 WeSkill Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop
Organized by the Cluster Wellness Serbia (workshops country coordinator) and the Pharmaceutical-Physiotherapeutic School (FFS)
Health is the new wealth. Selfcare is not only a trend, but also an imperative and choice of every individual. Wellness is no longer a luxury and not just a lifestyle, but an important prevention against chronic non-communicable diseases and a way to strengthen immunity. The wellness industry needs to respond to new demand. This requires highly trained staff. The main challenge in the further development of the wellness tourism is availability of qualified staff.
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 The WeSkill Project was presented
at the 73rd FEMTEC Congress
Gunta Uspele (Latvia) illustrated the Project with the speech "Development of Wellness and Spa Tourism Sectoral Skills"
The 73rd General Assembly and International Scientific Congress of FEMTEC was organized in Castelsanpietro Terme (Bologna, ITALY) on November 3-6, 2022 with the theme "Balneology in changing Societies".
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We are pleased to announce that the 73rd Annual FEMTEC Congress will be held in Italy at the Terme di Castel San Pietro (Bologna)
Balneology in Changing Societies
Multilateral approach to health care and well-being
PARTICIPATION EITHER IN PERSON OR ONLINE
One session will be dedicated to the WeSkill Project.
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 The exchange of good practices
On June 25, 2022, a meeting with PGI "Ivan Iliev" Blagoevgrad was held in the "Kliment Timiryazev" Vocational High School, Sandanski.
The guests of Blagoevgrad visited the Rehabilitation Center at the Kliment Timiryazev LNG, where the WeSkill project was discussed within the Erasmus + program, related to the development of skills in the sector of spa tourism and wellness.
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 Brochure of the Sandanski Rehabilitation Spa Centre
A technical work of the local school students
A group of Digital Marketing students from the "Kliment Timiryazev" Vocational High School located in Sandanski was charged with the task of creating the official brochure of the School Rehabilitation Spa Centre.
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 Mental Health Wellness & Wellness
XII CEI Regional Forum for Health, Wellness and Spa industry
Mental well-being takes center stage as mental unwellness has been growing public health crises for some time.
Wellness operators adapted their offerings to support guests with specific mental wellbeing needs. Prevention as a lifestyle is wellness in pandemic and post covid times.
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 The first results of the WeSkill Project
Presentation of Gunta Ušpele at the World Water Day
The first steps of the WeSkill project are focused on defining the most important skills to be developed or improved in the "Tourism Wellness & Spa" sector.
The results are presented by Gunta Ušpele, manager of Latvian Health Tourism Cluster.
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 Mg wellness therapy in Slovenia
Mg natural mineral water in Rogaška Slatina
Recent research shows that magnesium and vitamin D deficiency is affecting the immune system of COVID-19 patients. While the importance of vitamin D for a healthy immune system has been known for decades, the benefits of magnesium have only recently been elucidated. Indeed, magnesium is important for activating vitamin D and has a protective role against oxidative stress (DiNicolantonio and O’Keefe, 2021).
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 Apitherapy and honey wellness
Innovative treatments based on honey massages
Slovenia’s beekeeping tradition has deep roots and is embedded in Slovenian cuisine, pampering centers, and folk art. The green, pristine natural environment is an excellent habitat for the native Carniolan honeybee, which produces protected Slovenian honey.
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The case of Ikigai
A well-being concept from the Japanese culture
Roughly, the Japanese word Ikigai consists of two words, iki (to live) and gai (reason). Even thou, there is no exact English translation: Ikigai represents a concept, roughly meaning to live a purposeful life worth living.
It is a cognitive and behavioural hub, including various life habits and value systems applied in different contexts of life, to small everyday things as well as big goals and achievements.
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 Information on the WeSkill project "Skills development in the thermal tourism and wellness sector"
Vocational High School Climent Timiryazev
Dear colleagues and partners,
We are pleased to inform you that in 2020 the Vocational High School "Kliment Timiryazev" of Sandanski approved a project "Skills development in the thermal tourism and wellness sector - WeSkill" within the "Erasmus +" program. 19 organizations, centers, schools from 7 countries participate: Bulgaria, Slovenia, Latvia, Greece, Serbia, France, Italy.
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The WeSkill Project is born
The health and wellness trend has continued to grow across Europe as more individuals realize the importance of leading a healthy and active lifestyle.
The main challenge in the further development of the wellness tourism in response to the growing interest of tourists, as well as of the demand for wellness packages that include diversity of services is availability of qualified staff.
The WeSkill Project, supported by the Erasmus+ Programme, aims to face this challenge.
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