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Activity 1: Coordination actions
Activity 2: Implementation of EMbleMatic (Rural) Labs
Organisation of local labs, Organisation of project/European l labs
Activity 3: Testing the EMbleMatic tools
Defining the EMbleMatic tools to test , Evaluating the applications of the existing mountains, Implementing the EMbleMatic tools to the new mountains
Activity 4: Creation of Rural Hinterland Sustainable Tourism Handbook
Activity 5: Examination of the potentiality of certifying an “ecojourney”
Activity 6: Communication actions
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General objectives:
- To provide the conditions allowing Mediterranean mountainous areas to share their challenges and to stimulate new and innovative projects in a long-term perspective
- To create a community of Mediterranean mountains to provide tailor-made solutions to the specific challenges of Mediterranean AND mountainous areas
- To give a role of “laboratory” to these Mediterranean mountainous areas to test new solutions based on sustainable development applied to rural and Mediterranean areas
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Several Emblematic Mediterranean mountains have been gathered since 2013 to cooperate on the topic of sustainable tourism. The Interreg MED EMbleMatiC project has given the opportunity for each mountains area of the partnership to create a new tourism offer based on common values and sustainable development criteria. Beyond this challenge, the partnership has realized that they share many other challenges such as environmental preservation, economic and social cohesion, enhancement of young people….
Indeed, these areas gather specificities, which require specific answers, crucial for the future:
- These areas represent mountains which are deeply rural and faced with environmental, local life issues=> How to maintain the quality of life of the local population while promoting a sustainable
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