Presentatie van de Liberation Route in de Permanente Vertegenwoordiging van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden te Brussel. In aanwezigheid van o.a. de voorzitter van het Europees Parlement, de heer M. Schulz, en vertegenwoordigers van organisaties en overheden uit GB, VS, Belgie, Frankrijk, Polen, Duitsland en NL. Datum: 9 oktober 2012.

1. Liberation Route Europe

3. A JOINT INITIATIVE FROM
Regional Tourist Board Arnhem Nijmegen
National Liberation Museum 1944-1945
Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’
Liberation Route Europe

4. GOALS
Give new meaning to WW2 as part
of common European history
Economic development by improving
national and international tourism

5. 80 GPS located audio spots

7. Education packs

8. 2011
2012

10. LIBERATION ROUTE EUROPE
Gives a European dimension to
Liberation Route
Overview of Liberation Route
projects

11. LIBERATION ROUTE EUROPE (2)
European partners
Lobbying
Results
Topics

12. LIBERATION ROUTE
Start of the European extension
Arnhem Nijmegen City Region;
the Brussels Office
Spring 2011
Survey of European partners
Why apply for European funding?

13. LIBERATION ROUTE
Start of the European extension (2)
European funding
Different aspects like education,
tourism, economic development,
cultural heritage, innovation, ICT, etc.

14. APPLICATIONS FOR
EUROPEAN FUNDING
Interreg IV B programme
Seventh FrameWork programme
Europe for Citizens programme
DG Enterprise, cooperation for development
European tourism products cultural heritage

15. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Strategic partners
Project partners – dependent on
individual project specifications
(universities, ICT companies, etc.)
Supporting partners/observers

16. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
City of Bastogne, Federation Touristique Luxembourg Belge,
Autonome Hochschule Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft,
DG Grenzgeschichte

17. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Allierten Museum Berlin, Kreis Düren, Rureifel
Tourismus, Institut for Zeitgeschichte, Visit Berlin

18. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Hampshire County Council, Visit Kent, New Forest National Park,
Tourism South East, Brittany Ferries, University of Portsmouth, School
of Creative Technologies

19. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Region Basse Normandie, Museum Memorial Caen, Comité Regional
du Tourisme Paris Ile de France Paris, Region Ile de France, Comité
Régional de Tourisme de Normandie, Normandie Mémoire,
Communauté de Communes de Sainte Mère-Eglise

20. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Museum of the Second World War Gdańsk,
University Warschau, Faculty History

21. EUROPEAN PARTNERS
Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’,National Liberation Museum 1944-1945,
Liberty Park, Overloon, Regional Tourist Board Arnhem Nijmegen,
Tourist Board Brabant, Liberation Route Europe Foundation, University
Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Arnhem Nijmegen City
Region, Province of Gelderland, VFonds

22. FOCUS ON 2014/2015
European Year of Remembrance
International Youth Conference
Arnhem
Exhibition European Parliament

23. FUTURE PLANS
Commemoration Year 2014/2015
Cooperation with Normandy and with
other European partners
Cooperation within The Netherlands

24. FUTURE PLANS
The Netherlands are looking for
candidats in relation to
the European Heritage label

25. FOCUSSING ON
Liberation Route Foundation
Organisation
Activity Plan
Finances

26. Thank you for your attention!
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