For preserving and promoting the ethnic and local culinary heritage
Enhance rural tourism, stimulate local economies, create jobs, and promote social innovation, engaging marginalized groups facing various disadvantages.
About project:
The Culinary Trail supports the Danube Region Programme’s Specific Objective 3.3 by preserving and promoting the ethnic and local culinary heritage, including the traditions of 30 ethnic groups, such as Jewish and Roma communities, with a focus on economically underdeveloped areas. This project will enhance rural tourism, stimulate local economies, create jobs, and promote social innovation, engaging marginalized groups facing various disadvantages.
The project unites 27 partners and enhances the capacity of 250 organizations across 14 Danube countries. It actively involves NGOs, local businesses, public authorities, and academia, contributing to the Danube Strategy’s PA3, PA8, and PA9 through cross-border collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Key activities including:
Digital cataloguing: Preserving culinary heritage by creating a digital catalogue with recipes, techniques, and cultural narratives.
Transnational culinary trails: Establishing routes across the Danube Region with green mobility options, offering a multimedia experience.
Culinary strategy: A transnational approach to protecting and promoting ethnic and local culinary heritage.
Product development: Connecting isolated culinary products into a transnational brand, with an annual festival and prototypes like food carts and riverboats.
Demonstration center: Setting up a training center to provide hands-on learning.
Capacity building: Training 60 participants in culinary skills and business acumen.
Innovation & policy hubs: Creating 14 hubs for sustainable tourism and social innovation, developing 33 action plans, and testing 3 solutions in 7 pilot projects.
Partners:
- School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) – LP
- Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (Bosnia and Herczegovina)
- BizGarden Ltd. (Czech Republic)
- Polytechnic “Nikola Tesla” in Gospić (Croatia)
- “Ion Creanga” State Pedagogical University of Chisinau (Romania)
- Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia)
- Steinbeis 2i GmbH (Germany)
- Rudolfovo – Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto (Slovenia)
- Research Centre “Regional and Global Development” (Bulgaria)
- Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje (Serbia)
- Regional Development Agency for Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije (Montenegro)
- City Development Agency East Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- National University for Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (Romania)
- “Private Professional College HRC Culinary Academy Bulgaria” Ltd (Bulgaria)
- Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto (Slovenia)
- Carinthia University of Applied Sciences – non-profit limited liability company (Austria)
- Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Hungary)
- Romanian Association for Technology Transfer and Innovation (Romania)
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