Llŷn IVeragh Ecomuseums

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom - Ireland (Ireland - Wales)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-20

Description

Description (EN): LIVE will promote tourism using the ecomuseum model and through co-operative marketing of natural and cultural capital assets to bring tourists into the regions outside of the traditional peak tourist seasons, enhancing the consequential socio-economic benefits to the coastal communities.

Achievements (EN):

The overall goal of the project was ‘to enable coastal communities to promote their natural and cultural assets, creating opportunities for sustainable tourism, especially outside of the traditional peak tourist seasons.’ This is quite a general goal, but we feel that we have certainly developed tools, resources, and offered examples of how this could be done. With a particular focus on collaborative working, sharing knowledge, and giving equal importance to community and environment, we hope that we have gone some way to increasing the momentum towards a different way of encouraging tourism in our regions. When the project was being designed, we could not have predicted how much the context for tourism would be changed. This completely erased any hope of making a measurable impact on tourism. The three tourism seasons for 2020-2022 inclusive were almost entirely shaped by the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. 2023 is perhaps our first ‘normal’ tourism season since the start of the project, and unfortunately we are already in the closure period for the project. In running events during the off-seasons and engaging regularly with our surrounding communities, we have certainly tried to build momentum for a more community-led approach to tourism. While we can’t claim that we have made a significant contribution to economic growth in the regions, we have attracted off-season visitors through initiatives such as the Llŷn Archaeological Festival and the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival.It has been heartening throughout our activities to hear about the connections made locally as well. We have had people at our events who had never met or had time to chat together but who have made contact through our project activities, which is one of the nicest outcomes of the project. By strengthening these community networks, working with local groups, and creating a space for people with similar interests and concerns but different backgrounds to come together, we hope that the community-led approach to developing tourism will continue into the future. Those of you who have been following our project for some time will be very familiar with our striking and beautiful branding. The development of this brand was inspired by the landscapes of our coastal regions and has been further developed from the ‘LIVE’ brand into distinct brands for the two regions that are still linked in their designs and include many of the same elements and colour schemes. The ‘Ecoamgueddfa’ brand already existed on Pen Llŷn, but it was redesigned within the LIVE project and the Ecoamgueddfa.org website has been updated to mirror the LIVE website. LIVE gave the Ecoamgueddfa partners to opportunity to deepen their network and develop new resources and connections within their ecomuseum model. The ‘Discover Iveragh’ brand is new, but follows the LIVE branding, which had received very positive feedback locally and at trade shows, so it seemed sensible to change very little. We have not developed an ecomuseum on Iveragh… yet. However, there is certainly a model that we can follow. During the project, we also worked closely with the Skye Ecomuseum and a visit from the Skye Ecomuseum Officer and other members of their network provided inspiration to many of the people they met. These things take time and although there is strong support from many members of the community for much of the work of LIVE to continue and to keep working towards an ecomuseum model, other ways of making this happen in the future will now need to be explored. 3. Cross-border working has been one clear success of the project. Our cross-border team met virtually in various different groupings at least once a week. We have shared so many lessons and it has been a real joy to get to know each other’s peninsula and each other. Visits in both directions were obviously very much curtailed during the project but we have managed to introduce our partners to the various communities. Although this will not continue in a structured way through the continuation of the Ireland-Wales programme, personal connections have been made, and an awareness now exists, that will certainly not be lost quickly. We will also continue to promote each other’s regions on our online platforms. 4. The range of resources that we have developed is covered elsewhere in this newsletter. Creating resources is certainly something that we have done with enormous enthusiasm! From pocket guides to help visitors practice Welsh in the pub, to colouring in sheets for kids, videos, itineraries, digital guides, there is so much to explore and it will all be available for many years to come.

Website: https://irelandwales.eu/

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Specific Objective: To sustainably realise the potential of natural and cultural assets in increasing visitor numbers to coastal communities in the Programme 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 (1)

Lead Partner: University College Cork

Address: T12 YN60 Cork, Ireland

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Llŷn IVeragh Ecomuseums

Project acronym: LIVE

Project start date: 2020-10-01

Project end date: 2023-10-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 443 822.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 867 788.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 867 788.00.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Studies / surveys

Perceptions of the Iveragh Environment

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2023-10-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

#1: June Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-06-04

Languages: en

#2: July Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-07-06

Languages: en

#3 August Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-08-12

Languages: en

#4 September Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-09-06

Languages: en

#5 October Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-10-14

Languages: en

#6 December Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-12-08

Languages: en

#7 January Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-01-12

Languages: en

#8 February Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-02-15

Languages: en

#10 April Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-04-28

Languages: en

#11 May Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-05-19

Languages: en

#12 June Stargazing Guide in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve Monthly Series

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-06-28

Languages: en

Common lizard Educational video

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-05-06

Languages: en

LIVE Ecoamgueddfa Webinar

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-03-29

Languages: en

Llŷn Iveragh Ecomuseums Knowledge Gathering Programme

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-02-10

Languages: en

Local Perceptions of the Natural Heritage of Iveragh - results of a recent participatory study

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-05-07

Languages: en

Photographing the Moon in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-07-19

Languages: en

Red billed Chough of the Iveragh Peninsula

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-09-08

Languages: en

The fascinating plants of Iveragh - LIVE Lunchtime talk with Calum Sweeney

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-05-26

Languages: en

Watching the Seasons Change - a study of the timing of seasonal change in native Irish trees.

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2022-01-13

Languages: en

Webinar launch of The LIVE Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-02-24

Languages: en

World Curlew Day -with The LIVE Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.ecomuseumlive.eu/

Publication date: 2024-10-30

Document date: 2021-04-20

Languages: en

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

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom - Ireland (Ireland - Wales)

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

2022-08-08

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

23 / 23 (100%)

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

23 / 90 (25.56%)

Notes on the data

Data was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2019-03-21, 2020-04-18, 2020-11-06, 2021-07-30 and 2022-07-19. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://irelandwales.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2023-02-01 and 2024-03-20.

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