The DUAL Hellas programme provides vocational training in hotel management, restaurant management and chef. All the training programmes are structured in the same way as their German counterparts and take three years to complete. The winter semester (November to March) involves theoretical and practical training at a special training centre. This is followed by six months of on-the-job training in the summer semester (April - October), when the participants work on a full-time basis at hotels and receive a full salary plus insurance and employee rights. So the trainees gain vital work experience from their very first year of training onwards.

The on the-job training takes place at 4 and 5 star hotels, including Atlantica Hotels & Resorts, a longstanding joint venture of TUI and the TUI hotel brand Robinson Club, which has two hotels in Greece on Kos and Kyllini, and a new hotel being built on Crete. As the number of jobs in these hotels increases, they have access to a pool of well-trained work experience students and employees. At the end of the three-year vocational programme the trainees take oral, written and practical examinations to obtain a dual vocational training certificate that is recognised by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK).

Young people are selected to participate in the training programme according to social criteria such as family income or equality of opportunity in socially disadvantaged communities. The objective of the initiative is to promote equal rights of access to the labour market and gender equality. At least 50% of participants are women.

The project ended in September, 2022.