Retourn - REcovery TOURism after Natural disaster

31/05/2024

To conclude this month of May, we return to Thursday 9th, when the final conference of the project was held in the UNIMC Department of Economics and Law.

After greetings from the project's scientific director and Head of the Department, Elena Cedrola, the Macerata City Councillor for Culture and University Katiuscia Cassetta, and Rector JohnMcCourt, the project partners illustrated the objectives and results of the work over the past 30 months.

The guests illustrated examples of excellence, sustainability and resilience: 🔹Giambattista Tofoni, co-founder of Risorgimarche, the ethical festival created following the earthquakes to bring music to disaster-stricken landscapes,
🔹Emanuele Vietina, director of Luccacrea, organisation of the Lucca Comics festival, which was affected by flooding in the last edition,
🔹Rosaria Del Balzo Ruiti, for the Italian Red Cross, with various testimonies of initiatives implemented in recent years by the CRI, always in the forefront line in the emergency and in supporting the territory.

These interventions have all had in common a strong attention to the element of listening, empathy with the subjects of the territory and the elimination of barriers and the barriers.

This was followed by speeches on
🔹Dark Tourism with Marina Gigliotti from the University of Perugia,
🔹Eleonora Cutrini and Mara Cerquetti of the University of Macerata on the resilience of museum structures in the post disaster,
🔹and to cocnlude Davide di Marcoberardino, researcher from the Marche Polytechnic University on the impacts of disaster and the importance of prevention and education with the case of the 2022 Marche flood.

Experiences and difficulties that are an expression of the territories afflicted by disaster in order to set in motion the reconstruction of such destinations and enable their development in an innovative, ethical and sustainable key.

Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdKzGXtBrWw

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Fakulteta za turizem, Univerza v Mariboru
GZS Center za poslovno usposabljanje
Pepe Lab
UNIMC - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto
RisorgiMarche
Lucca Comics & Games
Lucca Creatives Inc.
Croce Rossa Italiana - Comitato di Macerata
Comune di Macerata

16/05/2024

A week ago the partners met again in Italy for the last step of the project.

The meetings began on Wednesday 8th of May with the through the streets of Macerata, in partnership with the University of Macerata, IgersMarche and the Municipality of Macerata.

The european partners and all the public participants met in Piazza Strambi for a walk in the historical centre in style!
The instaWalk followed the city’s most iconic spots, guided by exceptional ciceroni who immersed participants not only in the history of the place, but also in the challenges faced and the related solutions implemented after the 2016-2017 earthquakes, the very ones that subsequently inspired the rebirth projects.

Participants also witnessed unusual installations around the centre, such as those of the AND project, Digital Native Arts, immersive digital experiences for the revitalisation of the Mercato delle Erbe and the very iconic and brightly coloured Vicolo Consalvi, an urban immersive journey and a Public Art project, created by the students of the Light design course at the Academy of Fine Arts.

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GZS Center za poslovno usposabljanje
Pepe Lab
UNIMC - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto
Igers Marche
IgersItalia
Accademia Belle Arti - Macerata
And - Arti Native Digitali

07/05/2024

Discover "RETOURN" (REcovery TOURism after Natural disaster) the European Funded Program born in order to respond to the lack of preparation and adequate knowledge by the figures operating in the tourism sector in relation to risk management and the recovery of damage resulting from natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and pandemics such as the one caused by COVID-19.

30/04/2024

EXPORT - PROGETTO EUROPEO RETOURN ✈

Prosegue con successo il progetto europeo Erasmus+ "Retourn", che mira a formare la figura professionale "Esperto di riconversione turistica" utile al ripristino dell'immagine di un territorio a seguito di disastri naturali https://retourn.eu/

Siamo partner del progetto e abbiamo ospitato presso la sede di Terni dell'Ente camerale, un evento di formazione a cui hanno preso parte diversi operatori del settore turistico.

COSA ABBIAMO FATTO

In questi anni di lavoro i partner hanno realizzato ricerche, materiali di studio e un protocollo formativo che prevede un didattica tradizionale, e-learning e laboratori esperienziali basati sul metodo serious play, per far emergere pensiero creativo e collaborativo utili alla riattivazione dei territori in modo innovativo e coerente con le esigenze dei territori.

📌L'evento ha dato la possibilità agli operatori dei territori colpiti da calamità naturali di conoscere i contenuti della piattaforma di e-learning implementati messa a punto nell'ambito del progetto.

Relatori dell'incontro, Marta Giovannetti, docente di Economia e gestione delle imprese e Marketing dell'Università di Macerata, capofila del progetto, Marina Gigliotti, professoressa associata Economia e gestione delle imprese di Unipg che ha presentato gli interessanti risultati di una ricerca nel settore turistico circa l'attrazione di talenti in un contesto di disaster recovery e Danilo Calabrese, Presidente Lares Italia-Unione nazionale laureati esperti in protezione civile, che ha raccontato l'esperienza regionale per favorire il tessuto economico post covid.

👉A disposizione dei professionisti del settore turistico la piattaforma e-learning, accessibile previa registrazione al sito education.retourn.eu/it

Tappa finale del progetto, maggio a Macerata.

Unioncamere Unimc / Università degli Studi di Macerata UNIMC / Università degli Studi di Macerata Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto Alessia Battisti Roberta Mattioli Università degli Studi di Perugia Retourn - REcovery TOURism after Natural disaster Emanuela Zara Unioncamere Punto Impresa Digitale - Umbria Promos Italia

30/04/2024

‼️SAVE THE DATE‼️
L’InstaWalk arriva a Macerata!

L'iniziativa, collegata al Progetto Europeo RETOURN in collaborazione tra Università degli Studi di Macerata, IgersMarche e Comune di Macerata!

L'appuntamento è per
📆 mercoledì 8 maggio
🕓alle ore 17.30
📍in Piazza Strambi – Macerata
👉🏼 Partecipazione gratuita
❗️Prenotazioni entro il 7 maggio ( maggiori info sotto)

L’instaWalk coprirà i punti e gli scorci più iconici e storici della città, in pieno stile !

🏛Il tutto con dei ciceroni d’eccezione: non solo cenni storici dei luoghi che visiteremo lungo il percorso, ma illustreranno anche le sfide affrontate e le relative soluzioni adottate dopo i terremoti del 2016-2017, che hanno successivamente ispirato i formidabili progetti di rinascita.

Come il progetto RETOURN che punta a supportare le comunità che hanno subìto disastri naturali per consentirne la ripresa e lo sviluppo in chiave innovativa, etica, sostenibile… e perché no, anche digitale, attraverso la produzione di contenuti multimediali.

📩 Per prenotazioni: inviare una mail igersmarche@gmail.com specificando nome, cognome e numero di telefono.
Vi aspettiamo!

23/04/2024

The final conference of the Return project is coming soon!

The Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata, leader of the Retourn project, is hosting the final conference of the project :

📆 9th of May, Thursday

📍in Piazza Strambi, the Economics and Law building of UNIMC, just inaugurated after the restoration due to the 2016-2017 earthquakes,

🕓 from 2pm to 7pm

📲 accessible both in person and online.

With the participation of illustrious guests such as:

🔹Giambattista Tofoni, co-founder of Risorgimarche, the ethical and sustainable music festival born following the 2016-2017 earthquakes of Central Italy, to bring music to landscapes affected
by disasters,

🔹Emanuele Vietina, director of Luccacrea, organization of LuccaComics festival, dedicated to comics, animation and video games, which in the last edition was affected by flooding,

🔹Rosaria Del Balzo Ruiti, representative of the Italian Red Cross,

🔹and Domenico Baratto, director of WEGA Formazione, active in territorial and post-disaster reconstructions.

And much more, such as interventions on the issues of Dark Tourism by professors and researchers:

🔸Marina Gigliotti from the University of Perugia,

🔸Eleonora Cutrini and Mara Cerquetti from the University of Macerata,

for the resilience of museum structures in the post-disaster,

🔸and finally Davide di Marcoberardino, from the Polytechnic University of Marche for the impacts of the disaster on the territorial economic system with the case of the 2022 Marche flood.

The speakers together with project partners, associations, institutions and teachers will summarize the ideas, experiences and difficulties, expression of the territories afflicted by disaster.

In accordance with the overall purpose of the project: start up not only the material reconstruction of these destinations, but also a development in an innovative, ethical and sustainable way.

Don’t miss it

🇮🇹🇬🇧PRE-REGISTRATION ITA/ENG: https://forms.gle/3REBxNUb1wHYRAq48
👉🏼For more information and to participate, contact marta.giovannetti@unimc.it

09/04/2024

On September 15th, 2023 at the University of Macerata, in the Department of Economics and Law, the Multiplier event had been the concluding panel of the week of experiential teaching training, within the RETOURN - REcovery TOurism after Natural Disasters project.

The event open to public, hosted by UNIMC and planned by project partner PepeLab, had as speakers both partners and lead institutions, to show the status of the project, but most importantly by expert guests from the tourism, economic, social and environmental fields.

Each guest enriched the panel by reporting experiences and best practices in the field of tourism recovery after natural and environmental disasters, with a particular focus on the host region, le Marche.

Thanks to each contribution and to the great attendance, the event was the best way to end the week of training.

Together for tourism.

Thanks to

Elena Cedrola PhD
Professor of Management and International Marketing
Dean Department of Economics and Law
Unimc / Università degli Studi di Macerata

Marta Giovannetti
Researcher - Department of Economics and Law
UNIMC - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto

Giovanna Mazzieri
Romina Gattaceca
Pepe Lab Communication and Events

Roberto Grifalconi, Business Agility advisor and facilitator
and Mattia Festa, psychologist and facilitator Best practices

Marco Ciarulli, LegambienteMarche Onlus President

Raffaele Vitali, Wega Impresa Sociale

Marco Cardinaletti, Sustainability and Climate Expert / Founding Partner of Vitamin C

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GZS Center za poslovno usposabljanje

04/04/2024

04/04/2024

Progetto Retourn - evento moltiplicatore 11 aprile 2024

28/03/2024

We would like to introduce you “European Talks”, the format of the Retourn project that will give you a closer look at the goals, steps, lead institutions and all partners of this project on rebuilding tourism after a natural disaster.

We start in Macerata, home of the university that led the project and with Professor Elena Cedrola, Dean of the Department of Economics and Law.

The professor will answer the question: What is the history of the University of Macerata and why did UniMc and all the partners take on the Retourn project?



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Fakulteta za turizem, Univerza v Mariboru
GZS Center za poslovno usposabljanje
Pepe Lab
Unimc / Università degli Studi di Macerata

20/03/2024

Last September, the city of Macerata hosted all the partners of the RETOURN - REcovery TOURISM after Natural Disasters project for 5 days of workshops and activities on team work, analysis and project design.

The partners experienced, through the mode of serious play and training by facilitators Mattia Festa and Roberto Grifalconi, how group dynamics are the fundamental starting point for the achievement of an aim and, in this case, of a project intended to deal with the consequences of a natural disaster at the tourism level.

The RETOURN project partners thus became trainers themselves, for a multidisciplinary group of experts in the tourism, multimedia and social areas.

Let's take a look back together this week.

Trebag Szellemi tulajdon- és Projektmenedzser Kft
Camera di Commercio Italo-ellenica di Salonicco
Univerza v Mariboru
UNIMC - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto
Fakulteta za turizem, Univerza v Mariboru
GZS Center za poslovno usposabljanje
Camera Commercio Umbria
Pepe Lab
Europe Unlimited e.V.
AKMI International
Unimc / Università degli Studi di Macerata