Hanseatic Approach to New Sustainable Alliances

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

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Description (EN):

The cross-border cooperation is the only way to give impact for small destinations on the international tourism market. In the project, the Hanseatic heritage will be developed for its great cultural value from three perspectives: the local, the national and the international. The local perspective aims at developing the existing attractions and make them known to a broader public. The national perspective aims at bringing cities and their attractions together to strengthen the national tourism product and offer interesting packages, also to be used as additional tours to visits in the capitals. The international perspective aims at development of cross-border packages. This means that the participating cities will bring added value to Hanseatic tourism in a whole, the concept can be transferred to other Hanseatic regions in Europe. This goes hand in hand with the implementation of the EU’s Baltic Sea Region Strategy. It also copes with the demands on the Hansa as certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, namely to offer transnational packages. The Hansa is identified as one of the categories of cultural heritage. The project underlines the Hanseatic values in all parts of the project. The results could be used on their own or be added as interesting components to other natural or cultural packages. The project will prove that the Hansa is not only medieval history but living, sustainable heritage. Changes due to the project: - more tourism packages based on cross-border cooperation - more visitors to the destinations - prolonged tourism season as cultural tourism is all-year-round tourism - improved economy, more jobs< Hanseatic tourism has never before been approached in this way in the area. The local citizens, stakeholders, businesses as well as visitors will benefit from its results. The Hansas relation to European networks will make it wellknown

Achievements (EN):

HANSA developed a joint tourist attraction based on Hansa history: As its main result, the project connected several historic Hansa towns: Cesis, Limbazi, Koknese, Kuldiga, Valmiera, Pargaujas/Straupe and Vidzeme from Latvia, Pärnu and Viljandi from Estonia and Visby from Gotland and developed a joint tourist attraction based on their Hansa history. All participating cities made research about their Hanseatic history and heritage. It brought pride to towns and citizens to belong to a strong brand and an important European context. Through the research, also historic recipes were found and are now produced as local Hanseatic specialties. Project organised seminars and events to make stakeholders and citizens aware about Hansa heritage of their towns. In addition, gastronomy festivals were developed which help to prolong tourism season. Project representatives participated at several international tourism fairs, Hanseatic Days, other international and national events to promote the participating towns as a joint historic Hansa towns destination in Gotland, Estonia and Latvia. Project used sustainable solutions whenever possible throughout its implementation. IT-solutions were in use to provide historic and tourist information as web information, on info screens, downloadable brochures and apps. When preparing tourist information, environmental-friendly biking, walking and hiking products were kept in mind. By supporting locally produced food, transports of goods are diminished and has given impetus to growth and development of SMEs. The cultural and social sustainability was supported by the involvement of stakeholders and citizens in local Hanseatic events and festivals. Real cross-border value was achieved by increasing cooperation between Gotland, Estonian and Latvian Hansa towns. Joint tourism development and marketing makes them more attractive as a joint tourism destination. Information about Hansa history of participating towns, tourism offers and brochures are available on the web page https://www.hanse.org/en/projects/explore-hansa/ and thereby give the project results European visibility.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R2.1. More sustainable joint natural and cultural heritage based tourist attractions

Expected Outputs (EN):

1.Citizens and stakeholders in the participating cities are aware and proud over the city''s Hanseatic heritage. The local attractions are made more visible and strengthens each destination.2. Visitors will notice that they visit a Hanseatic city3. Professional tourism information offices. 4. Joint design of presentations on the websites and simultaneously contribution to www.hanse.org (website of the entire Hansa)5. New sustainable tourism packages related to the Hanseatic heritage6. More visitors to the cities and to the area7. The results of the project will be put into a European context through the Hansa network and its certificate as Cultural Route of the Council of Europe

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Specific Objective: Natural and cultural resources developed into sustainable tourist attractions

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Inspiration Gotland

Address: Donners Plats 1, 62157 Visby, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gotland.com

Total budget: EUR 754 074.25

ERDF budget: EUR 565 555.69

Kuldigas novada pasvaldiba

Name: Kuldigas novada pasvaldiba

Address: Baznicas iela 1, LV-3301 Kuldiga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.visit.kuldiga.lv

Total budget: EUR 126 498.85

ERDF budget: EUR 107 524.02

Valmieras pilsētas pašvaldība

Name: Valmieras pilsētas pašvaldība

Address: Lacplesa 2, LV-4201 Valmiera, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.valmiera.lv

Total budget: EUR 170 996.70

ERDF budget: EUR 145 347.20

Viljandi Linnavalitsus

Name: Viljandi Linnavalitsus

Address: Linnu 2, 71020 Viljandi, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.viljandi.ee

Total budget: EUR 182 808.40

ERDF budget: EUR 155 387.14

Vidzemes plānošanas reģions

Name: Vidzemes plānošanas reģions

Address: Jāņa Poruka iela 8, LV4101 Cesis, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vidzeme.lv

Total budget: EUR 165 021.15

ERDF budget: EUR 140 267.98

Pargaujas novada pasvaldiba

Name: Pargaujas novada pasvaldiba

Address: Stalbes pagasts, LV-4151 Pargaujas novads, Latvia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 133 332.40

ERDF budget: EUR 113 332.54

Pärnu Linnavalitsus

Name: Pärnu Linnavalitsus

Department: Department of Planning

Address: Suur-Sepa 16, 80098 Pärnu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.visitparnu.ee

Total budget: EUR 154 500.35

ERDF budget: EUR 131 325.30

Region Gotland

Name: Region Gotland

Address: 62181 Visby, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gotland.se

Total budget: EUR 28 172.25

ERDF budget: EUR 21 129.19

Koknese novada dome

Name: Koknese novada dome

Address: Melioratoru str 1, LV-5113 Koknese, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.koknese.lv

Total budget: EUR 104 883.65

ERDF budget: EUR 89 151.10

Limbazu novada pasvaldiba

Name: Limbazu novada pasvaldiba

Address: Rigas iela 16, LV-4001 Limbazi, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.visitlimbazi.lv

Total budget: EUR 200 651.60

ERDF budget: EUR 170 553.86

Cesis Culture and Tourism Center , CCTC

Name: Cesis Culture and Tourism Center , CCTC

Address: Baznicas Sq 1, LV-4100 Cesis, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cesis.lv

Total budget: EUR 159 999.10

ERDF budget: EUR 135 999.24

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Project name (EN): Hanseatic Approach to New Sustainable Alliances

Project acronym: HANSA

Project start date: 2015-10-01

Project end date: 2018-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 180 938.70

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 775 573.24

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 775 573.24.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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2023-11-11

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137 / 137 (100%)

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663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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