Prof. dr. Eric CORIJN

Professor of Social and Cultural Geography

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Jose Manuel MARTIN ANDRES

Project Manager

Provincial Government of Teruel,

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Piet CALLENS

Head of Financing 

Hefboom

Alexandra ALBU

Researcher

North-East Regional Development Agency, 

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Emilie THIRY

hub.brussels 

PLAY audio-visual cluster advisor and CSS platform coordinator

Prof. dr. Jean-Louis LUXEN

President

Culture, Heritage & Development (CHEDI)​​​​​​​

Arnau PICÓN MARTÍNEZ

Research Associate

EVPA

Marjan NAUWELAERT

Researcher, Sustainability Coordinator

Visit Flanders

Ilaria D'AURIA

Head of Programmes – Thematic Collaborations

Philea - Philahtropy Europe Association

Joke QUINTENS 

Designer and facilitator co-creation

Wetopia Making Cities Together

dr. Kieran MCCARTHY

Member of SEDEC (Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture)

European Committee of the Regions

Marie DE WIT

Project manager

Promethea

Prof. dr. Koenraad VAN BALEN

Director of R. Lemaire International 
Center for Conservation and co-founder of HERKUL - KU Leuven Institute for Cultural Heritage

KU Leuven / HERKUL / RLICC

Igor PUCAREVIC

Good Governance Advisor
Project Coordinator 

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities – Serbia, Be.CULTOUR consortium partner 

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Björn OHLÉN

Regional developer-Culture/heritage

Västra Götaland Region, Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Jean-Sébastien MISSON 

Président ICOMOS Belgium
Président ICOMOS Wallonie-Bruxelles asb

ICOMOS Wallonie-Bruxelles asbl

Prof. Dr. Dominique VANNESTE 

Program director

University of Leuven (KU Leuven), division of Geography & Tourism

Raffaele VITULLI

President

Cluster Basilicata Creativa Region,

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Martina DESOLE

Director

European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)

Anatolie RISINA

Director

Public Institution Environmental Projects Implementation Unit, Republic of Moldova, Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Alexandre CHEVALIER

President

ICOM Belgium

Pauline ALEXOPOULOU

Legal consultant

Larnaca & Famagusta Development Agency,

Be.CULTOUR consortium partner

Koen DEMARSIN 

General coordinator

ZENDER

Vincent FAVRAT

Founder and manager

Scale up

It is time to present the prizes that will be awarded to the best innovative solutions on circular tourism among those participating in the Be.CULTOUR hackathon in Brussels from 7 to 9 September. 

Be.CULTOUR hackathon award 

The 19 innovative circular cultural tourism solutions will enter Be.CULTOUR Acceleration programme offered by ICHEC. The acceleration period will have a duration of 4 months and will be carried out mostly online. The last session will take place in person in each Pilot Heritage Site. This acceleration period aims at making the 19 solutions become concrete business solutions. 

Following the acceleration period, the best solutions will have the possibility to apply for further support from Be.CULTOUR project for an amount up to 96,000 € in total for the 6 Pilot Heritage Sites to develop their Minimum Viable Product and test it in real context.   

Additional awards:

  • Attendance at Hostelworld Conference 2023

  • Keynote speech at Breakfast at Sustainability's - B@S  

  • Access to the network of the winners of ILUCIDARE Special Prizes  

  • Keynote speech at the ERRIN Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Tourism

  • Keynote speech at the European Alliance group Culture thematic seminar