Author Archives: valentina.bachi

This activity in the context of CitizenHeritage aimed at enaging university students with online tools and practice for cultural heritage collections and thus sourcing user requirements for ICT at the service of citizen science

Computer science workshops and citizen science case study at NTUA

CitizenHeritage promotes participative approaches to support citizen science and citizen participation in cultural heritage, with a focus on involving university students with cultural heritage projects. This work goes in the direction of growing in higher education institutions teaching and learning … Continue reading →

Rosa Cisneros from C-DARE Coventry University presented the work done in WEAVE about Romani cultural heritage in Europeana

WEAVE presented at conference in Wales about GRT community inclusion

On 24th October, the Romani Cultural & Arts Company (RCAC) and the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) organized a conference to mark the launch of a new report titled Sites of Inclusion: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Participation in the Arts … Continue reading →

The students engaged with the WEAVE collections, activities and the project’s tools, framed within the context of accessibility and community engagement

WEAVE Project disseminated to AccessCult Erasmus Students

text and images by Rosa Cisneros, Coventry University. The European Union funded project, AccessCult, aims to make cultural venues more accessible for all. One billion people live with some form of disability (WHO), at EU level, about 24% of persons … Continue reading →

the roundtable discussed the different ways and domains to do citizen science and roles and responsibilities therein

CitizenHeritage presented as a best practice in Erasmus University Rotterdam roundtable on citizen science

Citizen Science & Engaged Research: Showcase of best practices Wednesday 19 Oct 2022, 15.00 – 16.30 In this showcase event organized by Erasmus University Rotterdam, engaged researchers from EUR/EMC came together to share what makes their citizen science – and … Continue reading →

the conference I-HE2022 took place in Athens between 19 and 21 October 2022

Presenting CitizenHeritage at Innovating Higher Education Conference 2022

The Innovating Higher Education conference focuses on trends and high impact factors in global and European higher education. This year’s theme was: Digital Reset: European Universities Transforming for a Changing World. European universities today are confronted by profound, societal changes … Continue reading →

this new tool improves access to statistics and policy-relevant indicators for tourism and sustainable economy

EU Tourism Dashboard available for consultation

European Commission launches the EU Tourism Dashboard, a new tool to help policy makers at country and regional level to steer policies and strategies in the tourism ecosystem. The aim of this tool is to improve access to statistics and … Continue reading →

representatives of 6 projects in the area of sustainable rural and cultural development met in a roundtable discussion organized by the European Commission

Policy roundtable of EU-funded projects on sustainable cultural tourism

Text and image courtesy of Joao Martins, UNINOVA Lisbon. On Tuesday October 11th 2022, a policy round table was held between European Policy Makers and representatives of the six projects that were funded in the Transformations-04 call dedicated to sustainable … Continue reading →

the educational element, together with training and cultural activities are part of the strategy of promotion for this territory

INCULTUM: students’ visit to the village of San Pellegrino in Alpe (Tuscany)

text and photos courtesy of Fondazione Campus / University of Pisa. One of the Pilots of the INCULTUM project, aiming and empowering sustainable cultural tourism in peripheral areas with communities engagement, is coordinated by the University of Pisa and is … Continue reading →

on 9th November 2022 the event presented INCULTUM's research and pilots and will be enriched by presentation of sister projects IMPACTOUR and TExTOUR

EUROMED 2022 Cultural Tourism workshop – updated agenda

The event was organized in the framework of EUROMED (7-11 November 2022) by H2020 project INCULTUM, to discuss about the role of community engagement and citizen participation in enhancing and promoting sustainable tourism in peripheral areas that are not often … Continue reading →