Northern Environment for Sustainable Tourism - NEST

Programme 2000 - 2006 Northern Periphery

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

Protected areas, whether they are national parks, World Heritage Areas or other European or national government designations, create particular challenges. On one hand such natural and cultural resources are spectacular and offer a perfect resource for tourism development, yet on the other hand the resource merits particular protection and careful management from development. For some this protection of land in the national interest is at the expense of rural development, but for others it is an opportunity and a stimulus for sustainable rural development. The NEST project seeks to bring people together to network and to learn from each other to use their natural and cultural resources to best effect for the sustainable development of their area. All partner areas benefit from a high quality natural and cultural resource but are at different stages of awareness of this resource and approaches to its development. A key focus is the support and development of local and transnational networks of key stakeholders. From this base of collaborative working the project concentrates on protected areas as a source for identifying and realising business opportunities, promoting and investigating sustainable tourism management and quality marketing, and how educational nature school programmes can be developed using the partners shared geological heritage.

Expected Results (EN):

· Reduced conflicts between different interest groups and the sharing of experience and information on how best to realise tourism potential within and between protected areas in the participating countries. · Best practice examples on networking, environmental education, park related business and quality labelling by collaborative working within and between participating countries. · Better understanding of the importance of sustainability for rural development in peripheries areas · Increased social capital in both trans-national and local networks when planning local and trans-national projects, including new approaches to joint agency and community working · New proposals for nature school procedures and international co-operation of nature schools, as well as international educational geo-trails · New “park and protected nature” - related economic products for tourism markets · Motivated transferable exhibition · Transferable models to evaluate tourism carrying capacity for decision makers · Extended tourist season and increased visitors diversity

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Tourism

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: University of Iceland, Hornafjordur University Centre

Address: Nyheimar, Litlabru 2, 780 Hofn, Iceland

Legal status: n/a

County Administration of Vesternorrland

Name: County Administration of Vesternorrland

Address: Länsstyrelsen i Västernorrland Pumpbacksgatan, 871 86 Härnösand, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Municipality of Hornafjordur

Name: Municipality of Hornafjordur

Address: Hafnarbraut 27, 780 Horn, Iceland

Legal status: n/a

Development Centre of East Iceland

Name: Development Centre of East Iceland

Address: Miðvangur 2-4, 700 Egilsstadir, Iceland

Legal status: n/a

Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA)

Name: Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA)

Address: METLA Unioninkatu 40 A, 00170 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: n/a

Municipality of Skaftarhreppur

Name: Municipality of Skaftarhreppur

Address: Skaftarhreppur Klausturvegi 15, 880 Kirkjub, Iceland

Legal status: n/a

Ross & Cromarty Enterprise

Name: Ross & Cromarty Enterprise

Address: 69-71 High Street, IV18 0AA Invergordon, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Highland Council

Name: Highland Council

Address: Planning and Development Services Glenurquhart Road, IV3 5NX Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Scottish Natural Heritage

Name: Scottish Natural Heritage

Address: Government's House The Parade, PH33 6BA Fort William, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Northern Environment for Sustainable Tourism - NEST

Project acronym: NEST

Project start date: 2004-10-01

Project end date: 2007-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 010 090.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 527 218.00

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 Northern Periphery

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2019-09-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

47 / 47 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

424 / 424 (100%)

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Northern Environment for Sustainable Tourism - NEST

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