Integrating Regenerative Practices in Nature and Cultural Tourism

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Baltic Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2025-11-19

Description

Description (EN):

The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) faces challenges from climate change, with tourism both contributing to and being affected by it. Due to its reliance on natural and cultural assets, tourism has a unique responsibility to protect the environment. To address this, tourism strategies need to shift from merely sustaining to actively restoring the region’s natural and cultural assets. Regenerative tourism responds to this need by taking a holistic approach to enhancing cultural and natural assets, bringing together organisations from multiple sectors to benefit local communities. RegenT addresses the need for information and capacity-building in regenerative tourism by providing essential resources to public authorities, particularly regional and local decision-makers and public officers involved in strategic planning and resource allocation. Building on the achievements of seven projects that collectively advance regenerative tourism, RegenT offers a platform with two interlinked components: a knowledge platform and a platform for learning, knowledge exchange, and networking. The participating projects have, e.g., developed innovative solutions for attracting off-season tourists, created climate resilience guidelines, and supported local food networks. RegenT promotes systemic changes in the tourism industry across the BSR. By doing that, RegenT contributes to Priority 1.1 Resilient Economies and Communities, particularly the topic 'Advancing natural and cultural heritage assets'.

Expected Achievements (EN):

Website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/regent/

Thematic information

Tourism Knowledge and technology transfer Community integration and common identity

Priority: (VI-B_BSR_4) Cooperation governance

Priority specific objective: ISO6.6. Other actions to support better cooperation governance (all strands)

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance

Type of intervention: 173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Ab Yrkeshögskolan vid Åbo Akademi

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 947312962

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 2059910-2

Department: Faculty of Business

Address: Henriksgatan 7, 20500 Åbo, Finland

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.novia.fi

Total budget: EUR 375 648.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 300 518.40

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 75 129.60

Visit Skåne AB

Name: Visit Skåne AB

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 556747-5198

Address: Dockplatsen 26 , 20501 Malmö , Sweden

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: https://corporate.visitskane.com/sv/about-visit-skane

Total budget: EUR 215 999.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 172 799.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 43 199.80

Pomorska Regionalna Organizacja Turystyczna

Name: Pomorska Regionalna Organizacja Turystyczna

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 935248490

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 5832842841

Address: Wały Jagiellońskie 2a, 80-887 Gdańsk, Poland

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.prot.gda.pl

Total budget: EUR 175 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 140 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 35 000.00

Eesti Maaturism MTÜ

Name: Eesti Maaturism MTÜ

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 940097132

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 80122220

Address: Vilmsi 53G, 10115 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.maaturism.ee

Total budget: EUR 104 748.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 83 798.40

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 20 949.60

Kurzemes Planošanas Reģions

Name: Kurzemes Planošanas Reģions

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950641614

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 90002183562

Address: 12 Avotu Street, LV-3801 Saldus, Latvia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Website: http://www.kurzemesregions.lv

Total budget: EUR 93 912.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 75 129.60

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 18 782.40

Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH

Name: Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH

Department: Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999507401

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HRB 285 GE

Address: Max-Planck Strasse 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.hereon.de

Total budget: EUR 230 790.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 184 632.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 46 158.00

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Visit Skåne AB

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Pomorskie Regional Tourist Organization

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Novia University of Applied Sciences

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NGO Estonian Rural Tourism

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Kurzeme Planning Region

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Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH

Integrating Regenerative Practices in Nature and Cultural Tourism

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Summary

Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million

Project name (EN): Integrating Regenerative Practices in Nature and Cultural Tourism

Project acronym: RegenT

Project ID: #P003

Project start date: 2025-07-01

Project end date: 2028-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant mentions and prizes:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 196 097.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 956 877.60

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

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 956 877.60. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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

EUSBSR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSBSR Degree of compliance:

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Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Baltic Sea Region

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2025-11

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

115 / 115 (100%)

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

1 278 / 1 278 (100%)

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