New Scenarios for the Touristic European Maritime Coast

Abstract

‘New Scenarios for the Touristic European Maritime Coast’ is the title of the Lifelong Learning Programme held on 14th-24th June 2014 at the University of Girona (Girona, Spain). This was an intensive programme in architecture, urban planning, urban design, landscape, construction and tourism and was funded by the European Union as part of its objective to produce innovative thinking to meet the challenges of the new tourism modalities and behaviours in order to plan how to integrate the territory into a low impact multi-scale territorial project. An Intensive Programme is a short term (10 days) study programme designed to bring together students and professors from higher educational institutions in the EU with a view to increasing the quality and the volume of multilateral cooperation between higher educational establishments in Europe. Around fifty diploma and graduate students, along with nine professors from the four universities partnering the programme (Universitat de Girona, Univesità de la Sapienza, Rome, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Yeni Yüzyil University, Istanbul, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon), took part in the intensive course. The topics of the IP have since been incorporated into the teaching and research programmes of the partner schools, and assume an experimental and innovative design approach. Prior learning was fundamental for the success of the charrete, where students were required to share their multicultural academic knowledge on the issue of tourism