The ISAAC International Research Project aims to promote cultural heritage tourism through a novel Information Communication Technology (ICT) environment, providing integrated and user-friendly tourism e-services that facilitate wide virtual access to European cultural heritage assets.
ISAAC International Conference aims to disseminate the project results to key decision-makers and the scientific community, and will bring together experts who share interests in promoting cultural heritage tourism through integrated e-services.

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After four successful plenary meetings in Karlsruhe, Nottingham, Naples and Leipzig, ISAAC is holding its 5th Project Meeting in the City of Milano, Italy on June 17-18, 2008. The meeting will be hosted by the project IT lead "TXT eSolutions" in cooperation with the Institute of Technology Assessment and System Analysis in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Around twenty consortium partners will get together to discuss progress in the development of the ISAAC's Platform, the decision-support and tourist satisfaction software, prototype validation, testing and public outreach activities.
More vigorous dissemination and exploitation of the project's results will be pursued as well.

Contact person: Maurizio Megliola (maurizio.megliola@txt.it); Krassimira Paskaleva (paskaleva@itas.fzk.de); Jose Azorin (jose.azorin@itas.fzk.de)
Who will attend: The meeting is by invitations only. All fourteen ISAAC members will be represented at the meeting.

After the successful implementation in Leipzig (January 29, 2008) and Genoa (February 19, 2008) by the University of Sunderland, the Polytechnic of Turin and the city partners, a final third workshop will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to build interpretative themes and key messages so as to boost the development and integration of heritage interpretation into the city's positioning strategy.
The Amsterdam workshops will be held by the Institute of Technology Assessment and System Analysis in Karlsruhe, in cooperation with the City of Amsterdam.

Contact person: Ian Cooper (icooper@dircon.co.uk); Jose Azorin (jose.azorin@itas.fzk.de)
Who will attend: the workshop is by invitations only. Destination managers, attraction managers and other stakeholders, and citizen representatives involved in Amsterdam Living Culture will participate in the workshop.

Download here the Meeting Agenda.

Leipzig is a dynamic, cosmopolitan, forward-looking city at the crossroads of important trade routes with an historical role as a centre of trade, culture and sciences.

Two of Leipzig's Gründerzeit-era sites (a vital period for visual arts and architecture corresponding to the first decades after the foundation of the German Empire, in 1871) will soon have a new life.

Kristallpalast-Varieté, one of Europe's most famous Vaudeville theatres, will open up a new cultural venue inside the Kongresscentrum, an ancient club house with beautiful art-deco-interiors, one of the city's most remarkable Gründerzeit-buildings.

In Leipzig's historic craftsmen district, the Neustädter Markt, a new project will allow tourists and residents to experience how life was a century ago, by recreating the original Gründerzeit-flair atmosphere in historic buildings and shops of the district.

Are you ready for a great immersion in the History?

For more info:
- http://www.leipzig.de
- http://www.gruenderzeit-erleben.de

After the successful launch in Leipzig (September 25-26, 2007) and Genoa (October 1-2, 2007) by the University of Sunderland, the Polytechnic of Turin and the city partners, two workshops will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to initiate and give impulses in the process of integrating (heritage) interpretation into the cities positioning strategy.
The Amsterdam workshops will be hosted by the Institute of Technology Assessment and System Analysis in Karlsruhe, in cooperation with the City of Amsterdam.

where: c/o ITAS, City Hall Amsterdam, Amstel 1, 1011 PN Amsterdam
contact person: Ian Cooper (icooper@dircon.co.uk); Jose Azorin (jose.azorin@itas.fzk.de)
who will attend: the workshop is by invitations only. Destination managers, attraction managers and other stakeholders, and citizen representatives will partecipate in the workshop.

Welcome to the first release of the ISAAC website dedicated to the project’s dissemination and public outreach. This fourteen-partner research initiative was launched on September 1 2007 and will continue for 3 years. The web site will be continuously developed and regularly updated throughout the project’s life. Please visit us again for new information, news and up-dates!