“Youth SUCCESSors” project had as main focus the empowerment of European and International youth through the valorization and promotion of cultural and natural heritage.Considering the huge tangible and intangible cultural and natural heritage of each of the participating countries, young people can be considered as “rich successors”, but they need to learn how to manage these resources in a productive and sustainable way. Territorial promotion, sustainable tourism and many other sustainable entrepreneurial activities can be started around the preservation of environment and cultural heritage.The key of SUCCESS for our youth is to learn how to give value and take care of these resources but also to learn how to involve local communities in the protection and promotion of culture. In order to promote this objective, Y.S. consortium has organized 2 capacity building training courses for youth workers in order to train participants in entrepreneurial skills and in non- formal methodologies for skills development, and a Youth Exchange to involve directly young people in the implementation phase and to put in practice the new methodologies, 30 youth workers and 30 young people Italy, Greece, Spain and Argentina have been involved directly in the activities.All of them, at different levels, will be able to implement practically the knowledge obtained through their participation in the project, replicating methods and using tools and skills acquired.The consortium of Youth SUCCESSors was multi-actor and multidisciplinary, composed by Public Authorities, VET centers, NGOs and business representatives, all with a great experience in the field and covering complementary competencies. It was constituted from 5 partners from 4 countries, all facing the same difficulties related to youth unemployment and low participation to social and economic life. Info-days have been organized in each participating countries. High schools, NGOs, local authorities, private companies could meet partners and youth workers participating in the project in order to obtain information about project activities, results, possibilities of new collaborations in the development of entrepreneurial skills and raise awareness about the importance of preserving cultural and territorial heritage of each country. The publication online of 3 webinars and 2 OER e-Guide, 1 for youth workers and 1 for young people, has helped in increasing significantly the number of people able to acquire and spread the skills and best practices resulting from Y.S. project implementation, and to exploit the results.

Vocational Education and Training is now at the core of many international development strategies and objectives such as United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that aims by 2030 to “ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university”, and to “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning”. Vocational Education and Training is even more important considering the two recent phenomena namely a) youth experience gap that recognize how “despite ever increasing educational attainment […] young people lack the other two components of human capital, namely generic and job-specific work experience. It is in fact with the aim to fill what one could call the ‘youth experience gap’ that they move in and out of employment in search for the best job-worker match”; b) Work experience trap: Bell and Blanchflower (2015) noted that “[…] this lack of work experience may generate an experience trap, whereas firms are in search for experienced workers, which prevents young people from gaining the work experience that firms require”. To this purpose DualTour has been conceived in order to promote a transnational cooperation of high-qualified institution from the public and private sector and generate a systemic change in which the dual system is implemented in the countries involved and innovate the tourism sector around the pillars of sustainability, inclusiveness and digital dimension.