My Town Your Town [MTYT] is a training project that will raise youth employability, skills and Inclusion through an intergenerational tourism development. The key feature of the project is for youth, aged 18 to 30 and from a wide range of backgrounds. Youth will work with mentors to produce a new narrative interpretation of an existing or new cultural tourism destination in their local area. The Model will better represent the multi-cultural facets and European values of the host community to better appeal to 21st century visitors.The impetus has come from the experiences of the partners working together on the Erasmus' s PLAN project 201702-CY02-KA205-001033 and from the opportunities and issues identified in our local communities around unemployment, social inclusion and cohesion, and tourism and culture.
 
The specific objectives of the project are to:
  • exploit the potential in tourism sector for delivering a wide range of positive outcomes and benefits for youth
  • increase youth's skills, unearthing talents, provide new opportunities and connections so they feel part of their community
  • develop a simple, innovative, replicable smart designed Model to raise youth employability and bring new life to tourism
  • directly address a top challenge in tourism, the need to constantly innovate and develop new attractive products in a sustainable manner, for local communities and the environment. Europeans need a strong tourism sector for economic reasons, but also to better know each other and better see what unites them.

The activities of the project are:
  • Intergenerational tourism and cultural interpretation tool
  • Intergenerational youth tourism mentoring model
  • ​Youth Sustainable Tourism training sessions and tools
  • Tourism GAME devised with the youth and in mobile application format
  • Active Clusters in project delivery towns local informal teams and networks
  • ​IO1 TOGETHER WE CAN Training Module
  • IO2 MY TOWN YOUR TOWN Mentoring Manual
  • IO3 BE YOUR FUTURE E-Learning Platform
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Project Information: 
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  • Funding source: Erasmus+ KA2 Youth
  • Project Title: My Town Your Town
  • Project acronym: MTYT
  • Project Code: 2018-3-CY02-KA205-001387
  • The duration: 22 months (1.2.19-30.11.20) 

  • Project Consortium: 
    Coordinator: Cross Culture International Foundation Cyprus

    Project Partners:
  • EdiNet Scotland
  • Petit Pas Italy
  • DIGITAL IDEA, Greece
  • Udruga Murtila, Croatia

​CCIF Cyprus contribution to the project as Lead organization:
  • Documenting and reporting on project activities to the funder
  • Development of guidelines for implementation of the project
  • Missioned to mobilize youth and youth workers, forming project teams, provide training
  • Overall financial management of the project
  • Evaluating the project activities with youth and youth workers
  • Monitoring the progress and quality of the project
  • Dessiminate the results of the project
  • Produce tangible results together with Practice Parnters
  • Build IO2 My Town Your Town Manual
  • Host the Multiplier Event "My Town Your Town" covering the 3 IOs of the project