How can our shared maritime heritage connect Slovenia and Italy while contributing to the
development of sustainable tourism? This time, we presented the MARE SUPERUM project
to young people from Trieste and Gorizia, who visited Piran and the “Sergej Mašera”
Maritime Museum Piran as part of a study visit organised by the Interreg Italy–Slovenia
Programme.
The students won second and third place in the second edition of the Students4Cooperation
competition, in which young people develop their own ideas for cross-border cooperation
projects. They came to Piran together with staff of the Managing Authority of the Interreg
Italy–Slovenia Programme.
An important part of the visit was dedicated to the MARE SUPERUM project, which brings
together six Slovenian and Italian partners. Its aim is to preserve and promote the maritime
heritage of the Northern Adriatic and connect it with the development of sustainable,
cultural and inclusive tourism.
We also presented the young visitors with the concrete activities of the Maritime Museum
Piran within the project, focusing on traditional vessels, their restoration and
documentation, 3D modelling, and innovative ways of presenting maritime heritage. The
project aims to make this heritage more accessible to different groups of visitors and
integrate it into a shared cross-border tourism offer in the Northern Adriatic.
The visit thus created a meaningful link between the idea behind the Students4Cooperation
competition and a project that is already putting cross-border cooperation into practice. The
young participants were able to see first-hand how shared history, maritime heritage and
knowledge from both sides of the border can come together to create new content and a
shared story of the Northern Adriatic.
