INTERREG IPA CBC Programme Croatia – Serbia 2014-2020

Project funding scheme: Interreg IPA CBC

Team coordinator of the Institute of Economic Sciences: Petar Mitić, MA
Duration of the project: 2017-2019

Description:

In April 2017, The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) members of the Interreg IPA CBC Programme Croatia – Serbia 2014-2020 have selected for funding project of the Institute of Economic Sciences entitled “Enriching tourism offer for persons with visual impairment and blindness” (VISITUS). Project VISITUS is one of the 24 projects selected out of 127 applications within the 1st Call for Proposals, one of 6 selected within Priority Axis 3 - Contributing to the development of tourism and preserving cultural and natural heritage.
The main objective of the project is to create conditions for improvement of joint tourism offer in targeted cross-border area (North Backa District in Serbia and Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia) by expanding it to the persons with visual impairment and blindness.

Project partners:

• City of Sombor, Republic of Serbia;
• Erdut Municipality, Republic of Croatia and
• Institute of Economic Sciences, Republic of Serbia.