Cross – border loyalty program for stimulating culture and tourism. Acronym: Loyal to Culture. Project nr. ENI-LLB-1-021

Project title and number

Cross – border loyalty program for stimulating culture and tourism. Acronym: Loyal to Culture. Project nr. ENI-LLB-1-021

Source of funding

The 2014-2020 European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus Programme fosters synergistic partnership of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Belarusian organisations with the financial support of the European Union.

Project lead Beneficiary

Daugavpils City Council

Project partners

Department of Sport and Tourism of the Polotsk District Executive Committee (Belarus)

Panevezhys Civic Art Gallery (Lithuania)

Department of the Ideological work, Culture and Youth of the Vitebsk District Executive Committee (Belarus)

Project aim

To improve and develop cultural heritage objects and traditional skills in order to increase the number of visitors to the Program area.

Project main activities

• Cross-border culture and tourism institutions loyalty programme creation and popularization in high priority markets
• Restauration works of the Casemates in the Bastion 7 of the Daugavpils Fortress and Daugavpils M. Rotko centre ceramic fund function adjustment
• Organisation big cross-border event: historical reconstruction festival, craft festival, ceramic symposium.

Project implementation period

24 month: 1. September of 2020 – 31. August of 2020

This project is funded by the European Union

Project total costs: 1 017 712 EUR, of which European Union support is 90% or 915 941 EUR

Daugavpils city council’s part: 567 149 EUR European Union support 90% or 510 434 EUR.

The 2914-2020 European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus Programme fosters synergistic partnership of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Belarus organisations with the financial support of the European Union. The strategic goal of the Programme is to strength relations, raise capacities and share experience among people and organisations trough implementation of joined actions, witch focus on increasing the overall quality of life in the border regions. The EU funding to the Programme is 74 million EUR.

This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Daugavpils City Council and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.  

 Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus cross-border cooperation programme web site:  www.eni-cbc.eu/llb

Official EU web site: www.europa.eu