Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project N-Lite
| Project Acronym | N-Lite |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration |
Summary
Post-Covid, innovation capacity as a means to adapt, manage and respond to unforeseen circumstances is critical for micro enterprises and SME’s in the NPA region to survive, advance and grow. N-LiTe will jointly assess the potential for SME’s to uptake existing and advanced technologies to exploit their communities abundance of literary, cultural and natural resources and further develop and market these assets and grow sustainable literature business.
Working together across transnational borders, initially in the context of literature and cultural tourism, N-LiTe, will explore the feasibility of a range of immersive tech tourism experiences. We seek to develop and grow regional immersive capabilities for use by the literary tourism sector to attract and engage citizens and visitors (e.g. Volumetric Content creation, VR/AR, Projected reality, Virtual Tours, or 360 Deg. experiences as in the Exhibition Hub Van Gogh immersive experience - (https://www.exhibitionhub.com/exhibitions/van-gogh-the-immersive-experience/ ).
In adapting existing and emergent immersive digital technologies to the creative capital and stories of our partner regions it is intended to accelerate the sectors SMEs to growth. Note, uniquely literary tech content, artists have built a repository of digital content due to the enforced separation requirements of the pandemic.
This digital content bank will be assessed and leveraged for use by the project team in the bridging call. (Spot-lit Literary Framework Models Developed/ 28 New LT Products Delivered to Market.) Immersive technologies (IT) create distinct experiences by merging the physical world with a digital or simulated reality. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are two principal types of immersive technologies. Technologies to be assessed for implementation will develop sector aspects such as production, marketing, experiential. It will also assess digital approaches to transnational networking and marketing of the sector.
Objectives
To develop a Main project application.
Lead Partner
- Western Development Commission
Ireland
Ian Brannigan
phone +353-86-6048012
e-mail: ianbrannigan@wdc.ie
Partners
- Irish Central Border Area Network Ltd. (ICBAN)
Northern Ireland - Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
Finland - Regional Council of Kainuu
Finland
Project Info
| Theme Tourism, recreation, cultural heritage, languages |
| Priority 1 Innovation |
| Objective 1.1 Increased innovation and transfer of R&D |
| Project duration 01-01-22 to 30-06-22 |
| Total budget 60 000 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 39 000 EUR |
| Target groups local public authority national public authority regional public authority sectoral agency interest groups including NGOs higher education and research education/training centre and school enterprise, including SME General public |