Mentoring & Tutoring Support
Mentoring & Tutoring Support (D.10.3) is a part of the WP3 that aims at supporting SMEs via the two types of innovation vouchers. These activities encompass the application for the call for proposals, the projects’ implementation, and the reporting. Mentoring & Tutoring Support provides consequently a combined framework to monitor and tutor the tourism SME candidates and tourism SME project executors.
TERMS
OBJECTIVES
the coaching, tutoring and mentoring activities ought to begin at the earliest from the time the SME requests the partner and stop at the date of completion of the last project supported by the DIGITOUR consortium.
- helping tourism SMEs to successfully apply for at least one of the two innovation vouchers by providing advisory support such as proof-reading, tailor-made matchmaking with relevant partners, administrative support, submission support, etc;
- assisting the tourism SMEs, once their projects receive support (voucher 1 or voucher 2), in their project’s execution. In this context, DIGITOUR partners provide counsel for the achievement of the main KPIs, sustainability issues within the project, formation feed-back collection and evaluation, etc;
- provide a suitable ecosystem to tourism SMEs thanks to the delivery of in-deep knowledge and customised matchmakings, notably public and private partnerships, by the DIGITOUR consortium;
- generating a pertinent and efficient reporting related to the different project that have been supported via DIGITOUR;
STAGES
Monitoring and tutoring activities during the application process
This phase starts either with the solicitation of one of the DIGITOUR partners by a tourism SME or with the prospection of tourism SMEs by one of the DIGITOUR partners. The following eligibility assessment is paramount. On this occasion the SME candidate shall go through the sieve of all fundamental eligibility criteria settled by the call for proposal. A following needs assessment checks if the DIGITOUR targets and objectives correspond to the SME’s needs and vice-versa. Then a digital readiness assessment shall orient the SME commensurate to its development to either voucher 1 (less mature) or voucher 2 (mature). Once the right voucher identified, concrete advisory services are offered to the SME to increase its chances to be selected.
Monitoring and tutoring activities during the application process
This phase starts either with the solicitation of one of the DIGITOUR partners by a tourism SME or with the prospection of tourism SMEs by one of the DIGITOUR partners. The following eligibility assessment is paramount. On this occasion the SME candidate shall go through the sieve of all fundamental eligibility criteria settled by the call for proposal. A following needs assessment checks if the DIGITOUR targets and objectives correspond to the SME’s needs and vice-versa. Then a digital readiness assessment shall orient the SME commensurate to its development to either voucher 1 (less mature) or voucher 2 (mature). Once the right voucher identified, concrete advisory services are offered to the SME to increase its chances to be selected.
Monitoring and tutoring activities during the application process
This phase starts either with the solicitation of one of the DIGITOUR partners by a tourism SME or with the prospection of tourism SMEs by one of the DIGITOUR partners. The following eligibility assessment is paramount. On this occasion the SME candidate shall go through the sieve of all fundamental eligibility criteria settled by the call for proposal. A following needs assessment checks if the DIGITOUR targets and objectives correspond to the SME’s needs and vice-versa. Then a digital readiness assessment shall orient the SME commensurate to its development to either voucher 1 (less mature) or voucher 2 (mature). Once the right voucher identified, concrete advisory services are offered to the SME to increase its chances to be selected.