Institutional Collaboration - Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe

XVI Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue on the Phoenicians’ Route
2023 International General Assembly
20th anniversary of the Phoenicians’ Route 2003-2023
Sardinia – Italy | Cabras, 18-20 October | Porto Torres, 20-21 October

The event is hosted by the Mont’e Prama Foundation, in collaboration with the Sardinia Region, the Municipalities of Cabras and Porto Torres, and has received the patronage of the Italian Ministries of Culture, Tourism, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

• Program
• Speeches
  • The Main Phoenician Cities
  • Lebanon a member state in the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes - EPA
• ​Presentation
• The Alphabet Museum - Byblos
• Phoenicians’ Route Museum - Jounieh
• High-Mountain Phoenician Center - Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve
• CROSSDEV celebrates the new High Mountain Phoenician center in Lebanon
• The route of the Phoenicians, an itinerary between archeology and the present time

12th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum Łódź, Poland, 20 - 22 September 2023

Group picture

With Dr. Stefano Dominioni, Executive Secretary, Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes and Dr. Mike Robinson, chair of the University Network

With Mrs. Ksenija Keca, Phoenicians Route

Governing Board meeting

B to B meeting with Mrs. Olga Mezeridou, Routes of the Olive Tree and Mrs. Elizabetta Giudrinetti, Wine Route

The 2023 Advisory Forum was organized by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and the European Institute of Cultural Routes, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Dr. Rachid Chamoun, former Director of LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation and Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Tourism for international relations in his capacity as the representative for Lebanon to the Enlarged Partial Agreement into the  Governing Board of  the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, and in his  position representing the Lebanese American University University (LAU) into the University Network for Cultural Routes Studies, Council of Europe. During to the 12th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, Łódź , Poland .

As of this year, Lebanon is among the 40 member States of the Enlarged Partial Agreement participating to the 48 Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA). Lebanon crossing 4 distinguished cultural routes; the Phoenicians Route, legado Andalucia , Iter Vitis (Wine Route) and the Route of the Olive Tree. 

Lebanon is also very active in academic and scientific research in the field of cultural heritage and sustainable cultural tourism through the participation of the Lebanese American University among the 22 Universities across Europe and the Mediterranean region.

Dr. Chamoun is proud to be entrusted by his Excellency, Lebanese Minister of tourism Eng. Walid Nassar and LAU president Dr. Michel Mawad into this mission of strategic partnership and seek to sustain Lebanon’s cultural position into the Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA), into the European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR), of the Council of Europe.

Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, Governing Board 2023, Luxembourg, May 10-11

 

 

11th Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Annual Advisory Forum, Chania, Greece, October 5-7, 2022

The Council of Europe Cultural Routes’ programme is celebrating its 35th anniversary at the 11th Advisory Forum which is taken place in Chania, Greece from 5-7 October 202. The Forum is organized by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and the European Institute of Cultural Routes, in co-operation with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports , the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism, the Greek National Tourism Organization, the Region of Crete, The Municipality of Chania, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Chania, and the Historic cafes Route.

University Network for Cultural Routes Studies

• Speeches:
  - Dr. Chamoun speeches (speech 1 - speech 2)
  - Minister Nassar speech, represented by his Advisor Dr. Rachid Chamoun
• Program
• Concept Note
• Info
• Video of the entire Forum
• Videos of Dr. Chamoun speech (1 - 2 - 3)
• Picture gallery
• All Forum documents including photos, videos, and presentations are now available on the programme webpage.

Newsroom

• Switzerland: The Federal Office of Culture makes a voluntary contribution to the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes
• Lebanon: The Minister of Tourism presents the “Wine Tourism Lebanon” Initiative with the participation of “Iter Vitis”, Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
• Iron Age Danube Route: Certification ceremony held in Zagreb, Croatia
• European Parliament: The Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA) featured in Resolution on the “Implementation of the New European Agenda for Culture and the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations”
• Spain: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme at the UNWTO Meeting of Experts on Cultural Tourism
• European Commission: The EPA Secretariat discusses cooperation with the European Heritage Label in Brussels
• Czech Republic (EPA Observer): EPA Vice Chair meets with Members of the European Parliament and Representatives of the Cyril and Methodius Route in Strasbourg
• France: The Ministry of Culture makes a voluntary contribution to the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes
• Routes of El Legado Andalusí: BESTMED and SMARTMED Final Conference in Granada, Spain
• European Route of Historic Thermal Towns: International Congress on Thermal Tourism in Ourense, Spain
• “Best Practice Awards” for 5 Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe at the 2022 Annual Advisory Forum in Chania, Greece
• EUR 10.3 Million of EU funding awarded to the Cultural Routes of the Council Europe during 2021
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe: New publications 2022/2023
• Certification Ceremony held during the Annual Advisory Forum in Chania, Greece: European Fairy Tale Route, Historic Cafés Route and Women Writers Route
• 11th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum: 400 stakeholders, 100 speakers from across Europe met in Chania, Greece, on 5-7 October
• Organisation of Ibero-American States (EPA Observer): Technical Conference of the Euro-Ibero-American Cultural Cooperation on Cultural Routes in Guadalupe, Spain
• 2023 Annual Advisory Forum: Preparatory visit to Łódź, Poland
• 2022-2023 Cultural Routes Certification Cycle underway
• Albania, Lebanon and North Macedonia welcomed as new member States of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe at the 2022 Annual Advisory Forum in Chania, Greece
• EPA: Lebanon joins the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP): Cultural Routes Programme presented at the 9th Plenary meeting
• Prehistoric Rock Art Trails: 2020 General Assembly online
• Destination Napoleon: 2020 General Assembly online
• Phoenicians’ Route: 2020: General Assembly online
• Moldova: Online Forum on the Route “Stephen the Great” – a touristic and cultural cross-border route
• Italy: “MEET Tourism Lucca - International Meeting of Cultural Routes and Destinations of Excellence in Lucca”
• Georgia: Kutaisi will host the 10th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in 2021
• Cycle de certfication 2020-2021 en cours
• Phoenicians’ Route 2020: General Assembly online
• Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico and Universita di Torino, joins the University Network on Cultural Routes Studies
• Germany: New Brochure on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• Switzerland: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe on the website of the Federal Office of Culture
• Luxembourg: Opening Ceremony of the Exhibition on the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• European Union Delegation to China: “An Encounter on a Journey across Time and Space - Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Exhibition” (Beijing, China)
• Austria: Kick-off conference of the “Transdanube.Travel.Stories” European project featuring five Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• The EPA on Cultural Routes, Eurail and the European Youth Card Association (EYCA) sign a “Letter of Intent” on cooperation
• Certification Cycle 2020-2021 underway 
• His Majesty the King of Spain awards the Charles V European Prize to the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme 
• The Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN) joins the University Network on Cultural Routes Studies
• Switzerland: Via Francigena travels along the Swiss path
• Luxembourg: two new network members join “Iter Vitis” and the “European Route of Historic Thermal Towns”
• Romania: the first Cultural Route certified by the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment
• Georgia: two new certified “Cultural Routes of Georgia” and Memorandum of Understanding with the National Tourism Administration
• RURITAGE: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme presented at webinar on heritage-based opportunities for rural regeneration
• Greece - Live webinars: “Cultural Routes Dialogues: challenges and opportunities post Covid-19”
• Live webinars: “Cultural Routes Dialogues: challenges and opportunities post Covid-19” - 3. France and Monaco
• Online Training Seminar for cultural routes applying for the “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” certification
• Cultural Routes Database with Interactive Map now online
• Certification cycle 2020-2021: A record number of 16 new applications for the “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” certification received
• Croatia: New Brochure on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• EPA on Cultural Routes and Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Secretariats sign a “Letter of Intent” on cooperation
• Online Training Seminar for cultural routes applying for the “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” certification - CERTIFICATION CYCLE 2020-2021
• Live webinars: “Cultural Routes Dialogues: challenges and opportunities post Covid-19” - 1. Spain
• Webinar: “Covid-19 and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe: Impacts and Responses”
• Survey: Covid-19 and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe: impacts and responses
• Luxembourg: Europe Day 2020, the European Institute of Cultural Routes participates in online celebrations
• Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet, MIUN) joins the University Network on Cultural Routes
• Certification Cycle 2020-2021: Advisory meetings with 13 candidates
• Germany: Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe highlights Cultural Routes
• EICR Board of Directors held its Annual General Assemble in Luxembourg
• Networking meeting between Cultural Routes, the European Youth Card Association (EYCA) and Eurail
• Croatia: Closing conference of ArhKonTur project
• Serbia: The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe presented at the fifth EUSAIR-Forum
• European Routes of Jewish Heritage: Meeting with the Consul General of Morocco
• Fortified Towns of the Grand Region: 2021 General Assembly online
• TRANSROMANICA - The Romanesque Routes of European Heritage
• Ukraine joins the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• EPA Governing Board 2021 ahead
• Certification Cycle 2021-2022 underway: applications now open
• 2020 Activity Report now available on-line
• European Year of Rail: Online conference on sustainable travel in Europe
• Croatia: 15th virtual meeting of the EUSAIR Thematic Steering Group for Sustainable Tourism
• Impressionisms Routes: New publication
• Route of Saint Olav Ways: Pilgrim conference 2021
• Steering Committee for Cultural, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP): Cultural Routes Programme presented at the 10th Plenary meeting
• The Secretary General of the Council of Europe receives a delegation of the Via Francigena “Road to Rome 2021” initiative
• DGII Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe: Open Day
• The EPA grants Participatory Status to 2 International Organizations and 2 NGOs
• Slovenia: EU Reflection Group meeting
• Working meeting with representatives of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in Portugal
• Italy: Coordination meeting with national representatives of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• France: Coordination meeting with national representatives of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• European Institute of Cultural Routes: Board of Directors meeting
• Online training seminar for Cultural Routes applying for the certification “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” in the framework of the 2021-2022 certification cycle
• Coordination meeting with the five newly certified Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• Cyril and Methodius Route: Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting
• 10th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes: Kutaisi Declaration now on-line
• Council of Europe: the Committee of the EPA member states adopts the Programme and budget 2022-2025
• Ambassador Jean Claude Kugener elected President of the European Institute of Cultural Routes
• Hungarian Chairmanship: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme presented at a conference on slow cultural tourism
• Greece: Signature of the Organisation Agreement for the 2022 Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in Chania (Crete)
• Croatia: Exhibition on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in Zagreb
• Italy: Cultural Routes of Europe - an integrated model for sustainable territorial development
• Portugal: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme presented in the framework of a seminar on Roman Roads
• Germany: Meetings between Federal Institutions and Representatives of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe representatives
• Ukraine: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme presented at “Ukraine International Travel Market 2021”
• European Route of Historic Thermal Towns: 4th European Thermal Heritage Day
• European Route of Jewish Heritage: Inauguration of the “Itinerary of the Jewish Heritage and Upper Town” in Luxembourg
• 300 new network members join the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe during 2020-2021

Newsletter

• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (June 2022) - English - French - Italian - Spanish
• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (January 2022) - English - Italian
• ISTO Europe organizes its Forum from 4 to 6 October 2021 in Lyon, France
• The Sustainable & Social Tourism Summit is about to start!
• New partnership between ISTO and Tourism Durable Quebec (TDQ)
• New ISTO member: Holiday Centre IMSS Oaxtepec (Mexico)
• Join World Tourism Day 2021!
• In Europe 42% of all tourism nights in 2020 were spent in July and August
• How can travel be more ethical in the post-Covid world?
• Low income leaves 35 million Europeans without holiday
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Newsletter (December 2020) - English - Italian
• Cultural Heritage in the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean (March, 2020)
• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (May, 2020) - English - French - Italian
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Newsletter (March, 2020) - French
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Activity Reports (2017-2018-2019 
• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (December 2019) - English
• Days of the Spanish Network of the Phoenicians’ Route in Lebanon (September, 2019)
• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (May, 2019) - English - French - Italian
• The Phoenicians’ Route Newsletter (April, 2019) - English - Italian.
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Newsletter (March, 2019)
• The Phoenician Route Newsletters

Cultural Routes

• 10^th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum - Resilient and Sustainable Cultural Routes - Innovating our way out of the crisis
• European Rock Art Trails
• Sur les pas de Huguenots
• European Route: Historic Gardens
• Identification and analysis of problems in selected European historic gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Tourism & Heritage Dissonances: Narratives, Interpretation & Management
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in Hungary
• The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in Luxembourg: an exhibit
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Branding (booklets)
• Resolution CM/Res(2013)67 of the Committee of Ministers
• Santiago de Compostela Pilgrim Routes
• Cultural Routes (by theme, by country)
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe - Booklet for travelers (2020)
• Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe 2020 (2019)
• The Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
• “Experiences and skills for the new wave of the Cultural and Creative Sector”
• Smart Cultural Heritage, Tourism Development and European Cultural Routes
• International Iter visits - Phoenicians’ Route awards