Christmas in Europe 2024
ROC Mondriaan in The Hague, The Netherlands |
December 1st-6th
Christmas in Europe
Christmas in Europe is an activity open to the youth of all AEHT member organizations and has been organized every year since 1991 in a different country, with a different linguistic and sociocultural background, with a different main topic and different young people participating each year. Official school education does provide academic knowledge, but not enough understanding for socio-economic, demographic, cultural, environmental & technological challenges of our society & for developing essential key skills of great value to a career in the Hotel and Tourism sector generating >10% of the EU GDP and approx. 12% of all jobs. Acknowledging the high importance of non-formal and intercultural learning in the personal, social, professional development of youngsters and in forging active Europeancitizens, all partners from over 10 different European countries compliment and reinforce their participants’ formal education, providing them with an invaluable opportunity to share their rich variety of traditions relating to Christmas while appraising different approaches to fostering the above-mentioned developments by the acquisition of linguistic, cultural, professional competencies and key/transversal skills, essential for their CV and their employability.
Are you willing to host the next edition of Christmas in Europe? Send your proposal to the AEHT Secretariat
at secretariat@aeht.eu
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Past Events
Christmas in Europe 2023 – Klaipeda, Lithuania
Barcelona edition in 2019 was an excellent edition that was awarded the Erasmus Trophy in 2020.
Please find below the video of theĀ 2018 edition organized by the school of Riga.
The 2016 edition has been held in San Benedetto del Tronto and hosted no less than 100 participants from 17 schools from 11 countries. Here a video on the event.
The 2015 edition has been held in Diekirch, Luxembourg and hosted no less than 120 participants from 23rd schools from 14 countries. Here a video made by C. Invernizzi, a student of the Ermesidne High school in Mersch.
A team of 14 years old students of the High School Ermesinde Mersch (L) have shot a video during theĀ 2012 editionĀ of the Christmas in Europe event in Budapest (HU). This video will give you a good insight into the various aspects of this event and we hope to make you want to participate in one of the next editions.