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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   ERASMUS IP PROGRAMME “EUROPE’S SOCIO-CULTURAL BORDERS – INHERITED PERCEPTIONS AND THE MODERN LANDSCAPES”. INSIGHTS FROM LITHUANIA 2008.

Authors:  R. RUSU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

Erasmus IP Programme “Europe’s socio-cultural borders – inherited perceptions and the modern landscapes”. Insights from Lithuania 2008. Between March 15 and March 26, 2008, 36 students and teachers from seven European universities participated to this geographical intensive programme (IP), which developed in Lithuania. Under the guidance of the current coordinator, professor Marko Krevs, from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and other five professors, together with the local organizer, professor Stanaitis Saulius, from Vilnius Pedagogical University, the group traveled in four minivans along Lithuania’s borders. The programme was really intensive, including a series of visits to national and regional parks, cities, tourist attractions, farms, strategic sites (such as the Nuclear Power Plant of Ignalina), and meetings with managers and local authorities, all of them related to the main topic of the IP. The final five days were spent in the small town and spa of Druskininkai, lying in Southern Lithuania, near the border with Poland and Belarus. There, students and teachers divided into four groups: environmental changes in border areas, economic changes in border areas, social and cultural changes in border areas, and physical vs. perceptual changes in border areas. Each group prepared its own programme and developed its own report, which was delivered during the last day of our stay in Druskininkai. The final reports proved the success of this intensive programme, which ended up in Vilnius, capital city of Lithuania.

Keywords: Lithuania, border areas, tourism, national park, Druskininkai, Curonian Spit, Vilnius, Aukstaitija.

 
         
     
         
         
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