{"id":2988,"date":"2020-10-07T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bildwpaquabokalocal.local\/?p=2988\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:20:46","slug":"boka-aquatic-biodiversity-as-new-tourism-offer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/boka-aquatic-biodiversity-as-new-tourism-offer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boka Aquatic Biodiversity as New Tourism Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership agreement for implementing the project \u201cExplore Cross-border Aquatic Biodiversity \u2013 EXChAngE\u201d is signed on 11<sup>th<\/sup> September 2020 in the Institute of Marine Biology, the University of Montenegro. By signing the Agreement, the Institute is granted with Eur 430,000 from the European Union IPA II funds from the Interreg IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro 2014-2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2940\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2940 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107-1024x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107-370x200.jpg 370w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EXChAngE-kick-off-Meeting-room-A.Joksimovi\u0107-760x411.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the meeting room, Dr. Aleksandar Joksimovi\u0107, Director of the Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Montenegro is welcoming participants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the project main objective, Dr. Aleksandar Joksimovi\u0107, Institute Director said, \u201cActivities will be implemented with the main objective to strengthen and diversify the tourism offer through exploring cross-border aquatic biodiversity and to enable better management and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage. In Kotor, we will develop a new tourism offer &#8211; Aquarium Boka, which will be an integral part of a new cross-border tourism product \u2013 the Blue Pass. It will enable visits of other developed new thematic routes: Dubrovnik and Aquarium (Croatia), Hutovo Blato Aqua Path, and Mostar Old Bridge and River Neretva (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and attracts more tourists in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project will be implemented by the unique consortium led by the University of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina are the Tourism Organization of Herzegovina-Neretva county and Nature Park \u201cHutovo Blato\u201d. Besides the Institute, partners from Montenegro is Tourism Organization Kotor. The total project budget is 1,7 M Eur with EU co-financing of 1,4 M Eur. The project has started on 15<sup>th<\/sup> August 2020 and will last for 24 months.<\/p>\n<p>More info on the project: <a href=\"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/exchange\/\">EXChAngE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership agreement for implementing the project \u201cExplore Cross-border Aquatic Biodiversity \u2013 EXChAngE\u201d is signed on 11th September 2020 in the Institute of Marine Biology, the University of Montenegro. By signing the Agreement, the Institute is granted with Eur 430,000 from the European Union IPA II funds from the Interreg IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro 2014-2020. On the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[184,129,150,151],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}