This is a technical Intellectual Output that will set out the pedagogical vision for innovation in the Skill Swap concept in terms of the range of issues to be considered and the accompanying VET pedagogical methodology to be adopted. As a specification study, it will incorporate theoretical and practical domains that will provide the underlying foundations for designing, planning, implementing and reviewing skill swaps in WBL in the hospitality sector. As a stand-alone technical document, but also one against which the partners will develop subsequent IOs materials, it will be produced and published in English. This agenda is a shared one amongst the project partners, but there are differences in the approach to WBL as well as apprenticeships, C-VET and the sub-sectors within hospitality which vary considerably by member state, and by organisational context. There is presently a great deal of 'ad hoc' arrangements that are identified as consistent with skills swapping, but they have not before been captured and structured in WBL in hospitality sector - related VET. The purpose will be to locate the innovation being proposed by the developing pedagogical concept, at the national level, in relation to the most critical issues in the hospitality sector in each country and then to draw together the most innovative and effective practice into a core European methodology.

IO1 offers innovation through its approach to pedagogical design that is centred upon integrating skills swaps in WBL through the fusion of employers and VET practitioners’ need