About project
Promotion of Informal Adults’ Digital Education for Spatial and Sustainable Tourism Development
Project number NPAD-2020/10099
Project aim – to develop new skills how to create the extraordinary mapped, pictorial, textual and digital tourism products devoted for spatial dynamic tourism promotion through informal adults’ education.
The studies on spatial dynamic processes is being perceived as alternative activity for adults with support of informal education methods based on digital technologies and systematization of skills for social and cultural heritage interpretation.
The studies of old maps, plans of places, landscapes, pictures, which represent the dynamics in the previous and recent times between the Baltic and Nordic countries. These create the preconditions to elaborate a new and extraordinary approach for cultural tourism development, which is feasible through informal adults’ education creating local and international competitive alternative cultural tourism products based on digitalization and heritage interpretation. A network of project partners composed according to the experience skills in elaboration of cultural
tourism products and according to their gained experience. This is an essential focal point for creation of experienced partners’ network in achievement of project action between the Baltic and Nordic countries.
Background
The studies of human migrations, historical events, social and cultural processes imply on better understanding of social and cultural disparities and their created values and identities, as spatial footprints in the dynamics of time and space. The cultural footprints accumulated in different tangible and intangible artifacts, which are fragmented or hidden, or partly visual, or vivid in many attributes and features of urban and rural landscapes of the Baltic and Nordic countries. An analysis of these landscapes requires an application of interpretative skills in promotion of spatial dynamic tourism development.
The outputs of spatial cultural dynamics of landscapes create the preconditions to elaborate an alternative concept of spatial dynamic tourism, which can be developed and promoted through informal education. The gaining competences on spatial analysis of landscapes using GIS tools, a creation of spatial dynamic tourism routes and using media tools for promotion with heritage interpretation.
The adults, who have the proper knowledge in historical development of environment, can facilitate elaboration of unique alternative spatial dynamic tourism products.
The idea of this project is based on the outcomes of previously implemented project on „Cultural Footprints“, which was implemented by partners in 2017-2019, for informal adults‘ education in order to increase their competences in cultural tourism industries. So, a concept of spatial dynamic tourism digital products is a continuously elaborated concept based on digital tourism products for heritage interpretation between the Baltic and Nordic countries.
Nordic/Baltic added value
The processes of spatial dynamics in urban and rural landscapes have a historical appropriateness. A concept spatial dynamic tourism as an alternative tourism based on the studies of culturally and socially contextual spatial footprints, which are appropriate for the landscapes of the Baltic and Nordic countries. Revealing of common values and identities reduces the social and cultural distances between the Baltic and Nordic countries, which in the previous times, especially the World War II and before, interacted actively, e.g. Latvia and Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden. Thus, the examination of urban and rural landscapes in each partner country is being intended to reveal evidence based common values and identities.
A combination of both approaches in the studies of urban and rural landscapes countries promote to determine common identities and values for better social and cultural cohesion through the creation of cultural tourism products in the form of spatial dynamic tourism routes created through informal adults’ education.