The Executive Board of IGCAT met on 29 November 2015 to discuss statute changes in order to facilitate its role as the official secretariat of the European Region of Gastronomy Platform. The concept for a European Region of Gastronomy Award was developed by IGCAT experts in 2012 and during 2013
Already named the European cultural capital for 2017, Aarhus recently won the competition for European Region of Gastornomy for that year as well, given by IGCAT (Internation Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Art and Tourism). Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sorensen, Director of business development for Aarhus, says that the main reason to have
Galway, West of Ireland has launched a new website in order to highlight its gastronomy strengths as a candidate to hold the European Region of Gastronomy award in 2018. The website highlights the focus areas that Galway is working on in its candidature bid and explains the principles of the
IGCAT is excited to announce the launch of a new website for the European Region of Gastronomy Platform. The new responsive website is aimed to provide information for regions interested to join the Platform and become candidates to hold the European Region of Gastronomy title in the future. The website describes the philosophy
Corina Creţu, the European Commissioner responsible for Regional Policy visited the Province of North-Brabant on 16 November 2015, where she participated in an event on Smart Specialisation and visited EU-funded projects, including the Gruyterfabriek and the Plant Lab, in s-Hertogenbosch. The Mayor of s’Hertogenbosch, Chairman of AgriFood Capital and Ambassador
The first European Region of Gastronomy award was given to Minho and Catalonia by IGCAT, as first holders in recognition of the work that has been done on gastronomy qualification by all stakeholders in the area but overall because of a creative programme to structure and promote the cultural and
Catalonia presented its programme as an European Region of Gastronomy 2016 on Monday 16 November at Fòrum Gastronomic in Girona. The event was an introductory conversation for all professionals and stakeholders related to Catalonia European Region of Gastronomy 2016 to present some of the 150 actions that the awarded region
IGCAT’s Executive Director, Dr. Diane Dodd participated in the 5th Anniversary Symposium of Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC) ain Liverpool, 10 November 2015. The Institute of Cultural Capital is a strategic collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. It conducts collaborative and interdisciplinary research
Promoting its selection as European Region of Gastronomy 2016, the Catalan Tourism Agency is highlighting food and wine routes at London World Travel Market, one of the most important fairs for the travel industry. 50,000 visitors are expected at the fair and will be able to find detailed information on Catalonia’s tourist
From the 20 to the 23 October, 2015 the annual conference of the ATLAS – Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research, took place in Lisbon. The international conference aimed at discussing “Risk in Travel and Tourism: geographies, behaviours and strategies”. During the conference the different dimensions of risk
The 6th partner meeting of European Region of Gastronomy Platform, organized by IGCAT and hosted by the University of Bergamo, Italy took place on 30 September and 1 October 2015. Twenty colleagues from 9 founder regions attended the meeting and reported on activities being developed in each region as well in collaboration with each
The European Region of Gastronomy 2017 award ceremony took place during the European Commission’s Food Tourism Week at Expo Milan 2015. The ceremony which was hosted by DG Growth was opened by Silvia Draghi, Head of Policy for the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Mauro Paroloni, Lombardy Regional Commissioner and Dr.Diane
Expo 2015 is a Universal Exposition being hosted by Milan, Italia using the theme Feeding the Planet, Energy for life, the global event reached almost 9 million visitors in its first 3 first months and is expected to attract more than 20 million visitors from 01 May 2015 to 31
Roberta Garibaldi, IGCAT Board Member and Director of CeSTIT, Study Center on Tourism of the University of Bergamo introduces Food and Tourism: a winning match, a workshop that takes take place Saturday 26 September organised by No Frills in Milan-Bergamo(Italy). Dr Garibaldi introduces some considerations, best practices and data about food and
Minho and Catalunya launched their programs for 2016 when they will hold the title European Region of Gastronomy, at an event held for the SEDEC Commission of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. Yoomi Renström, Chair of the SEDEC Committee (The Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and
After a short break in August, IGCAT is getting back to work with renewed energy and is pleased to introduce you its new international team, selected to continue, to improve and to build current and new projects. The most important appointment is the new Deputy Director Davinia Galea who will principally be in
