On Tuesday morning, 27/8/2024, representatives of the Walk of Peace Foundation, PromoTurismo FVG, GECT/EZTS held a meeting with external partners on the Italian side of Sabotino. The meeting's objective was to coordinate the activities of the BeWoP project, with a view to further developing this new cross-border open-air museum. Also in attendance were representatives of the Municipality of Gorizia/Commune of Gorizia, the Speleological Society of Sepenhofer, the E.Wi.MA Association, and the external collaborator of PromoTurismo FVG, who is preparing the conceptual design and management plan for the new open-air museum. We discussed the management of the access road, car park and surrounding area, the installation of information boards, the erection of a lookout tower and other related matters. We walked along part of the Sabotino slope and visited some caves and memorials.
We then held a BeWoP partner meeting at the GECT/EZTS premises, where all project partners were present.
During the meeting we reviewed the project activities carried out so far during the first project period ending 31.8.2024 and discussed current and future activities:
- preparation of an online database of research, activities and events related to the First World War in selected areas,
- preparation of an action plan and strategy for the nomination of the Walk of Peace as a Cultural Route at the Council of Europe.
- preparation of the conceptual design and selection of a Slovenian-Italian expert team for a book and film on The Walk of Peace,
- the organisation of the first èStoria cross-border bus programme
- preparation of various other international events (workshops, conferences, cultural events, etc.)
- upgrading of the Path of Peace hiking mobile app,
- carrying out maintenance work and preparing for new investments at various locations along The Walk of Peace (Kolovrat, Cerje, Sabotin)
- planning the creation of two new mobile info points
- review of synergies with other Interreg projects (GOV4PeaCE - Interreg Central Europe, WALKofPEACE+ - Interreg Italia-Slovenia) and initiatives (visit to our cross-border area by the Mango Milk production team, which wants to make a film about different European cultural routes, including The Walk of Peace)
