Eleusis 2021 and more specifically the artistic director Kelly Diapouli and Peggy Tsolakaki, member of Eleusis 2021, visited the Department of Planning and Regional Development of the School of Engineering and opened a discussion with students of the undergraduate degree and the graduate students of the newly established master degree “Tourism and Cultural Planning and Development”.
More specifically, Eleusis 2021 had the opportunity to open the bidbook, to exchange ideas and to discuss with the students of ETOUSEP regarding the Eleusis 2021 progress and strengths. On the other hand, the students demonstrate their great interest, they informed us about the research they have carried out regarding the title of the European Capital of Culture. The students have made very pertinent observations and proposals about the cultural and marketing strategy of our candidacy.
A great interest was shown by students of the newly established postgraduate degree “Tourism and Cultural Planning and Development” and within their workshop they presented their proposals regarding the candidacy of Eleusis for European Capital of Culture 2021. With great joy it was announced that the workshop’s purpose is to visit Eleusis soon and meet all the members of Eleusis 2021.
The workshop of Tourism Planning, Research and Policy (ETOUSEP) of the Department of Planning and Regional Development of the School of Engineering at the University of Thessaly covers educational and research needs in themes like planning, policy development, tourism and leisure, Marketing and Branding Territory as well as the city’s development and regeneration. ETOUSEP has also collaborated with Eleusis 2021 and the Municipality of Eleusis for the case study on the Adequacy of the Region’s Infrastructure for the needs of the bidbook and the Impact’s measurement.
We would like to thank the Professor of Urban and Leisure Planning and Director of ETOUSEP Defner Alexios, the Adjunct Lecturer and member of the EACEA expert list for the Europen Capital of Culture Nicholaos Karachalis, the Researchers Vogiatzidis Nikolaos and Psatha Evangelia, the PhD Candidates Lalou Georgia and Katsafadou Sotiria that gave us the opportunity to meet their students, the Assistant Professor Theodoros Metaxas and his entire workshop’s team that collaborated with us.
