Objective This project intends to undertake a comparative study of three different regions: Siberia (Russia), Lapland (Sweden) and Patagonia (Argentina). These regions have a series of common features as regards their natural and cultural heritage, and are destined to experience similar changes due to the global warming and globalisation processes.The protection and the promotion of cultures, territories and heritages strengthen a socio-economical development process for local communities. Such sustainable valorization should generate high level know-how and good practices that can be transferred to specific territories with national and international protection (National Park, National Reserves, UNESCO labels, etc.). Huge natural spaces in Arctic and Sub-Antartic regions get specific attention from international community (UN and EU) due to current global warming and the impacts of climate change on cultures and territories. These regions have fragile ecosystems that can be rapidly damaged by mass tourism or by a not well-controlled development strategy implemented by public institutions or private companies. This project aims at studying these extreme regions, training professionals working in public administrations in order to improve their educational background, and students with postgraduate curricula linked to tourism, geography, natural heritage, politics and social economics. Cross-cultural training transfers and valorization processes applied to the fields of tourism studies and the tourism industries, as well as cultural heritage and regional development of territories will be offered. Long term sustainable actions will be implemented at international level, such as an International Network of Regional Tourism Observatories and e-Learning platform to diffuse collected data, surveys and pedagogical materials. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changessocial sciencessociologyglobalizationsocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administration Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IRSES - International research staff exchange scheme (IRSES) Coordinator UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES. Address Avenue de paris 55 78035 Versailles France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mariama Cottrant (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all LAPIN YLIOPISTO Finland EU contribution € 82 000,00 Address Pl 122 96101 Rovaniemi See on map Region Manner-Suomi Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi Lappi Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Florian Stammler (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS Lithuania EU contribution € 68 200,00 Address K donelaicio 73 LT-44029 Kaunas See on map Region Lietuva Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas Kauno apskritis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kestutis Zaleckis (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
