St Olav Waterway

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

Description

Description (EN):

This project will create a new cultural route "St Olav Waterway" from Finland (Turku) via the Archipelago to Åland Islands and to Hudiksvall in Sweden, combining this route with other St Olav routes in Sweden and Norway. This new route will be unique: it is the only Pilgrims Route which also will use the possibility to move on the water. The project will increase the attractiveness of the region, especially off-season, and generate visitors, a platform for new services and jobs and a better earning capacity for local entrepreneurs. In Europe over 200,000 of Christian pilgrims and many others set out each year from their front doorsteps or from popular starting points across Europe, to make their way to Santiago de Compostela. Many take up this route as a form of spiritual path or retreat for their spiritual growth. The popularity of the routes in Norway and Sweden is also increasing: 20 % more people every year! "St Olav Waterway" route is planned to be a unique possibility for them who are interested in having new experiences in the huge archipelago between Finland and Sweden, especially in spring and autumn. Digital solutions will be used as often as possible instead of paper and signs/posters (=sustainable tourism). Most travelers are nowadays online. Delivering market-ready products increases the potential for sustainability, which is very important especially in this region. Discussions about applying for inclusion into the network "European Cultural Route of St Olavs Ways" have already started. Application 2017. Other organisations will start projects creating a St Olav Way from Turku to the east. These new routes, connected to each other, have in this case both a possibility to be parts of "Route of Saint Olav Ways" within some years. Maybe it´s possible to have a St Olav route all the way from Novgorod to Nidaros/Trondheim as 1000 years ago.

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

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main result is a new certified route "St Olav Waterway" and more visitors off-season giving new job opportunities and new services in the area. Entrepreneurs in the whole region will after the project have much more international contacts and are offered new networks in the Nordic countries and in Europe. Along the route there will be created some entirely new tourist attractions conserning the time 1000 years ago and the medieval period. But many attractions are there already, and this project make them more visible (ancient monuments, medieval churches, stories, visual art). Also in english, which is important for the visitors from abroad. One result is that the project will strengthen the sustainable tourism in the region.

Themes

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

Lead Partner (EN): Åbo Akademi University

Lead Partner: Åbo Akademi

Department: Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL)

Address: Domkyrkotorget 3, 20500 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.abo.fi

Total budget: EUR 297 896.82

ERDF budget: EUR 223 422.62

Municipality of Söderhamn

Name: Söderhamn kommun

Address: Rådhuset, Oxtorgsgatan 19, 82680 Söderhamn, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.soderhamn.se

Total budget: EUR 269 702.25

ERDF budget: EUR 202 276.69

The Association of St Francis on Kökar

Name: Föreningen Franciscus

Address: Överboda 0, 22730 Kökar, Finland

Legal status: private

Website (not verified): http://franciskusfesten.com/

Total budget: EUR 107 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 80 250.00

Municipality of Sottunga

Name: Sottunga kommun

Address: Kommunkansliet på Sottunga 0, 22720 Sottunga, Åland, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sottunga.ax

Total budget: EUR 106 146.76

ERDF budget: EUR 79 610.07

Novia University of Applied Science

Name: Yrkeshögskolan Novia

Address: Nunnegatan 4, 20700 Turku, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.novia.fi

Total budget: EUR 158 350.70

ERDF budget: EUR 118 763.02

City of Pargas

Name: Pargas stad

Department: Department of business development

Address: Strandvägen 28, 21600 Pargas, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pargas.fi

Total budget: EUR 284 416.73

ERDF budget: EUR 213 312.55

Municipality of Östhammar

Name: Östhammar kommun

Address: Box 66, 74221 Östhammar, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.osthammar.se

Total budget: EUR 190 452.30

ERDF budget: EUR 142 839.22

Time for pilgrimage in Sweden

Name: Pilgrimstid Sverige

Address: c/o Andersson, Fältvägen 6, 82065 FORSA, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.pilgrimstid.nu

Total budget: EUR 89 228.00

ERDF budget: EUR 66 921.00

Summary

Project name (EN): St Olav Waterway

Project acronym: St Olav Waterway

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2020-12-14

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Project start date: 2016-09-01

Project end date: 2020-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 503 193.56

European Union funding: EUR 1 127 395.17

Co-financing sources: ERDF

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Municipality of Söderhamn

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The Association of St Francis on Kökar

St Olav Waterway

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Municipality of Sottunga

St Olav Waterway

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Novia University of Applied Science

St Olav Waterway

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Pargas stad

St Olav Waterway

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Municipality of Östhammar

St Olav Waterway

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Time for pilgrimage in Sweden

St Olav Waterway

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Åbo Akademi University

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

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2020-11-16

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137 / 137 (100%)

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663 / 663 (100%)

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