THE EU Funding Workshop will target EU domain specific funding opportunities such as the ETCP , Life Long Learning, ERASMUS+ , ESF, ENPI/ENI, HORIZON 2020, EUROPAID, CULTURE, CREATIVE EUROPE URBACT and so on.

It will instruct participants into the design and delivery of an EU project.

The Seminar will be structured in two parts:

Dr. Dorothea PAPATHANASIOU ZUHRT holds degrees in Classics and Germanistics from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has studied History and Ethnology at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, where she also obtained an M.A. degree in Psycholinguistics. She earned her M.Sc. in Tourism Planning and her Ph.D. degree in Heritage Management at the University of the Aegean. She has studied Tourism Planning at the Universita Autonoma di Barcelona and Universita Ca Foscari Venezia. She is fluent in English, German, French, Italian, and Russian and has basic knowledge of Turkish. Her technical work experience is closely related to the development and implementation EU funded projects with over 100 applications in the last 20 years (Erasmus+; ERDF; ETCP; COSME; H2020; ENI/ENPI; ESF etc.). She is active in the tertiary education teaching Heritage Policy and Management at the Hellenic Open University and Cultural Policy and Development at the Cyprus Open University. As an active researcher she has produced more than 100 publications in the last 20 years. She is founding member of INTERPRET EUROPE, the European Association for the interpretation of heritage, resulting the C.I.P. Leader+ in 2008, and a voting member at EUROPEANA and EUROPEANA Research. Since 2010 she is actively working in the Cultural and Creative Industries with focus on digital publishing for heritage education and cultural tourism. She joined ARTIFACTORY in 2016, where she works in regional development with focus on cultural heritage and audiovisual productions.

Dr. Simon Teoh works as a sessional lecturer at Murdoch University. He has worked in the travel and airline business for twenty-five years, before obtaining his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis investigated the Gross National Happiness Tourism Model of Bhutan. He has conducted workshops on qualitative social methods using NVivo for the Tourism Council of Bhutan, and the Dili Institute of Technology, Timur-Leste. His research interests include LGBTIQ tourism issues, Australian Indigenous tourism challenges, and intangible cultural heritage tourism. He has consulted for the Tourism Council of Bhutan and the Department of Culture and Arts, Western Australia. He has provided professional academic services on EndNote, NVivo and thesis writing to Ph.D students. He currently teaches and conducts workshops in Academic Communication Skills for Postgraduates.

Prerequisite of the participants
must be writing a thesis

Max number of participants
50 persons

Fee
Free for the participant at the conference or a participation fee of 40 Euros in early bird or 50 Euros in Late registration.

Prof. Ali Afshar holds a PhD in architectural studies from University Putra Malaysia. He is a first class registered architect with more than 20 years of professional experiences in Iran. His researches focus on a substantial amount of investigation in vernacular architecture and tourism studies and their application in scientific and business problems. He demonstrates the feasibility of his ideas by implementing the knowledge of vernacular architecture and integrating it into the architectural design of recreational complexes, hotels and second homes in tourism destinations of the country. His contributions have been published in number of journal articles and refereed conference papers. At the moment, he is a member of the board and the head of research and development department of SABAT Kish Company. He is also teaching as invited lecturer in some university in Iran.

Desmond Wee is Professor of Tourism at the Cologne Business School in Germany. His research interests explore contemporary tourism theories in cultural studies and the social sciences, focusing on visual, reflexive and embodied methodologies in the making of everyday identities in urban spaces. He is currently working on a series of projects dedicated to ‘walking’ and envisioning how the integration of Europe can be seen from without, through the eyes of the other. As Academic Dean of International Tourism Management, his passion lies in creating projects merging teaching, research and learning, encouraging students to venture outside the classroom to study tourism through engaging in tourism.

Dr. Lucília Cardoso holds a PhD in Business Sciences and Tourism since 2010 from the Vigo University,  Spain. Lucília has participated in several research projects and is an integrated researcher of CITUR Portugal – Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation. She is researcher of the Favourite Destinations Project of the Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association. She is conducting postdoctoral research on swiss  Tourism & Hospitality Higher Education topic with supervisors from the Aveiro University (Portugal) and HES-SO Valais Wallis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland). She has published in the areas of Tourism and Marketing and her publications and empirical studies cover a broad range of psychological and  sociological aspects of tourism and the development of indicators and data gathering methodologies for monitoring tourism destinations. Tourism communication, in particular image induction, are also part of her professional skills and since 2016 she is Jury member of the Art&Tur International Tourism Film Festival. She has ten years’ experience in Management, Marketing and Tourism teaching in Portugal and Spain and is presently applying her expertise in those fields to Tourism Hospitality as a Lecturer at César Ritz Brig Colleges, Suisse Education Group.

Francisco Dias holds a PhD degree in Tourism Science from the University of Perpignan, France, and a Masters degree in Social Psychology at the Oporto University. He is Professor in the School Tourism and Maritime Technology, at the Leiria Polytechnic (Portugal), and member of CITUR – Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation. He was the leading founder of EATSA – the Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association, its former Presidente and nowadays Vice-President for Europe. In 2010 he created the EJTHR – European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation, having been its editor-in-chief for five year (2010-2015), that allowed him to establish a huge tourism research network. His entrepreneurial profile is evidente in Portugal, acting as the chairman of two international events: the ART&TUR – International Tourism Film Festival, and the ICTM&DB – International Conference on Tourism Marketing and Destination Branding. Moreover, he is founder and vice-president of Centro de Portugal Film Commission. His research interests are vast, ranging from the field of tourism branding and film tourism to research methodology and epistemology of tourism sciences.