The overarching goal of Be.CULTOUR is to co-create and test sustainable human-centred innovations for circular cultural tourism through collaborative innovation networks/methodologies and improved investments strategies. Targeting deprived, remote, peripheral or deindustrialized areas and cultural landscapes as well as over-exploited areas, local Heritage innovation networks will co-develop a long-term heritage-led development project in the areas involved enhancing inclusive economic growth, communities’ wellbeing and resilience, nature regeneration as well as effective cooperation at cross-border, regional and local level.
INCULTUM – Visiting the margins: INnovative CULtural ToUrisM in European peripheries
The INCULTUM project deals with the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of furthering sustainable social, cultural and economic development. It will explore the full potential of marginal and peripheral areas when managed by local communities and stakeholders. Innovative participatory approaches are adopted, transforming locals into protagonists, able to reduce negative impacts, learning from and improving good practices to be replicated and translated into strategies and policies.
ReInHerit is an Horizon2020 project that aspires to disrupt the current status quo of communication, collaboration and innovation exchange between museums and cultural heritage sites, in a sense that it will connect cultural heritage collections and sites, and present Europe’s tangible and intangible heritage to citizens and tourists in their wider historical and geographical contexts.
The ReInHerit project is proposing a very innovative model of sustainable heritage management, through which a dynamic network will be born; this network comprised of cultural heritage professionals, innovation and cultural heritage solution tech experts, researchers, national museums, regional and local museums, and representative managers of Heritage Label sites.
ReInHerit is also supported externally, by relevant municipalities, regional and local museums, which will also enhance the communication and cooperation of the cultural heritage sector across the EU and beyond.
The project ‘Climate smart, ecosystem-enhancing and knowledge-based rural expertise and training centres’ (RURALITIES) delivers on cross-governmental, cross-sectoral and cross-scale rural development with a Social Science and Humanities (SSH) approach, embodied by the project’s targeted rural areas referred as ‘Simplified Socio-ecological Systems’, or ‘SIMSES’, a term that was proposed by the HEP under the topic HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-10.
RURALITIES aims at gathering all countries from Africa by 2027, expending from the current partnership, to deliver an ecosystem-enhancing and climate action driven expertise and learning framework organised in hubs e.g., the ‘RURALITIES’. The anticipated framework incorporates a series of innovative methodologies with the learner at its core, supported by a comprehensive network of living labs, and a blockchain-based digital platform which combines the Internet and wireless technologies.
RURITAGE is a four-year-long EU-funded research project, initiated June 2018, which strives to enable rural regeneration through heritage. The project aims to sustainably enhance local heritage for regional and community development. The intention is to regenerate rural areas with the help of the Systemic Innovation Areas (SIA) framework which identifies unique heritage potential within rural communities. One of the recognised SIAs is Pilgrimage, with role models and replicators along Via Mariae in Romania, St. Olav Waterway, the French Way to Santiago de Compostela, Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and the Karavanke national park between Austria and Slovenia, among others.
TExTOUR is an EU-funded project which co-designs pioneering and sustainable cultural tourism strategies and policies. The ultimate goal is to improve deprived areas in Europe and beyond. To do this, it sets up Cultural Tourism Labs at eight pilots located within the EU and outside it. Various societal players and stakeholders in the Cultural Tourism sector will be involved in the Cultural Tourism Labs.
VAST Project aims to bring moral values to the forefront of advanced digitisation, and to investigate the transformation of core European Values, such as freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, tolerance, dialogue, dignity, etc. across space and time. Through advanced techniques and digital tools, VAST studies how the meaning of specific values have been expressed, transformed, and appropriated through time, and how moral values are communicated and perceived in modern societies.
This project has been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement no 101004887.
