On 28th October, at M6 of the INCULTUM project, a virtual gathering saw all the project’s partners meet and discuss the progress of the various activities, at project level and also at the level of Pilots’ individual work.
The most visible outcome of the project in this initial stage is the launch of the project’s website as the main communication channel in the project, curated by partner Promoter. Embedded in the website, a first version of INCULTUM’s Training Portal is also published now that showcases the various sections where training materials and resources will be integrated as long as they are produced by the project under the coordination of partner University of Pisa.
Also the work for data gathering and for stakeholders mapping, as activities to support INCULTUM research, are currently in progress respectively at SDU University of Southern Denmark and at Copenhagen Business School. Work is also ongoing for other important project areas suchs as the Policy Recommendation by UMB Matej Bel University, and the data management and initial sustainability planning coordinated by the University of Granada.
Possibly, the most lively and creative part of the event was the update by each Pilot Coordinator. A lot of work is already in place at each Pilot’s site, for develping a more modern and sustainable approach to local tourism and community engagements. Seminars and public events were organized, research and training actions were initiated, digital tools requirements were set, and connections with local stakeholders, students, citizens and policy makers were brought forward. examples of such activities are the Pilot 5’s launch event in Tuscany; a stakeholders seminar in Portugal; the presentation of the Irish Pilot in an important conference on Archaeology; and the development of an interactive map of the Greek Aoos Valley.
Discover all the INCULTUM Pilots: https://incultum.eu/pilots/
PRESENTATIONS
- WP2 Communication and dissemination (PDF) – Antonella Fresa, Promoter Srl
- WP3 Data Analysis and statistics (PDF) – Karol Borowiecki, Sara Mitchell, SDU University of Southern Denmark
- WP4 Policies and participatory models (PDF) – Alexandra Bitušíková, Kamila Borseková, Matej Bel University
This call for application is promoted in the framework of the Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals and is part of the several responses undertaken by UNESCO in order to contrast the crisis that affected the artistic and cultural sector after the Covid 19 outbreak. The initiative has the goal to provide a mechanism of technical and financial assistance to Member States interested in designing, revising or implementing inclusive policy reforms for the protection and promotion of the economic, social and cultural rights of the artists and cultural professionals. In particular, the reforms should face the issues of social security, decent jobs and income generation, copyrights protection, credit conditions, tax exemptions, mobility, freedom of artistic expression, trade unions and professional organizations, unemployment benefits, sick leaves or health insurance from which professionals in other sectors already benefit.
The Europeana Aggregators Forum is the network of national, thematic and domain aggregators: organizations which enable cultural heritage institutions to share their content with Europeana and open it up to new audiences. Twice a year all of them meet to exchange experience, present projects and align coordination, in sight of maintaining an effective aggregation ecosystem to support the development of Europeana.
On 21st-24th September the city of Venice hosted the 2021 edition of the European Cultural Heritage Summit. The Venice Summit offered a platform to celebrate excellence in cultural heritage skills and to discuss Europe’s recovery and its future. It was organised by Europa Nostra – the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural Heritage – during the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU, with the support of the European Union and the patronage of the European Parliament, through the Creative Europe and Horizon 2020 programmes, as well as in collaboration with other European and Italian partners. The event was run in a hybrid format, with a limited number of stakeholders on-site and a wider audience connected virtually. The main outcome is represented by the Venice Call to Action: “For a New European Renaissance”, a document that puts forward 12 concrete and actionable proposals with the aim of including the potential of cultural heritage in the key priorities of the European Union and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
INCULTUM is a three years H2020 project dealing with the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of furthering sustainable social, cultural and economic development. It moves from the assumption that travelling is a way to learn and improve oneself, to enrich one’s vision and improve mutual understanding.
This event will explore the applications of digital and virtual reality techniques for experiencing, preserving, and understanding ancient cultural heritage. It will cover a range of digital methods and their application to heritage-related pursuits, with specific focus on the domain of Virtual Heritage. It will bring together practitioners, researchers, educators and developers with a shared passion for the deployment and usage and continued exploitation of digital technologies for the benefit of the world heritage. The event will be the occasion to present experiences, storytelling, digital heritage projects and case studies promoting collaborations between civil society and Institutes of research.
photo courtesy of University of Pisa.
