Innovative Capacity building by participative and REflective teacher training for Academia, Society and Enterprises

Innovative Capacity building by participative and REflective teacher training for Academia, Society and Enterprises

The INCREASE project aims to sustainably modernize and update the pedagogical and didactical training capacities of teachers and trainers in Thailand and Vietnam in the food and hotel sectors.

The project consortium goal is increasing the skills of the teaching and training staff and equipping them with the right teaching methods and tools.

This goal will be achieved through an introduction PARTICIPATORY approaches and REFLECTING methods such as the “vignette research” together with the right supportive digital training tools.

The project bases itself on the increased demand for different professional groups in the thematic sectors highlighted and wishes to provide current and future non-academic company employees with didactically optimized demand-driven training.

Course Catalog

INCREASE will:

  • develop and introduce new courses on currently underrepresented innovative participative and reflective methods and tools for teachers and trainers as pre-service and in-service training. 
  • apply new courses on two selected economic sectors (food and hospitality)
  • develop and implement a participatory process to continuously identify and address needs, resources and strategies for educational organizations and companies (participatory lab approach) 
  • introduce innovative digital trainings solutions
  • frame all activities in a sustainable network and approach (Inspire garage) to ensure easy reproduceable and adaptability to other sectors and content to maximize the impact

With this, the INCREASE project aims to address HEIs and Businesses to increase its value for society and Industry.

The project is implemented as part of an international consortium consisting of 12 partners:

  • ALPEN ADRIA UNIVERSITY KLAGENFURT (Austria)– project coordinator
  • KOZMINSKI UNIVERSITY (Poland)
  • SUMO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Austria)
  • SOUTH EAST ASIA - ACADEMY BEVAERAGE TECHNOLOGY (Austria)
  • READY 4 EUROPE (Austria)
  • CHIANG MAI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY (Thailand)
  • THEPSATRI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY (Thailand)
  • ASIAN EUROPEAN CONSULTING GROUP (Thailand)
  • ZI-ARGUS (Thailand)
  • THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY (Vietnam)
  • HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY (Vietnam)
  • THAI TAN (Vietnam)