| Created in 2002 and located in the countryside of the Teramo Province (Abruzzo Region – Italy), ITACA is a non-profit association focused on sustainable development by means of integration, diversification and coordination of the territorial resources. Our mission is to foster the participation in projects and initiatives at both local and EU level, with a special attention to rural and marginalised areas, by supporting networking, mobility, training, education and awareness-raising on various topics, involving our associates and the local communities and promoting the values of tolerance, peace, cooperation and active citizenship.
Our network members are public authorities, SMEs, schools, privates, other associations and our main fields of action are rural development, art and culture, entrepreneurship, environment, social, sports, tourism, youth. ITACA has established a rural hub called ‘Bottega per l’Identità Territoriale,’ hosting a variety of activities aimed at rural residents, including training courses, support for students and families, and cultural events. Examples of activities we can run: Research, Partnership building, Workshops, seminars and training courses, Project coordination and management, Information and technical assistance, Event organization, Communication, Best practice sharing, etc.
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| ITACA has always acted to support its members initiatives in all phases of the project (planning, application, implementation, monitoring, dissemination & valorization, evaluation, follow-up) but in the last years we also increased our direct participation in projects like:
EU funded projects: ● 2023 “TOURAL” – HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-05: multidimensional model of tourism verticals driving the sustainable balanced growth among rural & remote grids and urban clusters of rural regions, fostering macro-regional cooperation; ● 2023 “REVIVE” – Creative Europe medium scale cooperation projects: addressing challenges of declining historical towns and the power of CCI to support their transformation; ● 2019 “Trasform it in social” – KA1 Erasmus Programme: youth mobility project focused on social entrepreneurship; ● 2018 REFRESH – Young art(ist)s refreshing heritage sites – CREATIVE EUROPE: project focused on the promotion of cultural heritage; ● 2016 “See You(th)” – KA1 Erasmus Programme: youth mobility project focused on entrepreneurship and employability. Other projects supported by public funding sources: ● Officine del Gran Sasso – National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Action Line 1.1.1 ‘Enhancement of community social services and infrastructures’ funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU: Establishment of a business and social hub to deliver consulting and training services for citizens, entrepreneurs, digital nomads and associations; ● Pietracamela Capitale degli Sport di Montagna – National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Action Line 1.1.1 ‘Enhancement of community social services and infrastructures’ funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU: new outdoor and sport activities to enhance tourism attractiveness; ● Nuovi servizi educativi Cellino Attanasio – National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Action Line 1.1.1 ‘Enhancement of community social services and infrastructures’ funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU; ● Medio Vomano and Cerrano areas: bringing together farmers and other rural stakeholders, and fostering the growth of local, short supply chains (EAFRD); ● we are Lead Partner of “GINS”, ongoing project aimed at contrasting educational poverty in the 14/17 age group through educational support, entrepreneurship training labs, preservation of traditional crafts, sports and cultural events; ● Castel Cerreto, a center for the promotion and development of community assets and sustainable economic practices (ROP ERDF 2014/2020); ● Promotion of new talents in the audiovisual sector: short films Timballo and 50&50 by Maurizio Forcella and Davide Lupinetti; ● Pineto Work: info point – assistance for job seek, employability, self-entrepreneurial development – funded by Invitalia/Ministry of Economic Development; ● Reading Together, Growing Happy – project to promote “aloud reading” for the 0/6 year age range with trained operators and volunteers and the creation of a “reading point” at the Mazzini Hospital in Teramo; ● Rosburgo Legge – promotion of reading through: family meetings, production of book trailers and creation of free little road libraries ● NEXT project aimed at contrasting educational poverty in the 6/14 age range. Other EU funded projects we contributed to: ● WOW, twinning project for the town of San Felice del Molise with Croatia, CERV EU programme; ● TEAM, twinning project for the town of Pietracatella with Croatia, CERV EU programme; ● Diversity City Zen twinning project for the town of Fossacesia with Germany and Croatia; ● SISTERS twinning project for the town of Pineto with Bulgaria and Croatia, Europe for Citizens; ● Réseau Tramontana II – Creative Europe 2014/2020 (cooperation project with Spain, France and Portugal); ● Réseau Tramontana – Culture 2007/2013 (cooperation project 2012/2013 with Spain and Portugal); ● COARPA – Interreg IIIA (about female entrepreneurship with Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia); ● FAST – Information measures related to CAP (Reg 814/2000); ● Learning with Europe – Grundtvig II Programme (with Spain, France and Romania); ● Fasadetoru – Grundtvig II Programme (with Spain and France); ● Local development and sustainability – Town Twinning Programme (Sweden, Estonia, Poland); ● European day of stone – Youth Programme (youth exchanges); ● Impressions from Poland – Youth Programme (youth exchanges); ● With the current of Vistula – Youth Programme (youth exchanges); ● Art Modeling of Regional Objects – Youth Programme (youth exchanges); ● Cultural Vertigo – Youth in Action Programme (youth exchanges in Bulgaria); ● R.O.P. ERDF and ESF (start up and enterprise creation, tourism development).
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