Sustainable management and promotion of common cultural heritage
The overall objective of the SMART HERITAGE project is to promote, valorise and protect cultural heritage in the Adriatic-Ionian area. Its specific objective is to raise tourism attractiveness and reduce tourism seasonality in the project area consisting of Evia (Greece), Gerace (Italy), Forlì (Italy), Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina), and Albania. A key output is the creation of the Cultural Route ¿SMART HERITAGE¿: a networking structure based on a series of conditions for adhesion, opened not only to partner regions but extended to the entire ADRION area. The conditions to be set will be prerequisites to let the route become recognised by the European Council for its high cultural heritage and tourism value. This route will be a new cultural tourism attraction which will be launched on international tourism markets by positioning the Adriatic-Ionian region as a unique cultural tourism destination and product. Therefore, transnational cooperation and packaging of innovative transnational tourism offers will represent crucial elements of this route and will enhance tourist attractiveness of the region and facilitate tourism seasonality prolongation. Another major project output is the realisation of regional Action Plans and a Sustainability Plan, which will permit the trans
Implementation indicators
Crescita del numero atteso di visite a siti del patrimonio culturale e naturale e a luoghi di attrazione che ricevono un sostegno
- Target
- 5,250 num/a
- Achieved
- -
Numero di azioni/progetti finanziati
- Target
- 13 num
- Achieved
- -
OI_6c.1_1 Number of supported transnational cooperation networks
- Target
- 1 num
- Achieved
- -
OI_6c.1_2 Number of strategies and action plans developed in the field of natural and cultural heritage and tourism
- Target
- 6 num
- Achieved
- -
OI_6c.1_3 Number of small scale investments and demonstration projects
- Target
- 6 num
- Achieved
- -
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| Given name | Amount |
|---|---|
| European Union | 445395.00 |
| Year | Amount | Cumulative amount | Percentage on public financing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12480.60 | 12480.60 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 12480.60 | 2 |
| 2022 | 45987.90 | 58468.50 | 13 |
| 2023 | 347337.66 | 405806.16 | 91 |
State of progress
Entities
- Planning body
- Development Agency of Evia SA
- Beneficiary
- Development Agency of Evia SA
Programming area
- Programme
- PROGRAMMA FESR INTERREG ADRION
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- 2014-2020 EU Structural Funds
- Cohesion funds
- € 445,395.00
- Payments on cohesion funds
- € 405,806.16
- Axis
- SUSTAINABLE REGION
- Specific objective
- Promote the sustainable valorisation and preservation of natural and cultural heritage as growth assets in the Adriatic-Ionian area