The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Programme 2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN): Vector-SPORT project aims at encouraging and developing mechanism for the regional and local business and entrepreneurship potential, by the means of combining and operating in the fields of sport and tourism.

Description (FI): Vector-SPORT hankkeen tavoitteena on kannustaa ja kehittää mekanismeja alueellisen sekä paikallisen liiketoiminnan ja yrittäjyyspotentiaalin tueksi yhdistämällä ja toimimalla urheilun ja matkailun aloilla.

Description (RU):

Проект Vector-SPORT направлен на стимулирование и развитие механизмов поддержки регионального и местного бизнеса и предпринимательства путем объединения и работы в сфере спортивного туризма.

Achievements (EN):

“Vector- Sport” project aimed at the development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society of Saint-Petersburg and South–East Finland. The project partners were three regional sports federations of South-East Finland, the Committee for physical culture and sports of Saint –Petersburg and the Training Center for the national sports team of Saint- Petersburg. Special attention of the project was paid to the support of local SMEs, operating in sports tourism sector. Regional companies were in demand of the institutional support from authorities, NGOs and other stakeholders, therefore, the project aimed to unite these target groups to work together for increasing the number of new sports tourism products and services, enhancing tourists' flows and regional development. As the result, the regions of Saint- Petersburg and South–East Finland could increase their attractiveness for the business to invest, locate and operate on the program areas.Through the specific marketing activities and international cross-border sports events, the project motivated tourists to come to the programs areas and local authorities to integrate sports tourism into regional development strategies. The main project achievements could be identified as follows: New operating networks in sport tourism between South–East Finland and Saint-Petersburg were established; Well- informed societies of cross–border regions about the possibilities of sport tourism and active recreation, as well as about new business opportunities and forms of economic activity; New cross- border economic clusters created; New sports tourism products developed. Thus, the project created the preconditions for the sustainable SMEs and business development in the program regions, contributed to the developmental processes in the program areas with the knowledge, expertise, human resources, new operational models.

Website: https://www.vectorsport.org/en/home/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

target values: TI Number of enterprises… 200/55 (some companies were counted many times) TI Number of business organisations… 68/15 TI Number of created structures… 4/10 TI Number of cross-border economic… 7/7 PSI Number of innovation/ promotion 36/31 PSI Number of operating networks… 11/10 PSI Number of partnership contracts… 15/15 PSI Number of sport tourism products… 31/31 PSI Number of joint trainings… 31/31

Thematic information

Tourism

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Southern Savo Sport Federation

Address: Paukkulantie 22, 50170 Mikkeli, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.esliikunta.fi

Total budget: EUR 270 399.89

Kymenlaakso Sports Federation

Name: Kymenlaakso Sports Federation

Address: Ilmarinkuja 3, 45100 Kouvola, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.kymli.fi

Total budget: EUR 49 105.00

Southern Karelia Sports Federation

Name: Southern Karelia Sports Federation

Address: Kotipolku 2, 55120 Imatra, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.eklu.fi

Total budget: EUR 56 249.61

Saint Petersburg State autonomous institution “Training centre for national sport teams of Saint Petersburg”

Name: Saint Petersburg State autonomous institution “Training centre for national sport teams of Saint Petersburg”

Address: Millionnaya street, 24, 191186 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cpsk.kfis.spb.ru

Total budget: EUR 75 026.05

Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Government of Saint-Petersburg

Name: Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Government of Saint-Petersburg

Address: Millionnaya street, 22, 191186 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kfis.spb.ru

Total budget: EUR 16 845.84

Partners map

Partners and Projects info

Southern Savo Sport Federation

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Partners and Projects info

Kymenlaakso Sports Federation

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Partners and Projects info

Southern Karelia Sports Federation

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Partners and Projects info

Saint Petersburg State autonomous institution “Training centre for national sport teams of Saint Petersburg”

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Partners and Projects info

Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Government of Saint-Petersburg

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Project acronym: Vector-SPORT

Project start date: 2019-03-01

Project end date: 2022-05-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 467 626.40

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 299 070.46

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 48.00%

Co-financing sources:

Third-country contribution: Russia: EUR 143 934.00

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

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

2024-01-29

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

71 / 71 (100%)

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

320 / 320 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme.

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

Languages

Contact Form

The development of cross-border sport tourism in cooperation with regional sport federations, sport clubs, public authorities and business society

Description

Thematic information

Partners (5)

Partners map

Summary

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Disclaimer