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Visiting the Margins. INnovative CULtural ToUrisM in European peripheries

Project description

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Cultural education fostered by travel

Travel can be a valuable learning experience. Tourism is how one can enrich one’s vision and improve mutual understanding. The EU-funded INCULTUM project will focus on tourism in terms of culture, nature, knowledge, and personal experiences. Specifically, it will explore the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of furthering sustainable social, cultural, and economic development. The project will carry out 10 pilot cases of living territories and communities to identify and co-create innovative customised solutions. The aim will be to mitigate negative impacts, learning from and improving good practices that are replicated and translated into strategies and policies.

Objective

Tourism is more than travelling and consumption; it has great potential when it comes to culture, nature, knowledge and personal experiences. Travelling is a way to learn and improve oneself, to enrich one’s vision and improve mutual understanding.
The INCULTUM project deals with the challenges and opportunities of cultural tourism with the aim of furthering sustainable social, cultural and economic development. It will explore the full potential of marginal and peripheral areas when managed by local communities and stakeholders. Innovative participatory approaches will be adopted, transforming locals into protagonists, able to reduce negative impacts, learning from and improving good practices to be replicated and translated into strategies and policies. Furthermore, INCULTUM fosters intercultural understanding through the implementation of bottom-up strategies that can have positive effects for both, locals and tourists.
Ten pilot cases of living territories and communities will be investigated and on the basis of the findings innovative customised solutions will be co-created. Additionally, pilots will be used to identify and compare drivers and barriers that account for the success or failure of participatory models. Pilots will also enable us to assess outcomes and analyse the pre-conditions needed for a future full implementation and scaling up of potential solutions.
Pilots will provide new quantitative and qualitative data that will be combined with official statistics and novel data gathered by the use of self-developed IT applications and the exploitation of previously untapped data sources. The implementation of advanced econometric methods and the pioneering introduction of machine-learning tools into tourism research will push the boundaries of our knowledge. Findings will enable us to suggest recommendations for effective and sustainable policies, create new synergies among public and private stakeholders and new investments, including Structural Funds

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Call for proposal

H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020

Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Net EU contribution
€ 475 556,25
Address
Cuesta del hospicio sn
18071 Granada
Spain

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Region
Sur Andalucía Granada
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 0,00

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