Completed 2026 TOFOLA — Tourism in the forests and green lagoons of the Adriatic through historic wooden boats
Interreg Italy–Croatia 2021–2027 · Priority: culture and tourism for sustainable development
TOFOLA diversifies tourism in the North Adriatic, promotes natural materials in traditional wooden boatbuilding and develops new sustainable nautical itineraries.
Our role: restoring a traditional Istrian batana and building a replica in natural composite materials — showing how tradition and the sustainable materials of the future belong together. The replica is fully documented digitally to preserve drawings and know-how.
Project objectives
- Diversifying the North Adriatic tourism offer
- Promoting natural materials in wooden shipbuilding
- New sustainable nautical itineraries
- Reconstruction of traditional boats with ICT tools
- Cross-border education and training
Partners
Consortia Centre (IT, lead) · Istrian Development Agency – IDA (HR) · Laguna s.n.c. (IT) · Marservis (HR) · University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies (HR) · University of Padua (IT) · Veneto Agricoltura (IT) · Wood Services Forestry Cluster FVG (IT)