European projects developed by the AVEC network:
The European Label
QUALICITIES
Certified
AFNOR, the European label QUALICITIES falls under a quality
approach: it is awarded to the local communities, which try
to apply daily the European Charter of Cultural Cities and
Territories, adopted in October 2000 by the local
authorities, members of the AVEC network.
The cities and territories committed in this approach want
to sustainably develop their economy around their
patrimonial assets; they also wish to obtain powerful
management tools to achieve this goal.
Once obtained,
the European label Qualicities is, for the inhabitants and
the visitors, the guarantee that the city or the community
enhances its heritage permanently and improves the quality
of its services and its environment.
(www.qualicities.org)
European University for
Cultural and natural Heritage - UEPCN
This consortium created in 2005 gathers
European universities and cities, on the initiative of the
AVEC network and with the support of the French Ministry of
Culture and communication.
It aims at developing an offer of
European courses of high level meeting the needs for the
local communities and facilitating the mobility of the
professionals through Europe.
The UEPCN is
thus both a European network of universities and a European
forum of exchange between students and teachers, in the
area of the management and the mediation of heritages.
Cultural tourism
website
The historical cities, members of the Alliance of
European Cultural cities work together to promote their
territories.
In 2006, they created an Internet portal which enables the
visitors to found out more on the cultural wealth of every
single member city.
Go where Europe takes you !
Visit the tourism web site of the A.V.E.C and brace
yourself for breathtaking scenery, cultural delights and
truly captivating European historical cities:
www.culturaltourism-europe.com
Euriage project
EURIAGE is a
mutualized platform of historical data and tourist services
in the AVEC member cities. It proposes actions of
promotions for tourism on the Internet, interactive tourism
activities, connexions to partner data bases. It develops a
controle of the quality of the cultural contents.
(www.memo.fr)
MED ECO QUARTIERS network
Through an
exchange of know-how, the ambition of the network MED ÉCO
QUARTIERS is to enable the sustainable urban development of
the territories of the AVEC members, while respectng their
Mediterranean identity and creating sustainable districts,
respectful for environment, available to all and easily
livable. It already made possible to create work tools to
support the development of a project of sustainable
district, in an integrated and transverse approach, from
the design until the practical achievements.
(www.med-ecoquartiers.org)
