CULTIGEN Transfer Partners on-site visit in Copenhagen
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24 October 2025

Where innovation and transfer learn from each other

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Where innovation and transfer learn from each other
Exchanges like these are at the heart of CULTIGEN’s mission: to co-create balanced, inclusive, and sustainable tourism models that benefit cities across Europe. During our first on-site visit with the Transfer Partners, we took the first step in translating CULTIGEN’s ideas into shared European learning.

From innovation to transfer: shaping CULTIGEN together

On October 1-3, we hosted CULTIGEN’s first on-site visit with our Transfer Partners – from Third Muncipality of Rome, Bordeaux Metropole, and Constanța Municipality – here in Copenhagen.

The visit marked the start of our shared learning journey within the European Urban Initiative’s Transfer Mechanism, aimed at adapting and amplifying CULTIGEN’s approach to sustainable tourism across Europe.

Over three days, our partners gained an in-depth understanding of CULTIGEN’s local context and innovative solutions – from the Urban Listening Toolkit and citizen assemblies to our work in three diverse neighbourhoods: Nordhavn, Sydhavn, and Carlsberg Byen.

The programme combined:

  • Deep dives into CULTIGEN’s data-driven and community-based methods
  • Field visits to neighbourhoods shaping Copenhagen’s sustainable tourism future
  • Collaborative sessions where we tested several tools in practice: trained our democratic muscles with We Do Democracy, tried the AI Interviewer prototype with Aalborg University, and played Myths & Bricks with the National Museum of Denmark.

All of this took place in dialogue with our Transfer Cities, who shared new perspectives and valuable reflections on how CULTIGEN’s methods might translate into their own local realities.

This exchange is only the beginning — and it reminds us that the strength of CULTIGEN lies not just in innovation, but in how we learn from each other to make it work across cities.