The Regional Bureau of Spatial Planning in Wroclaw

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTHIlona Szarapo

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

OVERVIEW:

1. Info about the Dolnoslaskie Voivodeship region

2. Characteristic of the transborder area

3. Tools for the implementation of the activity

4. Innovation aspect

5. Results

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

THE THE LOLOWWER SILESIAER SILESIA REGIONREGION

AREA: 200 000 km2

INHABITANTS: almost 3 mio

THE CAPITAL: Wroclaw

WROCŁAW

THE LOWER SILESIA REGIONTHE LOWER SILESIA REGION

TRANSBORDER AREA – CHARACTERISTICTRANSBORDER AREA – CHARACTERISTIC

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

AREA: 130 000 km2

THE BOARDER LENGTH: 1564 km

POPULATION: 17 076 000

GDP: 3700– 5000 Euro

UNEMPLOYMENT: max: 30%, average 20%

THE POPULATION IN PROD. AGE: 65% - 70%

PROTECTED AREAS: ~25

World Heritage Site/UNESCO: ~15

S U D E T Y

S U D E T Y

C A R P A T H I A C A R P A T H I A NN

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

NEEDS OF THE NEEDS OF THE TRANSBORDER TRANSBORDER AREAAREA::

1. Improvement to the economic situation.

2. Halting of the depopulation process.

3. Reducing an unemployment.

4. Protecting and promotion of the natural environment and cultural heritage.

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

TOOLS FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES:TOOLS FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES:

• Delineating and promoting of the tourist route for motorist „Via Montana”

Access to peripheral areas

Near the natural areas

The highest landscape values

Drive by tourism, enabling the familiarization of eco-cultural merits

Easy access to programs with services for motoring tourists

Possibility of using active forms of tourism

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

Employment growth

VIA MONTANAVIA MONTANATERRITORIAL BACKGROUNDTERRITORIAL BACKGROUND

DIFFERENT SPHERES MOBILIZATION

Transborder cooperation

Area promotion Society

information Local and regional

government activation

INNOVATIONINNOVATION::

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

TERRITORIAL BATERRITORIAL BASISSIS

TRIGGERING OF THE DIFFERENT SPHERES

INNOVATIONINNOVATION

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

RESULTS:RESULTS:

1. Stimulation of the Carpathian and Sudety economic areas by intensification of tourism development.

2. Intensifying of the socioecomic activity by increasing the accessibility to peripheral areas.

3. The strengthening of transborder cooperation between regions.

4. Motivation of local governments to stimulate transborder area development.

5. Growth of the employment.

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

PROJECT TITLE: PROJECT TITLE: European Development Corridor III VIA REGIA – „ED-CIII”

PROGRAMME: PROGRAMME: INTERREG IIIB CADSES

Action 5.4.:Action 5.4.: „DEVELOPMENT„DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOURIST OF THE TOURIST

ROUTE VIA MONTANA”ROUTE VIA MONTANA”

NNOOWW

TRANSBORDER SENSITIVE AREAS – POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH

NEW PROJECTNEW PROJECT:: „Development and promotion of the Sudetic – Carpathian tourist route Via Montana”

FFUUTTUURREE

PROGRAMMEPROGRAMME:: EWT – CENTRAL EUROPE

oThank you for your attention

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Ilona Szarapo

The Regional Bureau of Spatial Planning in Wroclaw

Swidnicka 12/16 WROCŁAW

Phone 0048 71 343 80 05

E-mail iszarapo@poczta.wbu.wroc.pl