Interreg ITALY-CROATIA

European Territorial Cooperation

ICT/Digitalisation

MILEPORT

Improving the last MILE accessibility of Adriatic PORTs

Period: 01/02/2024 – 31/07/2026
Total Budget: € 2.575.574,60
Countries: Italy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

“MILEPORT” is a European cross-border cooperation project between Italy and Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority (ADSPMAS) – Ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as a partner, with the aim of improving the accessibility of the last mile of the Adriatic ports. This accessibility affects their integration into their cities and hinterlands, causing inefficiency of multimodal transport, weaker economic growth, increased transport-related air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve the project objective, medium and long-term digital planning tools will be developed, such as: vehicle booking systems/transport flow optimization and port gate optimization, testing them with local pilot actions.

EXPECTED RESULTS

As part of the project, actions planned for ADSPMAS are focused on the monitoring of heavy traffic and the optimization of port gates, aimed in particular at the creation of a traffic monitoring station at the port of Venice, connected to a broader system of detection (i.e. digitalized systems of other management bodies), in order to implement the control of road traffic accessing the port and carry out the monitoring over the entire last mile until the motorway.

In the project, coordinated by the port of Trieste, the ports of Ravenna, Ancona and Bari are involved on the Italian side, in addition to the port of Venice. On the Croatian side, the ports of Rijeka, Zadar and Ploce are represented.

Project Link: coming soon

CRESPORT

“Improving the Cyber REsilience and Security of Adriatic PORTs”.

Period: 01/03/2024 – 30/06/2026
Total budget: € 2,409,862.00
Countries involved: Italy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES
“CRESPORT” is a European project of cross-border cooperation Italy-Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (ADSPMAS), ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as a partner, with the objective of improving the port system’s adherence to the NIS2 directive on cyber security. In order to achieve this objective, a comparison of international best practices in the field of cyber security and dedicated training, which will also involve private operators, in the field of cyber security will be developed, then testing the resilience of the systems with local pilot actions.

EXPECTED RESULTS
CRESPORT aims to address the challenge of providing ports in the area with a more secure and resilient IT infrastructure. Considering ports as critical and vulnerable infrastructures, CRESPORT intends to address this common problem through cooperation and joint actions, which are essential to strengthen territorial cohesion, by adopting a common strategy to ensure compliance with the main international cybersecurity standards (e.g. EU directives, national legislation, IMO recommendations).

In the project, coordinated by the port of Ravenna (Adsp MACS), the ports of Trieste and Ancona are involved on the Italian side. On the Croatian side, instead, the ports of Rijeka, Ploce and Dubrovnik are represented.

Project link: coming soon

Tourism/Culture

ADRIJOROUTES

Promoting sustainable solutions for maritime cultural tourism

Period: 01/02/2024 – 31/07/2026
Total Budget: € 2.662.685,40
Countries: Italiy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

“ADRIJOROUTES” is a European cross-border cooperation project between Italy and Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority (ADSPMAS) – Ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as a partner,
with the aim of promoting sustainability, social inclusiveness and the digitalisation of the tourism sector in the Adriatic area, promoting sustainable tourist experiences based on the cultural heritage of the ports, involving public and private cultural and tourism actors for this purpose. ADRIJOROUTES addresses the need to mitigate the environmental and social impacts of mass tourist flows and to reduce the overwhelming dependence of the main Adriatic tourist destinations on mass coastal tourism, which put the social and economic resilience of local communities at risk. The promotion of sustainable tourist experiences based on the cultural heritage of the area will focus on the valorisation of the port’s cultural heritage as an alternative and sustainable tourist experience, creating a single Adriatic cluster.

EXPECTED RESULTS

As part of the project, actions planned for ADSPMAS are focused on the promotion and implementation of the Virtual Museum of the Ports of Venice and Chioggia, in order to promote quality tourist experiences, creating alternative and more sustainable tourist routes.

In the project, coordinated by the port of Ancona, the ports of Trieste and Ravenna are involved on the Italian side, in addition to the port of Venice. On the Croatian side, the ports of Zadar and Dubrovnik and the development agencies KIP (Intermodal Transport Cluster) and Public institution RERA SD – Split-Dalmatia County are represented.

Project Link: coming soon

CROSSCONNECT

CROSSCONNECT, the “Cross-border Coordinated Sea-Land Approach Interconnecting Ports of the Adriatic Sea with Airports and Urban Areas,” is financed by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Programme, specifically under Standard call, Specific objective 3.1. This objective focuses on developing and enhancing sustainable, climate-resilient, intelligent, and intermodal mobility, including improved access to TEN-T and cross-border mobility.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

The overarching objective of CROSSCONNECT is to develop a multi-modal coordinated sea-land approach based on sustainable and technologically advanced solutions. These solutions will interconnect Croatian and Italian ports with urban areas and airports, thereby improving passengers’ mobility, all with the goal of cross-border cooperation.

MAIN PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS

Assessment and capitalisation of the available knowledge from ADRIGREEN and INTERPASS Interreg projects.
Setting up a Cross-border technical group, composed by key experts (international experts in intermodal techniques and methodologies), stakeholders and project partners’ members.
Definition of a cross-border Transfer strategy with selection of solutions to be applied on a multi-modal approach.
Definition and implementation of joint pilot actions and testing of green and ICT innovative solutions.
Definition of the CROSSCONNECT strategic roadmap for intermodal passenger transportation between ports and the hinterland (urban areas and airports) to enhance passengers and tourist processing.
Organization of strategic roundtables with port authorities with an objective to concretely engage them to adopt the intermodal solutions developed and tested during the project and to commit towards the creation of a new or modernised connection in other territories.

PARTNERSHIP

The CROSSCONNECT consortium consists of 8 project partners and 2 associated partners.

The project partners are:

Dubrovnik Airport (Lead Partner)
Dubrovnik Port Authority (Project partner 2)
North Adriatic Sea Port Authority – Ports of Venice and Chioggia (Project partner 3)
SAVE S.p.A (Project partner 4)
Pula Port Authority (Project partner 5)
Pula promet (Project partner 6)
Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority – Ports of Bari, Brindisi, Manfredonia, Barletta, Monopoli and Termoli (Project partner 7)
Public Transport Company Brindisi S.p.A (Project partner 8)

The associated partners are: