Harbour Heritage Story Telling training for tourism & heritage actors
Identifying, enhancing, and sharing the hidden heritage of harbors, and transforming it into powerful stories that attract visitors.
Objective: to help you develop the skills to identify, enhance, and promote the tangible and intangible heritage of your harbor areas. This training will enable you to design engaging discovery paths, work with communities, and contribute to making your harbor a living cultural destination.
Target audience
This training has been developed for:
- Tourism professionals, cultural associations, and educators active in port cities.
- Local residents, heritage volunteers, and resource persons who want to become ambassadors of their harbor heritage.
- Trainers and facilitators supporting tourism and heritage projects.
Training content
This training is offered as a self-paced online program through the Harbor Heritage Story Telling (HHST) e-learning platform. By enrolling, you will access five interactive modules combining theory, interviews, case studies, and practical activities. The training is based on participatory methods and real examples from European harbor cities.
Courses’ topics:

The platform gives you also an access to methodology guide for the co-development of port heritage discovery itineraries.
Duration
The training is fully online and designed as a self-paced, auto-learning program. You can complete the courses at your own rhythm, whenever it best suits you.
Participation fee
The online course is free of charge.
If you would like to attend face-to-face training on specific topics from the platform, please refer to More information.
Certification
After completing all modules, you will receive an online certificate of completion.
More information
You are interested in organizing a face-to-face workshop on these topics?
Please contact us at info@medcenv.org, and include the title of the training you are interested in.
This training program was developed through a European cooperation, to learn more click here
