Annual-Report-2019

ARD 2020 INTELLIGENCE
DES PATRIMOINES
An interdisciplinary research programme dedicated to innovation, training and scientific
development, Intelligence des Patrimoines offers a new understanding of cultural and
natural heritage.
INTELLIGENCE DES PATRIMOINES is an interdisciplinary scientific research and
innovation programme serving the tourism heritage economy in the Centre-Val de
Loire region and offering new education and employment perspectives. It consists in
an unprecedented approach to the promotion of the territory combining the scientific
research with the socio-economic world to design new innovative services and
products. It reunites the efforts of thirty-three laboratories and three hundred and
sixty researchers from Tours and Orléans, led by the Centre for Higher Studies of the
Renaissance (CESR) in Tours.
The INTELLIGENCE DES PATRIMOINES programme is articulated around five major
interdisciplinary topic projects of research for the development of interdisciplinary
scientific activities:
Chambord Chateaux
Vine and Wine
Gastronomy, Health and Wellbeing
Loire and Rivers
Monuments, Parks and Urban Gardens
It proposes a transversal heterogenous digital data platform that collects and
presents all developed activities and products (HeritageS platform). It offers new
multidisciplinary and professional training courses at Master and Research Doctoral
levels (École supérieure en Intelligence des Patrimoines) and has created a thematic
academic incubator – the Smart Tourism Lab - for the development of startups on the
regional territory and to support entrepreneurial projects dedicated to promote and
renew the tourist experience around heritage.
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