Good Practice - Project

Collaborate for the landscape: dry-stone constructions

Promoting the use of a landscape feature, as it is the dry-stone constructions, to stimulate territorial development.
  • CAP Implementation
  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
  • - Programming period: 2014-2022 Spain
    - Programming period: 2014-2022 Spain

    General information

    RDP Priority
    • P6. Social inclusion and local development
    RDP Focus Area
    • 6B: Local development
    RDP Measure
    • M19: LEADER/CLLD

    Summary

    Dry-stone constructions are not only a valuable cultural heritage element, but also one that has become part of the identity of rural Catalonian and other Mediterranean landscapes. This initiative, financed as a LEADER cooperation project, gives the value that these landscape features deserve, and puts in place tools for citizens to, in a collaborative way,transform this cultural richness in a driver for rural development and economic prosperity of these rural areas.

    Results

    • 84 people participated in the workshops;
    • 20 people linked to the dry-stone profession participated in the trans-border study trip to France;
    • The App for consulting and cataloguing dry-stone constructions is continuously used, and new elements are constantly being updated in the “Wikipedra”;
    • published the manual “Landscape, Rural Development and Citizenship” featuring 10 examples where landscape management was used to add value in an area.
    Promoter

    ADRINOC, Associació per al Desenvolupament Rural Integral de la zona Nord-Oriental de Catalunya

    Funding

    Total budget 118 299 (EUR)
    EAFRD 50 868.57 (EUR)
    National/Regional 67 430.43 (EUR)

    Ressourcen

    Documents

    English language

    gp_es_drystoneconstruction.pdf

    (PDF – 813.01 KB)