Living with Cultural Heritage

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The overall goal of the project participants is to learn from each other how to live, maintain and cherish a historical town, while preserving its characteristic environment and livability. This goal enhances the partners´ attractiveness as a tourist destination as well, because the enchantment of these historical towns is based on their character as a lively cultural environment. The approach of this project is community-based and participative. The key methods for adapting the goal through activities are social media, crowd sourcing and benchmarking. The methods are not new as themselves, but the way they adapt the key themes and the partners of this project is new and partially experimental. This project develops thematically joint tourist attractions based on cultural and natural resources in Rauma, Visby, Kuldiga and Aizpute. It also develops thematically and periodically joint tourist products with joint activity plans. Joint platforms for communication in social media enhance simultaneous activities, shared experiences and crowd-sourced innovations. These actions improve as well the living as the visiting environment. The starting point for all actions and activities is natural and cultural heritage and sustainable tourism. The project also builds up the capacity for conserving the outstanding universal values recognized as World Heritage values in Old Rauma, Visby and Kuldiga with the support of all partners.Reviving the craftsmen skills related to conservation and sharing this knowledge between partners will enhance the possibilities of partner towns to sustain their cultural historic value and to turn it into a tourist attraction. In addition, such exchange will facilitate opportunities for cross-border pooling of traditional building skills and services within the Baltic Region. All partners are balancing between conservation and development in order to cherish both cultural and natural heritage and livability.

Achievements (EN):

LiviHeri - experiencing cultural heritage in UNESCO World Heritage towns. Preserving the spirit of a city whilst developing tourist attractions can be a challenge. Central Baltic project LiviHeri accepted it. As a result, the project established the following tourist attractions in the UNESCO World Heritage towns of Rauma (Finland), Visby (Sweden), Kuldiga and Aizpute (Latvia). The tourist attractions the project developed are: A Cup of Coffee! – local homeowners invite tourists and residents into their yards for a cup of coffee to learn about the house and the neighbourhood’s history. Bedtime stories – local homeowners offer accommodation to tourists. Whilst lodging, tourists can learn about the house and the neighbourhood’s history. Step in! A treasure hunt – walking tours along the project locations e.g. “Walk a poem along the trail” in Rauma, ”Find The Unicorn” in Kuldiga and ”A World Heritage walk through Visby”. Go under! Archaeological heritage – walking routes along the local neighbourhood. Flying fish – e.g. a walking route in Rauma along the Raumajoki river. In order to maintain and illustrate traditional handicraft skills, the project also embedded educational and knowledge sharing activities in the attractions, such as restoration workshops. These activities are collected in the project publication: “Living with Cultural Heritage – sharing experiences and knowledge around the Baltic Sea” and in the working papers: “Toolkit for joint tourist activities – A Cup of Coffee! and Bedtime stories; Toolkit for Co-Creation of Cultural Heritage Databank”. The attractions were developed both for tourists and residents alike. The project was granted the European Year of Cultural Heritage label in April 2018. In the framework of the label, the project was portrayed in the “Connecting Cultures, Connected Citizens” booklet. The booklet portrays projects that have been granted the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 label. These projects also presented their activities in Brussels in October 2018 during the European Week of Regions and Cities.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R2.1. More sustainable joint natural and cultural heritage based tourist attractions

Expected Outputs (EN):

Main results shall be new thematically joint, periodical activities targeted as well for local people as for people in the region and tourists. In order to achieve these results people and organizations responsible for natural and cultural heritage in participating towns need to build up their capacity in skills and knowledge. This shall be implemented by joint learning process with benchmarking visits, local activities and sharing the local skills and knowledge hand-by-hand in workshops and digitally in social media.The project will produce 3 new joint tourist packages ( Bedtime stories, A cup of coffee, conservation and community, Flying fish), 2 new tourist attractions (Step in! A treasure hunt and Go under! Archaeological heritage), and 3 new identification and awareness raising packages (benchmark visits). New tourist packages and attractions are supported by 2 hand-by-hand learning activities for craftsmen skills and artistic intervention in cultural and natural environment.Knowledge, experiences and information shall be disseminated also by a joint publication manuscript produced during the project.

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Tourism

Specific Objective: Natural and cultural resources developed into sustainable tourist attractions

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Rauman kaupunki

Department: City planning

Address: P.O.Box 41, 26101 Rauma, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rauma.fi

Total budget: EUR 248 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 186 375.00

Starpnozaru mākslas grupa SERDE

Name: Starpnozaru mākslas grupa SERDE

Department: Workshop and residency centre Address: Atmodas iela 9 LV-3456 Aizpute, Latvia

Address: Robežu iela 36, LV-1004 Rīga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.serde.lv/

Total budget: EUR 18 734.00

ERDF budget: EUR 15 923.90

Turun yliopisto, Opettajankoulutuslaitos, Rauman yksikkö

Name: Turun yliopisto, Opettajankoulutuslaitos, Rauman yksikkö

Department: Department of Teacher Education, Rauma

Address: P.O. Box 175, 26101 Rauma, Finland

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/edu/yksikot/okl/Sivut/home.aspx

Total budget: EUR 87 339.00

ERDF budget: EUR 65 504.25

Kuldiga District Council

Name: Kuldiga District Council

Department: Department of Restauration

Address: Baznicas street 1, LV3301 Kuldiga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kuldiga.lv

Total budget: EUR 211 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 179 350.00

Region Gotland

Name: Region Gotland

Department: Division of Built Environment

Address: Viborgsallen 19, 62181 Visby, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gotland.se/

Total budget: EUR 27 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 20 625.00

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The residencies and workshop centre SERDE

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University of Turku, Department of Teacher Education, Rauma

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Kuldigas novada pašvaldiba

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Region Gotland

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City of Rauma

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Summary

Project name (EN): Living with Cultural Heritage

Project acronym: LiviHeri

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2018-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 593 073.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 467 778.15

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 467 778.15.

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Kuldīgā īstenots projekts “Dzīvojam ar kultūras mantojumu”

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Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/project/10

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2018-05-01

Languages: lv

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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2023-11-11

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663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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