networks
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University and research network
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The goal of this programme is to facilitate the sustainable development and promotion of cultural diversity in the world through responsible tourism. The UNITWIN programm, launched in 1992, operates through the establishment of UNESCO Chairs and UNESCO university networks, called UNITWIN. This programme serves as one of the primary mean for strenthening, the exchange and the trasfer of knowledge under a spirit of solidarity. Thus it encourages North-South and South-South cooperation as a strategy to enrich institutions (Universities and research institutes) and local players working tourism. The UNITWIN - Unesco "Culture, Tourism, Development" network was founded in 2002 by the UNESCO "Culture, Tourism, Development" Chair of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and consists of about 30 universities around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/UNESCO-UNITWIN-Network-Culture-Tourism-and-Development-127070393979932/
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University and research network
DESCRIPTION
CAST is one of the founding members of University Network of the "Council of Europe Cultural Routes Studies". It gathers university and research centres interested in developing research and advanced training courses in cooperation with the European Institute of Cultural Routes, which is the technical agency of the Council of European Enlarged Partial Agreement on European cultural routes.
LINK: www.culture-routes.net
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International Public Private Partnership
DESCRIPTION
The Phoenicians' Route International Confederation was established in 2004 to improve the knowledge and dissemination of memory, history and European heritage linked to the Mediterranean. To achieve these objectives, the Confederation joins international, national or regional bodies interested in this route and in collaborating with the European Institute of Cultural Routes.
This organisation is the body of reference of the Phoenicians' Route and regulates, promotes and supports the activities of its partners in order to highlight the relations between Phoenicians and other Mediterranean peoples and sites. Results are then presented to tourists and visitors under different ways.
Finally, the Phoenicians' Route contributes to the development of the partners's territories. In particular, it supports the improvement of tourism services, the spreading of knowledge about the culture and history of the Phoenicians, and promotion of Mediterranean intercultural initiatives that can support a common European and Mediterranean identity.
LINK: https://fenici.net/
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University and research network
DESCRIPTION
CAST is a promoter of EUNEK, the "European Universities Network of Knowledge". EuNek is an internation network that encourages university research on topics such as heritage, cultural landscapes and economic development along the ancient pilgrimage of "Via Francigena".
LINK: http://www.viefrancigene.org/en/
Transnational Network of companies (public or private), organisations, destinations, NGOs and educational institutions or bodies involved in tourism-related activities.
DESCRIPTION
The affiliate members of the World Tourism Organization Network (UNWTO) contribute with their knowledge and experience to the promotion and development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
https://www.unwto.org/affiliate-members
The AEFV is officially authorised by the Council of Europe to dialogue with the European institutions, regions and local communities. Its main task is the promotion of routes’ values and pilgrimages, encouraging a local sustainable development through a tourism-oriented approach.
DESCRIPTION
The “Via Francigena” association promotes the heritage of the different European identities starting from ancient itineraries that shaped European history.
http://www.viefrancigene.org/en/
The CROSSDEV project (2019-2021) fosters tourist competetiveness and appeal of some little known destinations and rural areas in Mediterranean countries.
The work wants to contribute to the economical and social development of Mediterranean countries promoting networks, policies and best practises' exchange about sustainable and cultural tourism. Moreover the project investigates common cultural and environmental traits of countries and promotes cultural routes in Italy, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon.
Partners: CAST and the University of Bologna, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Bethlehem University - Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche dell'Universitario di Agrigento, American University of Beirut (AUB).
European funding programme: ENICBCMED
Programme 2014-2020
LINK: www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/crossdev
"Romei", according to Dante Alighieri, are those pilgrims walking towards Rome, which is an ancient and actual destination of many European routes of pilgrimage. Most of these minor and major routes are now forgotten or marginalized but they took part of the thick European network of religious routes towards the capital of Christianity, the city of St.Paul and St.Peter. Rome is also the city of Jubilee and it was a stage of pilgrimage towards the Holy land.
"Romee" is the adjective used to identify these ancient routes while "majores" was recently added, getting inspiration from the three "peregrinationes majores". The latter are pilgrimage routes towards Jerusalm, Rome and Santiago de Compostela. Similarly, the "Romee majores" are made up by three routes represented by three entities: the "European Association of Vie Francigene" (recognized by the European Council in 1994), the "Via Romea Germanica" (recognized in 2020) and the "Romea Strata European Association" which recognition is ongoing. These three routes constituted officially a network on 19th May 2021.
The official recognition of the "Romee majores" revives the thousand-year cultural and geopolitical common identity that spread from Spain to the Urals unitl XIXth century. Romei had a significant role in the consolidation of the European identity since the fall of the West Roman Empire (476) and during th eMiddle Age, untile modern changes that saw the weakening of routes.
Thanks to this network, Rome can recover this ancient spiritual identity, reinforcing its 17-centuries-old tradition in the field.
NECSTour is a network that gathers those European regions engaged in the promotion and implementation of social, economical and environmental sustainability considered as the main driver to boost destination competitiveness.
The network counts 34 tourism entities and 30 associated partners among universities, research institutes, tourist operators and sustainable tourism associations. It promotes the best practises to support European destinations in the development of a smarter and more sustainable tourism, considered as "the tourism of tomorrow".
NECSTour is also an intermediary between local and European governance at different levels.
LINK: https://necstour.eu/