HERITAG - Higher Education Interdisciplinary Reform In Tourism Management And Applied Geoinformation Curricula

The project HERITAG aims at developing an interdisciplinary reform at master level and lifelong education’s programmes. It also promotes the integration of Geo-information Technologies (GIT) to cultural heritage documentation, tourism management and entrepreneurship. The project promotes the synergy of three main groups of stakeholders: Universities, industry and Administration. 

The curricular reform focuses on three priorities in two countries, Georgia and Armenia: the diffusion of Geo-information technologies (GIT), the cultural heritage preservation and documentation, the support to entrepreneurship. Another output will be the Intensive course on Economics for Tourism Development from 20th to 31st of March 2017, Rimini campus – Bologna University.

Expected reults of the projects:

• To integrate master specialities in GIT for cultural heritage and tourism with Marketing and Entrepreneurship skills in order to strenghten local industry. This process will be guided by the University of Bologna;
• To establish Geoinformation and Tourism Technology centres (GTTC) in partner countries;
• To create three new GIS laboratories in Tourism Economics Departments and to update existing equipment in partner country universities;

Period of the project: 2015 -2018

Scientific Coordinator: Laura Vici

Team of research: Patrizia Battilani, Cristina Bernini, Paolo Figini, Francesco Barbini, Maurizio Mussoni, Roberto Patuelli, Annalisa Spalazzi, Laura Vici, Lorenzo Zirulia.

Keywords: geo-information technologies (GIT), cultural heritage, tourism management, capacity building

Lead partner: Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spagna)

Partners:

• GREECE: Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis
• SWEDEN: Kungliga Tekniska Hoegslolan
• ITALY: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
• GEORGIA: Ilia State University ILIAUNI, Georgian Technical University, Shota Rustaveli State University, GIS and RS Cinsulting Center GeoGraphic, National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia, Sky Travel Ltd
• ARMENIA: National University of Architecture and Construction of Armeni

Funding programme: Erasmus + KA2 Capacity Building, Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education

Website: http://heritag.ge/