EPICAH
Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Cross-Border Advancement in Heritage
Social
Culture and sustainable tourism
2014-2020
Project summary
EPICAH aims to promote the improvement of the policy instruments for crossborder cooperation processes in the natural and cultural heritage protection. The objective of the project is also to develop the management of the border by using it as a tourist attraction factor. It shall improve the effectiveness of tourism activity in managing the organization and valorisation of these assets.
The partners various cultural and natural resources situated in border areas like forests, sea, monuments, rivers or vineyards, calls for a particular focus on the collaboration between local stakeholders in order to carry out actions for a common goal: nature conservation and preservation of cultural heritage by making accessible for tourism in a sustainable approach.
Working together to support a better crossborder cooperation in the preservation, protection, promotion and development of natural and cultural heritage.
For the next five years partners will learn from each other and share their knowledge and also their challenges they face in crossborder development in order to enhance the cooperation between border entities by encouraging coordinated actions of the policy makers and technicians responsible for its implementation by developing sustainable, homogeneous and consistent tools on both sides of the border in heritage preservation. Connected by borders.The partners various cultural and natural resources situated in border areas like forests, sea, monuments, rivers or vineyards, calls for a particular focus on the collaboration between local stakeholders in order to carry out actions for a common goal: nature conservation and preservation of cultural heritage by making accessible for tourism in a sustainable approach.
What did this project achieve?
The important factor of the learning process are the thematic seminars and the study visits where partners exchange and develop tools to implement in the regions. In addition, each partner set up a Regional Stakeholder Group that gives feedback about the implementation of the working tools.
Learn, share, implement
The combination of the work of each partner entities as well as the implication and feedback of the stakeholder group will serve to overcome conflict, misunderstood and lack of cooperation through the suggestion of new types of projects in the current crossborder programmes or even by proposing a new logical framework of the Interreg A programmes for the next programming period. In each region the border fragmentises and divides organically cohesive cultural landscape with varied and symbiotic communities and heritage that have been existing and developing together for centuries. Through the project’s implementation the stakeholders from the two sides of the border rediscover and experience the benefits and catalysation effects of cooperation, practice and knowledge sharing. An appalling project could affect the region’s crossborder cooperation networks’ further development and enhancement with newly joining cultural and economic entities that could revitalize the organic and prosperous interconnections of the region. It could also be a good tool to eliminate the conflict of interests between the two sides of the border and make the benefits of cooperation visible.A few numbers
1,931,295 €
01 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2021
9 partners