Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. is a partner in a newly approved project EMOUNDERGROUNDS –’EMOtional technologies for the cultural heritage valorization within transnational UNDERGROUNDS’. EMOtional Technologies for the Valorisation of Cultural Heritage within Transnational Territories is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and IPA II funds from the Interreg V-B ADRION Programme for a total value of EUR 2,605,497,06. The project holder is the Municipality of Nardò from Italy, while the other partners are the Municipality of Carpi, Italy; Municipality of Andravida-Killini, Greece; Municipality of Ivančan Gorica, Slovenia; Kukes Municipality, Albania, Koper Regional Development Center, Slovenia; Tourist Board Bar, Montenegro; Institution for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Public Institution in Culture Fortress of Culture Šibenik and Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. from Croatia. This project is supported by the Rijeka Tourist Board.
On 25 June 2020, the first partnership meeting took place via video conference for travel restrictions and the COVID-19 crisis. The partner meeting presented the overall activities of the project and the partners with an emphasis on the location of the project implementation. Thus, representatives of RRA PORIN and the Rijeka Tourist Board presented Gradina Trsat and Rijeka.
The challenge of the EMOUNDERGROUNDS project is to make a concrete contribution to valorizing the extraordinary wealth and potential of targeted cultural places that will enable sustainable, smart and inclusive growth of the entire ADRION area. The implementation of the project activities will provide innovative solutions for virtual reality, smart mobile applications, holographic demo data and various interactive organized projections. For the area of Rijeka, the above will be implemented for Gradina Trsat. The project lasts 30 months.
