Community-led Action Plans

Be.CULTOUR hackathon took place between 7-9 September 2022 at ICHEC Brussels Management School. During intensive 3 days, 76 innovators working in 19 teams co-developed their projects as follows: Day1: Understand their Be.CULTOUR Pilot Heritage Site challenges and needs, map the context, and the value chain and empathise with stakeholders. Day2: Co-develop team inspiration, ideate, prototype & test. Day3: Co-prototype the feasibility & viability of their innovative circular cultural tourism 19 videos were shot by the ICHEC communications department & made available by ERRIN at https://becultour.eu/hackathon for a public vote online. In two hours, 2083 votes have been cast! In tandem, 5 parallel juries took place at ICHEC during which each team had the opportunity to pitch its project to high-level expert jurors https://becultour.eu/meet-jury.

Be.CULTOUR Community explores the challenges and benefits of multilevel governance in cultural tourism 

Be.CULTOUR community conversations are sharing and learning moments involving the entire project ecosystem, both the 6 pilot sites and 16 mirror regions for what is the true key moment defining the community building approach of the project.

Voices from the local workshops

Local Workshops constitute a core element of the Be.CULTOUR co-creation process, enabling stakeholders of the Heritage Innovation Networks to meet, exchange and gradually co- develop Action Plans for circular cultural tourism in each Pilot.          
Three Pilots sent us their comments and opinions on the co-creation processes for the Be.CULTOUR Local Action Plans.

On 23 November 2021 the Be.CULTOUR project hosted an event on "cultural synergies" in collaboration with “The Culture and Cultural Heritage Partnership of the EU Urban Agenda”. The webinar explored the similarities between the two initiatives, enhancing the common interest and advantages for local communities and how they can benefit from valorising heritage and culture. The event's main objective was to identify synergies and discuss future collaborations.