Project description:
The Culture in Eternity project aims to preserve, promote and further develop the culture in its two partner municipalities and leave it to future generations.
To achieve the above, with a focus on promoting the two territories, the partners decided to adopt a cross-border approach and cover the following:
To valorise and promote the cultural heritage of their territories, thus increasing the tourist attractiveness of the cross-border region.
By assessing the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for development, the partners developed this project with the following main objectives:
- Restoration of a cultural object – the burned school in Elena and its transformation into a tourist attraction – a gallery, where a valuable collection of paintings and icons stored in the museum in Elena will be.
- Arranging an open space for cultural exchange in the municipality of Elena.
- Organizing plein airs, workshops and a festival to promote the cultural heritage of the partners.
- Creation and promotion of an integrated tourist product – tourist packages focused on cultural and festival tourism.
- Creation of an innovative and interactive mechanism for presentation and promotion of the cultural heritage of the two municipalities – Elena and Medgidia – a web-based promotion platform called “Culture corner” (integrated tourist service).
- Information and promotion activities.
In the long run, the successful implementation of the above will contribute to the achievement of the following results:
- Preserved cultural heritage in the cross-border region.
- Popularization of the culture and increase of the tourist attractiveness in the cross-border region.
- Rise in the tourist flow and increased number of nights spent in the cross-border region.
Culture in Eternity project is co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund within the INTERREG V-A Romania-Bulgaria Program 2014-2020
Total allowable value: 1,411,373.15 €
Project value (The European Regional Development Fund): 1,199,667.16 €
Co-financing from national budgets: 183,464.42 €
Co-financing from national budgets: 28,241.57 €
Project „Culture in Eternity“, code: ROBG-423
Project value (ERDF): 1, 199, 667.16 €
It is implemented by Elena Municipality in partnership with Medgidia Municipality, Constanta county, Romania.
Project „Culture in Eternity“ is cofinanced by the European Union through European Regional Development Fund under the Interreg V-A Romania – Bulgaria Programme.
The Culture in Eternity project is directly linked to the principles of sustainable development and actively promotes equal opportunities, non-discrimination and gender equality.