VECTOR’s Project is reaching to a crucial point: professionals and students are invited to apply, in order to participate in VECTOR’s pilot test of the Destination Manager Training Curriculum. 24 tourism students or professionals will be recruited and...
The Second Thematic Seminar about Digitization of Museums and Galleries of Interreg Europe project CD-ETA – Collaborative Digitizaion of Natural and Cultural Heritage, took place in Florence last May, from 8th to 10th. The main purpose of the projec...
Last Wednesday, July 5th, we hosted the 4° Stakeholder Meeting (SHM) related to Interreg Europe project CD-ETA. CD-ETA, acronym of Collaborative Digitization of Natural and Cultural Heritage, is a 5 year long project. It aims at analyzing and deepening t...
ECVET Magazine, n° 28, came out last June. ECVET stands for European Credit System for Vocational Education&Training and has its own Magazine that promotes the development of skills and qualifications for people within EU to increase chances to succe...
For the last 50 years Didacta International took place in Germany. It’s one of the biggest event related to education and school. The Italian equivalent, Fiera Didacta Italia, took place for the first time in our country from 26th till 29th of September...
“Globalisation, human capital, regional growth and the 4th industrial revolution”. This the title of the International Conference that took place last 20th of October in Bologna, Italy, and was organized by Emilia Romagna Region. The focus of the even...
Turism is sensibily growing world-wide and reveals the need to review and develop the professional skills involved. Vector, A Vocational and Educational Curriculum design from a sector skills alliance on TOuRism, is an European Erasmus+ research project l...
Third Seminar on digitization of intangible heritage of Interreg Europe CD-ETA took place in Skofja Loka, Slovenia, from 17th till 20th October 2017, where the host partner BSC – Regional development Agency of Gorenska welcomed all the other partner...
Herit-data. This is the name of a new european project won by a partnership made of sevaral public and private entities from Italy (among the others, our Foundation!), Spain, Croatia, France, Portugal, plus 4 member Regions at IMC (InterMediterranean Com...
Time for a new project meeting for our Interreg Europe CD-ETA. From 13th till 16th of March we flew to Greece for the 4th Thematic Seminar on “digitization of archeological and historical sites”, organized by the University of Patras. In past few mont...
From the 3rd to the 6th of June Erica Santini and Simona Ciappei, secondees of Horizon2020 MAKERS project, attended to the yearly Regional Studies Association (RSA) Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, entitled “A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capita...
An innovative curriculum in the tourism sector, plus a new profile within the Tuscany Region Register of Professions. Goals achieved thanks to the Destination Manager profile! Not an easy challenge, but more than three years of Vector project have passed,...
On 31st of December 2018 Makers project (Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity) officially closed. It was financed under the Horizon 2020 – Marie-Curie Action program, University of Birmingham in Uk was project leader and we were one of the p...
Time to evaluate what has been done so far on Herit-Data project, before the end of the second year (January 2020). Herit-data belongs to InterregMed 3.2 axis – sustainable tourism. The activities related to the development of an ICT platform are pr...
The Decree of the Prime Minister dated 9th March 2020 identified the entire Italian territory as quarantined “red” zone. One of Europe’s worst-hit countries by COVID-19, since then, Italy has been put on a nationwide lockdown, with all compa...
Herit-Data, the project financed by Interreg MED program – that is studying data produced by 6 pilot areas through an ICT platform to measure flows of people and tourists – just published on its youtube channel a new video. Such video explains...
A few days ago, on October 5th, INTERREG EUROPE, the interregional cooperation program, published a video recording on its “Latest News Section” website, concerning our five-year European project CD ETA, which will be concluded by March 2021. The news...
On February the 24th Foundation for Research and Innovation together with Association Per Firenze and the Municipality of Florence (in strict correlation with initiative FeelFlorence), held an online panel with local stakeholders, to discuss tourism’s f...
Last 25th February Herit-Data project, represented by some of its partners, attended to 2nd Community Building Workshop, held online and organized by Sustainable Tourism Community, the Horizontal Project collecting all the modular projects related to tour...
Florence historic city center is one of the 6 pilot sites of Herit-Data project (co-financed by Interreg MED program) and it is the only pilot in which a nudging experimentation on tourism was tested so far. The mentioned experimentation was managed and/o...