Post on 19-Dec-2015
Project partners
County of Sogn og Fjordane
Norway – lead partner
Thingvellir National Park
Iceland
Orkney College
Orkney
Manx National Heritage
Isle of Man
Highland CouncilDingwall
KunningarstovanThe Faroe Island
GulatingetGulen MunicipalityNorway
Shetland Amenity TrustShetland
Norway
Gulating
THING – Thing Sites International Networking Group
Network established in 2008 – NORA pre-project
Reps of Thing Sitesin the North Atlanticregion
Letter of intent signedin Gulen in June 2008
Heidi Grande Røys, The Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform and Nordic Cooperation. Photo: Anne-Karin Misje
Interreg IVB Northern Periphery Project 2009 - 2012
Objective:
”Exchange knowledge, specify, develop and test new and improved services for sustainable management and business development at the Northern European Thing sites. The project results should also contribute to a future nomination process of a serial inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List of the North Atlantic sites.”
Total eligible budget 989 001,85 Euro Funding from NPP 485 378,16 Euro
Work packages
Wp1 Management and coordination -
Norway – Lead partner
Wp2 Communication and dissemination - Orkneys
Wp3 Analysis of good practices and specifications for new service models - Shetland
Wp4 Pilot test web 2.0 inter-regional co-production
and co-profiling of services - Iceland
Research background The histories of the Thing sites
Comparative analysis – historic ties, local differences and international understanding.
Include historians, archaeologists, geophysicists, place-names scholars, saga experts
Tie-in to practice guidelines for interpretation and management
Improved interpretation methods across all sites Enhanced access to and understanding of sites Printed material about the Thing sites Webpage for various target groups Social media and Web 2.0 Publications aimed at tourism Pedagogical material UNESCO strategy for serial nomination Improved sustainability for Thing sites and their areas
Expected outcomes
Tynwald Ceremony 1896
Tasks completed Steering Group and Management Group formed Work Package leadership established Communication Strategy in place Dissemination Strategy in place Task Groups established and working Logo designed Media kit created Website, Facebook and Twitter up and running Graphical layout and document templates established Audit of Thing sites underway (data gathering key information) for ‘telling the
story’ Isle of Man pursuing UK nomination for World Heritage status Links established with other UK and International Thing groups Training undertaken (Marketing and media) Best practice guidelines drafted for archaeology and geophysics studies of
Thing sites.
Partner Meeting in Faeroe
- Focus will be on historical data interpretation and how to ’tell the story’ for partner sites now material collected
- Project administration and claims also high on agenda given recent tightening of audit processes
- Project planning for tourism and marketing and education material streams of workpackages commencing in Spring
Work to commence on individual websites and webpages Local Stakeholder meeting to be held November to take
forward workpackage projects Project outline to be brought forward for ‘Heritage Hub’
for Cromartie Carpark for telling of Dingwall ‘story’
Next steps