BİSİKLETLE AVRUPA TURU

EKSTRA

-İş yerinde güvenlik kültürü projesi- -Göç ve iltica konusunda yeni proje- -Türkiye KOBİ zirvesi İstanbul'da- -AB Tarım ve Balıkçılık Hibe Programı Hakkında Soru ve Yanıtlar- -AB Kültür ve Sanat Hibe Programı Türkçe Başvuru Rehberi yayımlandı- Ekibimize katılacak stajyerler arıyoruz! -AB'den Türkiye'ye hayvancılık alanında destek- -Çevre ve müzik projeleri için Yunanistan'a gidecek gönüllü gençler aranıyor- -Kalkınma Ajansı her branştan bağımsız değerlendiriciler arıyor- -Belgrad’da Uluslararası Öğrencleri Haftası -

AB, destek vereceği bisikletle Avrupa turu etkinlikleri için seminer düzenliyor

Türkiye gibi aday ülkelerin de katılabileceği G. Doğu Avrupa semineri Mart ayında Bulgaristan'da

The Commission will organise three regional, awareness-raising Workshops for the ''Iron Curtain Trail'' - a Future EuroVelo Cycling Route.

Each workshop will gather a maximum of 150 participants from local, regional and national tourism authorities and other interested stakeholders as well as journalists and media representatives from EU Member States and Candidate Countries in order to:

Highlight the increasing importance of cycling tourism, its benefits and regional economic impacts and stress the importance of developing the Iron Curtain Trail as a EuroVelo route.
Present European best practices of cycling tourism from other EuroVelo routes and model implementations of parts of the Iron Curtain Trail.
Explore the interest of countries and regions alongside the former Iron Curtain in implementing such a cycling trail and the way forward by identifying feasible/concrete initiatives on how the European Commission could assist its implementation in the years 2010 and 2011.
Promote networking of countries and regions along the former Iron Curtain towards the establishment of a future trans-national cycling route, the "Iron Curtain Trail".

The workshops should be a starting point to build a network of regions which are possibly interested in working together in an EU project (e.g. European Regional Development Fund) in order to implement the cycling trail.
Best practices from other EuroVelo routes and examples of successful implementation of the Iron Curtain Trail at regional level should be also presented.
The workshops should finally also raise awareness about different sources of financing available at European level to support regional development.

The regional workshops will be held according to the following geographical coverage of countries and participants:

1st Workshop for the Northern part of the Iron Curtain Trail has taken place in Warsaw (Poland) on 19 November 2009. Regional target group: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Norway ( For more information)
2nd Workshop for the Central part of the Iron Curtain Trail has taken place in Sopron (Hungary) on 9 December 2009. Regional target group: Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia ( For more information)
3rd Workshop for the Southern part of the Iron Curtain Trail will take place in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 16 March 2010. This concluding workshop will have special focus on South-Eastern European countries ( For more information)

Participation to the workshops will be free of charge; however, the European Commission cannot cover any accommodation and travel-related expenses. Moreover, concerning participation, priority will be given to representatives of the regional target group, due to the fact that interpretation in other EU languages according to the regional split is foreseen.

The third Iron Curtain Trail workshop will be held in Sofia (Bulgaria) on March 16th, 2010.

This concluding workshop will have special focus on South-Eastern European best practices.

However, as this is the concluding workshop, we warmly welcome interested stakeholders and friends of cycling tourism from Northern and Central Europe as well.

PROGRAMME AND OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATIONS

Draft programme pdf - 464 KB [464 KB]

(Programme's version in other languages will be available soon)

The workshop will take place at Conference Centre and Hotel "Holiday Inn - Sofia" (More information) pdf - 374 KB [374 KB]

Other interesting documents:

Background information about the Iron Curtain Trail pdf - 235 KB [235 KB]

FOR REGISTRATION click here!

For further information about the project "Iron Curtain Trail" please find attached a study of the European Parliament "The European Cycle Route Network Eurovelo", in English pdf - 8 MB [8 MB] and German [8 MB] .

An overall view of the project is in the attached presentation ' The Iron Curtain Trail – a model for sustainable tourism in Europe pdf - 11 MB [11 MB] '.

For more information on the planned route and stages of the Iron Curtain Trail see: http://www.ironcurtaintrail.eu/en/die_etappen/index.html

In order to facilitate networking and cooperation between interested parties and countries for specific cycling tourism projects in relation to the Iron Curtain Trail, please find attached the networking form to be filled in and returned as indicated.

Like the ones beneath we will regularly update and upload the requests for networking, especially after each Workshop.

Networking form [216 KB]
Networking requests: WS Warsaw [659 KB] (last update 7/12/2009)
Networking requests: WS Sopron (1) [3 MB] , WS Sopron (2) [2 MB] (last update 11/1/2010)
Networking requests: WS Sofia [65 KB] (last update 11/1/2010)