29 Nov IV Cooperation Seminar Saborea Project
From 29 November to 1 December 2022 LA PALMA (CANARY ISLANDS)
The Interreg MAC Programme
On 3 June 2015, the European Commission approved the new INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal MAC (Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands) Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 with a budget of 130 million (the 85% funded by the European Regional Development Fund - ERDF). On 17 October 2017 the EC approved an increase in funding for the Programme to a total budget of almost €149 million (€126.5 million ERDF).
The contribution strategy of the operational programme of the OMC Programme 2014-2020, pursues a cooperation strategy to contribute to the development of the Union's strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and the achievement of economic, social and territorial cohesion.
The Cooperation Area of the INTERREG MAC 2014-2020 Programme is made up of:
- The outermost regions of Madeira, the Azores and the Canary Islands.
- The geographically close third countries that have agreed to participate in the Programme: Cape Verde, Senegal and Mauritania.
And the objectives of the 2014-2020 OMC programme which aims to advance the following five broad thematic areas or objectives are:
Axis 1: Promoting research, technological development and innovation.
Axis 2: Improve the competitiveness of enterprises.
Axis 3: Promote adaptation to climate change and risk prevention and management.
Axis 4: Conserve and protect the environment and promote resource efficiency.
Axis 5: Improve the institutional capacity and efficiency of public administration.
Considering that it can benefit from the support offered by the Programme:
- Regional and local public administrations and public and private law entities linked to them;
- Universities, research centres, technological institutes and foundations;
- Chambers of Commerce, business and professional associations and other socio-economic bodies;
- Other public or private non-profit entities based and operating in the Azores, Madeira or the Canary Islands.
The SABOREA Project is included in Axis 4:
Conserve and protect the environment and promote resource efficiency.
The SABOREA Project
The MAC Cooperation Area is experiencing a paradigmatic situation with record tourist occupation and high unemployment rates, low incomes and productive sectors that are fundamental for maintaining the tourist attribute, such as agriculture and fishing, in decline. The SABOREA project consists of designing a Master Plan to position Macaronesia as a gastronomic tourism destination, thereby generating positive economic, territorial, environmental and social impacts in the participating territories. The project also aims to recover, revive and promote the gastronomic and cultural links of the MAC Atlantic Area (origins of dishes, products, techniques, etc.). The exchange of knowledge will make it possible to generate an Atlantic cuisine of its own, with a shared central core, will foster relations between entities and professionals and will enrich gastronomy.
The main objective of the project is to promote gastronomic tourism as a tool for the sustainable development of the MAC Cooperation Area. The SABOREA project is a transnational project that includes partners from the MAC area (Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands) and third countries participating in the programme (Cape Verde, Senegal and Mauritania). This initiative generates a favourable synergy for the exchange between the participating entities of good practices in sustainable tourism and gastronomy, advanced at different levels depending on the territories.
The regions of the cooperation territory came together to address three main common objectives specific to the project:
- Generate a planning model for sustainable gastronomic tourism destinations.
- Integrating gastronomy as a key resource in the development of sustainable tourism: SABOREA sustainable gastro routes.
- Promotion and marketing of gastronomic tourist destinations.
PROJECT PARTNERS
The project has 15 partners and a total budget of 1,405,742.67 euros, co-financed 85% by the ERDF.
ERDF beneficiaries
- Cabildo Insular de Lanzarote (Spain/Canary Islands)
- Cabildo Insular de La Palma (Spain/Canary Islands)
- Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura (Spain/Canary Islands)
- Regional Secretariat for Tourism and Culture - Regional Directorate of Tourism of the Government of Madeira (Direção Regional de Turismo de Madeira) (Portugal/Madeira)
- University of Madeira (Universidade da Madeira - UMA) (Portugal/Madeira)
- Associação Comercial e Industrial do Funchal - Câmara de Comércio e Industria da Madeira (ACIF-CCIM) (Portugal/Madeira)
- Associação de Casas do Povo da Região Autónoma da Madeira (ACAPORAMA) (Portugal/Madeira)
- Agência de Promoção da Cultura Atlântica (APCA Madeira) (Portugal/Madeira)
- Associação de formação turistica e hoteleira (EFTH) - AAFTH (Portugal/Azores)
- Agency for the Development of Culture in the Azores (ADCA - Agência para o Desenvolvimento da Cultura nos Açores) (Portugal/Azores)
- Angra do Heroismo Chamber of Commerce (CCAH) - (Portugal/Azores)
Third country partners
- Instituto de Apoio e Promoção Empresarial ProEMPRESA (Instituto de Apoio e Promoção Empresarial ProEMPRESA) (Cape Verde)
- Senegalese Tourism Promotion Agency (ASPT - Agence Sénégalaise de Promotion Touristique) (Senegal)
- Direction des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises du Sénégal (DPME - Direction des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises du Sénégal) (Senegal)
- National Tourism Agency of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism of Mauritania (Office National du Tourisme - ONT) (Mauritania)
MID ATLANTIC TERRITORY
We define the Mid-Atlantic as a "Territorial and Marine Space" formed by the archipelagos of Cape Verde, Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands; by the North African coasts, with Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco; and by the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and Galicia. This Territorial space also includes the Sea that surrounds us and which acts as a common thread in the gastronomic culture of the Mid-Atlantic.
Gastronomy has become a transcendental sector in the recognition of the culture and ethnographic heritage of a territory, in the activation of other productive sectors such as agriculture, fishing or agro-industry and in a driving element of the circular and local economy; and, of course, in one of the greatest claims in the promotion of a quality tourist destination.
| Participants of the 2nd Cooperation Mission (to be confirmed) | ||
| Canary Islands Delegation | Cabildo de Lanzarote (Head of row) | D. Andrés Stinga Perdomo Mr. Juan Manuel Betancort Coll, Ms. Rita Martín, |
| Cabildo de La Palma | D. Mariano Hernández Zapata, President of the Cabildo Insular de La Palma (Island Council of La Palma) Ms. Raquel N. Díaz Díaz, Councillor for Economic Promotion, Employment and Trade, Tourism and Sport Mr. Jesús García, SABOREA Project Technician D. Víctor Martín Coordinator of Sodepal Projects Ms. Patricia Castillo Martín Manager of Sodepal D. Mr. Samuel Rodríguez Díaz INTERREG MAC Technician | |
| Tourist Board of Fuerteventura | Ms. Esther Umpiérrez, Tourism Technician | |
| Delegation of Madeira | Funchal Association of Commerce and Industry - ACIF-CCIM ACIF-CCIM | Mrs. Frederica Cardoso Mrs. Isabel Vieira |
| Associação de Casas do Povo da Região Autónoma da Madeira (ACAPORAMA) | D. Rafael Santos Ms. Fátima Belo | |
| Agência de Promoção da Cultura Atlântica (APCA Madeira) | Ms. Sonia Marques Ms. Helena Sousa | |
| Delegation of Cape Verde | Institute for Business Support and Promotion ProEMPRESA | Ms. Marlene Lima |
| Delegation of Mauritania | National Agency of Tourism Agency of the Government of Mauritania - ONT | D. Sidi Kheiry |
MISSION PROGRAMME
- Technical Workshops
- Field Visit
- Monitoring Committee
- Seminar open to the public
DAY 1 - Tuesday 29 November 2022
- 19:30h. Pick-up of members at the hotel for transfer by bus to the restaurant.
- 20:00h. Members' dinner at Casa Osmunda Restaurant.
Address: Subida al Mirador de la Concepción, 2, 38710 Breña Alta
The dinner will be courtesy of the host partner, the Cabildo de La Palma.
SABOREA PUBLIC SEMINAR AND TRANSNATIONAL TECHNICAL WORKING TABLE
DAY 2 - Wednesday 30 November 2022
TOMORROW:
- 09:15h. Pick-up of members at the hotel for transfer by bus to the venue of the mission activities.
- 10:00h. International Seminar SABOREASalón of the ONCE building in Calle Alvarez Abreu, 17, Santa Cruz de La Palma.
- 10:00h - Opening
- Ms. Raquel Noemí Díaz y Díaz, Councillor for Economic Promotion, Employment, Trade, Tourism and Sports of the La Palma Island Council.
- D. Andrés Stinga Perdomo, Councillor for the Presidency, Waste, Classified Activities, Hunting, Water and Wind Energy of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
- 10:15h - Round table on Gastronomy and Sustainability.
- D. Carlos Fernández, Director of the Chair of Agrotourism and Wine Tourism at the ULL.
- Mr. Jaime Gil González, Agronomist of the Agrodiversity Centre of La Palma.
- D. Pedro Hernández Castillo, owner and chef of the Restaurant "El Duende de Fuego".
- D. Antonio Morales, owners of Finca Vega Costa (Lanzarote).
- Ms. Carolina de León García, Biosphere Reserve Technician.
- 11:30 a.m. - Members travel on foot to the showcooking venue.
- 12:00h - Showcooking and tasting of local products. Address: Plaza de España, Santa Cruz de La Palma With the Chefs:
- Mr. Juan Carlos Curpa, chef of the Hotel Teneguia Princess
- Ms. María Garces, chef of the restaurant "Bululú".
- D. Gonzalo Calzadilla, Chef of the restaurant "Isla de Lobos", Hotel Princesa Yaiza (Lanzarote).
- Yves Gautier (Madeira)
- 13:30h - Closing
- 14:00h. Members lunch at Sal Marina Restaurant
Address: Av. los Indianos, 38700 Santa Cruz de la Palma
Lunch will be courtesy of the host partner, the Cabildo de La Palma.
AFTERNOON:
- 16:00h. SABOREA Monitoring Committee.
Councillors' Hall of the Cabildo Insular of La Palma- Technical monitoring of the project.
- Financial monitoring of the project.
- Administrative and management aspects.
- 17:30h. Workshops and technical workshops with the project partners.
Councillors' Hall of the Cabildo Insular of La Palma- How to do the activities?
- Methodology of implementation.
- 18:30h. Transfer by bus from the members to the hotel.
- 20:00h. Members' dinner at El altillo GastroBar Restaurant.
C. Punta de la Arena, 38712 Los Cancajos
The dinner will be courtesy of the host partner, the Cabildo de La Palma.
FAM TRIP TASTE WORLDCANIC
DAY 3 - Thursday 1 December 2022
TOMORROW:
- 09:30h. Pick up by bus from the hotel.
- 10:00h. Visit to the ecological walnut tree farm in Puntallana (Ecofinca Nogales).
- 12:00h. Visit to the "Los Tumbitos" farm: artisan production of palmero cheese.
- 14:00h. Members' lunch at El Campesino Restaurant.
Tr.ª Casco Urbano, 9334, 38726 Barlovento
Lunch will be courtesy of the host partner, the Cabildo de La Palma.
AFTERNOON:
- 16:00h. Visit to the Etna winery (to be confirmed).
