Formation, Education and Development of Territorial Synergies
In the following of the strong and long cooperation between both universities (Savoy Mont Blanc and Vale d’Aosta), a dooble Master’s Degree « Development and Internationalisation of Companies and Territories” has been created in 2015. 
Following this, tourism and mountain Economy became a central thematic in the optic to enforce cross-border relations, the creation and diffusion of knowledges on the common territory. 
FEAST project groups all these visions thorough two main objectives: 
• The constitution of a cross-border centre for tourism and Mountain Economy (CT-TEM) composed of an Italian and a French structure, which have as objective to bring closer formations in University or in continue, academic research applied to Mountain Economy. 
• Reinforce the dooble Master’s Degree DIET.
This cursus aims to form well integrated graduated in the cross-border context, in order to face challenges of transnational economy and alpine regions thanks to an innovative how-know and professionalising, of reinforced mobility aides. These students will be an asset for every professional actors and companies which are looking to remain competitive and renew their experiences.

Information added on 2021-02-02, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019):
In order to deal with the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, the project FEAST implemented two new activities. They could be funded by money saved on the implementation of some activities that took place remotely instead of face-to-face as well as savings due to a smaller number of external services. 
The two new reported activities are: 
1) Phone survey on tourism on the cross-border territory (Aoste Valley, Savoy and Upper Savoy) and results dissemination. Estimated budget 40.000€.
2) Considering the low number of registrations in the double master’s degree DIET for the 2020-2021-year: communication activities around the Master DIET’s website in order to reach a more important number of registrations for September 2020. Estimated budget 8.000€.