Košice Tourism general assembly meeting
Date: 14 December 2020
Location: Historic town hall in Košice, Slovakia
Target Audience: Culture and creative industries and tourism experts.
Description: The project and its output will be presented together with other topics (such as new communication strategy) in order to present the implemented activities and project their potential into future opportunities for city development in the tourism sector.
Ruhr area as a creative host
Date: 14 December 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target Audience: Culture and creative industries and tourism experts.
Description: Reflection on the project idea, highlighting the creative potential of European Capitals of Culture. A brief outline of the TraCEs project and presentation of the Game of Traces platform, retrieving experiences and opportunities, in particular from cultural and creative actors involved in the project. We want to encourage people to think outside the box and develop new concepts, give motivation for creative protagonists and tourism providers to enter into a new alliance and continue the exchange that has begun.
ECoC as labs for Creative Industries: a talk on policies, infrastructures and capacity building.
Date: 14 December 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target Audience: Culture and creative industries and tourism experts.
Description: European Capitals of Culture have become centers for innovation and experimentation for culture and creativity. Big investments and long-term strategies able to promote local development through culture. But how is the ECoC program supporting the development of creative industries in Europe? A talk with representatives from ECoC ecosystems to discuss policies, infrastructures and capacity building programs that helped or will help the sector to grow.
Transformative tourism across ECoC, everything that has been done in the past 21 months with the focus on the City of Rijeka
Date: 11 December 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target Audience: Final Consumer
Description: 8 partners from 6 different countries have come together to propose a new tourism model created by collaboration between traditional operators and creative professionals who can create transformative real-life experiences from the community hosting visitors with reinforcing the concept of the tourist as a temporary citizen rather than a holidaymaker. TraCEs brings all this together by putting forward a new way of traveling to European Capitals of Culture. The execution of the project was highly affected by COVID-19. Still, the enthusiasm of each of the project partners and other stakeholders involved have resulted in creating a new and unique way of thinking about travelling with aim of creating long term connectivity of the traveller and place of visit. We invite you to hear more about what has been done in the past 21 months with the focus of a current ECoC Rijeka 2020.
Transformative travel across ECoCs. From co-creation to experience realization
Date: 10 December 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target Audience: Final Consumer
Description: Tourism, culture, creation and eagerness to innovate have been the key to the success of TraCEs Co-Creation TLabs. 5 workshops in 5 European cities have welcomed the new initiative of Culture is Capital, a meeting point between professionals in the tourism sector and the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs) of each city to generate new tourism experiences. A pilot event that opens the door to an interesting path for the co-creation of new transformative travel experiences. Following the Tlabs organized and run in Burgos, Matera, Rijeka, Kosice and Gelsenkirchen, different Transformative Experiences that cater towards the ECoCs visitors have been created. The Transformative Experiences see not only an onsite hands-on experience but as well an online one thanks to the web platform Game of TraCEs, where the user is able to discover all the Transformative Experiences offered in the different ECoCs and can as well set up her/his own online cultural passport. The panelists will discuss and present the entire process of creating, setting up, testing and promoting a Transformative Experience in the European Capitals of Culture.
Online Meeting: ECoC and creativity
Date: 28 July 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target Audience: Culture and creative industries and tourism operators.
Description: Cultour is Capital offers a free online meeting about ‘ECoCs and their capacity to raise local economies, promote the tourism sector and increase the creativity value of a city’. Our guests are 6 specialists in tourism, ECoCs, and creativity.
Blogger Experience Košice
Date: 24-26 July 2020
Location: Košice, Slovakia
Target Audience: Final Consumer
Description: Selected bloggers will experience unusual tours in the city, learn the history, have local food in the oldest pub in Slovakia. Make urban exploration, visit some large-scale murals. Spent time with the locals and live a Medieval life in the Kosice Castle. Afterward, our bloggers will share their experiences on different platforms such as social media and the web and on our new and coming soon platform: Game of TraCEs.
Blogger Experience Rijeka
Date: 21-22 July 2020
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
Target Audience: Final Consumer
Description: Selected bloggers will experience a morning routine with slow gentle movements, visit the center of the city to experience the habits of the local people, have a stopover at the central market and fish market to enjoy Croatian dishes. Get to know the Krušna Ulica, a backstreet completely covered with graffiti. And more hidden gems of the city of Rijeka. Afterward our bloggers will share their experiences in different platforms such as social media and web and on our new and coming soon platform: Game of TraCEs.
Blogger Experience Matera
Date:10-12 July 2020
Location: Matera, Italy
Target audience: Final Consumer
Description: Selected bloggers will experience living the Wonder Grottole which means living an authentic co-living experience, the path into the real life of this town, entering houses, being part of the community. As well they will try the Silent City Experience, which is an Opera written by the community for the Community. This is a transformative tourism in the Sassi of Matera, a perfect match between creative and cultural industries and tourism. Afterward our bloggers will share their experiences in different platforms such as social media and web and on our new and coming soon platform: Game of TraCEs.
Blogger Experience Burgos
Date: 7-9 July 2020
Location: Burgos, Spain
Target Audience: Final Consumer
Description: Selected bloggers will experience a journey across centuries through the stories of the women who have contributed to the economic, social and cultural development of the city. Burgos has a century-old fascinating history intertwined with the fate of some incredible women figures. They will discover the most special places in this city through the stories of women from the past, the present and the future time. Afterward our bloggers will share their experiences in different platforms such as social media and web and on our new and coming soon platform: Game of TraCEs
T-LABS Košice
Date: 11th -12th March 2020
Location: Online Meeting
Target audience: Tourism operator and cultural creative industries
Description: Presented by Simona Polli, an expert in the tourism sector with solid experience in co-creation processes and a wide knowledge of the Transformative Travel trends. The purpose of this training is to improve the skills of local communities to encourage a new tourism model, transformative tourism, helping them to conceive and generate activities and experiences. The objective is to gather public and private actors linked to tourism, as well as also representatives of the creative and cultural field who are interested in undertaking looking synergies between both sectors. Training providers, press and media or representatives of other related sectors who wish to explore ways of collaboration with the tourism industries and the generation of transformative trips. The content of this TLab focuses on the definition of design, development, management, marketing and promotion of transformative travel experiences. It will be divided between the theoretical part and the part of interaction, in which participants can collaborate to outline an innovative product.
T-LABS Matera
Date: 7th February 2020
Location: Matera, Italy
Target audience: Tourism operator and cultural creative industries
Description: Presented by Simona Polli, a an expert in the tourism sector with solid experience in co-creation processes and a wide knowledge of the Transformative Travel trends. The purpose of this training is to improve the skills of local communities to encourage a new tourism model, transformative tourism, helping them to conceive and generate activities and experiences. The objective is to gather public and private actors linked to tourism, as well as also representatives of the creative and cultural field who are interested in undertaking looking synergies between both sectors. Training providers, press and media or representatives of other related sectors who wish to explore ways of collaboration with the tourism industries and the generation of transformative trips. The content of this TLab focuses on the definition of design, development, management, marketing and promotion of transformative travel experiences. It will be divided between the theoretical part and the part of interaction, in which participants can collaborate to outline an innovative product.
T-LABS Burgos
Date: 4th February 2020
Location: Burgos, Spain
Target audience: Tourism operator and cultural creative industries
Description: Presented by Simona Polli, a an expert in the tourism sector with solid experience in co-creation processes and a wide knowledge of the Transformative Travel trends. The purpose of this training is to improve the skills of local communities to encourage a new tourism model, transformative tourism, helping them to conceive and generate activities and experiences. The objective is to gather public and private actors linked to tourism, as well as also representatives of the creative and cultural field who are interested in undertaking looking synergies between both sectors. Training providers, press and media or representatives of other related sectors who wish to explore ways of collaboration with the tourism industries and the generation of transformative trips. The content of this TLab focuses on the definition of design, development, management, marketing and promotion of transformative travel experiences. It will be divided between the theoretical part and the part of interaction, in which participants can collaborate to outline an innovative product.
T-LABS Gelsenkirchen
Date: 29th January 2020
Location: Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr Region, Deutschland
Target audience: Tourism operator and cultural creative industries
Description: Presented by Simona Polli, a an expert in the tourism sector with solid experience in co-creation processes and a wide knowledge of the Transformative Travel trends. The purpose of this training is to improve the skills of local communities to encourage a new tourism model, transformative tourism, helping them to conceive and generate activities and experiences. The objective is to gather public and private actors linked to tourism, as well as also representatives of the creative and cultural field who are interested in undertaking looking synergies between both sectors. Training providers, press and media or representatives of other related sectors who wish to explore ways of collaboration with the tourism industries and the generation of transformative trips. The content of this TLab focuses on the definition of design, development, management, marketing and promotion of transformative travel experiences. It will be divided between the theoretical part and the part of interaction, in which participants can collaborate to outline an innovative product.
T-LABS Rijeka
Date: 24th January 2020
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
Target audience: Tourism operator and cultural creative industries
Description: Presented by Simona Polli, a an expert in the tourism sector with solid experience in co-creation processes and a wide knowledge of the Transformative Travel trends. The purpose of this training is to improve the skills of local communities to encourage a new tourism model, transformative tourism, helping them to conceive and generate activities and experiences. The objective is to gather public and private actors linked to tourism, as well as also representatives of the creative and cultural field who are interested in undertaking looking synergies between both sectors. Training providers, press and media or representatives of other related sectors who wish to explore ways of collaboration with the tourism industries and the generation of transformative trips. The content of this TLab focuses on the definition of design, development, management, marketing and promotion of transformative travel experiences. It will be divided between the theoretical part and the part of interaction, in which participants can collaborate to outline an innovative product.
Conference ECoC Matera
Date: 25th October 2019
Location: Matera
Target audience: Traces’ consortium
Description: The ECoC-SME project recognizes the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) programme as a yet under-utilised opportunity for cities and regions to develop existing and prospective local small- and medium enterprises. During this event, we will focus on the role of ECoC in local development and also Creative Industries, Tourism, Legacy by thematic table.
T-LABS Meeting Matera
Date: 24th October 2019
Location: Matera
Target audience: Traces’ consortium
Description: The partners of Cultour is Capital gather at Matera (Italy) in the second meeting of this European project, funded by the COSME Program of the European Commission. The so far involvement of present and future European Capitals of Culture will be one of the central issues of the meeting, in which the partners will also evaluate the supports received from third parties as stakeholders.
Meeting Barcelona
Date: 22 and 23 May 2019
Location: Barcelona
Target audience: TraCEs’ consortium
Descriptión: The partners of Culture is Capital gather at Barcelona (Spain) in the kick-off meeting of this European project, funded by the COSME Programme of the European Commission to bring transformative tourism together with the European Capitals of Culture. Main guidelines of action will be discussed to establish the goals of the project in its first months.