CREATOUR
Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas
CREATOUR is an incubator/demonstration and multidisciplinary research initiative, supporting collaborative research processes involving five research centres working with a range of cultural/creative organizations and other stakeholders located in small cities in the Norte, Centro, Alentejo and Algarve regions. The project is coordinated by CES with the following partners: the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies (CIDEHUS), University of Évora; the Research Centre on Space and Organization (CIEO), University of the Algarve; DINÂMIA'CET, Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and Territory, at ISCTE-IUL; and the Laboratory on Landscape, Heritage and Territory (Lab2PT), University of Minho.
The overall objective of CREATOUR is to develop and pilot an integrated approach and research agenda for creative tourism in small cities and rural areas in Portugal, developing strong links within and amongst regions. Building on a twofold approach, CREATOUR intertwines Theory and Experimentation, combining multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological frameworks, cultural mapping, and benchmarking exercises with the development of an array of Pilots, or creative tourism case studies.
The project is informed by theoretical and methodological approaches from cultural/creative sector development, tourism, and regional development. It is organized using the key dimensions of support to enhance value for creative sector development as a framework: 1) build knowledge and capacity, 2) support content development and link creativity to place, and 3) strengthen network and cluster formation. CREATOUR aims to produce policy recommendations and strategies, particularly focusing on networking and clustering as key options for continued development.
This work is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Regional Operational Programmes of Lisboa and Algarve, and by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within the scope of CREATOUR project, nº 016437.
Total Funding: 1.846.169,77€
FEDER funding: 1.333.925,80€
National Funding (OE): 512.243,97€
COMPETE 2020: 1.274.948,37€
POR Lisboa: 353.910,17€
POR Algarve: 217.311,23€
The project will advance knowledge of the creative/cultural and tourism sectors in small cities and rural areas of Portugal; catalyze the development of a network of 40 creative tourism offers; design professional development and co-learning events through regional and national IdeaLabs; evaluate the development, reception, and impacts of the creative tourism pilots; organize three annual international conferences; and develop advanced training courses and a range of publications directed to researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.
CIDEHUS - Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora
CIEO -Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações, Universidade do Algarve
DINÂMIA'CET – IUL, Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território
Lab2PT, Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, Universidade do Minho
Ana Maria Ferreira
Ana Rita Cruz
Carlos Fortuna
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho
Fiona Bakas
Isabel Vaz de Freitas
Jaime Serra
João Filipe Marques
Josefina Salvado
Juliana Araújo Alves
Lorena Sancho Querol
Margarida Perestrelo
Maria Assunção Gato
Maria Cadarso
Maria Noémi Marujo
Miguel Nuno Marques Pereira
Mirian Tavares
Miroslav Valeriu Tascu-Stavre
Nancy Duxbury (coord)
Olga Maria Pinto de Matos
Paula Remoaldo
Paulo Peixoto
Pedro Costa
Ricardo Gôja
Sara Albino
Sílvia Silva
Sónia Cabeça
Tiago Vinagre Castro
Vítor Patrício Rodrigues Ribeiro
Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa
Programa Operacional Regional do Algarve
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
