Green Pilgrimage supporting natural and cultural heritage

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-12-02

Description

Description (EN):

The continued fragility of Europe’s economy means that growth and development policies often take precedence over environmental policies, threatening our cultural and natural heritage assets. Green Pilgrimage (GP) is an innovative project which will show how growth and development policies can economically exploit AND protect natural and cultural heritage. Key to this is our focus on the power of pilgrimage- recognized today as one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry (UNWTO, 2015) with more than 300 million pilgrims every year. Ancient pilgrim routes such as The Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, report an annual 10% increase in numbers, particularly among non-religious. Harnessing this increased popularity to protect natural and cultural heritage is a common challenge faced by those responsible for Europe’s major pilgrimage routes. GP will show policy makers how to protect natural and cultural heritage whilst developing jobs and growth along pilgrim routes through developing low impact tourism, digitalization, pilgrim accommodation and strengthening local traditions. This reconnects pilgrims with their environment, landscape and culture. Policy influence will increase pilgrimage across Europe through creating a greater awareness of its benefits. GP will hold exchanges and workshops on sustainable pilgrimage promotion, pilgramage tourism impact, environmental protection and European best practice. The main beneficiaries will be government, local communities and businesses on Europe’s main pilgrim routes and management groups safeguarding our natural and cultural assets. The project’s advisory partner, The European Green Pilgrimage Network, will ensure that the indirect beneficiaries of the project are the major pilgrimage routes and destinations of Europe and, working with the support of the European Institute of Cultural Routes, the project’s findings will also benefit the diverse 33 certified Cultural Routes of Europe.

Achievements (EN):

In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 96 policy learning events. It has also identified 17 good practices, produced 6 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 101 people. In terms of results, the project has succeeded in improving 10 regional development policies for a total amount of funds influenced of EUR 18,217,700. 00.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

The overall objective of Green Pilgrimage is to provide an evidence base to regional policy makers showing green pilgrimage as a social and economically valuable cultural heritage tradition that enhances and develops Europe’s natural landscape and cultural assets. The simple protection of nature and heritage is not enough as this approach isolates assets from today’s economic realities. The best way to protect nature and heritage is to give it economic value in a way that enhances the very heritage that we seek to protect. This requires addressing the different types of policies that IMPACT on natural and cultural heritage. This broad policy integration is the overarching aim of GP. Sub-objectives are to; • Integrate pilgrimage objectives into a range of policy types affecting natural and cultural heritage and to evaluate their impact on asset enhancement and protection. • Integrate sustainability indicators into policies impacting on natural and cultural heritage • Sustainably develop the economic potential of pilgrimage as seen in the rapid growth of pilgrimage in places like Santiago de Compostela or Walsingham in Norfolk. • Develop a broader interpretation of pilgrimage as a journey with meaning; walking for health, for remembrance, for leisure, etc. Wider pilgrimage accessibility increases its potential for heritage development • Promote green pilgrimage ethos as a low carbon socially responsible outdoor activity • Share best practice on pilgrimage route management, promotion and business engagement. • Enable stakeholders to benefit from regional expertise • Inform regional policy of project results and outputs. • Support a network of pilgrimage places and routes in Europe • Develop GP action plans that enable the development of natural and cultural assets through sustainable economic growth The Action Plans will inspire an invigorated interest and development of Pilgrimage from the local level through to regional level policy makers.

Expected Outputs (EN):

Expected Outputs: 7 Study Visit Reports. At least 6 Best Practices Identified showing innovation in valorisation of natural and cultural heritage through GP. Mid Term Action Plan and Policy Learning Review Report. Mid Term Action Plan and Policy Learning Presentation. Action templates and road maps 4 Policy in Practice Workshops Aligning with all partner policy improvement aims: Policy Impact by Type - Which policies have the greatest impact on natural and cultural heritage; how can we ensure their protection in these policies? Policy content improvement and sustainability indicators - compare content currently and the best way to improve content in each type of policy. Policy funding allocations - Developing best practice for Pilgrimage projects for better delivery of the policies identified. Identifiying funding allocation procedures for better understanding of change possibilities. Policy Governance? How to ensure nature and heritage representation in policy management? Puglia All Partner Analysis of regional policy (monitoring and measuring the results to improve policies of valorization of cultural and natural routes). All Partner Policy Review Presentation by Puglia Regon . Norfolk All Partner Review on methodology for measurement of economic and environmental impact and sustainability Indicators . Norfolk All Partner Review Presentation. Sweden All Parnter Review of digitilizaton of long distance and pilgrimage routes. All Partner Digitialisation Review presentation . KCC Visitor Payback scheme peer review. KCC Visitor Payback scheme Presentation. Norway, Norfok, and KCC staff exhanging 3 days. Norway, Norfolk and KCC exhange presentation Norfolk. Policy Learning Platform Participation. 6 Stakeholder Meeting Reports. Partner Management Meetings during each study visit . Quarterly newsletter . A3 display posters . Website populated . Study Visit communication strategies for excellent media coverage. 6 Newsletters . Press releases. Report of Pilgrimage Best Practice. Expected Results: Improved Understanding of Green Pilgrimage across Partner reasons and how they valorise natural and cultural heritage. Best practices analysed and available for trial and transfer between regions. Joint understanding of a range of policies impacting on natural and cultural heritage protection . Improvemet in a range of policies impacting our heritage and analyses of how to transfer improvements between policies. Ability to measure economic benefits and sustainability of best practices identified. Improved understanding of smart specialisation innovations for Pilgrimage Routes. Stakeholder understanding of a range of growth policies and how they impact natural and cultural heritage . Increase in European Pilgrimage numbers of all faiths and non and across ethnicities and age groups. Increased value for Piglrimage tourism provding inward investment to natural and cultural heritage assets. Growth policies that both develop and protect natural and cultural heritage .

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, in the field of the protection and development of natural and cultural heritage

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 (8)

Lead Partner: Kent County Council

Department: Kent Environment and Planning and Enforcement

Address: West Barn, Penstock Hall Farm, Canterbury Road,, TN25 5LL East Brabourne, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 394 599.00

ERDF budget: EUR 335 409.15

Diocese of Canterbury

Name: Diocese of Canterbury

Department: European Green Pilgrimage Network

Address: Lady Wootton’s Green, CT1 1NQ Canterbury, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 109 861.00

ERDF budget: EUR 82 395.75

Nidaros Domkirkes Restaureringsarbeider

Name: Nidaros Domkirkes Restaureringsarbeider

Department: National Pilgrim Centre

Address: Bispegaten 11, 7012 Trondheim, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nasjonaltpilegrimssenter.no

Total budget: EUR 119 859.00

Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare in Turism Bucuresti

Name: Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare in Turism Bucuresti

Department: Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare în Turism - INCDT

Address: ROMANIA Bucharest , Apolodor street, no 17, district 5, 050741 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.incdt.ro

Total budget: EUR 153 712.00

ERDF budget: EUR 130 655.20

Norfolk County Council

Name: Norfolk County Council

Department: Environment Team

Address: County Hall, Martineau Lane, NR1 2SG Norwich, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.norfolk.gov.uk

Total budget: EUR 155 775.00

ERDF budget: EUR 132 408.75

Östergötlands läns landsting (Region Östergötland)

Name: Östergötlands läns landsting (Region Östergötland)

Department: Regional Development/Regional Tourism Unit

Address: St Larsgatan 49 B, 581 91 Linköping, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.visitostergotland.se/en/

Total budget: EUR 159 860.00

ERDF budget: EUR 135 881.00

Regione Puglia

Name: Regione Puglia

Department: Department of Tourism, Economy of culture and valorization of territory

Address: Via Gobetti 26, 70125 BARI, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regione.puglia.it

Total budget: EUR 168 249.00

ERDF budget: EUR 143 011.65

Trøndelag fylkeskommune (Until 31/12/2017 Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune)

Name: Trøndelag fylkeskommune (Until 31/12/2017 Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune)

Department: Regional Development

Address: Erling Skakkes gate 14, 7013 Trondheim, 7004 Trondheim, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.trondelagfylke.no

Total budget: EUR 45 430.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Green Pilgrimage supporting natural and cultural heritage

Project acronym: Green Pilgrimage

Project start date: 2017-01-01

Project end date: 2022-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 307 345.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 959 761.50

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 959 761.50.

Third-country contribution: Norway: EUR 82 644.50 (ERDF equivalent only)

Documents

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Books

The Pilgrimage - A journey of Wonder

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2019-12-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

A Report on methodologies to measure the economic, social and environmental impact of Pilgrimage

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2022-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan - National Institute for Research and Development in Tourism, Romania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2019-12-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - National Pilgrim Centre, Norway

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2020-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan - Sweden

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2020-05-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan - Tourism for Sustainable Economic Growth supporting Natural and Cultural Heritage KCC, UK

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2020-04-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan of Puglia Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2020-06-04

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Norfolk County Council Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2020-04-09

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Green Pilgrimage - a journey with purpose.

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2021-09-17

Languages: en

Green Pilgrimage Closing Conference

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/greenpilgrimage/

Publication date: 2024-08-29

Document date: 2021-10-15

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

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2023-10-31

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2 084 / 2 085 (99.95%)

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Green Pilgrimage supporting natural and cultural heritage

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