Tourism development, nature and culture heritage reservation on Sololvki Islands.
It was discussed with some of the Barents Region partners to present mentioned project idea as a base for application for financial support from the Interreg IIIB programme to the above-mentioned project.
The main focus of the project is on the regional co-operation, as well as co-operation between central - and regional national levels. This project is aimed to unite and continue succesful co-operation with Northern Counties in Norway and Sweden, as well as SIDA within the previous years.
The project in brief: Main objective is up-to-date infrustructure on Solovki Islands for planning and designing long term host tourism programmes for improved territorial integration of the Barents Region to the European tourist net. The proposals will focus on mutual concrete actions to be taken in order to improve the sustainable tourism development in the Northern Europe. Number of transnational pilot actions in the fields of environment, education, culture, information and youth are supposed, i.e. within the framework of the project components in communication, transport, energy saving, treatment works, training (especially in Marketing, Bussiness Planning, some professional issues for different groups of specialists) and music. All projects have already got certain national and/or
regional financial support mostly or partially.
Estimated time for the project is two years (2003-2004).
Actual status of the project planning: Project action plans in different components have been already developed by initiative local working groups.
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