The Project “Samian Wine Digital Routes: Wine as a means of promoting the cultural heritage of Samos” concerns developing, as well as planning and creating services for the online promotion of Samian wine and for showcasing it as a cultural resource of Samos and the Region of the North Aegean.  The project became a springboard for planning and creating digital routes for Samian wine to be promoted through numerous information channels, using cutting edge technology, such as augmented and virtual reality (AR, VR).

The project includes recording and digitizing tourist routes related to Samian wine and the implementation of a series of digital touring applications to promote the wine, as well as a virtual online wine museum.

The aim of the project is to cater for visitors and tourists to the region, providing digital applications means for a different touring experience. This offers audiences the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge about winemaking on the island of Samos using interactive activities and games.

The project includes the following working packages:

1. Collection – Documentation of content – interviews with winemakers
2. Digitization of cultural material
3. Digital processing of the material
4. Creation of a Portal – Virtual Museum of Samian Wine
5. Interactive on-line touring along wine routes on Samos using mobile devices and a smart application with augmented reality presentations.
6. Creation of story-telling videos about the wine itineraries
7. Digital educational applications on Samian wine
8. An application of an interactive map for networks communicating Samian wine beyond the island, spanning the period from Antiquity to the present.
9. Translation into two languages – Application Training – Pilot operation
10. Web-marketing and promotion services – Presentation Day meeting