Join the International Be.CULTOUR Conference
The Horizon 2020 Be.CULTOUR project is organising the International Conference 'Beyond Cultural Tourism: Beautiful, Circular, Human', on 5 - 7 June 2024 in Naples, Italy.The event will present a series of operational tools and approaches developed by project partners starting from the overall multidimensional evaluation framework based on criteria and indicators for circular and cultural tourism destinations, to heritage-led strategic Action Plans and place-branding strategies, innovative circular solutions and business models enhancing entrepreneurial capacity, suitable financial instruments, smart data management tools, and final policy recommendations at EU and regional level. Learn more and register here.
Be.CULTOUR has co-created and tested sustainable human-centred innovations for circular cultural tourism through collaborative innovation networks/methodologies and improved investments strategies.
Targeting deprived, remote, peripheral or deindustrialised areas and cultural landscapes as well as over-exploited areas, local Heritage innovation networks co-developed 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.
About Be.CULTOUR
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Objectives
The overarching goal of Be.CULTOUR was 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 have co-developed 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.
Partners
Be.CULTOUR project Coordinator is the Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRISS). The Be.CULTOUR Consortium comprises 15 partners, covering EU and non-EU Countries.
The Consortium includes research organisations, provincial and regional authorities,consultancies specialized in financial services, NGOs, municipalities, non-profit organizations, as well as umbrella organizations representing respectively local and regional governments (ERRIN and ICLEI).
Methodology
Be.CULTOUR has achieved its ambitious objectives through a set of coordinated innovation actions built around a structured human-centred design innovation process, involving pilot and “mirror” regions
The methodology of the project has followed four main steps, reflecting the general articulation of the design process: 1. Exploration phase (M1-12); 2. Action Plans and Concepts co-design phase (M13-18); 3. Co-development phase(M19-20); 4. Deployment phase (M21-36).