Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Romania - Serbia

Description

Description (EN):

The project aims at being implemented in a cross broder area dealing with a common series of challenges. The main challenges consist in insufficient valorization of the intangible cultural and natural heritage as resource for developing innovative tourism products and services and the development of cultural entrepreneurship in local communities. The overall objective of the project is constructed starting from the need of better cross border collaboration in tourism both in valorising regional and local cultural heritage, as potential resource for communitarian sustainable development, economic growth and social cohesion and also as social involvement and responsibility. Overall objective of the project is: Strengthening the economic and social cohesion in the Romanian – Serbian cross -border area by joint promotion of heritage and development of tourism. The main outs wich will be produced consist in: -Research, Studies and innovative touristic products in the field of heritage and turism, -Trained persons, -Join software platform for communication and dissemination, -Cross border Networking for research, heritage and turism. Developing from an empiric and scientific approach, the project proposes pro activeinvolvement in communities from both sides of the border, while it aims at enabling people to create bridges based on their shared heritage as well as to transform individuals on a personal level, taking into account criteria such as gender equality, environmental consciousness or social inclusion. The approach of the project consist in: -A general approach: Opportunities opposite challengeswill be taken in consideration and will form the substance of thematic work packages and activities. The project is delivered through the work of 3 Work-packages (WPs) lead by different partners. The core activity package deals with scientific research which lay the basis of further activities. Identifying well kept traditions, local craftsmen and local arts and crafts, local cuisine and specificities, we thenintend toassist communities intotransforming their cultural resources into products which can attract tourists. By creating a tourist offer which include local traditions and customs, folk crafts, traditional cookery, wines, this will lead to a growing interest in cultural tourism in Banat.

Achievements (EN):

The overall objective of the project has been constructed starting from the need of better cross-border collaboration in tourism both in valorising regional and local cultural heritage, as potential resource for communitarian sustainable development, economic growth and social cohesion and also as social involvement and responsibility. Developing from an empiric and scientific approach, the project proposed a proactive involvement in communities from both sides of the border, while it enabled people to create bridges based on their shared heritage as well as to transform individuals on a personal level, taking into account criteria such as gender equality, environmental consciousness or social inclusion. The core activity package dealt with scientific research which laid the basis of further activities. After identifying well-kept traditions, local craftsmen and local arts and crafts, local cuisine and specificities, the project assisted communities’ in transforming their cultural resources into products that can attract tourists. By creating a tourist offer that includes local traditions and customs, folk crafts, traditional cookery, wines, the project increased the interest in cultural tourism in the Banat region of Romania and Serbia. Results achieved: 7 research, studies and products in the field of heritage and tourism. 50 trained persons. 1 joint software platform created (https://hera.uvt.ro). 1 cross-border network for research, heritage and tourism created.

Themes

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Specific Objective:

Developing the local tourism economy based on the improvement of quality of tourism services, a sustainable use of the natural and cultural heritage, the creation of capacities and skills for high quality tourism services, the design of innovative products in cross border networks and partnerships, the improvement of Accessibility and sustainability of tourist infrastructures

Thematic Priority: (d) Encouraging tourism and cultural and natural heritage

Partners

Lead Partner: Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara

Address: Vasile Pârvan Av 4Timisoara, Romania

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 303 740.85

IPA2 budget: EUR 258 179.72

Grad Kikinda

Name: Grad Kikinda

Department: Secretariat for local economic development and promotion

Address: Trg Srpskih Dobrovoljaca br. 12, 23300 Kikinda, Serbia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 29 566.95

IPA2 budget: EUR 25 131.91

Narodni muzej Kikinda

Name: Narodni muzej Kikinda

Address: Trg srpskih dobrovoljaca 21, 23300 Kikinda, Serbia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 12 507.60

IPA2 budget: EUR 10 631.46

Summary

Project name (EN): Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

Project acronym: HerA

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2022-03-27

Website: https://hera.uvt.ro/about

Project start date: 2017-05-19

Project end date: 2018-11-18

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 345 815.40

European Union funding: EUR 293 943.09

Co-financing sources: IPA/IPA II/IPA III

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

Link to Artefacts, Collections and Groups

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://hera.uvt.ro

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-11-18

Languages: ro, sr, en

Attachment link: https://hera.uvt.ro/explore

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Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara

Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

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City of Kikinda

Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

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National Museum of Kikinda

Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Romania - Serbia

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

2022-03-27

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

74 / 101 (73.27%)

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

196 / 270 (72.59%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.romania-serbia.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-22 and 2023-01-09.

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Local Heritage for Active Tourism in Banat

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