The idea of this project was based on the awareness that long-term employees without any formal qualification are typical for the tourism industry in Europe We therefore transfered the methods and tools of the „International Cooking Certificate (ICC)“ to the tourism industry. The ICC was developed in the LEONARDO pilot project “Resto-Cooking-Permit” and certifies unskilled kitchen staff for the first time.We created a concept to test and certify competences and skills of employees in tourism with the focus on learning outcomes. To do so we developed the “Recreation Assistant (RCA)“. Regarding the contents we also transfered topics out of the “LEONARDO Best Practice Project eu-eqt (European Supplementary Qualification in Tourismus Management )“, which recorded the demands of the tourism labour market and implemented them in the modules of the eu-eqt.The theoretical developments have been tested and amended in practice with the target-group. Different emphases have been introduced, such as• family friendliness and wellness• culture, history and sports• gentle and close-to-nature tourismThe RCA can be described as a sort of tourist guide with a generalistic and intercultural backround and a wide scope of duties which extends into the tourism management. Overlaps with other job-descriptions in the tourism industry have been figured out. The programme has been completed by a syllabus and an examination system following the model of the ICC.We covered the certifications and final examinations in tourism vocational and further training in the region by a credit point system and allocated them exemplarily to the different levels of EQF. This included graduations in school and university education. The project also addressed the issue of how the framework of institutional vocational, academical and further training has to be modified in order to recognize skills acquired abroad.The short and long term effects are • Europe-wide transparency in vocational, academical and further training in tourism.• Connectivity and permeability between the differnet levels of the EQF.• Examination of the possibility of transferring creditpoints from ECVET in ECTS.• Quality assurance by professionalised employees.