KOHESIO · Q4294287 · FI

Phenomena of Arctic Nature

The overall objective of PAN is a growing attraction and awareness of arctic nature and its unique phenomena in tourism market. This would result in an increasing number of tourists, higher income in the local economy, and better employment rate in the tourism sector along the northern most part of Green Belt of Fennoscandia. The concrete outputs of the project include permanent exhibitions in nature centres, nature observation bases, and audio-visual shows. Target groups are tourism entrepreneurs, tourists, pupils, students and local people in the Barents area in Russia, Norway and Finland.

Co-funding: the EU contributes €981k toward a total project cost of €2.0M — a co-funding rate of 50%, with the remainder covered by national, regional or private sources.

Kohesio is the European Commission's open-data platform for projects co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund and the Just Transition Fund. It draws on lists of beneficiaries published by national managing authorities and harmonises them into a single EU-wide view.