg Sweden 107 20 6201994 Portrush NorthernIreland 75 16 3931993 Sciacca Italy 75 15 5001992 Antalya Turkey (71) 17 3001991 HerkdeStad Belgium (64) (16) (332)1990 Setubal-Troia Portugal (51) (16) (273)1989 Anavyssos Greece 39 16 (220)1988 Strasbourg-Illkirch France 25 16 (80)


1.4FinancialReport–AEHTAnnualConference2016

EXPENSES in£

Accommodation £265,124.50Transfers £27,787.50OpeningCeremony £4,684.51Catering £47,250.00GalaDinner £31,958.70StaffCosts £30,500.00CompetitionVenues&workshops £6,158.00Culturaleventsandexcursions £3,580.00Welcomepackgift £5,000.00Insurance £885.42Otherexpenses £1,046.78

TOTAL: £423,975.41

INCOME in£

Registrationfees £326,355.00

3rdpartySponsors £3,500.00

TasGroupSponsorship£94,120.41

TOTAL: £423,975.41

DIFFERENCE £0.00

2. Headjudges’workinggroupAfewyearsago,theorganisationalguidelinescommitteehadbeenreplacedbyahead judgesworking group bringing together all head judges of the competitions taking place during theAnnualConference.

TheheadjudgesmeetseveralmonthspriortotheConferencetoinspectthevenue/facilitiesoftheforthcomingcompetitionsandtosetuptheprogrammeandtheofficialguidelineswiththeorganizingteam.

Thisway these documents are earlier available to the participating schools, allowing them topreparewellinadvancetothevariouscompetitions.

In2017,thecompositionoftheheadjudges’workinggrouphasslightlychangedandnocountryis any longer represented several times in this group. Themembersof this groupmeton theoccasionoftheAEHTExecutiveBoardmeetingon25thMarch2017inOstend(BE).

Compositionoftheheadjudges’workinggroup

Coordinator:VicePresidentRemcoKoerts

Competition Headjudge E-mailaddress

Pastry RonnyThill [email protected]

Wineservice TheoVerhofstadt [email protected]

Cocktail ThomasGasteiner [email protected]

Barista AlfioRivalta [email protected]

Touristdestination AsdisVatnsdal [email protected]

Frontoffice HelenaCvikl [email protected]

Management TheoVerkoyen [email protected]

Decathlon MarcusHallgren [email protected]

Culinaryarts AlexandreFerreira [email protected]

Restaurantservice GuillaumeStaquet [email protected]

3. AEHTeventscalendarHEGinternationalseminarfocusingon“Sea,sun&culture”inLisbon(PT)

The 8th HEG seminar focusing on ‘Sea, sun& culture’ organized by the hotel schools fromDouro-Lamego and Estoril and scheduled for spring in Lisbon was postponed to the lasttrimesterof2017.WewillreportonitinournextAnnualreport.

GeneraloverviewofAEHTeventsorganizedundertheaegisoftheAEHT

Date City Event Participants

20164th-9thOctober

Maribor(SI) SeminarforTheWSET®(WineandSpiritEducationTrust)Level1and2AwardsinWinesandSpirits,Maribor(SI)

21participantsfrom11AEHTmemberschoolsfrom5countries

9th–12thNovember

Prešov(SK) Eurocup2016–24theditionoftheJuniorbartenderscompetition

37competitorsfrom10AEHTmemberschoolsfrom6countriesand27participantsfromnon-memberschools

4th–10thDecember

SanBenedettodelTronto(IT)

25theditionoftheChristmasinEuropeevent

Morethan95participantsfrom17AEHTmemberschoolsfrom11countries

201728th–30thMarch

Bled(SI) 12thBartenderCompetitionG&TCup 16participantsfrom6AEHTmemberschoolsfrom4countries

3rd–6thApril CastelSanPietroTerme(IT)

19theditionoftheBartolomeoScappiInternational Competition (bar,sommelier, pastry, cookingcompetitions)

101participantsfrom17memberschoolsfrom8countries+5participantsfromnon-memberschools

2nd–6thMay Famagusta,ChypreduNord

5th AEHT Youth Parliament on thetheme “Slow Tourism and MassTourism:CanthetwoMeet?”.


22ndJune–1stJuly

PontaDelgada,îleSãoMiguel

(PT)

10FESTACORES2015–10days,10chefs


4. 2016ChristmasinEuropeFrom 4th to 10 December 2016, the Institute IPSSEOA Buscemi of San Benedetto del Trontolocated in the province of Ascoli Piceno, in theMarch regionof Central Italy has hosted andorganized the 25th edition of Christmas in Europe whose origins date back to 1992 inKaysersberg(France).Eachyear,thisflagshipeventoftheAEHTallowsforamultitudeoffacetstobeshownthankstotheparticipationofschoolsarrivingfromalloverEurope.Forthe2016edition, nearly hundred participants have participated in this beautiful Christmas in Europeeventco-financedbytheErasmus+programmeoftheEuropeanUnion,devotedtothespiritofChristmasandorganizedaccordingtofourintangibleprinciples:

• eachschoolpresentstheregionalgastronomicspecialtiesofChristmasatafair• participatesinafolkloricparade,• preparessomedelicaciesfortheEuropeanbuffet• andmakesaperformanceattheculturalshow.

The delegations came from 11 countries, namely from Armenia (1), Belgium (1), Croatia (1),CzechRepublic (1)Spain (1), Italy (3), Latvia (1), Luxembourg (1),ContinentalPortugal (2)andtheAzores(1),Slovenia(2),and,lastbutnotleast,Sweden(2)–thatisatotalof17schoolswithmorethan95headmasters,teachersandstudents(notcountingthoseofthehostschool).And


indeedtheywerea finebunchofdelegates, representing thediversityofEurope inaspiritoffriendshipandfestivity.

Don’t miss the fascinating report by our journalist Jo Laengy published on our Internet sitewww.aeht.euunder theChristmas inEuroperubricaswellas thearticle in theDecember2016editionoftheAEHTnewsletter.

ParticipationattheChristmasinEuropeevents

Year Town Participants Countries Schools

2016 SanBenedettodelTronto

95**** 11 17

2015 Diekirch 120**** 14 23

2014 Prešov 103 13 19

2013 Marseille 99* 13 16

2012 Budapest 100 14 19

2011 Zagreb 96*** 15 20

2010 PontaDelgada 76 11 16

2009 Poznan 115 18 25

2008 ChinonCastle 90** 13 17*

2007 Semmering 69 12 15*

2006 Orebrö 81 13 16

2005 Fundaõ 7 11 15

2004 BadIschl 86 16 18

2003 Senigallia 135 16 22

2002 Kuresaare 70 12 14

2001 Poznan 150 19 20

2000 Rhodes 300 17 18

1999 Bonneville 72 10 12

1998 Podebrady 70 12 13

1997 Espoo 92 14 15

1996 Budapest 90 11 13

1995 Barcelona 70 10 13

1994 Copenhague 88 13 19

1993 Kaysersberg 110 10 11

*exceptorganisingschool/**numbertobeconfirmedbyorganisingschool/***exceptCroatianschoolswhocametohelptheorganisersoftheevent/****onlyadelegationof5personsformtheorganizingschoolhavebeentakenintoaccount.


5. Observationperiodsforteachers

ObservationperiodswiththePESTENAHotels&Resortsgroup

In substitution to the collaboration with STARWOOD Hotels, the AEHT has intensified itscooperation with the Portuguese hotel group PESTENA Hotels & Resorts by signing anagreementonMay17th,2016expandingtherangeofitsobservationperiodsforAEHTteacherstofurtherregions.

Thegroup, thathasa totalof51hotels inEurope,Africa,Brazil,Colombia,VenezuelaandtheUnitedStates,hasofferedtoprovideAEHTteacherswithplacementsofoneweekto10daysinOctober and November 2017 as well as between January and May 2018 in unities locatedthroughoutmainland Portugal,Madeira aswell as inNorth and SouthAfrica. It is planned toexpand the program in the future to South America and other European countries. Furtherinformation will be as usual published on the AEHT website (www.aeht.eu), as it becameavailable.Enthusiasts,roll-up.

Travelexpenseswillbeasusualbornbytheteachersparticipating in theprogramme,buttheAEHTwillreimburseupto€200perpersonuponreceiptandapprovaloftheplacementreport;anadministrativefeeof€80willhoweverbededucedformostcountriestocoverorganisationalcosts.Accommodationatthehotelandmealstakenwiththestaffwill,inthiscase,beprovidedfreeofchargebythehostcompany.

Placement officer responsible for the coordination of the observation periods with this newpartnerwillin2017-2018beagain:

MagdalenaWaglowska-KrzciukZespółSzkółHotelarsko-Turystyczno-GastronomicznychNr1ul.Krasnołęcka300-734WarszawaPologne/PolandFax:+48228404897E-mail:[email protected]

6. MeetingsMeetingsofthePresidium

October24th,2016 London(UK)

March24th,2017 Ostend(BE)

September15th,2017 Luxembourg(LU)

AmeetingwasalsoheldonMarch23rd,2017inOstendbetweenthefounderoftheChristmasin Europe event Christiane Keller and the Presidium members, Remco Koerts and NadineSchintgentoupdatetheguidelinesoftheeventandtointroducenewactivities.

MeetingsoftheExecutiveBoard


March,25th,2017 Ostend(BE)

Reportscoveringthesemeetingsmaybeconsultedunderthe‘Meetingsandreports’rubricontheAEHTwebsitewww.aeht.eu.


GeneralAssembly


ReportscoveringtheGeneralAssemblyareavailableunderthe‘Meetingsandreports’rubricontheAEHTwebsite.

Several illustrated reports covering the Executive Board and Presidium meetings in variouscountries have been published in the AEHT newsletters and may be consulted at the samewebsite.

7. RepresentationAsfaraspossible, thePresidiumhasaccepted invitationsandrepresentedtheAEHTateventsorganizedbymember schools under the aegis of theAEHTor other entities. SomePresidiummembersmetalsowithkeythird-partystakeholders.

Date City Event AEHTRepresentative

2016October11th Luxembourg

(LU)Meeting with the HonoraryPresident of the EuropeanCommission Mr JacquesSANTER

NadineSCHINTGEN

October23rd–28th

London(UK) 29thAEHTAnnualConference AllmembersofthePresidium

December4th–10th

SanBenedettodelTronto(IT)

25thChristmasinEurope RemcoKOERTSAnaPaulaPAISNadineSCHINTGEN

2017January17th Ostend(BE)) Meeting with the organizers

and first inspection of thefacilities hosting thecompetitions of the AEHTAnnualConference2017

RemcoKOERTS

January25th Riga(LV) International conference onwork-based learning «BalticAlliance for Apprenticeshipsfor Innovative VET» -Erasmus+project(WBL-Balt)

NeemeRAND

February7th Douro-Lamego(PT)

Visit of Escola do Turismo dePortugal//Douro–Lamego

RemcoKOERTS

March10th Helsinki Meeting with CESIM(developer of the game to beusedatHospitalityManagementCompetition)

RemcoKOERTS

March25th Ostend(BE) ExecutiveBoardmeeting AllmembersofthePresidium,exceptKlausENENGL


8. AEHTdatabaseandpublications

8.1.AEHTdatabase

Currently (20.09.2017), theAEHTdatabase counts336member school accounts. This numberincludesactive (300) and inactive (36) accounts. The later areaccountsofnewmembers thathavenotyetpaid theirannual fees.Besides, thereare3professionalmemberaccountsand5sponsoraccounts.

What changedwith the newdatabase,which is operational since early 2014, is thatmemberschools can use it to register directly to the AEHT Annual Conference. Furthermore, accountmanagerscanincludecontactinformationofseveralpersonsoftheirschool.Eachoneofthemwill automatically receive all official emails sent by the AEHT Head Office. Every school issupposedtocheckitsdataatleastonceayear!

What also changes with this new system is that member schools are now responsible forupdatingtheiraccountinformation.Previously,thistaskwasprovidedbytheAEHTHeadOffice.

TheAEHTdatabasecanbeaccessedat:https://www.aeht.eu/db.

8.2.UseofOffice365

AEHTofficialshavedecidedin2017toswitchtotheOffice365platformtostayprofessionalandupdatedwiththeITdevelopmentofourtimes.Theimplementationwilloccurinseveralphases:

- 1ststep:AEHTHeadOfficewillstartusingOffice365duringthesecondsemesterof2017.- 2ndstep:Beginning2018,allPresidiummemberswillstartusingit.- 3rdstep:Fromsecondhalfof2018,allmembersoftheExecutiveBoardwillberequiredto

useit.AccordingtoAhtiPaju, theAEHTwebmaster, therearemanyotherplatforms,butOffice365offers,withonesingleaccount,a lotof interrelatedplatformsandvariousefficienttools (mailserver,SharePoint,OnlineOfficeapplication,OneDrive forBusiness -1000GBbyuser,SkypeBusiness,Microsoft teams), thatwillmakeworkmucheasier andmore efficient.UsingOffice

2017(continued)May18th Luxembourg

(LU)«Jugendpräis (Youth award)2017» evening rewarding themost significant andinnovative projects among aseries of transnational youthprojects with an impact onLuxembourg, including theChristmas in Europe 2015project.

NadineSCHINTGEN

September15th Luxembourg(LU)

Meeting at the House of theEuropean Union with MrsYuriko BACKES, Head of theRepresentation of theEuropean Commission inLuxembourg

AllmembersofthePresidium

September15th Luxembourg(LU)

Meeting with Mr FrançoisKOEPP, General Secretary ofthe Federation of the HotelandcateringIndustry

AllmembersofthePresidium


365will take feweroperations tohandledocumentsandallowseveralpeople toworkon thesamedocument.Moreover, this platform ismuchmore secure and supportsmany languages(trainingmaterialexistsinalmostallEUlanguages).

MoreoverfortheAEHT,Office365Educationisfreeofchargeanditslicenceisunlimited.

8.3.AEHTNewsletter

AtotalofthreeAEHTnewslettershavebeenissuedintheperiod2016/2017andpublishedontheAEHTwebsite(www.aeht.eu)andFacebookaccount.

8.4.AEHTFacebookaccount

TheFacebookaccountisavailableatthefollowingaddress:https://www.facebook.com/aeht.eu.

Thetotalnumberof‘likes’rouseby328units(15%)inoneyear;from2’186likesonJuly14th,2016to2’514likesonSeptember20th,2017.

8.5.AEHTwebsite

Duringthefirstsemesterof2016,anewwebsitehasbeenputonlinebythewebmasteroftheAEHT, Ahti Paju, together with Vice-presidents Klaus Enengl and Neeme Rand. As the use ofmobilephones (smartphones)andtabletcomputershas increasedsignificantly, the IT teamoftheAEHTiscreatingaplatformfacilitatingaccesstothesitefromthesemedia.Thisplatformisnowfullyoperational.

Below youwill find an overviewof the characteristics of theweb site audience between July2015andJuly2016.


9. ElectroniccommunicationDuring the academic year 2016/2017, the AEHT Head Office has sent out some 60 officialmailingstomemberschoolsonvarioussubjects.

10. CompositionoftheAEHTPresidiumElectedmembersoftheAEHTPresidiumfortheperiod2014–2017

Forename Surname Function Tasks

AnaPaula PAIS President OfficialrepresentationandcoordinationofAEHT’saffairs

Klaus ENENGL Vice-President AnnualConferenceandCompetitionsandthefinancialsustainbilityoftheAEHT(sponsoring)

Neeme RAND Vice-President ITSolutions&AEHTwebsite

Remco KOERTS Vice-President CoordinationofcompetitionsattheAnnualConference

Bogusława PIENKOWSKA Vice-President Occasionalevents,EUeducationalprogrammesandcoordinationwiththeOIF

DesignatedmembersoftheAEHTPresidiumfortheperiod2014–2017

Forename Surname Function Tasks

Klaus ENENGL Treasurer AEHT’sfinancesandaccounts

Nadine SCHINTGEN GeneralSecretary

Day-to-daymanagement

11. ElectionsIn addition to the electronic messages listed in the table at section 9, a call forcandidates was sent out by e-mail in spring 2017 (deadline for application wasMay20th) as part of the process of the election of National Representatives; and themembers in countrieswithmore than one candidatewere invited to cast their votes


electronically on September 19th, 2017. Despite several successive invitations, certaincountries have unfortunately not replied to the call and, as a result, the AEHT is stillwithout national representative. Potential candidates should contact the AEHT HeadOffice.Inaddition,thereisatieatthesecondroundinIrelandandtherefore,theIrishelections have not yet ended. The status of these elections is summarized in theattached table. The election of a new Presidium from among the NationalRepresentativeswilltakeplaceatthenextmeetingoftheExecutiveBoardinNovember2017,andthenewlyelectedmemberswillbeconfirmedintheirpoststhefollowingdayattheGeneralAssembly.Inthiscontext,acallforcandidateswillbesentoutbyemailinOctober2017.

Pays/Country NameoftheNationalRepresentative

ALBANIE,ALBANIA FluturaVaqarri

ALLEMAGNE,GERMANY SibylleWeber-Pohl

ARMENIE,ARMENIA ArturGhazaryan

AUTRICHE,AUSTRIA KlausEnengl

BELGIQUE,BELGIUM SanneHuygens

BULGARIE,BULGARIA Vacant

CHYPRE,CYPRUS MichaelCharlistos

CROATIE,CROATIA VesnaBaranašic

DANEMARK,DENMARK MieHeinfelt-Hansen

ESPAGNE,SPAIN NuriaMontmany

ESTONIE,ESTONIA NeemeRand

FINLANDE,FINLAND MarjaHemmi

FRANCE,FRANCE DidierLeder

GRECE,GREECE VACANT

HONGRIE,HUNGARY Márta Gyömbér

IRLANDE,IRELAND EX-AEQUO-3rdroundnecessary

ISLANDE,ICELAND HelenePedersen

ITALIE,ITALY PaoloAprile

LETTONIE,LATVIA SilvaOzolina

LITUANIE,LITHUANIA AudriusKurlavicius

LUXEMBOURG,LUXEMBOURG MichelLanners

MACEDOINE (ARYM),MACEDONIA(FYROM) ZoranNikolovski

MALTE,MALTA VACANT

MONACO,MONACO VACANT


Pays/Country NameoftheNationalRepresentative

MONTENEGRO,MONTENEGRO ZoranKlikovac

NORVEGE,NORWAY VACANT

PAYSBAS,THENETHERLANDS RemcoKoerts

POLOGNE,POLAND BoguslawaPienkowska

PORTUGAL,PORTUGAL AnaPaulaPais

REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE,CZECHREPUBLIC VACANT

ROUMANIE,ROMANIA VACANT

ROYAUME-UNI, UNITEDKINGDOM AysegulYesildaglar

RUSSIE,RUSSIA ElenaVasina

SERBIE,SERBIA SlavoljubVicic

SLOVAQUIE,SLOVAKIA JozefŠenko

SLOVENIE,SLOVENIA CviklHelena

SUEDE,SWEDEN CaterinaHiggins

SUISSE,SWITZERLAND CharlesVictorBarras

TURQUIE,TURKEY VACANT

UKRAINE HannaBalushchak

12. “Erasmus+”ProgrammeIn2017, theAEHTparticipatedfor thesecondtime inLuxembourg inthecontest ‘Jugendpräis(Youthaward’)’,thistimeinthe‘Erasmus+2014-2016’categorywithitsproject‘ChristmasinEurope2015-MadeinLuxembourg’(projectNo2015-2-LU02-KA105-000161).Theprojecthasbeen selected, but not awarded. The main aim of the ‘Jugendpräis’ consist in offering ashowcaseforpromotiontothemostsignificantandinnovativetransnationalprojectsinthefieldofyouth,whichhavehadanimpactonthelocal,regionalornationalcommunity


The project proposal (No2016-2-LU02-KA105-000248) submitted onApril 21st, 2016 at SNJ -ServiceNationaldelaJeunesse,theLuxembourgAgencyatthattimeinchargeofyouthmobilityprojects within the “Erasmus+” programme, to obtain a EU co-funding for the Christmas inEurope event held in 2016 in San Benedetto del Tronto (IT) was approved mid-July 2016. ApreparatorymeetingfortheeventtookplaceduringtheAEHTAnnualConferenceinLondon(UK).

The project itself was carried out according to the criteria of the programme and therequirementsofthecallfortender2016,recommendingtheintegrationofdisadvantagedyoungpeople (froma social, economic,medical, educational, cultural and / or geographical point ofview) to the group, and the promotion of European citizenship and tolerance among youngpeople by encouraging their socialization with a very divers group of students and theirencounterwithaverycosmopolitanpopulationwithdifferentwaysoflifeandcustoms.

This event has enjoyed great popularity and good coverage in several media (articles innewspapers,InternetsitesandFacebookpages,aso.).ThefinalprojectreportwasfiledFebruary14th,2017withtheLuxembourgAgencyandwasapprovedonMarch2nd,2017.

On April 5th, 2017, the General Secretary submitted a new proposal No 2017-2-LU01-KA105-023935 with the programme “Erasmus+” at the newly responsible Erasmus Plus Agency,Anefore,thistimetoco-financetheChristmasinEuropeeventtakingplaceinDecember2017inFatima(IPT).

On July 12th, 2017, the Agency informed the AEHT Head Office that the project had beenrefused.Thereasonsgivenbytheevaluators,e.g.theirrelevanceoftheobjectivesoftheprojectwith those of the program, the requirement of adding further exchanges per year to theprogramme, etc., seem aberrant given the project's acceptance for the last six years and thenumber of participants involved. On the other hand, the evaluators require a greaterinvolvement of the young people in the elaboration of the project and a better use of theYouthpass.TheGeneralSecretaryhasalreadycontacted theprogram's technicalassistants for


further explanationswith a view to rewriting theproject according to evaluators’ suggestionsandprogramselectioncriteria.Ameetingwillbesoonscheduled.ThecommunitygrantrepresentsasignificantsourceoffinancialsupportbothfortheorganizersandparticipantsoftheeventandtheAEHTofficialswilldotheirutmosttorecoverthissourceoffunding.

Diekirch,October9th,2017

AnaPaulaPAISAEHTPresident

NadineSCHINTGENAEHTGeneralSecretary


13. Tableofcontent

1. 29thAEHTAnnualConferenceinLondon(UK) 21.1.Generalaspects 2

1.2.Programme 31.3.Statistics 41.4FinancialReport–AEHTAnnualConference2016 6

2. Headjudges’workinggroup 7

3. AEHTeventscalendar 8

4. 2016ChristmasinEurope 9

5. Observationperiodsforteachers 11ObservationperiodswiththePESTENAHotels&Resortsgroup 11

6. Meetings 11

7. Representation 12

8. AEHTdatabaseandpublications 138.1.AEHTdatabase 138.2.UseofOffice365 138.3.AEHTNewsletter 14

8.4.AEHTFacebookaccount 148.5.AEHTwebsite 14

9. Electroniccommunication 15

10.CompositionoftheAEHTPresidium 15

11.Elections 15

12. “Erasmus+”Programme 17

13.Tableofcontent 20

Documents

European Association of Hotel and Tourism Schools ... · partner restaurants of DAL, a number of local sponsors such as Redbridge College, Zenith ... Hygiene Group, Shining Dance