Agenda - Workshop 4 Wednesday 04/11/2020

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The given time is in Eastern European Time Zone (EET) - Cyprus/Greece/Finland time

10:30 - 10:35

Marinos Ioannides
UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage
Carolina Islas (project manager)
University of Turku, Finland

Opening

Name

Title of Presentation

Session 1: The sustainability of cultural tourism during and after the pandemic
(Facilitators: Silvia De Ascaniis , Laura Puolamäki)

10:35 - 10:55

Milada Šťastná
Prof. Dr. Ing. and HoD, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. Coordinator of the H2020 project SPOT

Possible directions of rural tourism development in the light of Covid-19: Case study: South Moravia

10:55 - 11:15

Simona Todelli
Prof. at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. Coordinator of the H2020 project RURITAGE

Thinking beyond the COVID-19 crisis: heritage- based opportunities for tourism in rural areas

11:15 - 11:35

João Martins
Prof. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Coordinator of the H2020 project IMPACTOUR and participant at the upcoming H2020 project TExTOUR

Improving Sustainable Development of Cultural Tourism – what if...

11:35 - 11:55

Ann Uustalu
Policy Officer with focus on Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries, European Commission, DG for Research and Innovation
Rodrigo Martín Galán
Research Programme Officer at the European Research Executive Agency (REA) in charge of the portfolio on Cultural Heritage

Horizon Europe Research policy - Cultural Tourism

11:55 - 12:00

Promoting Dialogue

12:00 - 12:15

Coffee Break

Session 2: Promote and support innovative alliances among regional and international cultural tourism organizations
(Facilitators: TBC)

12:15 - 12:35

Stefano Dominioni
Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA) and Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR)

How Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe promote regional and international cooperation

12:35 - 12:55

Nadia Fontana Lupi
President of the World Heritage Experience Switzerland

World Heritage Experience Switzerland and the ambition to become a competence center for the innovation process of UNESCO’s WHL in Switzerland

12:55 - 13:15

Susanna Markkola
Manager, Cultural Tourism at Visit Finland, Business Finland

Networking – the first step to the cultural tourism

13:15 - 13:35

Antonella Fresa
Director of implementations at Promoter SRL, Italy

The challenge of the -incultum- for a new approach to cultural tourism

13:35 - 13:40

Promoting Dialogue

13:40 - 14:25

Lunch

Session 3: Resilient cultural tourism at heritage destinations
(Facilitators: Silvia Aulet, Dejan Paliska)

14:25 - 14:45

Peter DeBrine
UNESCO - Programme Specialist Sustainable Tourism

Heritage, Tourism and Covid-19: Recovery, Resiliency and Rejuvenation

14:45 - 15:05

Piet Jaspaert
EUROPA NOSTRA, Vice - President

Cultural Heritage...a path to the future

15:05 - 15:25

Celia Martínez Yáñez
Tenured Professor in the Art History Department of the University of Granada. Vice-president of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism (ICTC)

Cultural Heritage preservation and sustainable tourism development: the ICOMOS ICTC vision and role to confront present and future challenges

15:25 - 15:45

Theano Terkenli
Prof. University of the Aegean, Greece

The landscape as key to resilient cultural tourism stewardship

15:45 - 15:50

Promoting Dialogue

15:50 - 16:10

Coffee Break

Session 4: The impact of digital cultural tourism on a local and regional level
(Facilitators: Tony Cassar, Laura Puolamäki)

16:10 - 16:30

Claire Wallace
Stephanie Garrison
University of Aberdeen, UK

Online Cultural Activity and Fan Tourism in Scotland

16:30 - 16:50

Iulia Niculica
Partnerships Manager, European Travel Commission (ETC)

Partnerships for Promoting Europe to global passion communities

16:50 - 17:10

Lorenzo Cantoni
Prof. Università della Svizzera Italiana, How to Harmonize Digital media, (Intangible) UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and Heritage and Sustainable Tourism promote sustainable tourism in the World Heritage Sites

How to Harmonize Digital media, (Intangible) Heritage and Sustainable Tourism

17:10 - 17:30

Discussion/Final Conclusions

Chair: Prof. Antonis Theocharous – Cyprus University of Technology, Tony Cassar – Heritage Malta

Keynote Speech

Prof. Minja Yang
President & Professor Emeritus
Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, KU Leuven<
Presentation Title: Presentation of the OurWorldHeritage Initiative

17:30

End of Workshop