CulturalDeTour – Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

CulturalDeTour Accelerator (CDTA) Program!
Calling all visionary sustainable tourism entrepreneurs in Greece, Spain, or Slovenia, it’s time to supercharge your ventures with us! Embark on a journey to discover fresh models, cutting-edge technology, and sustainable practices through Earth-Centered Design.
Apply by November 19, 2023, for this incredible opportunity!

According to the Creative Europe objective of “Innovation- to enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth.,” CulturalDeTour focuses on boosting innovation, sustainability and business creation through a design-driven process used to facilitate collaboration and entrepreneurship in the cultural tourism sector.

Earth centred design and design-driven innovation are used as the method and process to facilitate sustainability integration and technology adoption CulturalDeTour aims to create a strong cross-sectoral and cross-national innovation network to strengthen technology and sustainability adoption in the cultural tourism sectors and improve their economic resilience, particularly during the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the set-up of an online platform and organisation of innovative events to connect, support, guide and facilitate entrepreneurial activities and cross-sectoral collaboration involving different regions, organisations and expertise field. In addition, the CDT Boost initiative aims at providing support to several cultural entrepreneurs to scale-up their activities and improve their sustainability, evolving around an EU CulturalDeTour acceleration programme. The project foresees six live events and happenings to boost even further Cross-sectoral collaboration and matchmaking. The main impact the project wants to generate is to to provide support to cultural tourism SMEs, covering key areas such as sustainability, digitalization, innovative business models, mentoring, and entrepreneurship skills by the use of Design Driven Innovation. Partners will strategically cover these areas, acting as “thematic experts” through their intervention in live events, participation in the acceleration programme, but also with news, articles and videos for the platform and for communication purposes.

Funded projects

Innovation through media collaboration: Digital assets exchange platform (MEDEXCHANGE24)

Animation HUB (A-HUB)

Word: Enhancing European Graphic Novel Perception, Circulation and Market Development

Roma Soul Food (ROMASOUL)

Tying the European Cultural Landscapes with Knots and Patterns (Knots and Patterns)

Hiking Heritage Trails (INHERIT)

Sensory Artistic Experiences for the Blind (Multisensory Art)

PASS – Pass the Street (Art), Shake the Hand

Slow Performing Arts Festivals for Improved Wellbeing, Mental Health and Social Inclusion (Festival SPA)

Staragara – Slate 2024 (The Colour of the Doubt, Black Swan, Removal, We would have told each other everything, Kozmonavti)

PAGE: Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

NEB COOLTOURS: Transforming Tourism Through Cultural Innovation and Environmental Stewardship in Alpe-Adria

Bridges

Transition to 8: European societies in flux

ENACT – Easy-to-understand News for Collaborative Transformation

THRIVE – Talent Harvest: Rural Intangible Heritage and Value Empowerment

Land of Lace

CAFE: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering Inclusive Cultural Expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation (GTMI)

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries (HERUN)

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good – LOE for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3 – Audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT – participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova - OPE.N

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

CULTURAL BEES: Promotion of entrepreneurship skills in the Cultural and Creative Industry among youth

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

reCITYing – Reactivating Unused Urban Spaces Through Architecture and Arts 2024–2028

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan (Bio Awaking)

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) – PH

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studio Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival 2024-2025

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0 – a pan-European Film Initiative for Young Audiences in Healthcare Structures

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)