Child friendly destinations

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

Date of latest update: 2025-10-15

Description

Description (EN):

WONDER project’s main overall objective is to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of destinations from the Adriatic-Ionian Region thanks to a child-friendly approach, aimed at improving the liveability of cities and the touristic offer (governance, environment and services) through the development of new and innovative participatory methods. In this sense, the expected results produced will be: - New touristic offer addressed to children and families through innovative participatory methods. - Improved cooperation at local and transnational level among tourism sector, local authorities, civil society organisations and citizens/children. - Well-defined transnational identity and raising awareness developed on child-friendly tourism in the Adriatic-Ionian area. The above mentioned results will be reached through 2 main outputs: 1. WONDER ACTION PLAN aimed at collecting the actions and strategies to be undertaken by cities to become "Child-friendly destinations". 2. WONDER-Transnational Network of Child-Friendly Destinations, targeting different groups from general public (including children), education institutions, civil society and NGOs, to public bodies and authorities, but also the private sector, including enterprises in the tourism sector. The WONDER project will combine a top-down approach (decisions and strategies at local authority level) with a bottom-up approach (children’s, civil society, business sector, media involvement) to develop an innovative approach for child-friendly destinations. Cooperation among partners and the transnational approach will be strategic in order to properly address a complete and integrated policy targeted to children, both as residents and tourists establishing a transnational network of “Child-friendly destinations” featured by a common brand.

Achievements (EN): Level of capacity for the stakeholders in the fields of natural and cultural heritage protection and tourism to sustainably valorise natural and cultural heritage as a growth asset

Website: http://www.adrioninterreg.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of capacity for the stakeholders in the fields of natural and cultural heritage protection and tourism to sustainably valorise natural and cultural heritage as a growth asset.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project main results will be: 1. New touristic offer developed for children and families through new participatory methods. 2. Improved cooperation at local and transational level among tourism sector, local authorities, civil society organsations and citizens/children. 3. Well-defined transnational identity and raising awareness developed on child-friendly tourism in the Adriatic-Ionian area. Through WONDER, policy-makers and stakeholders (tourism operators, cultural operators, civil society organisations etc.) will enhance their capacity in the following fields: -Assessment and understanding of children tourism and children engagement at local level (a city/territory that normally involve resident children in co-designing and co-implementing the city’s policies is better culturally and organizationally equipped to design and implement tourism products for children). -Identification and sharing of best practices: will work jointly at transnational level through a working group and online activities to identify best practices, also outside the ADRION region, and to share local assessment’s results. -Children involvement: through the adoption of evidenced-based methodologies, the children involvement must be ensure, since it is essential for building a Child-Friendly destination. - Definition of services, policies and methodologies to set up a child-friendly destination. -Transnational networking, cooperation and common branding as a dynamic place place for cooperation between public and private stakeholders, by using a common toolkit. The cumulative enhancement of capacities in the above fields of stakeholders concerned will lead to the establishment of an Adrion Network of Child-Friendly destinations, substantiated by new (or renewed) tourist products co-designed with children.

Thematic information

Tourism

Specific Objective: Promote the sustainable valorisation and preservation of natural and cultural heritage as growth assets in the Adriatic-Ionian area

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 (13)

Lead Partner: Comune di Fano

Department: EU project management and international Cooperation

Address: San Francesco 76, 61032 Fano, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.comune.fano.pu.it

Total budget: EUR 255 622.00

ERDF budget: EUR 217 278.70

ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΑΧΑΪΑΣ

Name: ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΤΗΡΙΟ ΑΧΑΪΑΣ

Address: Michalakopoulou 58, 26221 Patras, Greece

Legal status: public

Agjencia Shqiptare e Zhvillimit te Investimeve

Name: Agjencia Shqiptare e Zhvillimit te Investimeve

Address: Rr. e Elbasanit n.a., 1001 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Zdravi grad

Name: Zdravi grad

Address: Vukovarska 65, 21000 Split, Croatia

Legal status: public

OBSERVATORI PER TE DREJTAT E FEMIJEVE

Name: OBSERVATORI PER TE DREJTAT E FEMIJEVE

Address: Rr. Bulevardi Bajram Curri 5, 1019 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.observator.org.al

Total budget: EUR 113 705.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 96 649.25

RAZVOJNI CENTER NOVO MESTO, svetovanje in razvoj, d.o.o.

Name: RAZVOJNI CENTER NOVO MESTO, svetovanje in razvoj, d.o.o.

Address: Ljubljanska cesta 26, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rc-nm.si/en/home/

Total budget: EUR 182 395.20

ERDF budget: EUR 155 035.92

Δήμος Πρέβεζας

Name: Δήμος Πρέβεζας

Address: El. Venizelou & Bahoumi 2, 48100 Preveza, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dimosprevezas.gr/

Total budget: EUR 140 788.00

ERDF budget: EUR 119 669.80

Mestna občina Velenje

Name: Mestna občina Velenje

Department: Development and investment office

Address: Titov Trg 1, 3320 Velenje, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.velenje.si

Total budget: EUR 176 332.80

ERDF budget: EUR 149 882.88

ΔΗΜΟΣ ΔΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΧΑΪΑΣ

Name: ΔΗΜΟΣ ΔΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΧΑΪΑΣ

Department: Indipendent section of programming & information technology

Address: Sosou Tavromeneos 50, 20200 Kato Achaia, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://dimosdymaion.gr/

Total budget: EUR 174 930.50

ERDF budget: EUR 148 690.92

Turistička organizacija Herceg Novi

Name: Turistička organizacija Herceg Novi

Department: Tourism

Address: Jova Dabovića 12, 85340 Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hercegnovi.travel

Total budget: EUR 113 892.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 96 808.20

Comune di Cervia

Name: Comune di Cervia

Department: Culture, Services and Common Heritage Dept.

Address: P.zza Garibaldi 1, 48015 Cervia, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.comunecervia.it

Total budget: EUR 193 532.00

ERDF budget: EUR 164 502.20

Dubrovačka razvojna agencija DURA d.o.o.

Name: Dubrovačka razvojna agencija DURA d.o.o.

Address: Branitelja Dubrovnika 15, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dura.hr

Total budget: EUR 191 472.30

ERDF budget: EUR 162 751.46

Grad Novigrad - Cittanova

Name: Grad Novigrad - Cittanova

Department: Department for communal system, spatial planning and environmental protection

Address: Veliki trg 1, 52466 Novigrad, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.novigrad.hr

Total budget: EUR 154 330.20

ERDF budget: EUR 131 180.67

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CHAMBER OF ACHAIA

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Albanian Investment Development Agency

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Healthy City

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OBSERVATORI PER TE DREJTAT E FEMIJEVE

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DEVELOPMENT CENTRE NOVO MESTO, Counseling and Development, Ltd.

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Municipality of Preveza

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Municipality of Velenje

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Municipality of West Achaia

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Tourism organization of Herceg Novi

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Comune di Cervia

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City of Dubrovnik development agency

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Grad Novigrad - Cittanova

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Municipality of Fano

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Summary

Project name (EN): Child friendly destinations

Project acronym: WONDER

Project start date: 2020-02-01

Project end date: 2023-01-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 697 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 442 450.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 248 992.55.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 193 457.45.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

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

2025-10-15

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87 / 87 (100%)

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

1 025 / 1 025 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.adrioninterreg.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2022-12-10 and 2024-01-30.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, its projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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