Call for application: MEDUSA SUB GRANTING -WWF Retour vers les opportunités

The European Union is made up of 27 Member States who have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, during a 50-year period of expansion, they have built a zone of stability, democracy, and sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance, and individual freedoms. The European Union is committed to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and peoples beyond its borders. The 2014-2020 ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme is a multilateral Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) initiative funded by the European Neighborhood Instrument (ENI).

The MEDUSA project is launching “the Mediterranean Sub-grant Adventure Tourism Competition” that aims to catalyze the creation of new innovative and quality tourism products and experiences as well as upgrading existing products that will increase interest in the Mediterranean as a sustainable AT destination. The competition offers 2 different types of support:

–        Sub-grants: Financial support to award proposals to fund eligible expenditures linked to the development process of Adventure Tourism products and their promotion.

–        Technical expertise in implementing the sub-grant program: Expert(s) in tourism product development assigned by the project to the awarded candidates per country to support them in the implementation phase of AT product development and promotion.

The objective of this call for sub-grant proposals is to support initiatives that will:

• Create / improve sustainable AT products and experiences in the Mediterranean.
• Increaselocal communities’ engagement with and benefit from AT
• Promote/ create Adventure Tourism tailored and customized tourism packages at pilot areas as well as cross border programmes meeting sustainable tourism trends