Call for Advisors (July-Sept 2021)

Call for External Tandem Advisors

Start: July 1st, 2021
End: September 25th, 2021 

Applications closed! 

The EU ECO-TANDEM invites the tourism sector and sustainability experts to take part in the Tandem Advisory Board of the programme. The Board will chair at the beginning of the programme delivery and will be responsible for selecting the final SMEs and startups and startups to be paired in TANDEM.

What is the objective of the Call for External Tandem Advisor?

The Tandem Advisors (15 in total) will initially screen and select on the candidates (SMEs* and startups) of the EU ECO-TANDEM Programme based on the application procedure. 


The purpose of having a Tandem Advisor is to keep the EU ECO-TANDEM teams on track with their learning and guide them through their professional journey. To ensure this, the Tandem Advisors will have regular virtual meetings and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities of the potential tandemees (SMEs* and startups), providing them the assistance and the consultation as well as have the meetings with the finalized tandems in order to detect obstacles to the correct project development in time. 


A financial compensation is included for the Tandem Advisory Board.


*Microenterprises included

External Tandem Advisor Call Details

What is the role of the External Tandem Advisor?

The External Tandem Advisors role is to review applications and provide support throughout the program. In order to identify the most promising businesses and ideas, the responsibility of the advisors is to help evaluate the prospective candidates. During the program, they draw on the experience they have gained throughout their careers and lives and transfer it to the tandemees to ensure successful and steady development within their projects. Thus, Tandem Advisors support and assist the tandems with their professional expertise with general consultation when needed. To be successful in the role as an advisor, participants need to know and identify with the purpose and vision of the EU ECO-TANDEM Programme.

Check the timeline and effort needed for the Tandem Advisory Board:

Timeline External Tandem Advisors

How can you benefit as External Tandem Advisor?

As Tandem Advisor you will:

  • Participate in a recognized European research program and benefit from its visibility in highlighting your contribution to tackling issues in environment, society and economy
  • Keep yourself informed about the state of the art, recent developments and the latest trends towards more sustainability in tourism
  • Gain recognition for you skills and experience and engage in an important scholarly and social activity, oftentimes highly valued by employers
  • Enhance your leadership and management skills by supervising the Tandems  through athe successful matching process completion of the program 
  • Improve your global business network and work in a collaborative environment with people from different European countries

Who can apply?

Eligibility criteria*

  • Temporal availability (mandatory): the External Advisor must ensure sufficient availability to review applications and to support its responsible EU ECO-TANDEM throughout the project. In addition, the Tandem Advisor must ensure sufficient availability to provide general consultation to the assigned Tandems (2 per Advisor).
  • Language skills (mandatory): due to the diverse research teams from Europe, fluent English language proficiency is required.
  • Professional experience (most relevant): 
  • Profile (A): profound experience and knowledge in the field of tourism or any related industry
  • Profile (B): experience from or a deep understanding of greentech startups including agile methods, digitalization aspects and innovative technologies is required for the role as an external tandem advisor.
  • Sustainability concern (highly relevant): identification with the purpose and vision of the program is required, in particular awareness and experience in dealing with sustainability aspects/issues in research or practice.
  • Coaching skills (relevant): adaptability, flexibility and resilience are necessary conditions that help to ensure participants' learning success and to overcome the challenges that might occur during the project.

[*]Conflict of interest

The candidates should confirm that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in this project.


The Tandem Advisor selection process

Timeline

  • Application open: July 1st, 2021
  • Application closed: September 25th, 2021
  • Selection of Tandem Advisors: end September 
  • Notification and acceptance:  beginning of October
  • Signing of Code of Conduct: by October 14th, 2021

How to apply?

Application

Applicants for the role of Tandem Advisor should fill in the online application here.

The deadline for the application is on September 25th, 2021 at midnight (CET).

Personal data will be processed in compliance with the privacy statement.

If you experience any problems with your application, please email the organisers at info@eu-ecotandem.eu.

 

Notification

Successful applicants for the Tandem Advisory Board will be informed by the end of September 2021. Upon the selection process, an official appointment letter and further information will be emailed to the selected candidates. Only successful candidates will be notified via email (please check the spam folder too).

Subsequently, online web meetings will be organised to get to know the group work, share information and provide organisational details.

Start-End of the Call

Start: July 1st, 2021

End: September 25th, 2021 at midnight (CET)

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