On 28 May 2024, the City Development Agency Banja Luka organized an event to present the „Mystical Danube – Green and Mystical Danube Storytelling Route – transnational valorisation of natural and intangible cultural heritage for socio-economic development of rural areas in the Danube region“, acronym „Mystical Danube“. Right after the presentation, workshops with stakeholders relevant for implementation of the Project Activity 1.1. „Mapping and collection of natural and associated intangible cultural heritage in th eproject’s rural and less visited areas“ took place.
The project „Mystical Danube“ is cofinanced by the Interreg Danube Region Programme 2021-2027, and the City Development Agency Banja Luka is one of 10 project partners located in 9 countries of the Danube Region (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgara and Romania)
The total value of the project is je 1.974.034,48 EUR, with EU co-financing in the amount of 1.579.227,58 EUR, while 150.615,00 EUR was allocated for project activities that will be implemented by the Agency.
Planned Project duration is from 01 January 2024 to 30 June 2026.
The Programme Priority Specific Objective is socio-economic development through culture, heritage and tourism, and the main Project Objective is to develop a coordinated joint transnational approach in the valorisation of natural and intangible cultural heritage as a tourism asset in rural and less visited areas in the Danube Region Programme area.
The project’s main outputs will include 1 joint strategy for the valorisation of natural and intangible cultural heritage in rural and less visited areas of the Danube Region, 10 Pilot site Action Plans for development of sustainable community tourism services and products, intensive cooperation of 23 partner organisations, design and testing 10 Pilot sites as a new thematic route, with the „Green and Mystical Danube Storytelling Route“mobile app showing the route and its features in terms of sites and available touristic services and set up contact points in all 9 countries that the Project has been implemented in.
The Project has been supported by the Interreg Danube Region Programme and cofinanced by the EU
