Cooperation Offer

Tourism project. The goal - to create opportunities for local inhabitants, farmers, craftsmen, artists, and rural communities, which sells its services, products, articles, and makes it possible to achieve their potential

Offer name: 
Tourism project. The goal - to create opportunities for local inhabitants, farmers, craftsmen, artists, and rural communities, which sells its services, products, articles, and makes it possible to achieve their potential
Expiry date: 
30/12/2019
Offering LAG: 
Druskininkų vietos veiklos grupė
Country:
  • Lithuania

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner: 

LAGs

Country(ies):
  • Europe

Project idea

Project type:
    • Transnational cooperation
    • Cross - border cooperation
Project topic:
    • Tourism / Territorial branding
    • Culture & Cultural heritage
    • Knowledge transfer / education / training activities
Additional keywords:
  • Tourism, Innovation; Marketing; Local products; Local branding; Entrepreneurs; NGOs; Farmers; Local government
Context: 

Druskininkai local action group (LAG) is association established in 2008. The members of the Druskininkai local action group are ten communities, Druskininkai municipality, business partners. The territory of Druskininkai LAG includes Druskininkai municipality, lying in the southern part of Lithuania, except the town of Druskininkai and it covers an area of 446.73 km2 with 7997 inhabitants living in this rural area. Druskininkai LAG is just 125 km from capital of Lithuania – Vilnius and 400 km from Baltic sea.
There are 10 rural communities in the LAG area. Main activities of communities are: promoting of local culture and community cohesion, implementation of community tourism business initiatives, rural renewal and development.

Project idea summary: 

Idea of the prodect is mobilization of rural population for starting/promoting business and realizing tourism development opportunities in rural areas.
Activities could be:
- exchanging experience between project countries about promoting enterprise of rural area people;
- seminars in both countries about developing entrepreneurship of the rural population and revealing the development potential of the region;
- organizing marts presenting special product made by rural area people in both countries;
- other activities or project ideas.

Objectives: 

Idea of the prodect is mobilization of rural population for starting/promoting business and realizing tourism development opportunities in rural areas.