Events

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, chairholder, has participated to the annual meeting of KFPE - Commission for Research Partnerschips with Developing Countries. Prof. Cantoni is ad personam member of the board of KFPE. The meeting took place on January 19-20,...

The 8th Seminar of the UNESCO Chair and UNITWIN/UNESCO Network «Culture, Tourism, Development» took place last December 6th, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The seminar tackeld the issue of Tourism and Technologies of Information in UNESCO World...

The meeting has taken place on 23-24 November 2017, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. It followed the first coordination meeting, held in December 2015, and was organized around the overarching theme of Culture as an enabler of sustainable...

From 2 to 5 October 2017, prof. Lorenzo Cantoni has participated to the international workshop organized by the Unitwin UNESCO Network «Culture, Tourisme, Développement» (to which USI's UNESCO chair is affiliated), in collaboration with the...

From 27th to 29th September 2017, a delegation of the UNESCO Chair at USI composed of prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, dr. Silvia De Ascaniis and Emanuele Mele participated in the third Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference held in Pori...

The UNESCO Chair at USI is actively involved in the conference as a partner and with two activities on place: a keynote presentation by the chair-holder, professor Cantoni, on "eLearning for Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality: an outline and some...

The fourth edition of the Summer School of the UNESCO Chair in ICT [Information and Communication Technology] to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI – Università  della Svizzera italiana (Lugano,...

May 25, 2017. Suzan LeVine, United States Ambassador to Switzerland, was at USI to discuss about cultural diplomacy and digital technologies: the role of social media and tourism in peace-building The workshop tackled the topic of diplomatic use of...

May 5th, 2017 prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will keynote at the Sustaining Sustainabilities. Cultural heritage & cultural capital Conference at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pannonia (Veszprem, Hungary). More info here.

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni has done a presentation titled "Tecnologie per la comunicazione e promozione turistica dei siti del Patrimonio Mondiale" and delivered a workshop on "Usabilità e qualità dei siti web e delle applicazioni mobili". Monastero di...

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni and the intern Ilaria Rosani have participated in the meeting of the UNITWIN-UNESCO Network “Culture, Tourism, Development”, led by Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which has taken place in Coimbra (Portugal), after the...

University of Turku and Elgin & Co. are pleased to announce the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, International Conference 2017. The event will take place in Pori, Finland, on 27-29 September 2017. For more...

For the celebration of World Tourism Day 2016, Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni will be a speaker at the Tourism Leaders' International Summit, representing both International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) and UNESCO Chair in ICT. The...

The 40th session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, in July 2016. A side event is dedicated to the "Integration of Sustainable Development into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention: Role of Academia and...

The event will take place on June 19-21, 2016, in Lin'an City, China. With the theme"twenty-first century tourism, heritage and memory", the forum will include topics like heritage tourism, community development coordination, and tourism...

Dr. Silvia De Ascaniis, from the UNESCO Chair at USI, presents #faces4heritage campaign at the UNESCO High-Level Meeting and Technical Conference titled Cultural Diversity under Attack: Protecting Heritage for Peace (Brussels, 09-10 June 2016) More...

In the frame of the global initiative P2P: Challenging Extremism, a class of Master students of USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (in the 1st picture) has been invited to present their project at the U.S. Department of State in Washington...

We are glad to invite you to the seminar held by Dr. Dorothea Kleine from Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) Beyond surveys and focus groups: Young people, participatory film and equity of voice. Experiences from London and Rio The seminar...

 September 19, 2015. Tourism is one of the most intense (informal) learning experiences, when the condition of being free FROM daily duties and responsibilities allows to be free TO cultivate own interests and make new experiences. Religion, on its...

September 19, 2015. UNESCO Chair ran an Expert Workshop to explore the overlapping area between eLearning, eTourism and eReligion. Tourism is one of the most intense (informal) learning experiences, when the condition of being free FROM daily...