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Program website
Status: active
Project partners:
- Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus) – project coordinator
- University of Bialystok (Poland)
Total budget: 38130 euro
Duration: 12 months
Overall objective of the project: Promotion of local culture and history by the development of cross-border region through the design of a brand-new tourist product (the route "Orzeszkowa's life and work paths") in Grodno, as well as the improvement of the already existing one ("Zamenhof's route in Bialystok") in Bialystok.

Specific objectives
- Conduct collaborative research on the value of different places in Grodno and Bialystok connected to Orzeszkowa's and Zamenhof's lives and works in order to develop a proper promotion system for their tourist routes.
- Improve the marketing of the cross-border area via designing and installing of information boards at the key points of the tourist route "Orzeszkowa's life and work paths" which will include places in Grodno, Grodno and Shchuchyn regions connected with the life and works of the Polish author.
- Promote the cross-border region among its inhabitants and foreign tourists by creating tourist booklets and project web-site, as well as training specialists capable of providing cross-border bilingual Belarusian-Polish excursions