| Project funding | EU |
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| Project website | N/A |
| Programme website | Montenegro – Albania |
| Contribution to the Programme’s specific objective | The competitiveness of the tourism sector is enhanced by the economic valorisation of the cultural and natural heritage |
| Project start date | 01.03.2023 |
| Project end date | 01.09.2025 |
| Project total budget | EUR 533.024.94 |
| 0Project EU funding | EUR 453.071.16 |
| Description | Overall objective: Contribute to development of tourism, culture and heritage in Montenegro and Albania. Specific objective: Improved, widely acknowledged and promoted cross border culture heritage of Bar and Tropoje through the creation of modern tourism presentation. The foreseen activities within the project are: 1.1: Kick off meeting 1.2: Workshop for tourism management on experience of EU projects on adaptation of cultural heritage and use of modern tools for visualization 1.3: Implement physical interventions to revitalise/improve accessibility of two cultural heritages 1.4 Promotional events organized in order to promote revitalized heritages in Bar and Tropoje 2.1: Design, develop and place vertical signs, interpretation panels for the revitalised cultural routes 3.1: Collecting of historical material and production of 3D drawings 4.1: Two cross border story-telling seminar – Interpretation content of the revitalised cultural route of the Old Town Bar and Tropoje |
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| Expected results | Expected results of the project are: 1. Restauration/Revitalisation and adaptive reuse of one cultural heritage site in Bar and one in Tropoje (Old City of Bar and The “”Bajram Curri”” Museum) 2. New tourism routes created: The cultural routes signage and interpretation in Bar and Tropoje are in place and improved 3. New touristic offers created: fortresses of Tropoje and Bar presented in Augmented Reality system 4. Relevant stakeholders from Bar and Tropoje, are trained in the field of adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings, interpretation of heritage sites and new touristic offers are presented to the wider population |
| Expected outputs | Expected project outputs are: – Kick off meeting organized; – 1 cross-border workshop with 10 participants organized on the experience of EU projects on adaptation of cultural heritage and use of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in promotion of sites; – 2 cultural heritages revitalized in the Old Town Bar in Montenegro and in the “”Bajram Curri”” Museum in Tropoje in Albania; – 2 promotional events organized in order to promote revitalized heritages in Bar and Tropoje; – the new touristic offer created; – at least 20 vertical signs placed, 2 digital maps for the revitalised cultural routes; – Two new guidelines developed; – 2 new products developed (AR systems in use); – joint web platform developed; – 10 3D drawings created based on the technical drawings, existing sketches, photographs and other relevant historical material; – Production of 2 animated video and 2 guidelines audio materials for Augmented reality for two heritage sites; – 2 sets of equipment and 2 joint software procured for Augmented reality system; – 2 new itineraries developed; – 2 cross-border seminars and 1 cross-border workshop organized; – Final conference organized; |
| Lead partner | Institution name: Municipality of Bar Country: Montenegro Address: Bulevar Revolucije bb, Bar 85000 Website: www.bar.me Legal status: Public |
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| Partner | Institution name: Municipality of Tropoja Country: Albania Address: Square”Azem Hajdari”, neighbourhood “28 August”, Tropoje 8700 Website: https://tropoje.gov.al/ Legal status: Public |
| Partner | Institution name: Foundation for Local Autonomy and Governance Country: Albania Address: Rr.”Brigada 8″, Pall. 6/2. Kati IV, Tiranë, Albania Tirana 1000 Website: www.flag-al.org Legal status: Private |