Impact and Legacy of the European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) Program

Marco Valeri is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics at Niccolò Cusano University, Italy. He received PhD in Strategic Management and Organizational Behavior from "Tor Vergata" University, Italy. He is Lecture in Applied Organizational Behaviour at Xenophon College, UK. He is Visiting Professor at University of Information Science and Technology (UIST) “St. Paul The Apostle”, Macedonia. He is Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Events, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. He is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Economics at Lovely Professional University (LPU), India. He is Associate Researcher in Strategy, Magellan Research Center, School of Management, Iaelyon Business School, Jean Monet University, France. He is Honorary Associate Professor, University of Pannonia, Hungary. He is member of several editorial boards of international tourism journals, reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, tourism and hospitality management (Emerald Publishing, Springer Publishing, Routledge Publishing, Edward Elgar Publishing, De Gruyter Publishing, IGI Global Publishing and Cambridge Publishing).  Adina Palea is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication Science and Vice-President of the Senate of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania. Her research is in communication sciences, especially in the field of public relations, but also new trends in communication for sustainability or artificial intelligence in public relations.László Imre Komlósi is Professor Emeritus of Leadership and Communication at the Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics and Director of the International Doctoral Program in Business Administration at the Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary. He is also a founding member and vice president of the University of Network of the European Capitals of Culture (UNeECC. Professor Komlósi is active in creating and enhancing an international network for European Capitals of Culture (ECoC)by encouraging a socio-economic and cultural policy related research among culturally engaged faculty members, postdocs and, especially, doctoral students.

• Legacy of the European Capital of Culture Programme.- Cultural Participation in Small European Capitals of Culture: Insights from Garage, Trenčín2026.- From Impact to Legacy: Evaluating Timișoara's ECoC Networks as Feedforward Assets for Resilience and Sustainability.- etc.