Popularisation of the common cultural heritage of Pomerania for the local population and tourism (INT0300079)
The aim of the project is to use cross-border cooperation to preserve the common cultural heritage of the European Pomerania region and make it accessible to locals and tourists through digital innovations.
The starting point of the project's starting points are digitised cultural treasures from Polish and German archives and libraries, such as documents, maps and photographs, which are processed using AI-supported technology and form the basis for new tourist information services, publications and permanent exhibitions.
What is POMERANIA?
The Euroregion POMERANIA is a cross-border region in which municipalities and municipal associations close to the border in Germany and Poland participate. It comprises five German districts (Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as well as Uckermark and Barnim in Brandenburg) and the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. However, the region is not only connected by structural but also geological, cultural-historical and scenic similarities.The landscapes are equally shaped by the Ice Age, are relatively sparsely populated and are predominantly used for agriculture.
The historical similarities in particular are to be brought to life as part of the project through multilingual digital content and educational events.
The Euroregion covers a total area of 35,000 km2 and is home to 2.7 million inhabitants.
Partners:
The Greifswald University Library coordinates the project and implements it together with the Książnica Pomorska (the Pomeranian Public Library) in Szczecin and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office for Road Contruction and Transport.
Associated partners are the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourism Association, the Schwerin State Archive and the Brandenburg State Road Authority.
Who is funding the project?
The project is being funded as part of the Interreg VI A program. The Interreg VI A program Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Brandenburg / Polska 2021-2027 supports German-Polish cooperation in the border region with funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the framework of the "European Territorial Cooperation" objective.
The total funding amounts to 3.57 million euros, of which 2.84 million euros (80 per cent) will be provided from ERDF funds. The remaining amount is contributed by the partners themselves.
The use of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is primarily aimed at continuing the economic catch-up process in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern through investment and enabling it to shape the future based on its resources. The funding is primarily intended to strengthen the innovative powers and competitiveness of companies and to support research and development activities in order to broaden the state's economic base and create more jobs in the primary labour market.
Subprojects
Four public conferences are planned on topics including ‘Avenues in MV’, ‘Translating Polish literature into High and Low German’ and the ‘125th anniversary of the Pomerania Library in Szczecin’. Moreover, a travel guide ‘Mysterious Pomerania’ and two permanent exhibitions on the ‘Pomerania Space’ and ‘Chaussee Avenue Milestones and Chaussee Houses’ are important milestones of the programme.
As part of the project, we want to make digital copies of special documents available to towns, villages and communities that are celebrating major anniversaries in the next ten years.
The first documents that have been digitised as port of the project can be found here.
