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VOYAGE: Valuable Opportunities

You Are Given in Europe

Newsletter No.5

Aim of the course is to prepare participants to become entrepreneurs and to improve existing skills that can be used in development of tourism product. All the mental and physical challenges on the land or in the sea will improve their stress management, concentration, creative solutions and fast decision making as well as leadership and team-work skills.

Objectives of VOYAGE project:

Minimum of 60 participants selected in the programme;

Two week courses of theoretical and practical assignments;

2 mobility schemes including 2 countries per itinerary;

Develop new self sustainable tourism product – entrepreneurial travel;

Help to develop new ideas that could be turned into successful business;

Carefully plan and prepare new entrepreneurs for successful implementation of their business;

Visits to successful companies of tourism value chain.

VOYAGE is a life time opportunity, which brings you to personal and professional FREEDOM.

Why VOYAGE training is exclusive:

you get to visit successful entrepreneurs and well-known companies of tourism value chain;

you participate in unique and accredited programme on entrepreneurship and sailing;

you get to hear originally structured learning material by prominent coaches and mentors, which will not be replicated in other training;

you are going to be trained by the outstanding crew of captains, managers, lecturers, negotiation consultants and marketers;

you are going to experience “work hard, party hard” concept.

Land Training Croatia – Montenegro

Searching for business ideas far away from home sounds like

a holidays, but VOYAGE is nothing like that. Simona Šimulytė

(the author and developer of VOYAGE) makes participants

live by the rule “work hard, party hard”. Sleepless nights,

running from one business meeting to another, constant

stimulation of creative ideas during the workshops – all this is

needed to make participants to develop business idea during

the 2 weeks travel and to pitch them to investors.

Warning notice:-the path to Olympus of business is not easy.

Changing conditions that challenge and stressed out

participants during land training are not without a reason –

constantly changing business conditions are part of

entrepreneur’s life.

All stories about adventures of VOYAGE participants can be

found here: http://voyagechallenge.com/secrets/

Sea Training Croatia

The sea training was full of challenging tasks that are

closely related to teamwork, leadership, creativity and

other skills useful in business.

Apparently, the most challenging task was saving “a man

overboard”, which required each team to save “a man”

overboard. Interestingly enough, international team

accomplished this task much faster and more efficient

than Lithuanian team. Captains told that international

team solved this task per 38s! This task wasn`t the only

one, when international team showed better results than

Lithuanian team. You probably wonder why.

The explanation can be found here:

http://voyagechallenge.com/secrets/why-foreigners-save-their-

mother-in-law-faster-than-lithuanians/

Land Training Sicily

Land training in Sicily was as challenging as in Croatia –

Montenegro. Simona Šimulytė applied the same rule “work

hard, party hard”, and made participants to re-draw what

they call “their limits”. Intensive training programme,

constantly changing conditions and inspiring meetings with

local business who share the secrets of their success – an

exclusive method making participants to develop many

business-wise useful skills under “fast track” training.

While many students were preparing for the exams in

May, 16 youngsters accepted VOYAGE challenge -

unconventional entrepreneurial travel training. How to

develop business ideas attractive enough for investors

when you are in Sicily? Check the stories and get

inspired: http://voyagechallenge.com/secrets/one-

more-voyage-challenge-how-to-work-in-sicily-when-

there-are-so-many-touristic-activities/

Sea Training Sicilia – Malta

New environment, new rules. Despite the strict rules, hard

shifts schedule, waking up early in the morning with just a

few hours of sleep and poor rest, no one is late. On the land

there is so much more chaos than here.

The biggest lesson participants learned during practical

assignments in sea training - irreplaceable members in the

team is one of the biggest risk that can lead the whole team

to failure. This was proved during a number of times.

How can you apply such task in business? Firstly, it’s

obvious that mistakes and their correction cost a lot of time

and energy. Therefore, it’s better to invest in making it right

from the first time. Secondly, team members cannot be

irreplaceable. At least two team members have to be able to

implement each others assignments. This will prevent from

failure of the whole team if a particular member is absent.

More insights can be found here:

http://voyagechallenge.com/uncategorized/cannot-afford-

irreplaceable-members-secret-of-the-good-team/

Why VOYAGE?

(testimonials by participants after Sicily – Malta trip)

Mindaugas Kikutis : „VOYAGE is amazing. We had a lot of adventures, we learned how

to sail and captains were awesome! […]Sea is unpredictable. Sea is a school of life,

where you can learn everything from team management to ability appreciate friendship,

appreciate relationship with other. You learn how to trust people. […] This project taught

us how to be entrepreneur”

Ugnė Jurkštaitė: “If somebody asks me, what is VOYAGE? I would answer: see it, feel it

and love it.”

Eglė Čiuoderienė : „I had an opportunity to know myself. I was looking for myself for a

long time and this project, those teamwork assignments, unusual but fascinating

surrounding, wavy Mediterranean Sea, life in yacht, and wonderful team – all of this

helped me to discover the real me.

Indrė Štarkaitė: “VOYAGE is my starting point - this is where my story begins. […]

During this trip, you can make huge discoveries about business. […] While traveling you

can learn a lot, gain new skills, and come back enriched with useful experience.”

Kristina Ananičienė: „I would describe VOYAGE as adventure, exclusive experience

and fantastic opportunity”

Ričardas Mikavičius: „I will remember everything that happened here for the rest of my

life. […] I can guarantee that VOYAGE project helps everyone to find themselves. […]

There were loads of emotions, but we managed to deal with every challenge along the

way. The feeling of accomplishment made everyone smile and feel good about

ourselves.”

More testimonials and #VOYAGEchallenge videos can be found on

Facebook, Vimeo and YouTube.

5th partners meeting

On 17th – 20th June, 2016, the fifth partners meeting of

VOYAGE project was held in Bozburun – Marmaris, Turkey.

During the meeting, the preliminary evaluation of pilot training by the project Coordinator. Later, Simona Šimulytė presented to partners all tourism business ideas developed by participants during VOYAGE training. Following the determined “ideas evaluation criteria”, partners did a first round evaluation and presented comments to participants that they could improve their ideas and accomplish all necessary tasks required by the training programme.

Partners agreed that the last partners meeting has to be together with final conference. Location: Lithuania. Date: the 1st week of August. Preliminary programme: overview of the project results, training reviews by participants and announcement about future plans and new itineraries of VOYAGE.

During the meeting, partners have confirmed that Cyprus, Greece itineraries are going to be presented for sail for autumn 2016 and Turkey, Lithuanian for spring 2017.

VOYAGE is an exclusive entrepreneurial travel offer, co-funded by the European Union COSME programme. It‘s an innovative tourism product, which will promote entrepreneurship and tourism industry.

The project was launched on 1st of August, 2015.

VOYAGE project consortium is composed of 8 partners from 6 different countries: Lithuania, France, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Poland.

Project Title: Valuable Opportunities You Are Given in Europe

Acronym: VOYAGE

Project No.:676730

Duration of the project: 13 months

Call: COS- TFLOWS-2014-3-15

Target group: 18-29 youth

VOYAGE training: traditions vs. novelty – what is more important?

Participants of VOYAGE challenge said their goodbyes to captain Paulius Kovas

and captain Saulius Šukaitis after spending the whole week with them at the sea.

Now voyagers are going to experience land training with Simona Šimulyte, who is

going to help it to develop business ideas and pitch them to potential investors.

[...] During land training VOYAGE participants travelled a lot across the island.

One of the stops was Ragusa. Here voyagers had a chance to visit one of the

oldest chocolate factory in Sicily, which is also a popular tourism attraction place.

VOYAGE participants were granted an exceptional possibility to watch the whole

process of chocolate making. Moreover, voyager were also lucky to get valuable

insights about preservation of successful business model. And of course, after all

hard work, they could enjoy chocolate degustation, which allowed them to make

VOYAGE training experience even sweeter. This is only one of the exclusive

experience that VOYAGE entrepreneurial travel have in the programme [...].

Full article available here: http://voyagechallenge.com/uncategorized/voyage-

training-traditions-vs-novelty-what-is-more-important/

VOYAGE project website: http://voyagechallenge.com/

Information about the project: http://europe-institute.com/voyage/

All the inquiries should be sent to the project Coordinator: voyage@europe-institute.com

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