Inclusive Border Cycling - Social inclusion by valorising heritage along existing cycling routes in remote border areas

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Danube

Date of latest update: 2024-12-18

Description

Description (EN):

Several transnational cycle trails have been developed in the Danube region as innovative tools of sustainable tourism and mobility, valorising a rich and diverse natural/cultural heritage. These trails, especially sections leading through overall peripheral border areas are usually facing complex demographic problems: outward migration, ageing society, higher shares of vulnerable groups, pockets of poverty. These problems, along with deficiencies in infrastructure, services result in generally less attractive trails that are not appearing as marketable offers at international cycling tourism markets. Effective, wide scale capitalization of local tangible and intangible heritage along the trails is usually weak since inclusive, community-based initiatives are scarce and unconnected. The IBC project aims at valorising natural and cultural assets in disadvantaged border areas by a transnational development of cycling trails focusing on inclusion of local vulnerable groups. IBC pilots and solutions for inclusive trail management and targeting the silver age groups, accompanied by transnational marketing and promotional activities will lead to an accessible network of socially inclusive cycling trails with European acceptance. Shifting focus from cycling planning to socially inclusive trail development/management will mobilise local communities’ cultural assets and social capital, increasing social cohesion at all levels. Creating innovative and tailor-made tourism products for silver age groups will allow to exploit a growing cycling tourism demand potential, while joint marketing and transferability strategies will contribute to make socially inclusive cycling products more competitive focusing on socially responsible customers from the most developed European markets. To achieve the goals, the IBC project will target already existing cycling trails in border areas. An experienced partnership will ensure to develop sustainable and replicable results.

Expected Achievements (EN):

Ownership of local stakeholders is strengthened towards border cycling trails by their Involvement in developing and managing local sections of cycling trails with special emphasis on involvement of vulnerable social groups. Local cultural heritage will be valorised in border areas by integration and presentation of local stories and other intangible cultural heritage (crafts, traditional local products) into the cycling tourism offers, also strengthening local identity and trail ownership in the rural communities. Innovative route maintenance based on endogenous resources of these communities will both contribute to trail management and inclusion of local disadvantaged groups. Border cycling routes of the Danube region are adapted to the special needs and preferences of the silver economy as well as of selected groups within the young generation. On one hand to exploit the enormous and growing tourism demand potential of the silver economy in Europe and on the other hand to give selected groups of the young generation access to the experience of long-distance cycling routes. By recognizing the special needs of these groups, often arising from their vulnerability, innovative tailor-made and targeted tourism products will be conceived. The aim is to valorise the newly developed tourism products based on social inclusion. Transnational marketing strategy for the border cycling routes will raise international awareness, Transferability marketing action plan will upscale the tested models to new destinations in border areas and the special promotional activities will raise the international market presence and as well as the acceptance and growing identification of social inclusive border cycling routes within the Danube region.

Project outputs: Inclusion-based flagship cultural tourism products integrated into cycling tourism offer to valorise of local cultural heritage(EN)
Local product brands integrated into border cycling tourism offer to provide additional job opportunities for disadvantaged local social groups(EN)
Established locally-based maintenance systems of border cycling routes focusing on social integration

(EN)
Transnational Social Inclusion Model for inclusion of local vulnerable social groups and intergenerational cooperation into development and operation of cycling routes in border areas of Danube region(EN)
Tourism packages of border cycling trails adapted to the needs of elderly people from the European tourism market to foster job creation in lagging behind border regions(EN)
Cross-generational Volunteer Programmes to test and maintain border cycling trails by innovative inclusion of elderly generation as well as selected groups within the young generation(EN)
TICPM - Transnational Inclusive Cycle Product Model for integrating the targeted vulnerable groups into tourism demand of cycling trails in remote border areas(EN)
Cooperating organisations developing socially inclusive border cycling routes in the Danube region(EN)
Transnational marketing strategy of inclusive border cycling trails in the Danube region(EN)
Transferability plan to upscale already operating border cycling trail models to new destinations(EN)

Thematic information

Transport and mobility Cultural heritage and arts Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Priority: (VI-B_D_3) Priority 3 - A more social Danube Region

Priority specific objective: RSO4.6. Enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights

Type of intervention: 137 Support for self-employment and business start-ups

Partners (18)

Lead Partner: Nyugat-Pannon Terület- és Gazdaságfejlesztési Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HU21464812

Address: Horváth Boldizsár krt., 9700 Szombathely, Hungary

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Sectoral agency

Website: http://www.westpannon.hu

Total budget: EUR 314 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 251 360.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 62 840.00

Contractors:

Name: Borostyánkő Nonprofit Kft.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 14881806-2-18

Rezervația Biosferei ”Prutul de Jos”

Name: Rezervația Biosferei ”Prutul de Jos”

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 1006603000651

Address: Unirii str., MD5320 Cahul, Slobozia Mare, Moldova

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: https://prutuldejos.md/

Total budget: EUR 148 964.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 119 171.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 29 792.80

Tourismusverband Thermen- & Vulkanland

Name: Tourismusverband Thermen- & Vulkanland

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU51869205

Address: Hauptplatz, 8480 Mureck, Austria

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.steiermark.com/de/Thermen-Vulkanland

Total budget: EUR 135 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 108 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 27 084.00

Trail Angels GmbH

Name: Trail Angels GmbH

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU70185505

Address: Obervellach, 9821 Obervellach, Austria

Legal status: private

Organisation type: SME

Website: http://www.trail-angels.com

Total budget: EUR 250 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 200 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 50 084.00

Agentia Moldsilva

Name: Agentia Moldsilva

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 1006601000255

Address: bd Stefan cel Mare, MD-2001 Chisinau, Moldova

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: http://www.moldsilva.gov.md

Grad Sombor

Name: Grad Sombor

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 100123258

Address: Trg Cara Uroša, 25101 Sombor, Serbia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.sombor.rs

Total budget: EUR 115 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 92 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 23 084.00

Opština Apatin

Name: Opština Apatin

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 101269416

Address: Srpskih Vladara, 25260 Apatin, Serbia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.soapatin.org

Total budget: EUR 160 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 128 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 32 084.00

Consiliul Județean Timiș

Name: Consiliul Județean Timiș

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 4358029

Address: Bulevardul Revoluției Din 1989, 300034 Timișoara, Romania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: http://www.cjtimis.ro

Total budget: EUR 100 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 80 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 20 084.00

Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare in Turism Bucuresti

Name: Institutul Național de Cercetare Dezvoltare in Turism Bucuresti

Partner’s ID if not PIC: R12654670

Address: 17, 050741 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.incdt.ro

Total budget: EUR 116 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 93 136.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 23 284.00

Nadácia Ekopolis

Name: Nadácia Ekopolis

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IČO: 00631736

Address: Komenského, 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.ekopolis.sk

Total budget: EUR 138 920.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 111 136.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 27 784.00

Udruga za zaštitu prirode i okoliša Zeleni Osijek

Name: Udruga za zaštitu prirode i okoliša Zeleni Osijek

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR18821819432

Address: Opatijska, 31000 Osijek, Croatia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.zeleni-osijek.hr

Total budget: EUR 150 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 120 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 30 084.00

Turistička zajednica Međimurske županije

Name: Turistička zajednica Međimurske županije

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR82613951376

Address: B. J. Jelačića, 40000 Čakovec, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Other

Website: http://www.visitmedimurje.com

Total budget: EUR 145 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 116 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 29 084.00

Koprivničko-križevačka županija

Name: Koprivničko-križevačka županija

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 06872053793

Address: Antun Nemčić street, 48000 Koprivnica, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://kckzz.hr

Total budget: EUR 215 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 172 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 43 084.00

Razvojni center Murska Sobota

Name: Razvojni center Murska Sobota

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI19252048

Address: Kardoševa, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Sectoral agency

Website: http://www.rcms.si

Total budget: EUR 215 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 172 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 43 084.00

Arctur računalniški inženiring d.o.o.

Name: Arctur računalniški inženiring d.o.o.

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI76530566

Address: Industrijska cesta, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: SME

Website: https://www.arctur.si/

Total budget: EUR 95 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 76 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 19 084.00

Zavod iskriva, iskrišče za razvoj lokalnih potencialov

Name: Zavod iskriva, iskrišče za razvoj lokalnih potencialov

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI29528801

Address: Reteče, 4220 Škofja Loka, Slovenia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://www.iskriva.net/

Total budget: EUR 202 614.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 162 091.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 40 522.80

CROST Területfejlesztési Nonprofit Kft.

Name: CROST Területfejlesztési Nonprofit Kft.

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 26555029-2-02

Address: Rákóczi út, 7621 Pécs, Hungary

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Business support organisation

Website: http://www.crost.hu

Total budget: EUR 230 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 184 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 46 084.00

CROST Területfejlesztési Nonprofit Kft

Name: CROST Területfejlesztési Nonprofit Kft

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 26555029-2-02

Address: Rákóczi út, 7621 Pécs, Hungary

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Business support organisation

Website: http://www.crost.hu

Total budget: EUR 230 420.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 184 336.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 46 084.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Inclusive Border Cycling - Social inclusion by valorising heritage along existing cycling routes in remote border areas

Project acronym: IBC

Project ID: DRP0200775

Project start date: 2024-01-01

Project end date: 2026-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

Iron Curtain Cycling SI-HU (EN) | The Iron Curtain Cycling project was focused on developing the Iron Curtain Trail Slovenia-Hungary section with completing cross-border missing links, route signs, infoboards, tour guide training. It created basic infrastructure and human basis that are good to build on with IBC inclusive cycling development. (EN), Spaces4All CENTRAL (EN) | The overall objective of CE-Spaces4All project (started in 2022) is to improve governance and cooperation of multi-level cross-sectoral stakeholders for better territorial planning and implementation of accessible tourism for persons with disabilities (PWD) in rural border regions in Central Europe. With regards to tourism, the special needs of PWDs and elderly people are similar as they need tailored mobility solutions to improve their capability of travelling, and specialized info communication solutions for their special needs. As partners Iskriva and WPRED are involved in Spaces4All, methodology and tourism mobility and information solutions developed for PWDs in CE-Spaces4All project will be taken into account when working on specialized cycling tourism offers for elderly people (SO2 in IBC). (EN), Border(hi)stories AT-HU (EN) | Initiated by WPRED, this cross-border project was developed and implemented to collect, verify and present local knowledge about historical facts of the 19-20th century in the border region as well as to establish a cooperation among institutions that present and safeguard this knowledge as a part of a regional identity. Within the project, a digital inventory of local stories and related remembrance places was created with the involvement of historians and local stakeholders, making documents, background literature available, a collection of historical pictures and videos with short stories was published and made accessible for all through a webpage. A very high popularity of joint travelling exhibitions organised in border settlements has confirmed that creative presentation can enhance the educative effect of local storytelling in an attractive way, therefore, we can use this presentation approach during the implementation of the IBC project. The methodology developed within the framework of the border (hi)stories together will form the basis of the storytelling element of pilot IBC pilot action in Act.1.1. As the border(hi)stories project concept proved to be a successful cross-border initiative, follow-up projects are under preparation by WPRED in the AT-HU and SK-HU border areas. The IBC project pilot applying a similar approach in the SLO-HR-HU and RO-SRB border areas will co-operate and create synergies with border(hi) stories through. (EN), ICTr-CENTRAL (EN) | The ICTr-CE is funded by the Central Europe Programme, launched in 2023. The overall project objective is to strengthen innovation capacities of SMEs and other stakeholders in the tourism value chain to collaborate within the Iron Curtain Trail to stimulate climate neutrality and positive impacts on peripheral areas of Central Europe in pilot regions DE-PL, CZ-SK-AT and SI-HU-CRO. Synergies between IBC and ICTr can be created since both projects aim innovative cycling product development in remote border areas along EuroVelo 13 Iron Curtain Trail - with ICTr focusing on climate neutral offers of local SMEs for mainstream target groups and IBC on inclusion of vulnerable social groups and of local communities of rural less advantaged border areas through developing innovative and cooperative cycling tourism. Between the 2 projects, joint events for exchange of experience, dissemination will be organized, which focus on the same bike route, and mutually present the two sets of developed solutions. (EN)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 735 738.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 188 590.40

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

Guideline for developing the Inclusive Regional Cycling Storybook
Report on Inclusive Danube Region Cycling Storybook
Development of the Inclusive Danube Region Cycling Storyportal
Guideline for the integration of local product brands into border cycling tourism offers
Comprehensive report on Inclusion of local products into cycling tourism supply
Guideline for developing the cycling route maintenance models involving local vulnerable groups
Report on the cycling route maintenance pilot actions involving local vulnerable groups.
Report on transferring pilot testing to solution – Handbook
Analysis of the special needs of selected target groups arising from their vulnerability
Report on bookable cycling products meeting the specific needs of the silver generation
Report on programmes for the social inclusion of disadvantaged young generation
Applicable and scalable concept for a cross-generational Volunteer Programme for the cycling trails
Report on implementation of cross-generational Volunteer Programmes for mutual understanding
Guidelines for the design and implementation of the Transnational Inclusive Cycle Product Model
Transnational marketing strategy for the border cycling routes in the Danube region
Transferability marketing action plan
Inclusive Border Cycling conferences
Reports on IBC promotion activities
Attendance at international tourism fairs
Report on Social Inclusion Travel Challenge

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

EuropeanGreenDeal Project will deliver a true Green Deal like product, by which we mean that the products developed; the process of development itself and end result in terms of added value will reflect all the principles of what Green Deal is aiming at. We highlight three main aspect to support this claim: a) product is based on what is now seen as disadvantaged area, relict of progress of sort b) product is aimed towards target group that for now in reality is not seen as functional part of society c) process of product development connects this challenges as sees them as input for social and technological innovation to deliver a product that is delivering multiple results: reviving the physical environment, grown customer market, empowering disabled people to participate in tourism economy in active way as co-creators and users, delivering a new market and customers, while delivering it on green principles: sustainable production, sustainable consumption and sustainable business practices.
TerritorialAgenda2030 Project contributes tangible, transferable solutions to (mainly) two challenges identified in TA2023: Demographic and societal imbalances and Digitalisation and fourth industrial revolution. The tangible result it brings is the design of the planning approach and the end result, the product. It reflects the challenges addressed by TA20230 in Demographic imbalances and recognises the potential of the Fourth industrial revolution to use best available technologies and solutions to deliver a transferable approach and product addressing identified challenges in terms of added value and use value for all stakeholders involved.
EUStrategyDanubeRegion
The project directly responds to one of the main challenges laid down in the EUSDR: striking cultural, ethnic and natural diversity, which requires modern tourism offer and infrastructure. Therefore it is linked to the pillar “(1) Connecting the Danube Region”, to promote culture and tourism, people to people contacts.
According to the Action Plan 2020, the project is in line with Priority area 3: Culture and tourism / I. Developing sustainable tourism and III. Valorising, promoting and protecting cultural heritage.
Under I. Developing sustainable tourism, the project is in line with the following actions:
Action 1: Promote sustainable tourism in the Danube Region
Action 2: Support and promote cultural tourism in the Danube Region
Action 3: Invest in sustainable quality products, services, innovative forms and infrastructure in the fields of tourism and culture.
Under III. Valorising, promoting and protecting the cultural heritage:
Action 6: Promote cultural heritage in the Danube Region.
In order to capitalise the project results, INCDT (PP10) will be in charge to keep the PA3 Coordinator (Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration of Romania, Directorate-General for Regional Development and Infrastructure) informed about project events and outcomes, who will be also invited to partner meetings. Moreover, to public project events, the national Steering Group members will be invited as attendee.
Other Roma charter on natural and cultural capital
The Charter of Rome is a bridging initiative on the interrelations and interactions between Natural and Cultural Capital. It aims at strengthening nature and biodiversity policy, mainstreaming it into other policies related to the territory and the economic impact. Project is demonstrating the potential of this ambition with connection of natural and cultural potential with innovative and state of the art product development, to establish new markets and new target groups in tourism.
Other EU Charter of Fundamental rights:
Project has direct, tangible contribution to the Article 26 - Integration of persons with disabilities, which states: The Union recognises and respects the right of persons with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community. This is achieved by the co-creation process setup and implemented in the project and the end product itself.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Programme Result Indicator:

ISI - Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across the borders, Measurement unit: No. of organisations

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Danube

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2024-12-18

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

82 / 139 (58.99%)

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

910 / 1 542 (59.01%)

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Source of estimation of the number of projects as of 2025-03-17: Website of the programme

Method for estimating the number of partners as of 2025-03-17: Average partners per project based on the average of the previous period.

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Inclusive Border Cycling - Social inclusion by valorising heritage along existing cycling routes in remote border areas

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