PGI05391 Thematic Trail Trigger Mod. 3C-3T-25 ONLINE TUTORING SESSION N. 1 - AGENDA Template rev. 2 24.02.2019 Macro-category “ Trail Management & Governance (TMG)” 2 July 2020 Location: online (Zoom) (link to follow by invitation mail) Language: English 2 July - 10.00 to 12.00 ( Session 1) Hours CONTENT PURPOSE 9.30 –9.50 Internal session between Lead Partner and the three partner transferors Getting ready for the session and discussion 10.00 –10.10 Introduction by Lead Partner (moderator) Organisation of the Tutoring Session Definition and main aspects of Trail Management and Governance 10.10 – 10.20 1. ROMANIA : GP n. 12 - Poarta Carpatilor Presentation by PP7 transferor Outline of the GP Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 5, with special regard to TMG aspects 10.20 – 10.30 2. FINLANDIA: GP 26 - Silence as a Tourist Attraction Presentation by PP3 transferor Outline of the GP Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 3, with special regard to TMG aspects 10.30 – 10.40 3. POLAND : GP n. 42 - TeH2O Presentation by PP5 transferor Outline of the GP Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 4, with special regard to TMG aspects 10.40 -11.10 Q&A as per partners’ requests on Google spreadsheet Each transferor to provide answers to be questions made, if not yet replied 11.10 -11.50 Open session Possibility for all participants to seek more details or counselling for replicating the experiences in their Action Plan 11.50-12.00 Summary of issues raised/answered. Arrangements for any further in-depth review Reporting One2one or other modalities for more in-depth analysis if necessary
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PGI05391
Thematic Trail Trigger
Mod. 3C-3T-25 ONLINE TUTORING SESSION N. 1 - AGENDA
Mod. 3C-3T-25 ONLINE TUTORING SESSION N. 1 - AGENDA
Template rev. 2 24.02.2019
2 July - 13.00 to 15.00 ( Session 2)
Hours CONTENT PURPOSE
12.40 –12.50 Internal session between
Lead Partner and the three
partner transferors
Getting ready for the session and discussion
13.00 –13.10 Introduction by Lead Partner
(moderator)
Organisation of the Tutoring Session
Definition and main aspects of Trail Management
and Governance
13.10 – 13.20 4. MALTA:
GP n. 22 - Dingli Heritage
Trail
| Presentation by PP4
transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the
Study Visit n. 5, with special regard to TMG aspects
13.20 – 13.30 5 ITALY:
GP n. 37 - Val di Cornia Park
Presentation by PP 2
transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the
Study Visit n. 3, with special regard to TMG aspects
13.30 – 13.40 6. ITALY :
GP n. 43 SAPE
Presentation by Lead
partner transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the
Study Visit n. 4, with special regard to TMG aspects
13.40 -14.10 Q&A as per partners’ request on Google spreadsheet
Each transferor to provide answers to be questions
made, if not yet replied
14.10 -14.50 Open session Possibility for all participants to seek more details or
counselling for replicating the experiences in their
Action Plan
14.50-15.00 Summary of issues
raised/answered.
Arrangements for any
further in-depth review
Reporting
One2one or other modalities for more in-depth
analysis if necessary
N.B. The two sessions are planned to be recorded; videos will be made available to partners and their
stakeholders for future consultation. Provisions to secure the participants’ consent will be indicated in the
invitation mail.
Lead Partner
Project Co-ordination Team
ThreeT
Thematic Trail Trigger
ONLINE TUTORING SESSION n. 1
Management & Governance
DOC.4C-3T-99 OTS 1 - 2 July 2020
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AGENDA sub-session 1
2 July - 10.00 to 12.00 ( Session 1)
Hours CONTENT PURPOSE
9.30 –9.50 Internal session between Lead
Partner and the three partner
transferors
Getting ready for the session and discussion
10.00 –10.10 Introduction by Lead Partner
(moderator)
Organisation of the Tutoring Session
Definition and main aspects of Trail Management and Governance
10.10 – 10.20 1. ROMANIA :
GP n. 12 - Poarta Carpatilor
Presentation by PP7 transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 5,
with special regard to TMG aspects
10.20 – 10.30 2. FINLANDIA:
GP 26 - Silence as a Tourist
Attraction
Presentation by PP3 transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 3,
with special regard to TMG aspects
10.30 – 10.40 3. POLAND :
GP n. 42 - TeH2O
Presentation by PP5 transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 4,
with special regard to TMG aspects
10.40 -11.10 Q&A as per partners’ requests on Google spreadsheet
Each transferor to provide answers to be questions made, if not yet
replied
11.10 -11.50 Open session Possibility for all participants to seek more details or counselling for
replicating the experiences in their Action Plan
11.50-12.00 Summary of issues
raised/answered. Arrangements
for any further in-depth review
Reporting
One2one or other modalities for more in-depth analysis if necessary
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AGENDA sub-session 2
2 July - 13.00 to 15.00 ( Session 2)
Hours CONTENT PURPOSE
12.40 –12.50 Internal session between Lead Partner
and the three partner transferors
Getting ready for the session and discussion
13.00 –13.10 Introduction by Lead Partner
(moderator)
Organisation of the Tutoring Session
Definition and main aspects of Trail Management and Governance
13.10 – 13.20 4. MALTA:
GP n. 22 - Dingli Heritage Trail
| Presentation by PP4 transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 5, with
special regard to TMG aspects
13.20 – 13.30 5 ITALY:
GP n. 37 - Val di Cornia Park
Presentation by PP 2 transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 3, with
special regard to TMG aspects
13.30 – 13.40 6. ITALY :
GP n. 43 SAPE
Presentation by Lead partner
transferor
Outline of the GP
Reference to the feedbacks received during the Study Visit n. 4, with
special regard to TMG aspects
13.40 -14.10 Q&A as per partners’ request on Google spreadsheet
Each transferor to provide answers to be questions made, if not yet
replied
14.10 -14.50 Open session Possibility for all participants to seek more details or counselling for
replicating the experiences in their Action Plan
14.50-15.00 Summary of issues raised/answered.
Arrangements for any further in-depth
review
Reporting
One2one or other modalities for more in-depth analysis if necessary
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“it is important to set up a trail and manage it, but equally
important is the people empowerment”
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Management
Management Responsibility . Success requires the participation of all members of the project
team, but remains the responsibility of management to provide the resources needed to
succeed. (PMBOK Guide, 2008)
Source: ThreeT Glossary page 10
With reference to our Thematic Trail, the management becomes relevant in 4 main phases:
I. Trail start-up (Phase A)
II. Trail development (Phase B)
III. Trail action design & planning (Phase C)
IV. Trail implementation, management & promotion (Phase D)
MANAGEMENT
Management is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-
profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting
the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of
volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources,
such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources.
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Management
Trail Start-up Trail Development
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Management
Trail Action Design &
Planning
Trail Implementation, Management &
promotion Design & Planning
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Management
I. TRAIL START-UP
Promoters & Stakeholders (Silence, Transylvania Highlands, …) Information need to be provided on the initiators who discussed from the start about how to identify the theme of reference and to
aggregate consensus and resources for the proposed thematic trail
Legal set-up (Silence, Val di Cornia, TeH20, …) It is expected that the organizational body supervising the promotion, implementation and management of the trail will be established by
choosing a suitable legal set-up. This can be in the form of an Association or Foundation or other similar, generally operating on a non-
profit basis.
…
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II. TRAIL DEVELOPMENT
Trail Identification Trail identification will start as a preparatory exercise to permit its subsequent identification on the ground; the trail may be represented
by a continuous path that interconnects various points of interest through links (trails, unpaved rural roads, etc.. ) walked or travelled on
by cycling and/or mountain biking, riding etc. In general, a Trail may be conveniently divided into sections or stages.
A Trail may also be an archipelago of points not necessarily connected together.
The whole journey may be documented by GPS tracking thus allowing the publication of information on a web-GIS portal and their
download using portable applications.
Rehabilitation or new works The opening up or the consolidation of a Trail requires the provision or renovation of bridges, walkways and other path
infrastructure, as well as protective measures such as fences, low walls, etc.
Along the Trail small-scale side infrastructure is generally welcomed to allow a travellers' stop-over and, where possible, use of
associated utilities (benches, tables, litter bins, drinkable water fountains, toilets, information boards, sheds or other type of
top of the little church”Did any challenges occur during the planning phase? YES. Mapping problem appeared, data base problems
and picture database had to be merged.
How were challenges solved? Creating the CEM GIS with all available information.
How long took the planning phase until trail
establishment?3 years
TAT – T8 Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
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MAINTENANCE CHAIN T8 – ”Pe culmea Bisericutei” – ” On
top of the little church”Who “owns” the trail? The local community
Is there a specific institution responsible for trail
maintenance?No
Is there a yearly budget allocated for maintenance? No
Who pays for the annual maintenance budget? CEM and the owners
Is voluntary maintenance work and monitoring
calculated and reported?YES
Is there a monitoring system established for checking
the trail?YES – volunteers register in CEM’s GIS
Are there any surveys/ digital data mining about the
trail usage?No. They are planned via IoT
Is there an analog or digital feedback form for trail
users? And who is processing it?No. They are planned via ArcGIS Survey
What are the main challenges in trail maintenance (e.g.
vandalism, natural events)?Costs for replacement
Is there a communication procedure on how to solve
each single problem?No
How are stakeholders involved during maintenance, its
planning and troubleshooting?They are informed by CEM
TAT – T8 Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
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Good Practice n.1
Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
CEM’s planned ecotouristic trails in Poarta Carpatilor for 2020 - 2022
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Part 2 – Trail
Management
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Part 2 – Trail Management
Aspects:
1. Private ownership of majority of trail sections
2. Creation of two local associations to further develop the trails – one is functioning and
the other is inactive
3. Funding for trail development has no annual budget from local council
4. Local population sustains the trail network
5. CEM is acting as a promoter of the ETTN in Poarta Carpatilor
6. CEMs volunteers inform and monitories the network (send pictures form damaged
infopoints, etc)
7. CEM develops further project ideas towards sustainable tourism implementation in the
Poarta Carpatilor
8. Locals maintain the trails
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Part 3 – Good
governance
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Part 3 – Good (or bad)
governance
Aspects:
1. Good collaboration with one of the communes from Poarta Carpatilor area
2. Good collaboration with Brasov County administration
3. CEM developed a sustainable tourism strategy for the are, but it is not yet any local
council decision to adopt it
4. CEM developed together with the Architects Assoc. of Romania a building guide for the
are, but it is not yet any local council decision to adopt it
5. CEM involves in the planning of the area by proposing documents, maps and projects for
further sustainable touristic development, but the local administration struggles to
implement waste water system and drinking water system
6. Conflicts between mass tourism services and sustainable tourism services exist and have
to be managed by the implementation of a strategy
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Part 4 – Q&A
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Eco-touristic trail network in Poarta Carpatilor
Q1.1 - LP: Provide more details on how the local
community was involved in the project and could make
profit from the initiative.
Answer: CEM has a decade-long experience in the Poarta Carpatilor area and during several former
projects, starting with 1991, TRUST and RESPECT was build up between us and the local community.
In all our projects we firstly involved local people, local services and local products.
The ETTN was “just” a further CEM-initiative to help the local community to switch more towards
sustainable tourism (discovering through hiking and walking activities) and help them to diversify the
touristic offer in the area. Although most touristic services and products are not sustainable (by COP
Paris 2015-definition) in the area, our ETTN-project involved most locals by getting their (verbal)
approval to pass their meadows and forests (and partially their gardens) and to let us mark the
paths/trails in the village area. This project couldn’t have been possible without their (passive)
implication.
For us, the traditional work done by the local community to maintain the meadows and the huts, to
create the local food products and to maintain the local traditional mountain-agriculture and the
biodiversity, are enough implication to maintain the main purpose of the trail network: the traditional
cultural landscape.
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Q1.2 - LP: Also more details are welcomed on how the
trails were designed using the cooperation concept.
Answer: CEM had a very easy job to do to design the trail-network: we had just to pick up the “best”trails already existing and created by locals through their daily work in local mountain agriculture.
The traditional management system they developed, as being the most efficient for their area, is based
on 3 main areas they include in their farming agriculture: the house area and the surrounding
meadows, the meadows for hay-production as winter food they own in the village and the high
mountain pastures for their animals in the summer. Between this 3 areas several walking and working
paths emerged during the centuries. They intersect and cross-connect the farming areas of each
family (owner) and create an unique trail-network in this mountain area.
Picking up the best segments for the ETTN project followed few important criteria:
1. Owner had to agree to include her/his farmland for touristic purpose
2. The trajectory of the trail segment should include some beautiful viewpoints on the surroundings
3. The segment should create a connection between other important Points of Interest (POI)
4. The segments should be used by more locals, not just by one family (with few exceptions)
5. The segments should pass safely public roads
The cooperation concept was based on personal discussions with each family, explaining the
implication of our actions and their benefits for their touristic business. Most families are also owners
of at least one small guesthouse.
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Q2 – PP3: The involvement of locals as an ongoing
process - how does it work? Local economic system?
Answer: As we answered already Q1.1, the main involvement of the locals as an ongoing process is to
maintain the mountain agriculture they already apply since hundreds of years in this area. Our main
objective is to motivate them to keep doing this hard, exhausting work day by day.
The main problems in the ETTN-area are the abandonment of the mountain farming, the depopulation,
the disappearance of local food and non-food products and the connected change of the traditional
cultural mountain landscape.
Our approach is to create a deeper understanding in the minds of the locals on the unique landscape
with a higher biodiversity (than the potential natural one in the area) they and their ancestors created
in this area, the importance for whole Europe and to show them how they could use this mindset and
information for developing a sustainable tourism.
Together with other partners we created certification systems (ecotourism) and we plan to extend this
certification concept for food and non-food products produced in the ETTN area.
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Q3.1 – PP4: Which are the main issues, relate to natural
heritage protection, taken into consideration when planning
new services / activities?
Answer: As in most other countries of the EU, the concept of natural heritage protection must be
extended on the traditional cultural landscape with high nature value. Mostly meadows harbor a high
biodiversity in ETTN area. From this point of view we started in Poarta Carpatilor to define new areas
which are not integrated yet in regional planning with conservation targets: High Nature Value
farmlands. The general natural heritage protection is related to virgin forests and high alpine areas.
The main issues we considered in our projects are:
To combat alteration of the traditional cultural landscape
To combat degradation of HNV farmlands and landscapes through random building activities
To define new restricted and totally protected areas following the recommendation of the EU, to have
30% protected areas and 10% strictly protected areas
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Q3.2 – PP4: Do cost/benefit studies take into
consideration, and assign a monitory value to, the impact
on the natural environment of existing or future projects in
the area?
Answer: The first answer is simply NO. We have not done any studies according cost/benefit
evaluations because we don not have to do large investments, we have to conserve existing and very
valuable parts of potential sustainable touristic development in Poarta Carpatilor and in Brasov
County.
The general aim would be to calculate the preservation of cultural and natural heritage compared to its
distruction.
What we have done and what we do permanently is to show examples of and from other areas in
Europe where locals gave up or brutally changed their way of life focusing on mass and industrial
tourism.
For further projects we proposed to the regional government for evaluation of any project according to
its sustainability the respectation of the 17 SDGs, the 168 targets of the SDG and their 238 indicators.
As an additional tool for evaluating development projects in tourism and building domain we proposed
also the MIPS-concept to be implemented at regional level (Material Intensity per Service Unit).
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Q4.1 – PP9: We see the Centre for Mountain Ecology
(CEM) as "anchor point" of the eco-touristic trail network.
1 How did you get other companies and private people for
(eg for sponsoring, events, actions, offers) involved? Answer: In all of our activities, which are not funded through European funding, EEC-countries or
national or regional level programs, we always followed the main principle to ask for funding “action-
related”. For example for a mountain running marathon we organized for 10 years we had sponsors for the
different types of actions we undertook during the event: for timing we asked a timing/watch company
for sponsoring, for equipment a running shoe producer, for aid stations local chees or drinking
producers. Always action-related.
For the ETTN project we had also the Local Council form Fundata as partner with 5% of buget.
Private people are involved through our volunteering program. For one event we have even up to 170
volunteers. For the ETTN project we had in general 20-30 permanent volunteers helping to fulfill all
actions.
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Q4.2 – PP9: We see the Centre for Mountain Ecology
(CEM) as "anchor point" of the eco-touristic trail network.
2 And what did you do in the beginning to gather different
people in order to create events and the trails? And how
did you manage to connect them?
Answer: As we said before, we had a very good volunteering program and during the decades of
activity CEM, even if we are just 3 permanent employees, can count on a pool of 100 volunteers.
For them we organize weekends in the mountains, working weekends, meetings or small events. Lot
of them are coming from the urban area of Bucharest, Brasov, Constanta or Galati, but in the mean
time most people in village Moieciu de Sus know them or host them as guests in their guesthouses.
Romania has a well developed NGO network. We help each other for different projects or materials,
information or volunteer work.
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Q4.3 – PP9: We see the Centre for Mountain Ecology
(CEM) as "anchor point" of the eco-touristic trail network.
3 What difficulties did you have in organising meetings with
the locals?Answer: To organize meetings with the locals was one of our biggest mistakes in the beginning of our
activity. We imagined gathering them would be more time efficient and easy to manage for project
indicators (participants per meeting). But we realized that not everybody in the village or in the area is
willing to work or volunteer together with his neighbor. A lot of problems appeared during gatherings
because two people could not stand each other and their discussions “destroyed” the whole meeting.
Since years we decided to use another strategy, a more time consuming one for us, but more efficient:
face-to-face meetings.
In this way we use more time, but for us it is very valuable time, because you discuss with each
person (owner of a plot of land you whish to pass with the trails you propose) and the results are
usually positive.
This methodology we will apply in all our projects and we recommend to all of you to apply it too. For
projects it can be a little bit more time consuming and the indicators have to be described more
precise, but the results regarding the acceptance of a project or the envolvment of the locals is better.
Thank you!
ThreeT - Thematic Trail Trigger
ThreeT Tutorial Session No.1
PP4 – Planning Authority, Malta
Dingli Heritage Trail
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• Run by a private local company from Dingli
• Interpretation Centre – innovative means to disseminate information
• To address lack of previous services by introducing non-existent facilities
• Innovation in combining gastronomy & information provision
• Catering (food) as a way to educate people
• Self-sufficient & autonomous project
• Creation of trail map & organisation of Free eco-walks
Are there plans for additional means of transport such as an electric bus linking the various sites, since cycling
might not be such an easy option, particularly in summer?
‘Ridurre la pressione antropica e dei veicoli privati nel parco creando una graduale limitazione della sosta
all'interno del Golfo in particolari periodi dell’anno (con l’esclusione dei residenti, dei commercianti e degli operatori) attraverso il potenziamento del parcheggio scambiatore delle Caldanelle e l'incentivazione dell'uso
di mezzi alternativi (bici, bus navette, etc.) con una contestuale riduzione dei parcheggi all’interno del golfo’. Will be partt of next 3-years plan to be disussed w shareholders. Region and Province involved
Q&A
ROMANIA
1. Is there any standard developed and applied for designing the routes without barriers or is it the individual
aproach of the architect or engineer the basis for the approach ??
Guideri off-hand
2. "The system has developed a project with an innovative governance and has also made the facilities and
routes accessible to people with reduced mobility wherever possible. " What do you mean with Innovative
governance??
3. Could you develop the concept of innovative governance better and more detailed?
Integration between cultural assets, environmental assets, and tourism services of the 5 municipalities;
Integration and coordination between the phases of conservation, enhancement and management of
the system
Creation of a business culture in the management of cultural/environmental assets
Economy of scale (the parks and museums network);
High capacity for self-financing
Q&A
UNGHERIA (queste sono quasi tutte tue/vostre! ;-)
1. Info board design, App, maps were highly valuable showcase examples.
2. Visitor card: ParcheoCard: terms, conditions for involved service providers, discounts offered.
How to reach target groups of the card on both ends: Tourists and service providers?
How the card’s business model is set up?
3. How to reach effectively the wider public audience; what kind of communication / promotion / dissemination methods
are used in general and also focusing on families, children and youngsters?
4. How to make archaeological sites interesting and experiences-oriented? What techniques / methods are used; what kind
of games were invented?
E.g: experimental archaeology laboratories thematically oriented in the different sites, the choice to incentivize and to
coexist archaeological research campaigns with the enjoyment, which enriches the visit and fascinates the public, but also to
some basic design choices such as that of the train to New Year's Eve
5. Discussion on our action planned: Ideas and feedbacks on expected start-up costs of setting up and launching a similar
system among existing archeological sites in our region: scale and types of costs.
Da slide: Coordinated urban plans defined the areas to be protected going beyond the legal concepts of cultural and
landscape heritage, overcoming the administrative borders and interpreting the natural and cultural features of the
territory as a unitary common good.
Q&A
GERMANIA
Use of the different buildings
o How were the anchor points in the parks chosen?
Guideri off-hand
o How was it decided which buildings are suitable for which use (park centers, restaurants, etc.)? Was there an