The Project

idea The project idea was born in 2010 through regular contact between Jorn, Endrit and the Staff of GIZ Tirana with related discussions about tourism possibilities in the Region of Korça. Experiences with field trips in South Albania and other parts of the country lead to the will for a future cooperation regarding the aim to push sustainable tourism promotion ideas. project design planning (step I) o since march 2011 we were working with our team of 5 people on the project design. this website represents the end of the theoretical pre planning where we were focused on content and scope of the project. o with the start of may, the theoretical work came to an end and the AMP team was about to settle the project location, equipment and budget calculation. In the meantime the registration process for european participants from the EGEA network was about to start, as well as the promotion for albanian students o field visit: a field visit in the middle of may, brought our partners from EDEN and GIZ together with experts and interested locals practise (step II) o project schedule: the german project team arrived in Tirana on 20th of August. The final preparations for the project days were prepared. the team welcomed the first participants o project work: the core time for our project work consisted of the days from 22nd to 26th of august, including one training day. the following weekend gave time for post-discussion among the participants and further stays in Albania evaluation & documentation (step III) o the end of the working days in the Korca region were not the end of the Albania Mapping Project in 2011 o documentation plays an important role with our project design and did not just start with the working days, but already from the beginning. when the work was done, the work on a documenattion paper was about to begin outcome o the primary outcome of the “Albania Mapping Project 2011” has been the project itself. we brought young people together to the Korca region to ▪ train them in gps mapping ▪ introduce them to albanian sustainable tourism development opportunities ▪ let them bring in theoretical knowledge and improve soft skills ▪ enable them to network in their fields of interest and study o the secondary outcome of the “Albania Mapping Project 2011” is the contribution to a sustainable tourism development in the villages of the Korca region. digitally we left our trace in various hiking platforms on the internet ans furthermore as touristical data of interest accessible open source for everyone interested exploration, digital tracking, mapping and documentation of the project should serve as a basis for the development of touristical potentials in the region

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