On May 19 and 20, Turin (Italy) hosted the annual session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. During the meeting the Council adopted a Recommendation on the role of culture, cultural heritage and landscape in helping to address global challenges.
The Recommendation:
affirms culture’s transformative role in sustainable development
calls for the full recognition and integration of culture into relevant policies.
identifies the assets and skills of cultural stakeholders that should be mobilised to help address current challenges
calls for a new understanding of culture (and hence policies) as a strategic element
proposes various policy objectives and measures aimed at fostering a local approach (to engage with people and communities) as well as a global approach (to encourage international collaboration) in order to generate a collective ambition and international cooperation based on empathy and solidarity.
>>> press release (text and images provided by The High Mountains SCE).
On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the first discussion of the Cultural Associations of Konitsa’s area with our Social Cooperative Enterprise (SCE), “The High Mountains”, took place in the event hall of the town hall of Konitsa, in the framework of the project “INCULTUM”.
The meeting, entitled Culture Tourism and Social Innovation: The Collective Organisation of the Cultural Experience of our Homeland, aimed to return to the Cultural Associations and Brotherhoods, analysed and visualised, the knowledge they contributed, by participating in a quality research, carried out in the area by “The High Mountains” team, but also to trigger a discussion about the problems, the possibilities and the role of the Cultural Associations based in the municipality of Konitsa, in developing the cultural product of their homeland.
The discussion started with the presentation of the project “Visiting the Margins. INnovative CULtural ToUrisM in European peripheries “, ” INCULTUM “, by Mr. Sotiris Tsoukarelis, President of “The High Mountains” SCE.
Then, the chief researcher of “The High Mountains” Dr. Vaios Kotsios presented the findings of the secondary research we have carried out so far, using the methodology of Worthliving Integrated Development, and demonstrated their connection with the feedback we received by the Cultural Associations and Brotherhoods of the municipality of Konitsa. Through the analysis and synthesis of primary and secondary research data, but also with the use of Business Intelligence tools, an attempt is made to increase the Collective Intelligence of the local community, so that the latter, based on substantiated analyses of the reality of the region, co-forms in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team of the “High Mountains” the necessary actions for the development of Cultural Tourism.
Τwo presentations followed, conducted by Mr. Nikos Stakias, Advisor for Development and Promotion of Destinations and Mr. Dimitris Milis, Advisor for Strategy – Visual Communication Designer, who highlighted the importance that shall be given to the creation of the image of the destination, so that the residents themselves can picture and create the narrative and story that they want their homeland to communicate to themselves and to all visitors of the area.
A discussion including all participants started right after all presentations ended. In the course of this discussion, mr. Zois Pantazis, President of the Federation of Cultural Associations of the Prefecture of Ioannina spoke about the financial tools that cultural associations can access, and George Papaioannou, Vice President of the Agritourism Association of Epirus, focused on the lack of exposure and its consequences, focusing in actions already implemented by the Cultural Institutions of the region of Konitsa.
As a conclusion of the discussion, Mr. Tsoukarelis made clear that “The High Mountains” team will work closely with all Associations that have expressed or will express their will in organising and utilising their cultural heritage and traditions and promoting their village. Emphasis will be given on exploring all the possibilities, perspectives, limitations and problems faced by the Associations, in their effort to promote and develop the culture of the area, but also on the tools that can be used to overcome any obstacles and enhance the development of Cultural Tourism.
After the event, participants tasted traditional local products, such as local pies, mountain tea and other herbal infusions, as well as the famous asker burek. The successful coordination of the whole event was undertaken by Vassilis Nakkas and Thaleia Pantoula, members of the Social Cooperative Enterprise “The High Mountains”.
The Congress took place at the University of Algarve from the 26th to the 28th of May and prof. José Maria Civantos, coordinator of the INCULTUM Project, was one of the Keynote speakers
This congress was hosted and co-organized by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology and by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve, with participation of the Team of INCULTUM Pilot focused on research and recovery of the Campina de Faro area; in particular Pilot coordinator prof. Desidério Batista is member of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of the Congress. The Congress took place at the University of Algarve from the 26th to the 28th of May and prof. José Maria Civantos, coordinator of the INCULTUM Project, was one of the Keynote speakers.
How does water, waters – groundwater, rainwater, river, marine – condition or conditioned agriculture and rural society? What strategies and what processes of cooperation or conflict have occurred in the access and use of water? What economic uses have been given over time? How have water resources been or can be used from a sustainability, tourism and biodiversity perspective? And, in the context of climate change, how to manage this resource? How can we learn from the past valuable lessons for the future?
IX Congress of Rural Studies and X RePort Rural Meeting, organized by SPER – Portuguese Society of Rural Studies, and by Rural RePort – Rural History Network.
INCULTUM was presented by the communication and network coordinator dr. Antonella Fresa at EVA FLORENCE, the annual event in Firenze of the EVA series Electronic imaging & the Visual Arts.
Integrated Digital Archives for Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Art
Management of Museums by using ICT Technology: Documentation, Access, Guides & Other Services
Cloud Networks
Semantic Webs
Ontology Systems
Human – Computer Interaction for Cultural Heritage Applications
Creative Enterprises
Copyright Protection
Secure Electronic Commerce (Anticounterfeiting)
Cybersecurity
Culture and e-government
Activities and Programmes for e-learning
Digital TV and films
3D Developments and Applications in the Cultural Heritage Area
Augmented Virtual Reality for Culture
Virtual Galleries and Exhibitions
Digital Art
Digital Music
Digital Theatre
Cultural Tourism & Travel Applications
Impact of Culture in the Smart City
Art and Medicine
Climate Change
Environment Protection
COVID 19 Pandemic
EVA 2022 Florence Organizer: Vito Cappellini
Co-Chairmen: Vito Cappellini – Enrico Del Re
E-mail: vito.cappellini@unifi.it – enrico.delre@unifi.it
Cooperation with Regional Council of Tuscany: Rosanna Romellano
E-mail: r.romellano@consiglio.regione.toscana.it
The ESPON week will take place from 30 May to 3 June 2022, organized in collaboration with the French Presidency of the EU Council in the framework of ESPON Cooperation Programme, with the aim of supporting policy development for promoting territorial cohesion and harmonious development of the European territory.
Through different presentations and interactive workshops participants will get an update on the latest ESPON evidence.
During the week two new policy briefs summarizing ESPON EU-wide research on “Economic interdependencies and regional strategies policies” and “Social and territorial consequences of COVID-19 at regional level” and a series of workshops to get to know more and discuss latest ESPON research, have been planned.
In particular, HERIWELL – Cultural Heritage as a Source of Societal Well-being in European Regions, project of the UNCHARTED community, will be the protagonist of the hybrid workshop Cultural Heritage as a Source of Societal Well-being in European Regions on June 1.
The workshop will feature the final outcomes of the research project and has a twofold purpose:
Draw policymakers’ attention on the need of promoting cultural heritage values as catalysts for societal well-being, as well as an opportunity for territorial competitiveness and sustainable growth in ESPON territories;
Understand the impacts of COVID-19 on cultural heritage and draw on lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis for the future development of the heritage sector.
Four main sessions will provide insights on how to valorise cultural heritage for the social and economic well-being of European citizens.
A special focus will be dedicated to the HERIWELL case studies which examined the contribution of cultural heritage to the societal well-being gains for local citizens, tourist, minorities, youth, etc.
text by Rosa Cisneros, C-DARE Coventry University.
Dr Amalia Sabiescu is researcher at Loughborough University London and is teaching a module for students of an MA in Media and Creative Industries. The module is titled ‘Heritage industries in the digital age’ and is taught in presence, but often invites guest lectures to offer interventions online. For the Module, Sabiescu invited Coventry University’s artist-researcher Cisneros to discuss tangible and intangible heritage in relation to communities and identities. The session explored the role of heritage as an instrument for change and development, with a particular focus on empowerment, voice and cultural affirmation in marginalised communities.
image from Cisneros’ presentation
Cisneros discussed several projects in relation to digital technologies, inclusive practices and Roma heritage. The title of the talk “Roma heritage, activism and change” briefly touched on contemporary developments in relation to digital media and the potential that platforms and tools offer in relation to social transformation. Case studies such as The Missing Voices Project, the Urban Villages: Digital Scrapbooks project and LIFESTRINGS screendance film were all shared. A key aspect of the lecture was the EU-Funded project WEAVE where the application of sociocultural impact, capacity building, and the communicative methodological approach underpinning the project’s LabDays was expanded on. Europeana as a platform, its content, metadata aggregation processes and storytelling were also expanded on in relation to the Roma community.
EU-Funded WEAVE project and Europeana slide
Sabiescu shared the following readings with the students ahead of time and they were encouraged to explore the connections between dance, tourism and cultural policy:
CISNEROS, R. (2022). Urban villages: The Roma’s digital scrapbooks—changing narratives one image at a time. Creative Activism Research, Pedagogy and Practice, 307.
Cisneros, R., “Roma Heroes, Superpowers, and Human Agency: Exploring Taboo Topics in Independent Theater Hungary’s Festivals” in Howlround Creative Commons Roma Retrospective 21 – Read here
Lastly, the students were encouraged to engage with the various projects, resources, materials and films. The session concluded with a discussion and invitation to explore generative projects that plunge into tensions current within the Cultural Heritage sector.
Transition towards sustainable development is a priority for all industries including tourism and the role of landscape is central to new policies
The rediscovery of cultural and local tourism, a low carbon asset. Rereading Hassan Zaoual. By Roger Goudiard (Bibracte)
In the current context of crisis in tourism and the questioning of the conventional forms of this industry, it is interesting to re-read the work of the development economist Hassan Zaoual, which led him to conceptualise “site tourism” or “situated tourism”.
The climate emergency requires us to put an end to our use of fossil fuels. Calling a major upheaval for global tourism, the time has come for this industry to “move beyond oil”. In a break with the process of democratisation of the late 20th century, will international leisure travel become increasingly selective as a result of the contraction and increase in the cost of air travel in the the low-carbon era?….
This article, mentioning the pilot case study of Bibracte within INCULTUM, has been published in January 2022 by Le Collectif Paysages de l’après-pétrole (Post-oil Landscapes Collective). This association is gathering researchers in social sciences (management, geography, philosophy, sociology, political sciences), experts in agronomy and landscape sciences, and professionals of spatial design (architects, landscape architects, urban planners). It aims to give the issue of landscape a central role in spatial planning policies in a context of energy transition and, more broadly, of transition towards sustainable development.
The author is a member of the Scientific Council of the Morvan Regional Natural Park, the boards of directors of the Grand Site de France of Bibracte – Mont Beuvray and of the National Network of Grand Site de France.
DARIAH is the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
Its mission is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.
DARIAH annual event 2022 will take place from May 31 to June 3 in Athens, Greece, and will be organized as a hybrid meeting.
The topic of the event will be the power of storytelling in the arts and humanities. As DARIAH writes on its website:
“The power of storytelling as a sense-making and knowledge-creation strategy is deeply embedded in human cultures, reaching back as far as our written records, and looking as far forward as our technological imaginations. How we gather, share and use our stories says much about who we are, how we entertain and educate, how we build identities and understand the world beyond our vision, how we relate to our past and to our future.”
Participation to the event is possible either in-person or remotely, is free, but you still have to register for both modes of participation by Friday, May 27.
UNCHARTED is continuing to expand its network, establishing a wide range of collaborations with other projects in the field of cultural heritage research, in order to create an active and engaged CH community, share information and collaborate in different areas of research and cultural innovation.
For this reason, UNCHARTED is happy to announce a very interesting new collaboration with the H2020 project MEMEX – MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling.
MEMEX promotes technology as a means of helping marginalized individuals and communities in society through inclusive access to cultural heritage.
In particular Artificial Intelligence (AI) as assistive technology, can help humans through the use of machine learning, computer vision and augmented reality.
MEMEX target communities are socially fragile people who are systematically excluded from various cultural opportunities and resources essential for social integration.
The project carries out three distinct pilots to analyze the different expectations from communities dislocated in different regions of the European territory:
Barcelona’s Migrant Women and the Gender Perspective (Spain)
District Xix: Digital Storytelling With Inhabitants In Priority Neighbourhood Of Paris (France)
Enhanced Readings Of Shared Portuguese Heritage Through Emancipated Eyes (Portugal)
In order to provide more information on the new partner, a showcase presenting MEMEX is now available on the UNCHARTED community page, here the link.
Morvan is a medium mountain range located in the western part of the administrative region of Burgundy-Franche-Comté, in central-eastern France. This massif is largely included in the territory of the Morvan Regional Natural Park, which covers 2,900 km2 and has a population of 50,000 inhabitants. Bibracte is a heritage site of national interest (the site of a 1st c. BC fortified town) located on one of the summits of the Morvan, Mont-Beuvray. A territorial project was launched in 2013 around the site as part of the national policy of the Grands Sites de France (GSF); this project concerns 160 km2 and 2,500 inhabitants. In 2016, Bibracte was awarded the special mention for sustainable development by the European Museum Forum. It was recognized in 2019 by the Council of Europe as an example of good practice in the field of heritage management and spatial development for its Strategy 21 for European cultural heritage.
The proposed actions in the Pilot are directed to deploying the tourist activity in a way that has been judged positively by the local players, allowing the diversification of the offer of stays around Bibracte, the diversification of the agricultural economy, the strengthening of the residential attractiveness of the area, the maintenance of a service offer, the preservation/restoration of the heritage quality of the landscape, the strengthening of the social cohesion of the area, the optimisation of the ecological impact of tourist activity. The ambition is also stated to serve as a pilot project on the scale of the region, of the Réseau des Grands Sites de France and the Fédération des Parcs naturels régionaux (with more than fifty members in each of these two networks on a national scale).
This policy for persistent identifiers in the data space can guide cultural heritage institutions to ensure that resources are reliably identified and remain accessible online now and in the future.
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In collaboration with Q42, Fabrique design agency and consultancy collective Eidra
After four years of planning, considering, building, refining, testing, releasing, reconsidering, fretting, cropping, finetuning and re-cropping, Rijksmuseum launched Collectie Online—the successor to the Rijksmuseum’s ground-breaking Rijksstudio collections platform. Here are some of the possibilities the platform offers: Allow the viewer … Continue reading →
PhD course 15-17 September 2025, Bornholm, Denmark
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Europeana 2025 – Preserve, Protect, Reuse Conference will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Some of the main themes are: Technical innovations to support and enrich the cultural heritage data in … Continue reading →
11-12 June, POLIN Museum (Warsaw, Poland) and online
Europeana 2025 – Preserve, Protect, Reuse will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The Conference is going to be hybrid and is organised in collaboration and partnership with the Ministry … Continue reading →
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On May 19 and 20, Turin (Italy) hosted the annual session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. During the meeting the Council adopted a Recommendation on the role of culture, cultural heritage and landscape in helping to address global challenges.
Read the raccomandation at: https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680a67952
How does water, waters – groundwater, rainwater, river, marine – condition or conditioned agriculture and rural society? What strategies and what processes of cooperation or conflict have occurred in the access and use of water? What economic uses have been given over time? How have water resources been or can be used from a sustainability, tourism and biodiversity perspective? And, in the context of climate change, how to manage this resource? How can we learn from the past valuable lessons for the future?
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