Healing Alps: Tourism based on natural health resources as strategic innovation for the development of Alpine regions

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Date of latest update: 2024-03-20

Description

Description (EN):

Tourism is a major engine for job creation and a driving force for economic growth and development in the Alpine programme area. Yet alpine tourism is currently experiencing challenges such as climate change and is often only focussed on specific regions. Global trends such as a thirst for nature-based experiences and increased health consciousness hold considerable opportunities for developing innovative nature-based health tourism value chains. To fulfil this potential, the project will provide policy-makers, regional developers, Alpine regions and SMEs access to innovation knowledge and to implementation tools. Building on the ARPAF project HEALPS, the aim is to improve framework conditions for utilising Alpine natural health resources by developing health tourism products and service chains. Lessons learnt from existing innovative, but fragmented cases will be elevated to a transnational level. Supported by the combination of the latest research results with digital solutions, the nature-based health tourism approach will be tested in pilot regions and the experiences then translated into relevant tools for Alpine regional development. By engaging quadruple helix stakeholders, cross fertilisation between tourism, health and other relevant sectors and co-learning is stimulated at transnational level. This shared knowledge at various scales facilitates framework conditions for value generation based on location-bound Alpine assets. Recommendations for different policy levels as well as guidelines & implementation toolkits for product and service chain development reflect the purpose of a broad implementation of hands-on knowledge for the stimulation of SME- and destination driven innovation. Two international conferences on Alpine health tourism will allow transnational & transversal knowledge transfer from academia to regions and SMEs. Thus, the project contributes to the positioning of the Alpine Space as globally attractive health promoting place.

Achievements (EN):

Tactical Health Management Toolset: The Tactical Health Management Toolset consists in a digital tool to assess and simulate the valorisation of alpine resources in the framework of health tourism. It supports the development of innovative alpine health tourism products and service chains and detects synergy potential. It analyses data to assist in the development of regional strategies through a logical and mathematical model implementation. Alpine Health Tourism Innovation Model: The Alpine Health Tourism Innovation Model is a schematic model that provides an easy-to-follow framework, strategies and techniques in order to enhance the capacity of Alpine regions to develop and implement innovative health tourism value chains with an integrated transnational approach. Training Toolkit on Innovation Model and Tactical Toolset: The Training Toolkit on Innovation Model and Tactical Toolset consists in a toolkit that provides fundamental hands-on tools and manuals, including a train-the-trainer approach, for the continuous application of the Tactical Toolset (OT2.1) and the Innovation Model (OT2.2) by all involved stakeholders for the development of high-quality tourism products. Alpine Health Tourism Action Plan: The Alpine Health Tourism Action Plan represents a strategy for the positioning of the Alpine Space as a health tourism destination containing comprehensive innovation approaches for deriving greater values from Alpine assets as well as policy recommendations for support schemes. It also set the basis for a white paper containing policy recommendations for support schemes targeting three EU policy levels.

Website: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of maturity of framework conditions for innovation for generating innovation processes among business, academia and administration

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project will result in improved conditions for the development of innovative health tourism value chains incl. cross-sectoral & transnational links. Alpine regions -spec. sectoral agencies & public authorities- will have access to hands-on techniques to integrate unique Alpine assets & their sustainable valorisation in tourism strategies. Alpine networks (e.g. AidA) will be empowered to offer efficient support to regions/communities regarding health tourism development. Policy makers at different levels will benefit from specific starting points to initiate innovation-driven health tourism projects. HEALPS2 will thus contribute to increasing the level of maturity of framework conditions at various scales: local, regional & transnational.

Thematic information

Tourism

Specific Objective: Improve the framework conditions for innovation in the Alpine Space

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität Salzburg

Department: Institute of Ecomedicine

Address: Strubergasse 21, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.pmu.ac.at

Total budget: EUR 318 975.00

ERDF budget: EUR 271 128.75

ALPARC – le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés

Name: ALPARC – le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés

Department: Regional development

Address: Rue de la République 256, 73000 Chambéry, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.alparc.org

Total budget: EUR 233 080.00

ERDF budget: EUR 198 118.00

Ente di Gestione delle Aree Protette dell'Ossola

Name: Ente di Gestione delle Aree Protette dell'Ossola

Department: Regional development

Address: Viale Pieri 13, 28868 Varzo, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.areeprotetteossola.it

Total budget: EUR 154 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 131 537.50

Gemeindenetzwerk Allianz in den Alpen e.V.

Name: Gemeindenetzwerk Allianz in den Alpen e.V.

Department: Sustainable regional & community development

Address: Feldwieser Straße 27, 83236 Übersee am Chiemsee, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: https://alpenallianz.org

Total budget: EUR 184 998.60

ERDF budget: EUR 157 248.81

Innovation Salzburg GmbH

Name: Innovation Salzburg GmbH

Department: Regional Development

Address: Maxglaner Hauptstraße 72, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.itg-salzburg.at

Total budget: EUR 242 837.30

ERDF budget: EUR 206 411.70

Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche

Name: Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche

Department: Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing

Address: Via Gaetano Previati 1/E, 23900 Lecco, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.stiima.cnr.it/it/

Total budget: EUR 185 087.50

ERDF budget: EUR 157 324.38

Association La Route des Villes d’Eaux du Massif central

Name: Association La Route des Villes d’Eaux du Massif central

Department: Puy-de-Dôme

Address: Avenue Anatole France 8, 63130 Royal, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.villesdeaux.com

Total budget: EUR 186 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 158 185.00

Fachhochschule Graubünden

Name: Fachhochschule Graubünden

Department: Department Lived Environment/Institute for Tourism and Leisure

Address: Comercialstraße 19, 7000 Chur, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.fhgr.ch/fhgr/lebensraum/institut-fuer-tourismus-und-freizeit-itf/

Total budget: EUR 156 000.00

Razvojni center Murska Sobota

Name: Razvojni center Murska Sobota

Department: Regional development

Address: Kardoševa 2, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rcms.si

Total budget: EUR 185 525.00

ERDF budget: EUR 157 696.25

MOXOFF SPA

Name: MOXOFF SPA

Department: Technical department

Address: Via Simone Schiaffino 11/19, 20158 Milan, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.moxoff.com

Total budget: EUR 249 074.25

ERDF budget: EUR 211 713.11

Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Bistra Ptuj

Name: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Bistra Ptuj

Department: Regional and tourism development

Address: Slovenski trg 6, 2250 Ptuj, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.bistra.si

Total budget: EUR 229 525.00

ERDF budget: EUR 195 096.25

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Project name (EN): Healing Alps: Tourism based on natural health resources as strategic innovation for the development of Alpine regions

Project acronym: HEALPS 2

Project start date: 2019-10-01

Project end date: 2022-10-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 325 952.65

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 844 459.75

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 844 459.75.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

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

2023-08-11

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

64 / 64 (100%)

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

752 / 752 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.alpine-space.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2022-11-20 and 2024-03-11.

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Healing Alps: Tourism based on natural health resources as strategic innovation for the development of Alpine regions

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