EUfuture
Project info card
- EUfutuR
- Future Europe – Identity, Internationalization and Institutionalization – Karavanke Geopark
- Implementation period
- 1. 7. 2016 – 30. 6. 2019
- Approved ERDF contribution
- EUR 614,963.62
- The lead partner of the project
- the Karavanke Geopark Working Community, and the project partners are the RRA Koroška - Regional Development Agency for the Koroška Region, the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation, OE Maribor and the Pliberk/Bleiburg Cultural Center Association.
- More information about the project
- available at www.geopark-karawanken.at/slo or from the project partners:
- DS Geopark Karawanken (contact person
- mag. Gerald Hartmann, gerald.hartmann@geopark-karawanken.at)
- Project partners
- RRA Koroška, Regional Development Agency for Koroška (contact person: Primož Vodovnik, primoz.vodovnik@rra-koroska.si)
- Nature Conservation Institute of the Republic of Slovenia/OE Maribor (contact person: Mag. Mojca Bedjanič, mojca.bedjanic@zrsvn.si)
- Pliberk/Bleiburg Cultural Center Association (contact person: Milan Piko, milan.piko@a1.net).
The UNESCO Global Geopark Karavanke covers the area of 14 municipalities in the border area between Slovenia and Austria. 5 of them are located on the Slovenian side (Črna na Koroškem, Mežica, Prevalje, Ravne na Koroškem, Dravograd), and 9 on the Austrian side (Feistritz ob Bleiburg/Bistrica nad Pliberkom, Gallizien/Galicija, Globasnitz/Globasnica, Bleiburg/Pliberk, Zell/Sele, Neuhaus/Suha, Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, Sittersdorf/Žitara vas, Lavamünd/Labot). All of them are distinguished by an exceptionally rich geological heritage.
The goals of the Karavanke Geopark are awareness-raising, information and education about the geological and other natural and cultural heritage in the Karavanke Geopark, tourism development and cross-border cooperation. The Karavanke Geopark also pursues these goals in the implementation of the new project EUfutuR: Future Europe - Identity, Internationalization and Institutionalization - Karavanke Geopark, with which we want to:
- Strengthen bilateral cooperation between residents and actively involve them in the activities of the Karavanke Geopark.
- To improve the visibility and internationally establish the Karavanke Geopark through the activities of the UNESCO Geoparks Network.
- To adapt the management organization of the Karavanke Geopark for more efficient development of the cross-border region, in the form of a European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC).
EUfutuR is a cross-border cooperation project implemented within the framework of the Interreg VA Slovenia-Austria Cooperation Programme in the 2014-2020 programming period and is co-financed by the European Union - from the European Regional Development Fund - and by the Province of Koroška.
More information about the Interreg VA Slovenia-Austria 2014-2020 program can be found at www.si-at.eu.
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