Monumental 9

Monumental 9

Timespan: 24/10/2019 – 24/07/2020 (9 months)

Donor: RCC – Reginal Cooperation Council (“Support to the implementation of the RCC Triple-P Tourism in SEE: Promotion, Policy, and Pilots Grants Work Programme”)

Applicant: Local Democracy Agency Montenegro (Montenegro)

Partners: LDA Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Zavidovići (Bosnia and Herzegovina); LDA Subotica (Serbia); LDA Knjaževac (Serbia); LDA Kosovo*; ALDA Skopje (North Macedonia)

Project Description:

The core activities of the proposed action are aimed to help create preconditions for new tourism product development to increase youth employment and income generating activities through engaging micro-localities, youth greeters and creative writers (and/or vloggers) in regional co-operation programme. Capacity building for LDA greeters and vloggers, professional tour guide skills development exercise, field visit and learning by doing approach are all intended to contribute to the overall objective with specific focus on activities designed to engage youth from local communities in regional intercultural exchange programme to work together on a new tourist product development.

Overall objective: Help create preconditions for new tourism product development to increase youth employment and income generating activities through engaging micro-localities, youth greeters and vloggers in regional co-operation programme

Specific objective(s):

  • develop youth friendly innovative promotional actions to provide orientation and publicise the narrative of the nine magnificent monuments from the WW2.;
  • create youth friendly online platform to present sites, locations and heritage
  • develop regional pilot youth intercultural exchange programme including exploration, storytelling, digitalisation of the new cultural tourism product: Monumental 9;
  • help increase attractiveness for tourist development and income generating activities at micro-localities;

 Activities are divided into 4 working packages (WP):

WP1 Capacity building and Training Manual for LDA greeters/vloggers;

WP2: Desk research, establishment of the online platform: Balkan Monumental 9 Trail;

WP3: Three (3) field pilot tours to create the Monuments’ narrative and virtual tour;

WP 4: Local/Regional visibility activities, co-ordination and preparation of closing event Trebjesa Niksic, to adopt the regional Network’s follow-up action plan.    

Expected results:

  • New regional network’s capacities for engaging youth in intercultural exchange programme improved;
  • local capacities for creating the community of practice in tourist development improved;
  • income generating activities in micro localities increased;
  • Nine Monuments’ virtual tour guide with narratives, storytelling, developed by LDA young greeters and vloggers;

Target groups: Local CSOs, CSO thematic networks, Youth practitioners, local/national public authorities’/government bodies, media

Beneficiaries: educational/ cultural institutions, youth groups, tourist associations, SMEs, 9 local communities, population at large

 

 

In the period from 26. to 30.07.2020, we realized another tour within the project "Monumental 9" in order to discover the stories behind the monuments dedicated to the Second World War in the countries of the Western Balkans. We visited Jablanica, Konjic and Mostar in BiH and Nikšić in Montenegro. We started the tour in Konjic where we visited once one of the greatest Yugoslav secrets. We visited the former atomic war-command post, more prominently known as „Tito's bunker“. We have seen how the Yugoslav system prepared itself for a potential atomic strike on Yugoslavia. The bunker includes bedrooms, security…
On 14th July 2020 from 11h until 13h there will be a regional online training for young local greeters. If you are interested to find out: Who are greeters? How does greeting work? Greeter's history. Basic values of greeter. Where are they present in the world. Examples of good practice. Communication in the field of tourist volunteering. Leading the group. Visit the SKYPE: https://join.skype.com/jrSfAnqxpClE It’s fun to be a Greeter: meeting people, making friends, practising languages, being a member of the international Greeter family. Greeters support sustainable tourism, respect natural and man-made environments, bringing both cultural and economic enrichment to…
Local Democracy Agency Zavidovici announces a call for experts as part of the 'Monumental 9' project, which is financially supported by the Regional Cooperation Council - RCC. The lead partner in this project is the Local Democracy Agency Niksic / LDA Montenegro. The objective of the Consultancy is to provide support to lead aplicant – LDA Montenegro and partner LDA Zavidovići in preparation and implementation of regional co-operation programme designed as a set of tourist promotion activities. The consultants – senior experts are expected to conduct a desk research, prepare draft texts, background information of each pilot tour prepared, draft…
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If you are active young person interested in making new touristic products/routs and offers/; If you are keen to culture, history, gastronomy and amazed with WW II Monuments design – you should apply for the 4 day training in Prijedor and get the opportunity to develop Monumental 9 project with partner organizations. Local Democracy Agency Montengro along with partners: LDA Mostar, LDA Kosovo, LDA Zavidovici, LDA Prijedor, LDA Knjazevac, LDA Subotica & ALDA Skopje is developing new touristic products using greeter concept and modern approaches in order to increase youth employment and income generating activities through engaging micro-localities. The project…
Local Democracy Agency (LDA) Prijedor announced a call for 2 trainers / experts as part of the 'Monumental 9' project, which is financially supported by the Regional Cooperation Council - RCC. The lead partner in this project is the Local Democracy Agency Niksic / LDA Montenegro and one of the partner organizations is also LDA Kosovo. The trainers / experts are expected to prepare, design and implement a four-day training program for a group of up to 25 participants, as well as to prepare and develop an appropriate training manual tailored to users as self-study post-training material and guidelines for…

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