Air traffic & logistics development between the EU rural areas & China

Offer name:

Expiry date:

31/12/2017

Offering LAG:

Leader Joutsenten reitti

Country:

Finland

Spoken languages:

Inglés - Finés

Looking to cooperate with

Country(ies):

Unión Europea

Type of area:

Peri-Urban, Urban, Rural

Assets of the area:

Industry

Project idea

Project type:

- Cooperation within the country
- Within the same region
- Transnational cooperation
- With other MSs (no shared border)
- Transnational cooperation
- Non EU countries

Project topic:

- New technologies
- Business development
- Rural-Urban linkages
- Built environment
- Rural Infrastructures
- Social Inclusion/ Public services
- Transport & Mobility

Additional keywords:

Secondary airport infrastructure and logistics

Context:

Joutsenten Reitti LAG in SW-Finland is now looking for LEADER partners in other EU counties that have secondary (rural) airports in their territory or close to their territory. We expect the partner candidates to be committed and well networked on their territories in terms of international logistics development.

Project idea summary:

This cooperation proposals deals with logistics cooperation and air traffic, both cargo and people. The Chinese are interested and motivated to build their logistics cooperation network in Europe more effective and covering. In spite of Finland’s peripheral location in the EU, we have a gateway position (from the Schengen area) with air traffic to and from China. The Finnish air company Finnair is among the biggest foreign operators in the Chinese market. For example Finnish rural tourism has been benefiting from this in many ways.

Objectives:

The proposed cooperation starts with a feasibility study, where the potential of each interested airport will be evaluated first with a simple questionnaire.