Policy roundtable of EU-funded projects on sustainable cultural tourism

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

Posted on: 20 October 2022

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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 tourism:

  • IMPACTOUR (Joao Martins and Marinos Ioannides)
  • SmartCulTour (Bart Neuts and Lidija Petrić)
  • SPOT (Milada Šťastná and John Shaddock)
  • TExTOUR (Julia Delenikas and Daniel Basulto)
  • Be.CULTOUR (Antonia Gravagnuolo and Aliona Lupu)
  • INCULTUM (José Maria Civantos)

The discussion was very fruitful and addressed several policy making issues, such as:

  • EU Policy
  • Europeanisation
  • EC Research & Innovation coordination
  • Innovation
  • Europeanisation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Infrastructure
  • Implementation
  • Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation

This meeting happens as a consequence of several internal meetings between the aforementioned six projects, being the last held in Lisbon, at UNINOVA premises (hybrid format), on July 5th.

The outcomes of the sessions are summarized in a report:

  • Policy Recommendations by H2020 Sustainable Cultural Tourism Projects (PDF)

About the sister projects:

 

 

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