THING Project
Project partners County of Sogn and Fjordane Norway – lead partner Thingvellir National Park Iceland Orkney College Orkney Manx National Heritage Isle of Man The Highland Council Scotland Kunningarstovan The Faroe Island Gulatinget Gulen Municipality Norway Shetland Amenity Trust Shetland
Norway Gulating
Iceland Thingvellir Photo: Einar S Sæmundsen
Tinganes Photo: ppt by Barbara Crawford The Faroe Islands
Greenland Brattahlid Photo: ppt by Edda Lyberth
Shetland - Tingwall Photo: Lynda Mallett
The Orkneys Tingwall Photo: ppt by Julie Gibson
Scotland Highland Dingwall Photo: ppt by David MacDonald
Isle of Man Tynwald Hill Photos: ppt by Andrew Foxon
THING – Thing Sites International Networking Group Network established in 2008 – NORA pre-project Reps of Thing Sites in the North Atlantic region Letter of intent signed in 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 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 ,85 Euro Funding from NPP ,16 Euro
Work packages Wp1 Management and coordination - Norway – Lead partner Wp2Communication and dissemination - Orkneys Wp3Analysis of good practices and specifications for new service models - Shetland Wp4 Pilot test web2.0 inter-regional co-production and co-profiling of services - Iceland
Preservation of the sites Documentation and dissemination of the history Sustainable tourism connected to the sites Platform for future research Preparatory process of inscribing more Thing Sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Improved interpretation methods Printed material about the Thing sites Webpage for various target groups Dissemination through social media and Web2.0 Publications aimed at tourism Pedagogical material UNESCO strategy Expected outcome Tynwald Ceremony 1896
Research agenda – the history of the Thing sites Inter-disciplinary topic Comparative analysis – historic ties Include historians, archeologists, place-names scholars, saga experts
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