Silc Road Local Culture

Programme 2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN):

The project focuses on the Silk Road cultural networking in the Black Sea Basin Region, a Region with rich cultural heritage. The main aim of the project study is to analyze the untapped cultural tourism opportunities that exist along the Silk Road in the project study areas and to identify the prospects of creating new tourism entrepreneurial networks based on the Silk Road cultural heritage. The project begins with an innovative survey and a baseline study focusing on identifying, documenting and mapping the cultural footprint of Silk Road and assessing its growth potential, as well as elaborating a vision on the project';s study area by creating an operational guide to facilitate the project implementation. In a second step, the project will create and establish a Silk Road Virtual Observatory aiming at monitoring at local and interregional level the untapped cultural heritage and relevant destinations introducing a new means of information for travelers as well as national/regional/local authorities. The innovative about this second step is the first ever actual creation and establishment of a Virtual Observatory to act as a modern and innovative tool for Western Silk Road tourism. Moving along, the project will enter its entrepreneurial phase establishing the newly proposed cross-border network to be depicted on a data base for the first time, as well as reinforcing interregional cooperation and partnership';s organization to support Silk Road cultural tourism development. Moreover, the project will create for the first time a Silk Road Entrepreneurship Label, the SILCNECT Label, to be adopted by cross-border and along the Silk Road enterprises involved in the tourism and cultural sectors, to certify them as quality affiliates of the project. SILCNECT Entrepreneurship Label is a highly ambitious scheme for those entrepreneurs that deal with Silk Road tourism products. It will be an effort to create a common tool to boost local economies and create synergies among Black Sea countries. In addition, SILCNECT training activities will provide support from idea generation to scale-up of their enterprises to generate jobs and wealth via innovation, collaboration and trade. Finally, the project will undertake innovative communication actions to promote and diffuse the Silk Road Tourism Intelligence created during the project, by designing a webpage to host a multilingual web-platform for information sharing about the Silk Road cultural heritage tourism industry, incorporating an advanced Web-GIS tool, Video Documentaries for Storytelling and Experience Crowd Sourcing for the Local Silk Road Cultures. The project will also include the organization of public events for ensuring relevant publicity not only to the project study areas, but also to other non-European and international areas. Information added on 2020-05-26, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): The Silk Road Virtual Observatory created under SILC project, will allow monitoring at local and interregional level the untapped cultural heritage and relevant destinations, introducing a new mean of information for travelers as well as national/regional/local authorities. Further the project will create for the first time a Silk Road Entrepreneurship Label, the SILCNECT Label, to be adopted by cross-border and along the Silk Road enterprises involved in the tourism and cultural sectors, to certify them as quality affiliates of the project.

Achievements (EN): R 1.1 Strength of cross-border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors

Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/

Expected Results (EN): R 1.1 Strength of cross-border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors

Expected Outputs (EN):

One of the main project results introduces the Silk Road Monitoring System, referring to the development of a geo-location / smart app and a sustainable monitoring system, aiming to record information regarding Silk Road cultural and tourism entrepreneurship, at local and interregional level, presenting investment opportunities and/or financial collaboration schemes. Moreover, the creation of a Silk Road Entrepreneurship Network, which will establish an interregional network for promoting cross- border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors, by developing and implementing a joint strategic marketing plan promoting Silk Road cultural and tourism entrepreneurial initiatives and perspective future development schemes. The aim is to build and maintain partnerships and synergies of mutual economic benefit, sharing Silk Road diversified brand aspect. Furthermore, networking will be provided through an on-line platform that will be available and easy to replicate also in other areas, while all the above will be consolidated under the Silk Road Virtual Observatory, that any potential entrepreneur and/or investor could consult. Last but not least, in order to connect all the above activities a label will be created. SILCNECT is a highly ambitious scheme for those entrepreneurs that deal with SILC products. It will be an effort to create a common tool to boost local economies and create synergies among Black Sea countries. All those will be promoted via communication channels like the Silk Road Local Culture website and its feature. Finally, the Silk Road Quality Assurance Guide for sustainable cultural tourism policies, will be used as a program result indicator of strengthening cross-border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors, because with the implementation and operation of the program in its full capacity, economies of scale will be created.

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Research Committee – Special Account for Research Funds, School of Economic Sciences

Department: School of Economic Sciences

Address: University Campus, Tritis Septemvriou, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.auth.gr

Total budget: EUR 1 074.02

National Association for Rural, Ecological and Cultural Tourism, Tulcea Branch

Name: National Association for Rural, Ecological and Cultural Tourism, Tulcea Branch

Address: Str. SALSOVIA nr.76 loc. MAHMUDIA 678, 827130 loc. MAHMUDIA , jud. TULCEA, Romania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.antrec.ro

Total budget: EUR 8 965.48

State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Russian-Armenian University”

Name: State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Russian-Armenian University”

Department: Department of Management, Business and Tourism

Address: Hovsep Emin street 123, 0051 Yerevan, Armenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rau.am

Total budget: EUR 22 907.57

International Centre for Social Research and Policy Analysis

Name: International Centre for Social Research and Policy Analysis

Address: 52 Razmadze Street 456, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.icsrpa.org.ge

Total budget: EUR 33 393.44

University of Economics - Varna

Name: University of Economics - Varna

Address: 77 Knyaz Boris I Blvd 345, 9002 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://ue-varna.bg/en/

Total budget: EUR 27 096.57

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Summary

Project name (EN): Silc Road Local Culture

Project acronym: SILC

Project start date: 2018-11-10

Project end date: 2021-12-09

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 93 437.08

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 85 962.09

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

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

2025-06-06

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

43 / 43 (100%)

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

220 / 220 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme on 2025-03-10. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://blacksea-cbc.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01, except for projects with acronyms AGREEN, BeECO, BRIDGES, BSB ECO MONITORING, BSB Smart Farming, CRoCuS, EXCELTOUR, LeNetEco 2, LOC-FOOD, SILC, THC (in these cases, the information was provided by the Programme).

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Silc Road Local Culture

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