Eu project
Description
Synergetic Action
CREAMARE is a co-funded EU project with 7 partners across Italy, Greece, Croatia, Hungary & Spain, aiming to bring together cultural institutions, creative professionals, researchers, and tech experts to co-produce digital applications and a 3D serious game focused on Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Presentation of TOURAL project in CREAMARE partners meeting in Zagreb (Croatia) 22 & 23 of May 2024 and in other 2 projects in a dedicated session. Together, these projects promote sustainable development, innovative art and cultural tourism.
BCThubs is an Horizon Eu project with 15 partners from Greece, Malta, Bulgaria, and Italy, aiming to establish permanent Blue Culture Technology Excellence Hubs in the participating Widening countries. These hubs support innovative solutions and products for the sustainable protection, restoration, valorisation, management, accessibility, and promotion of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH).
TOURAL project was presented during the “Widening the Big Blue Horizon” International Conference, held December 4–6, 2024 in a talk titled “The TOURAL project: Participatory approaches & multidimensional models fostering Underwater Cultural Heritage as a corroborating enabler for sustainable tourism development in rural regions.”
SECreTour is a co-funded EU project with partners across Europe, aiming to promote sustainable, engaging, and creative tourism as a driver for a better future in rural and remote areas. Launched on 1 March 2024, the three-year project focuses on strengthening cultural tourism in Europe’s peripheries through research, innovation, and community collaboration. The project is funded by the Horizon Europe program of the European Commission.
TOURAL participated in the EuroMed Conference, held in Cyprus from 2–4 December 2024 and organized by SECRETour. Our collaboration includes email communications, survey dissemination, joint meetings, and the co-development of policy briefs.
SEACHANGE is a synergetic alliance brought together to unlock the richness of oceanic history. Funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant Horizon 2020 programme, this 6-year project combines interdisciplinary research approaches to quantify the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity, setting new baselines for understanding ocean environmental change.
In collaboration with the CREAMARE Project meeting, the session highlighted the value of cooperation among cultural and creative initiatives. With contributions from a representative of the Ministry of Culture and Media RH and the Creative Europe Desk, the discussion underlined the importance of collaboration at the European level.
E-ROUTES is a co-funded EU project that introduces a new approach to presenting European travel routes by drawing on GLAM holdings and artistic materials that reflect shared cultural ties among the participating countries. The project brings together partners from four countries: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy.
In collaboration with the CREAMARE Project meeting, the session emphasized cooperation among cultural and creative projects. With participation from a representative of the Ministry of Culture and Media RH and the Creative Europe Desk office, it highlighted the importance of collaboration at the European level.
GOV4ALL (Governance and business models for living labs: Rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region) is an EU co-funded project focused on the transformation of soil management practices through the creation and monitoring of living labs and rural regeneration hubs. Coordinated by Spanish company SAE Innova, brings together 36 partners from 7 countries.
TOURAL participated in the Thyrea Living Lab, held on 8–9 February 2025, organized within the GOV4ALL project. Our collaboration highlights the strong synergy between GOV4ALL and TOURAL, focusing on sustainable models in agriculture and tourism.
ecoRoute is a co-funded EU project with 9 partners from Greece, France, Portugal, the Azores, Madeira, and Martinique. The project receives funding from the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) of the European Union. ecoRoute aims to design and implement a multidimensional and integrated approach to foster a smart Underwater Cultural & Nature Tourism (UCNT) offer in the participating Outermost Regions.
TOURAL hosted the ART4SEA event at the Knowledge Awareness Center in Alonissos, featuring an exhibition and digital material on Ocean Literacy and Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). The event took place on 27–28 June 2025 on Alonissos Island.
BRIDGE-BS is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project with 31 partners from 14 countries, advancing knowledge and research for a sustainable and climate-neutral Black Sea. The project aims to co-develop Blue Growth pathways under multiple stressors through the sustainable use of ecosystem services. To achieve this, BRIDGE-BS is developing an ecosystem-based management framework that supports policy uptake and fosters active citizen engagement.
TOURAL was invited to participate as an innovative initiative in a series of three upskilling webinars entitled ‘Upskilling Policy-Makers to Support Science-Based Policy-Making on Sustainable Tourism Models: Understanding New Tourism Models in a Changing Era.’ The webinars aim to help decision-makers and policy stakeholders acquire new knowledge on tourism-related issues.