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In the period from 02.12 to 04.12 in St. Petersburg, in the framework of international cooperation and implementation of the project “Development of entrepreneurial competencies in educational institutions of St. Petersburg and Austria”, a meeting was held between representatives of professional educational institutions of Austria: School of Tourism of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Economics in Vienna. , International College of Hetzendorf, Secondary Technical School Spengergasse. During the visit, the Austrian delegation visited the educational organizations of St. Petersburg, the project participants: the College of Tourism of St. Petersburg, the Higher Banking School, the Radio Engineering College, the Automechanical College.

12/04/2018 the Austrian delegation was hosted at the College of Tourism. The director of the St. Petersburg Tourism College, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Antonova, welcomed the delegation, introduced the organization of the educational process in the college, the material and technical base of the “Restaurant Service” educational building, and the college’s ability to implement the “Entrepreneurship” competence within educational programs.

Austrian colleagues visited the classrooms, training workshops of the college, took part in events on the presentation of the development of the competence of entrepreneurship by the students.

College teachers, together with students, presented projects for the development of competence "Entrepreneurship":

• Business idea “Development of a mobile application and its use in tourism”, Olga V. Shabanova and Anna S. Bulakova, teachers of economic disciplines;
• Project “Marketing research of the quality of service provision in the educational workshop of the Hotel“ Youth ”, Maria A. Pavlyuchok, teacher of economic disciplines;
• Pre-defense of the thesis on the theme “Development of a banquet event for serving guests”, Irina A, Smirnova teacher of economic disciplines.

During the meeting was as well held the meeting of the working group of the Project participants : speech hold Vladislav Viktorovich Frolov, head of the vocational education department, Yulia V. Kovaleva, chief specialist of the vocational education department, and heads of vocational educational institutions.

During the meeting was made a plan of measures for the implementation of the Project, the development of methods and tools for mastering the competence of “Entrepreneurship”, the creation of a unified database of teaching materials in vocational schools in St. Petersburg and Austria were discussed, and were planned further training activities for teachers of vocational schools.

Information provided by Shevchenko Elena., Deputy Director for UPR of the College of Tourism of St. Petersburg