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Region of Lapland (Finland)
Region of Alentejo (Portugal)
Autonomus Province of Trento (Italy)
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• The Continuing Education
• Centre of the University
• of Lapland
• The Regional Council
• of Lapland
• The Regional
• Environment Centre
• The Lapland Rural
• Advisory Centre
• The Arctic Centre
• The Lapland Forestry Centre
• The Employment and
• Economic Development
• Centre of Lapland

• The University of Évora
• The Regional Direction
• of the Environment
• The Regional Direction
• of the Agriculture
• O Monte
• The Região de Turismo de Évora

• The Autonomous Province
• of Trento
• The Centro di Ecologia Alpina
• The Federatum of Co-operation
• of Trento
• The Municipality of Trento
• The Municipality of Cimego
• The FederBim
• The Consortia of the Municipalities
• of the BIM dellAdige and
• BIM del Brenta

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Learning Villages in Lapland

• KILPISJÄRVI

• KURTAKKO

• SAIJA

• VIKA
• NAMPA
• MISI

• JOUTSIJÄRVI

• TOLVA

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ACTIVITIES
AREA 1 Sustainable tourism AREA 2 Quality
management AREA 3 Sustainable grazing and land
use Participatory multiple-use
management of rangelands AREA
4 Co-operation AREA 5 Relationship between
cities and rural areas AREA 6 Multipolar
centre (?)
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SCHEDULE
1996 Pre-work Oct 1997 Short list
Oct 1998 - July 1999 Feasibility phase
1999 Start 2000 - 2001 Implementation
Spring 2002 Appl. to continue
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Interregional level

• knowledge and experience transfer
• between Italy, Portugal and Finland
• marginal remote areas
• with similar challenges
• interregional planning meetings
• interregional exchange of experience
• sessions in each region

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Intraregional level

• actions for the villages between all
• involved partners and local authorities
• by grassroot principle
• local development including SWOT
• analyses of villages, training, consulting,
• small pilot projects to learn, all kind of
• support
• learning from each other
• collaboration between villages

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Inside of the university

• CEC AND FACULTIES
• tourism students
• have done interviews in Kurtakko and
• Kilpisjärvi, all entrepreneurs as a focus,
• reports for the project but also seminar work
• and study weeks, they have had practical
• orientation in the field visits
• multimedia students
• have filmed videos about villages and
• project activities and have helped villages
• to make homepages
• 1.

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Inside of the university

• textile design students
• have studied dress traditions and planned
• a collection of cultural tourism clothing based
• on village tradition for the villagers who are
• working in a rural tourism company.
• Dress project was also filmed.
• research activities
• village analysis, reports and working
• papers, archeological analyses reported
• swamp area researcher have written an
• orientation into multiple use of swamp area
• for rural tourism
• 2.

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Inside of the university

• various themes about rural
• development to continue research
• and training activities
• Arctic Centre is making a research
• on multiple use of land with a special
• attention on reindeer herding
• 3.

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Outside of the university

• villages of the project have got a wide
• support for development including
• counselling, training, expert advices, etc.
• co-operatives and willage associations
• have reorganized
• new networking opportunities
• university contacts help to reach new
• learning opportunities
• a bridge for further actions,
• new project plans (LIFE)
• theoretical approach
• collaboration with Rovaniemi Polytechnic
• students have made environmental and
• village planning project evaluation by a
• Polytechnic teacher
• international impacts and stimulus

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