The overall objective of the project is to support the sustainable development of the cross-border tourism from Romania and Bulgaria and to increase the promotion of the mountain area from Mehedinti, Vidin and Montana.

490,320.81 euro, out of which 416,772.68 euro ERDF

Lead Beneficiary (LB): Romanian Association for Electronic and Software Industry - Oltenia Subsidiary (Romania)

Beneficiary 2 (B2): Agency for Regional Development and Business Center – Vidin (Bulgaria)

Beneficiary 3 (B3): Regional Development Agency and Business Center 2000 (Bulgaria)

Start date: 23.08.2018

End date: 22.01.2020

Duration: 18 months

Mehedinti in Romania

Vidin and Montana in Bulgaria

• Studies for identifying the types of trails for mountain electric bikes;
• Common Marketing Strategy for the identified trails for mountain electric bikes in Mehedinti, Vidin and Montana;
• Acquisition of 150 of the mountain electrical bikes with GPS;
• Organization of seminars with the stakeholders;
• Organization of joint trainings for e-bike maintenance with the selected operators: 1 in Ro and 1 in Bg;
• Information and publicity campaign;
• Organization of joint info-tour to promote tourism with mountain electric bikes
• Participation at tourism fairs in Sofia and Bucharest.

Programme outputs: 4 common strategies for valorizing the cultural and natural heritage through its restoration and promotion for sustainable economic uses, 2 integrated tourism products created; 180 visits to supported sites of cultural and natural heritage and attraction

Programme result: 849 tourist overnights in the CBC region

The project is finalized, with the following results:

- The Studies for identifying the types of trails for mountain electric bikes in the county of Mehedinti, Romania and districts of Vidin and Montana, Bulgaria, were elaborated by each project partner. They are available on their website: www.jamprobg.eu.

- The Common Marketing Strategy for the identified trails for mountain electric bikes in Mehedinti, Vidin and Montana has been elaborated and translated in Bulgarian and English languages and it is available at www.jamprobg.eu.

-Each project partner purchased 50 mountain electric bicycles transferred to the final operators.

- The project website: www.jamprobg.euis available in BG, EN and RO.

- The application for mobile devices has been elaborated and it is available in the AppStore and Google Play by the name “jamprobg bike app”.

The overall objective of the project is to diversify touristic offers during season in Constanța-Dobrich cross-border region by developing innovative and creative tourism products

473,652.91 euro, out of which 402,604.97 euro ERDF

Lead Beneficiary (LB): Clopot Humanitarian Foundation (Romania)

Beneficiary 2 (B2): European Institute for cultural tourism EUREKA NPO (Bulgaria)

Start date: 01.09.2018

End date: 31.08.2021 (extended with 6 months)

Duration: 36 months

Constanta – in Romania

Dobrich – in Bulgaria

• 1 preliminary study;
• 2 workshops;
• 5 touristic products;
• 2 smartphone applications;
• 1 manual on creative tourism;
• 1 study on trends in creative tourism;
• 1 joint marketing strategy
• information and promotional activities

Programme outputs: 2 integrated tourism products/services created, 10.000 expected number of visits to supported sites of cultural and natural heritage and attraction, 1 strategy for valorizing the cultural and natural heritage.

Programme results: increase of the number of overnights in the CBC area with 10.000.

The implementation period of the project ended on 31.08.2021.

All the project activities were finalized.

The artistic show on multicultural customs on wedding was finished.

The demonstrative touristic products “2 days multicultural customs route” took place in the period of 29^th – 30^th of July in Constanta County and Dobrich region. 32 representatives of the target group participated – 10 from Bulgaria and 22 from Romania.

LB the service for film broadcasting. The majority of the project activities which were already finalized, namely demonstrative “3 days cross border yachting tour”, demonstrative “3 days religious tour”, demonstrative “3 days sand construction festival”, demonstrative “3 days cross border dance festival for amateur tourists”, and the organized events can be seen on the project’s website, accessing the following link: https://www.multicultya.eu/video.php?lang=ro.

The artistic movie is also available on the project website, at the link below:

https://www.multicultya.eu/video.php?lang=ro.

The “joint marketing strategy for cross border tourism products’ development and promotion, including creative tourism” is available at: https://www.multicultya.eu/downloads/Strategie_marketing.pdf.

The consolidated study on tourism can be accessed here: https://www.multicultya.eu/downloads/Studiu_Consolidat_Oferta_Turism_coperti.pdf.                                                                             

The overall objective of the project is to develop the common touristic potential, using the human, natural and environmental resources and advantages in a sustainable way.

497,666.18 euro, out of which 423,016.24 euro ERDF

Lead Beneficiary (LB): Association Center for Development Montanesium (Bulgaria)

Beneficiary 2 (B2): Forever for Europe Association (Romania)

Start date: 01.09.2018

End date: 29.02.2020

Duration: 18 months

Dolj, Olt, Mehedinti in Romania

Vidin, Vratsa and Montana in Bulgaria

• Organization of focus group meetings;
• Organization of promotional meetings for the presentation of the touristic product created;
• Production of a 10-minute promotional film directed to the advertisement of the touristic product and its 2-time broadcasting;
• Design and development of a RO-BG-ENG Tourist Software Application (TSA) directed to tourism promotion;
• Production of promotional manual and articles directed to the target groups and all stakeholders;
• Organization of media campaign in BG and RO directed to the target groups and other people interested in TSA;
• Creation of Power Point Presentation pointed to the natural preservation during the tours;
• Purchasing the equipment necessary for providing interactive integrated tourist service;
• Organization of the activity of Travelling Tourist Centers;
• Development of the project web-page.

Programme outputs: 2 integrated tourism products created

Programme results: 880 tourist overnights in the CBC region

The project is finalized (it was implemented within 18 months, between 01.09.2018- 29.02.2020).

All of the project activities have been implemented according to the approved application form, which have let the project to fulfil its main objective, namely and the specific objectives.

Within the project 1 tourist product and 1 tourist service have been developed, as follows:

- 1 Tourist software mobile application was developed, presenting elements of tourist potential of the districts Montana, Vratsa and Vidin and 3 counties: Doilj, Mehedinti and Olt. The application SEE & GO is available for user both for Android and iOS operating systems’

- 1 new integrated tourism service named “Travelling Tourist Centres”;

- the development of an website available at the address: https://seeuropeandgo.eu/.

The overall objective of the project is to improve the emergency preparedness and risk prevention capacity in the cross-border area of Olt and Pleven districts, namely Dolna Mitropolia Municipality.

915,031.14 euro, out of which 777,776.46 euro ERDF

Lead Beneficiary (LB): Territorial Administrative Unit – Olt County (Romania)

Beneficiary 2 (B2): Dolna Mitropolia Municipality (Bulgaria)

Start date: 25.08.2018

End date: 24.12.2023

Duration: 64 months

Olt in Romania

Pleven (Bulgaria)

• Acquisition of specialized equipment
• Common analysis and plan for joint coordinated actions
• Joint trainings and a demonstration in the cross-border area.

Programme outputs: 454,911 people benefiting from actions of risk management; 454,911 people benefiting from flood protection measures and4 joint partnerships in the field of joint early warning and emergency response

Programme results: increased quality of the joint risk management in the CBC area through the joint partnerships created.

The project is finalized.

The joint action plan was concluded between the two partners on 06.03.2021.

The study of "Status analysis of scale, frequency, geographical concentration, seasonality and preconditions for disasters and accidents in the target region" was carried out on 22.08.2019. During the implementation period of the project, 4 partnership agreements were signed between the institutions involved, namely:

1. Partnership agreement signed between the Olt Gendarmerie Inspectorate "General Constantin Dumitrescu Army Corps" and the Municipality of Dolna Mitropolia on 20.05.2019;

2. Partnership agreement signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Directorate for Emergency Situations - the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations "Matei Basarab" of Olt County and the Voluntary Organization Dolna Mitropolia Municipality on 20.05.2019;

3. Partnership agreement signed between the Olt County Council and the Municipality of Dolna Mitropolia on 20.05.2019As for the demonstration actions, they will be carried out following the receipt of the equipment by the beneficiaries;

4. Partnership agreement signed between the Department for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations "Matei Basarab" of Olt County and the Municipality of Dolna Mitropolia on 20.05.2019.

LB purchased 3 ATVs already in the custody of the Olt Gendarmerie Inspectorate "Corpul General al Armatei Constantin Dumitrescu" and the jeep pick-up, which is already in the custody of the Olt Emergency Situations Inspectorate. Also, LB purchased a firefighting van with an increased tank capacity of 9000 liters which is already in the custody of the Olt Gendarmerie Inspectorate "Corpul General de Armată Constantin Dumitrescu". Also, LB purchased 3 vehicles - The vehicle (maximum capacity 1600cm²).

B2 purchased the following equipment: an all-terrain vehicle, backhoe with telescopic arm with hydraulic line for attachments and air conditioning with pallet forks, a mini front loader and added to it a new rotary snow blower and litter brush with water container , a wood chipper, a wheeled tractor with additional equipment attached to it, including a chipper for crushing branches, a front loader with a snow bucket and shovel, an aerial platform and 3 professional brush cutters.

362,610.29 euro, out of which 308,218.74 euro ERDF

Target at the half of the implementation period: 85,000 euro for LB and 85,375 euro for B2

Lead Beneficiary (LB):Regional Development Foundation (Bulgaria)

Beneficiary 2 (B2): University of Craiova (Romania)

Start date: 09.08.2018

End date: 08.02.2020

Duration: 18 months

Dolj, Olt, Mehedinți

Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo, Rusea

Programme outputs: 1 integrated tourism products/services created, 1 joint strategy for valorizing the cultural heritage

Programme results: increase of the number of overnights in the cbc area with 300

The Project has been finalized on 08.02.2020 and the following main achievements have been accomplished:

- 2 field studies have been elaborated in order to analyse the religious sites and the intangible Christian heritage;

- 2 workshops have been organised where the outcome of the studies have been presented and discussed with the target groups;

- 1 Joint strategy for the promotion and diversification of cross-border religious heritage and can be found on: https://www.holysites.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stategie_ro-version.pdf;

- the project website has been elaborated: www.holysites.me ;

- 1 online guide with mobile application which have been fulfilled. The guide can be found on the project website (https://www.holysites.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ghid-cdst-1_compressed.pdf) while the mobile application can be found in Google Play Store and on the web address (https://cdst.ro);