Recall coastal heritage for rural entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Recall coastal heritage for rural entrepreneurship

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Rural development and urbanisation

Project Summary

Project RECORDI: Recall coastal heritage for rural entrepreneurship.

The overarching aim of this project is to improve the cultural and economical environment in remote coastal areas by bridging coastal cultural heritage with ecotourism-related entrepreneurship.

The immediate objective of the project is to create the adult learning curriculum and supportive materials, which will be used in Vocational Schools (or similar educational organisations) in study courses of ecotourism.

The intellectual outputs of the project include the curriculum itself, as well as the production of short video films about best practices, and a brochure in digital form to be used as study material. In addition, the project will have a public website to reflect the progress, and to serve as a platform for the project communication.

The project involves six partners from Estonia, Finland, Italy and Sweden. The partners have different backgrounds, but are complementary to each other, while their common denominator is coastal cultural heritage and adult training/learning. Four partners live in UNESCO biosphere reserves and bring in the flavour of balanced social, economical, cultural and environmental values.

The learners of the project represented all partner organisations, and there were 40 learners all in all, which makes more than 6 learners per partner.These people were the representatives of the target group, i.e. people who learn how to embed cultural heritage (skills, traditions, values) into ecotourism services. The project team, who elaborated the curriculum and the video films, constantly co-operated with the group of learners to better develop and fine-tune the approach, the methods and the results.

A final conference of the project entitled “What is the Real Thing?” was held as a multiplier event of the project. The aim of the conference was to explore the value of cultural heritage and its applications in small-scale entrepreneurship. The underlying concept of the conference — as, actually, of the whole project — was to highlight that cultural heritage is the Real Thing, something very meaningful in the era of dominating virtual realities.

The long-term benefits of the project are:
– a group (40 persons) of trained people who can implement cultural heritage skills in the ecotourism services;
– increased awareness about sustainable rural development, including the ideas of the UNESCO programme “Man and biosphere”;
– improved cultural and economical situation in peripheral coastal areas involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129490 Eur

Project Coordinator

Arhipelaag & Country: EE

Project Partners

• MTÜ Halulaev
• Perinnelaivayhdistys Ihana ry
• Hiiumaa Ametikool
• Folkolore Associazione Culturale
• Blekinge Archipelago Biosphere Reserve