On 4 september, we attended an online meeting on the EU Rural Tourism call and evaluation procedure. The call for the EU Rural Tourism project ended on 10 September. We would like to thank the small and medium-sized tourist enterprises in Harghita County for their applications. On the 15th and 26th of September, we organized an online meeting on the call for tourism businesses.

The general objective of the project is to develop a basic vision, objectives and an operational structure for "rural tourism" by creating a cluster at the European level: establishing a cooperation mechanism linking regional tourism groups, professional organizations in the field rural tourism, local development agencies and transnational knowledge networks in the field of rural tourism; creating a network of at least 190 SMEs from at least 15 countries, whose members will benefit from training/upskilling in the field of digital and green transformation; creating viable transnational networks of advanced rural tourism services, whose impact will be felt in the market and which will provide a sufficient range of options for international demand. It can be expanded in the future based on general concepts, methodologies and experience gained during the project.

The project is coordinated by the Venice Cluster in Italy.
Partners: Harghita Community Development Association (Romania), Narodni Klastrova Asociace (Czech Republic), Euracademy Association (Greece), Ruraltour - Federation Europeenne de Tourisme Rural (France), Asociacion Cluster de Turismo Sostenible De Aragon (Spain).

The project is supported by the COSME program (Program for the competitiveness of enterprises and SMEs).