Local Development Strategies
Partners:
Traversetolo municipality, Canossa municipality, Felino municipality, Montecchio
Emilia municipality, Montechiarugolo municipality, San Polo d’Enza municipality
and Municipality of Jokkmokk and Norra Bohuslan association.
Length of the project: 10 months (2006-2007)
Objectives: The main objective of the project is fostering an exchange of good practices on local approaches based on three key elements which are strictly linked: sustainable tourism, promotion of high quality food production and protection and promotion of cultural heritage through the support of handicraft activities.
Activities:
Preparatory meeting, Stromstad (Norra Bohuslan, Sweden), June 2006.
This meeting had two main objectives: (a) the opportunity to know better
the Italian and Swedish partners participating in the project and to identify
the differences and the communalities of the involved municipalities on
their approaches to the concept of local development; (b) defining the details
of the agenda of the following conferences.
Event 1, Traversetolo, Canossa, Felino, Montecchio Emilia, Montechiarugolo, San Polo d’Enza, (Italy), September 2006.
Event 2, Jokkmokk, January 2007.
These events included conferences on the system for the promotion and protection of local products, study visits in local companies and to tourist sites, working groups and workshops.
Results:
- development, deepening and concretisation of the concept of sustainable
development through the creation of tourist proposals unable to link nature,
culture and typical food and handicraft;
- continuation of the cultural exchange with a higher and deeper involvement
of the citizenship and the opportunity not only to organise short term study
visits but also to give the chance to small group of people to plan longer
staying periods to implement some personnel exchanges.
This project has been co-financed by 
See
also Pictures - Final Report - Material