ROBG-6 - Danube- A River with lot of history
What’s the goal?
Information and promotion of the identity of the cross-border region and its cultural and historical heritages and improving the tourist flow.
What’s the budget?
1.318.347,68 euro, out of which 1.120.595,53 euro ERDF
Target at the half of the implementation period: 266.240 euro.
Who is doing it?
Lead partner: “Open Hand” Foundation, OHF (Bulgaria)
Partners: Federation of Employers in Oltenia Region (Romania)
When is it happening?
Start date: 09.03.2016
End date: 08.03.2018
Duration: 24 months
Where is it happening?
Vidin, Vratsa, Montana, Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Silistra, Dobrich in Bulgaria
Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt, Teleorman, Giurgiu, Calarasi, Constanta in Romania
How is it going to happen?
- Formation of a joint team;
- Joint competitions;
- Joint information campaigns and other activities and events;
- Joint study on cultural and historical sites of landscapes and Danube river in the cross-border;
- Development of 45 models of cultural and historical sites and the Danube landscape;
- Joint exhibitions, promoting the project results.
What will be the results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs:
- 1 integrated tourism product;
Programme results:
- Increase with 280 the number of tourist overnights in the CBC region.
Project status (reflected in progress reports)
The project implementation was realized according to the schedule.
All the relevant public procurement procedures have been launched and contracts have been signed.
The informational and promotional materials have been elaborated & delivered and one official press conference has been held. The beneficiaries started collecting, analysing and summarizing information for organizing and conducting a children drawing competition on the theme “Do we know the cultural and historical sites in our region?” and for developing a study/research of cultural and historical sites in the cross-border region. Started collecting, analysing and summarizing information for “Study Research of cultural and historical sites in the cross border region”; made the first request for elaboration of the models of the cultural and historical sites along the banks of Danube; delivered the informational and promotional materials; purchased equipment; held the first press conference in Pleven; organized 2 meetings with schools from the cross-border region and distributed school supplies in order to organize a children drawing competition, named “Do we know the cultural and historical sites in our region?”, which helped determine the main cultural and historical objects and values in the cross-border region; organized 4 meetings with the public administration authorities in Mehedinti, Dolj and Olt and identified 5 cultural historical sites
