At the beginning of July representatives of all DiscOver55 partners gathered in Izola, Slovenia, for the international final event of the project. After discussing the final steps in the Project Steering Committee meeting, on Monday 3rd of July they joined local and international guests for a...
Friday 23rd june at the Villa Medicea of Buti (Pisa), took place the final event of the project "DiscOver55 - Tourism Destinations Crossover", organized by Timesis srl - Montepisano DMC in collaboration with the Municipality of Capannori. The purpose of the day was to present the...
Lessons learnt and recommendations for devising a senior tourism product The handbook was drafted under the supervision of the project partner and senior organization GEFAS STEIERMARK based in Graz, Austria. GEFAS is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 that raises awareness and spreads information about active...
The conference "Silver Tourism" took place in Darlowo, northern Poland on 6/7 May 2017, organized by Darlot local tourist consortium, PROAge and University of Lodz. Many participants - representatives of tourist agencies, boards and service providers from many town and resorts from Poland - took...
On June 8th 2017 the final event of DiscOver55 was held at the Spahotel Casino in Savonlinna, Finland. During the morning session, targeted at representatives of local senior associations, Pellervo Kokkonen, national coordinator for Finland (tour operator Savonlinnan Matkatoimisto Oy) introduced DiscOver55 project and its results....
Stakeholders at DiscOver55 kick-off meeting in Italy, April 2016 In the final months of the project, DiscOver55 partners will be busy organizing the final dissemination events, where the outputs of the project will be officially presented and promoted to relevant stakeholders. There will be 3 national events: -...
The four destinations of DiscOver55, clockwise: Montepisano, Vulkanland, Lake Saimaa, Izola After completing the pilot tests phase and the following evaluation of results, the DiscOver55 project team started to work on finalizing the tourist product that will be commercialized at the end of the project. The evaluation...
18TH - 23rd October 2016 At the end of October 2016 a group of 14 senior and a tutor went to Savonlinna to test the destination for the European project DiscOver55. The pilot test group left Florence early in the morning to Helsinki by a Lufthansa flight,...
During autumn 2016 4 pilot tests were organized, one in each of the participating countries (Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Finland), in which groups of senior people tried and tested the trips and the activities. 14 people from each country were selected, and crossed testings of...
The capacity building meetings took place in each DiscOver55 region during October 2016, organised by local partners involving local SMEs and tourism stakeholders: about 10/15 people took part in these meetings in each territory. Objectives of these meetings were to involve stakeholders met during the evaluation...