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Welcome to the webpage of the Higher Education interdisciplinary Reform In Tourism management and Applied Geoinformation curricula (HERITAG) Project.

The project HERITAG aims to develop an interdisciplinary reform in higher education programmes at master level and continuing education integrating Geo-information Technologies (GIT) applied to cultural heritage documentation, tourism management and entrepreneurship.

The project promotes the synergy of three main groups of stakeholders: Universities, industry and Administration. The curricular reform integrates the development of capacities in 3 main national and regional priorities in Georgia and Armenia: Geo-information technologies, cultural heritage preservation and documentation, and fostering tourism business and entrepreneurship.

The efficient and sustainable implementation of the project will allow Georgia and Armenia to build tourism opportunities based on the rich cultural heritage of the region, and impulse the technical field of GIT, that will be a key for innovation in the near future of these countries, with an important growing potential. This will preserve the history, foster the tourism, and build innovation in the region.


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Feb 18

Sprawling Maya network discovered under Guatemala jungle

Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala. They used Laser technology known as Lidar to digitally...
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Feb 18

GTU equipment purchase

HERiTAG Partner Georgian Technical University (GTU) successfully procured the 3D laser scanning equipment, packaged with software and accessories. After an...
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Sep 17

Workshop 6.1 on Quality Assurance in Higher Education

BSU partner organized the HERITAG Workshop 6.1 on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, from 25 to 29 September, 2017, and...
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Jul 17

Training 4.5 Photogrammetry for Cultural Heritage Documentation

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Engineering, Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, School of Rural & Surveying...
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Apr 17

Armenian rectors (ASUE and NUACA) sign an agreement with UPV to strength their collaboration in Higher education

In the framework of the Erasmus + project HERITAG, the rectors of the Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE) and...
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Apr 17

Training 4.6 in Economics for tourism development and Project Management Meeting

UNIBO partner organized the HERITAG training 4.6 Economics for tourism development, from 20 to 31 March, 2017, and in the...
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Mar 17

Preliminary results of the HERITAG education and social survey

An analysis of educational needs and business opportunities in cultural heritage and tourism was made and their results were integrated...
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Dec 16

Monitoring visit to GSU

Due to the changes on administration and rector at Goris State University (GSU) during the first year of the project, a visit was organized by the coordinator of the HERITAG project and the Armenian coordinator, in order to describe the project activities and outcomes. Continue reading
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Nov 16

Training 4.3 Entrepreneurship in tourism

The training workshop 'Entrepreneurship in Cultural Tourism' was successfully completed from October 31-04 November 2016 in València, Spain, organised by the IDEAS-UPV Institute and held at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Continue reading
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Oct 16

Training 4.2 Mobile Web Mapping for CH Tourism

HERITAG project is pleased to report the completion of the 2 weeks training course no. 4.2 entitled 'Mobile Web Mapping for Cultural Heritage and Tourism', organised by UPV partner and project coordinator on 17-29 October 2016, València, Spain, at the premises of the Universitat Politècnica de València. Continue reading
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