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Creative industry and digital technology together in the fight against windmills
The creative industry is not just about selling tickets for a concert, theater, or cinema. It is much more. Innovation, talent, imagination, ideas, and skills… We can say that 2020, but also the end of 2020, was completely unexpected. With the outbreak of the Covid19...
Voice of the Italian Project Manager Antonia Silvaggi: what potential do creativity and culture have?
Below is a brief interview with Antonia Silvaggi, Co – founder of Melting Pro, Project Manager and Head of skills.
The O-City Project and the UNESCO Forum University and Heritage Chair jointly organize a new edition of the O-City Photography Course
As you already know, the O-City Project is an initiative that promotes creative economy models for cities that provide strategic investments in culture. O-City is a virtual world where the cultural and natural heritage of cities is represented by multimedia elements,...
The O-City project has been present at Comunica2 2020!
"We are in a historical moment of constant change. In this knowledge-based society, there needs to be professionals dedicated to reflecting, analyzing and discussing how communication 2.0 has revolutionized the world" Rebeca Diez Somavilla, Director of the Comunica2...
The first O-City course for the development of multimedia content based on photographs is now available!
Orange is creativity, culture, talent and innovation. O-City Project mixes all this with a bit of technology to create a virtual world that shows the cultural and natural heritage of our cities at its best. In this context, one...
Creativity and humanity during the pandemic – EXIT festival
The global pandemic has disrupted every kind of socio-economic activity. Tourism and hospitality were the first that felt the consequences caused by the global pandemic. Immediately after them, the creative industries felt the same. Although strongly affected by the...
The O-City training courses have already started!
Last July, we organized, from O-City.org in collaboration with Urbalab Gandia and the Centro de Formación Permanente of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), the first version of the photography training course within the Project, called: “Creation of...
Supporting the Creative Industries in COVID-19 era
Since the 1990s, urban cultural sectors have become increasingly focused on events as a driving force for media interest, promotion and tourism. Events such as the Olympic Games or the European Capital of Culture, to cite the two biggest examples, have also been the...
What will be the future of Creative Cities?
Photo by shade jay on Unsplash The O-City project was starting to increase the network of Creative Cities, interested in be part of the project map, when the COVID-19 pandemic spread all over Europe and the World. The current situation has already a strong impact on...
The city of Volos on a virtual map
The University of Thessaly is participating to the innovative European Project O-CITY. O-CITY is an ambitious European project and the University of Thessaly declares a proud partner. Project coordinator is the University of Valencia in Spain and along with the...
O-CITY Project: an Opportunity for Labor Insertion in Persons with Limited Capabilities
On December 17, 2019, the II International Workshop of Specificity Observatories was held: “The University as a tool for social innovation” organized by the Group of Social Entities through its CIEES Foundation, thanks to the support of the Ministry of Foreign...
Sustainable tourism. New Jobs proposals in the O- City Project: an essential contribution to the care of our planet.
According to the World Tourism Organization, "tourism development must be fundamental on the criteria of sustainability, it must be ecologically tolerable in the long term, economically viable and equitable from an ethical and social perspective for local...