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At the end of the 14th International Round Table of Experts of the Foundation was presented the document of the Mission Life Beyond Tourism. All the Italian and international partners of the Foundation are invited to read and sign it; the Mission and the list of its subscribers will be presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for the Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration Heritage under pressure: perspective of Human Urban Landscape (Baku, Azerbaijan, 26-28 April 2012), at the presence of the UNESCO, ICOMOS and ICCROM Authority.
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Following the great success of the previous editions of the project “Saperi e Sapori in cattedra”, promoted by the Honorary Consulat of Czech Republic together with the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco® – Life Beyond Tourism® and realized mainly thanks to the financial support of Visegrad Fund (http://visegradfund.org/), the fourth edition is being organized for the period 26th February – 3rd March 2012 with the participation of schools from six counties: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Italy.
According to the spirit of Life Beyond Tourism® ethos, conceived by the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco®, after ove 20years of activity, the project will be organized as an intensive one-week stage in Florence /Italy/. This stage is aimed at promoting cultural and educational exchange with the objective of bringing together 4 students and 1 pedagogue professor from each one of the Hospitality and Tourism Management schools of the 4 Visegrad member states (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary), with the cooperation of one Italian and one Romanian schools for chefs.
Life Beyond Tourism® aims to worldwide promote intercultural dialogue through the valorisation of our tangible and intangible heritage and through a ‘tourism based on values, not only on consumer services’. Thus, Life Beyond Tourism® promotes the respect and the understanding of the visited place: its culture, and its traditional knowledge such as the cooking and food traditions. As a matter of fact, the symbol of LBT is a flower whose petals stand for ‘encounters’, ‘communication’, ‘knowledge’, ‘conservation’, and ‘economy’. This commitment looks at the young generations through the Web (www.lifebeyondtourism.org; www.lifebeyondtourism.org/photoblog). The aim of the photoblog is to collect pictures from all over the world representing and comparing different interpretations of heritage (such as food heritage), intercultural dialogue, cultural diversity, traditional knowledge, and travelling. The photo contribution of the website will be maintained to an high scientific level thanks to the involvement of also institutional and study groups such as the Italian ICOMOS Youth section and various students/ graduates of those Universities that are part of the Foundation’s network.
Project description
The project focuses on the exchange of cultural, social, political and eno-gastronomic aspects of each participating country.
Together with the possibility of meeting and working in teams in Florence, one of the World’s most important cities of Art, and visit various Florentine and Tuscan sights (always thematically connected with the field of their study), the students will have a chance to share their knowledge of the hospitality field and learn how to react and cooperate in an international work team while using the English language.
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Following the success of I edition of the photo contest Dante in the World Today - examples of dialogue among cultures over time, the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation and the Museo Casa di Dante in Florence invite all the interested and the Foundation’s network members to partecipate at the II Edition.
The jury decided to postpone the deadline of Dante in the World Today photo contest. The new deadline is April 30, 2012.
The names of five winners will be publish by May 31, 2012.
Click here to register to the Photo Contest!
In the Divina Commedia, Dante pictured its time and its city.
Now is your turn!
Tell us your time and space by interpreting Dante within your daily life. Through a photo that could recall the environments, landscapes, and/or characters of Dante’s Divina Commedia.
The Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco® - Life Beyond Tourism® man has the pleasure to announce its next collaboration with Forum Unesco for the realization of the event that will be kept to July to Florence: “2° International Talk, International Net of Critical Thought on Globalization of obstructed Patrimony C, City Cultural Landscape and Territorial Identity: a relational approach between cultural diversities and cultural patrimony”.Academic objective of the Talk is that one to frequently explore possible roads that they allow of coiciliare impositive dynamics and accrediting of the globalization to the aim to value the local and identitario character of the cultural landscapes city contemporaries and to widen the Net with new international adhesions.
General coordinator RIGPAC: Prof. Dr. Carlos Mario Papal Yory Univcersidad Javeriana (Colombia), Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Coordinator Italy RIGPAC: Prof. Dott.ssa Olimpia Niglio, University and Campus, Novedrate Como – Italy, Visiting Professor Universidad de Ibaguè – Colombia
Florence 12-14 July 2012
For greater information clicca here.
Is now open the registration for the course “Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous Cultures” promoted by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation and the University of Queensland, School of Social Science, Australia.
The course will take place in Florence, July 1-7, 2012, and it will explore the concepts underpinning cultural heritage management within the context of Indigenous cultures with a strongly practical approach. It will deal with intangible heritage, contemporary living heritage, cultural landscapes, the intersection of natural and cultural heritage values, and the principles of co-management.
For the complete program click here
Yesterday there was the Memorandum signing ceremony of Understanding between Life Beyond Tourism and the Province of Florence. During the morning Fabrizio Boni (Province of Florence), Andrea Barducci (President of the Province), Aldo Cursano (Confcommercio, Tuscany), Carlo Francini (UNESCO, Municipality of Florence), Maria Luisa Stringa (Florence, UNESCO ) and Paolo del Bianco had their speech.
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The Romualdo del Bianco Foundation ® – Life Beyond Tourism ® has the pleasure to announce that tomorrow, December 14th 2011, will take place in Luca Giordano Hall of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, the ‘Life Beyond Tourism’ Memorandum Signing Ceremony which will provide the collaboration between the Romualdo del Bianco Foundation ® – Life Beyond Tourism ® and the Provincia di Firenze.
The ceremony will keep on in the afternoon, from 15.30 at the Auditorium al Duomo in Via Cerretani 54 / r of Florence.
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At the end of the XVII General Assembly ICOMOS Symposium 2011 held in Paris from November 27 to December 1, the ICOMOS Executive Committee accepted the proposal made by the President ICOMOS Italy, Maurizio Stefano, to hold the next General Assembly of ICOMOS 2014 in Florence, with the title Heritage and Landscape as Drivers of Human Rights.
During the presentation the President Di Stefano has repeatedly thanked the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation-Life Beyond Tourism° for the cooperation received during the subtle preparation of the application.
The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation-Life Beyond Tourism° would like to express its gratitude to the President Mr Di Stefano for the level of confidence for us, as well as all the Italian and Florentine institutions who could co-operated with us for the achievement of this prestigious international recognition.
Since now, the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation-Life Beyond Tourism° invites all the professors and experts from the universities and institutions of its international network to participate in this very prestigious congress. Themes will be communicated once ICOMOS will confirm them.
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Del Bianco Foundation®-Life Beyond Tourism® informs its network that it is born VivaFirenze, the non-profit portal of hotel reservation that supports the region and the florentine culture.
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Continue reading ‘VivaFirenze.it presented at BTO, 1st December’
