New European Bauhaus Prizes

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted

Regaining a sense of belonging

Project title

MyRomania

Full Project Title

MyRomania

Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.

An online platform that promotes community traditions and local sustainable activities, to promote cultural identity and green education to new generations, offering the possibility to make the community known.

Where was your project implemented?

Romania

At which level is the project implemented (e.g., does the project cover the entire national level, one or several regions, cities etc?)

National

Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?

It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your project refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?

It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Is your project fully completed?

Yes

Please indicate the date your project was completed

2015-06-01

Has your project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?

Has your project received an EU prize that included a monetary award?

Are you interested in participating in the ‘NEB Affordable Housing’ prize?

Yes

Is your project implemented in one of the EU MS?

Yes

Does the project provide sustainable, inclusive, and affordable housing solutions in line with the NEB values and principles?

Yes

Please indicate on whose behalf you are submitting the application

As a representative of an organisation

Please provide a summary of your project, outlining the overall aim, target group(s), specific objective(s) and achieved outcomes in the context of the respective category you apply for

The goal is to promote sustainable tourist products to all those who want organized tourist experiences, specific objectives:
1. sustainable incoming project
2. education for sustainability trough tourism
3. promotes local culture, traditions, green tourism
As results we want this project to be self-sustaining and to develop the local community.

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.

thematic product that promotes local culture

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incoming responsible product

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educational product

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sustenailble product

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supports the community in Romania

Please describe the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context

1. educational character trough responsible tourism
2. supports the community and uses electric transportation, restaurants with local products, green accommodation
3. promotes environmental protection, responsible use of local resources, sustainable values to new generations

Please describe the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context

optimizes people's experience through cultural diversity, historical places visited, knowledge of communities through contact with their traditions and customs

Please describe the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context

the project supports disadvantaged groups (people with low incomes, women, young people without experience who face problems with access to the labor market, seniors...)
supports the community by promoting local culture and bringing tourists together with locals, who consume local products and activities, exchange of culture, experience.
the project is open to everyone, and can be customized for groups of children, seniors, domestic or foreign tourists
Incoming in Romania is supported by the authorities

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project. Please describe their role and level of involvement.

The community benefits as a result of the interaction with tourists, having financial benefits as a result of the sale of tourist products and services, exchange of experience with other cultures, obtaining jobs in tourism or in related fields.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please describe their role and level of involvement. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was

1. at all levels (local, regional, national) service providers offer accommodation, meals, transport, leisure, healtcare, they are interested in developing
2. the state authorities are interested in importing foreign currency through tourist activities and supporting the incoming
3. organizers and tourism agencies, promote tourist activities, educate tourists, create and support jobs, develop the communities they bring tourists to.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was

The field of education is one that provides the new workforce and educates tourists to practice sustainable tourism.
The technological field offers technological solutions that facilitate the transition to smart tourist destinations, to a niche of sustainable tourism, ecotourism, helping to improve the efficiency of resources.
The industry through its progress offers facilities for a transition to practice a more sustainable tourism (eg: the transition to electric transport).
The field of Agriculture provides the primary natural resources on which the tourism industry is based, without which we could not live.

Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project

The innovative part of the project is the B2B/B2C collaborative technological solution that brings together responsible tourism suppliers to promote sustainable tourism, under the coordination of tourism specialists.
We are in progress to implement a smart technological solution to evaluate sustainable activities provided by suppliers and to certify them.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.

The way sustainable tourism products reach the final tourist is that the technological solution, i.e. the B2B/B2C online platform, integrates responsible suppliers, produces complete tourism products for tourists (with global services included: accommodation, meals, transport, local activities, guide support, etc), and promotes, organizing them in advance and reserving them for clients, offering benefits of cost, time, expendable and limited resources.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.

The product can be customized and transferred to the distribution chain in the B2B system both domestically and internationally, offered in the franchise system.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions

The main global challenge is pollution, the product itself is a solution to reducing pollution (by including sustainable elements in the product: electric transport, natural raw materials from the local community, accommodation units that respect the principles of sustainable development).
Another global challenge is poverty reduction, the project helps the community to develop (prin interactiunea localnicilor cu turistii).
Another global challenge is the inequality of opportunities, the product supports vulnerable groups such as unemployed young people, people with disabilities, people with low incomes, women (supporting jobs).

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries

The main impact of the project on people of the community is that the people regain the sense of belonging to the history, the culture of which they are a part, the nation as a people, when their community develops, especially for the communities that live as a result of tourist activities like traditional villages, the Danube delta region, mountainous areas, coastal areas.
We have been operating since 2010, but barely since 2015 we have created the incoming project for the development of local communities in Romania. This proves that it brings benefits to all the categories involved, considering that it is still self-supporting, and we have attached the registration certificate.

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