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	UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

Buon Natale & Felice Anno Nuovo!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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We wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022! Image: Giotto di Bondone, Birth of Jesus Christ, Cappella degli Scrovegni - Padua, Italy (part of "Padua’s 14th-century fresco cycles", a WHS inscriberd in 2021).

New director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center

Congratulations to Lazare Eloundou Assomo!

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Congratulations to Lazare Eloundou Assomo for the appointment as new director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center. In 2019, he was in Lugano for the USI MEM Summer Summit and met the participants to the UNESCO Chair Summer School.

Academic event and materials

1st Cultural Routes Academic Workshop

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On Thursday, 09.12.2021, Elide Garbani-Nerini and Silvia De Ascaniis presented their study on the “Online communication strategies of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe” at the 1st Cultural Routes Academic Workshop. Here you can find the video recording and the (free) paper download.

Upcoming event

ENTER 22 USI UNESCO Chair participation

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USI UNESCO Chair members, Ph.D. candidates Elide Garbani-Nerini and Lea Hasenzahl, former intern Soha Ghezili as well as chair holder Lorenzo Cantoni will be participating in the upcoming ENTER22 eTourism Conference presenting different scientific papers.

Interview

The Blue Helmets of Culture

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The Institutional Communication Service of USI - Università della Svizzera italiana realized an interview with Brig. Gen. Roberto Riccardi, Head of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, on his experience within the UNESCO "Blue Helmets of Culture" project.

Current project

Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites Vol.3

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The second launch of the III volume of the MOOC was successful and the runtime finished on November 22. We are now at 5231 learners from 160 countries. The course will close at the end of December 2022. Enroll here.

Current project

DESy

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DESy, the Interreg Italy-Switzerland project is approaching its final phase. In the coming months, new services focused on personalized communication through improved data collection will be implemented.

PhD defence

Congratulations to Marc-Marie Mutangala

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On December 10th, at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome, Marc-Marie Mutangala successfully defended his PhD, supervised by prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, on "The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the religious experience of pilgrims and religious tourists".

New position

Ph.D. position in Digital Fashion Communication

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The research project will focus on the digitalization of a brand's fashion heritage and its related communication practices. This position is funded by the LifeStyleTech Competence Center as part of a collaborative project with Bally, Hyphen, and Microsoft. For more details, click here (PDF).