Portofranco - Kristiansands free port is one of the projects in the programme 'Creating New Assets in the Cultural Heritage Sphere'.

Hamningberg in Finnmark – “Proceed With Care”
Hamningberg is a deserted fishing village situated on the outermost edge of the Varanger peninsula in the municipality of Båtsfjord. This project will develop the fishing village as a culturally-based tourist destination and sustainable business development based on the fishing village’s resources and the fact of its being anchored in Finnmark’s history. Important elements include its development as a place, economic development and the development of handicraft competence.

Atlanterhavsvegen Bud – Kristiansund in Møre and Romsdal
The stretch of coast from Bud to Kristiansund encompasses the municipalities of Fræna, Eide, Averøy and Kristiansund. Here, the overall aim of benefit to the coastal cultural heritage and landscape is desired. There will be a focus on qualitative restoration, management, information and provision. The creation of new assets is linked to tourism and associated industries.

Gudbrandsdalen and Valdres in Oppland
The pilot project in Oppland consists of two regional projects.

In Nord-Gudbrandsdalen the aim is to safeguard protected and preservation-grade buildings as an important element in local and regional tourist development. The vision entertained by National Parks Land (Nasjonalparkriket) is to develop Nord-Gudbrandsdalen as one of the leading national park regions in Northern Europe. 

Valdres is working with regional brand development, using nature and cultural heritage to establish, amongst other things, a regional nature and cultural park. The pilot project will contribute to and safeguard the cultural heritage theme in the park agreement.

Porto Franco – Kristiansand’s cultural free port
Coastal culture and maritime cultural history are the keywords for this project. A sizeable fleet of well-preserved cultural historical vessels will become the eye-catching, central feature of the town port.

Odda
Odda is an industrial community in the process of renewal, and a pioneer in its aims for culture and cultural monuments. Odda is still a strong, vibrant industrial society, but a society that needs several legs to stand on. This project will take care of national and international nature and cultural values and prepare the ground for a more attractive and varied community. The cultural monuments and industrial history will provide the basis for new growth.

Hammerdalen in Larvik
Hammerdalen will be developed into a “new” quarter, with its basis in the history, character and cultural monuments in the area. The value of the cultural monuments associated with this place will be used as a resource to attract new businesses, in compensation for the workplaces that have gone. This project is first and foremost aimed at competence development in the link between cultural heritage and creating new assets, and Vestfold University College is a central actor here. Good communications between the main owners, business developers, the authorities and the university college are a prerequisite.

The Pilgrim’s Way
The state of the Pilgrim’s Way is to be improved. There will be better maintenance of the roadway itself and of the cultural monuments along the way, together with better signposting and overnight accommodation. Norway houses Nidaros, the northernmost place of pilgrimage in Europe. During the Middle Ages, Nidaros was the goal for those seeking salvation at the tomb of St. Olav. The custom of following in the footsteps of the old pilgrims is burgeoning throughout Europe.

Pearls of the North Sea Trail
There are many cultural monuments along the North Sea Trail (Nordsjøløypa) and the aim is to further develop this as a cultural monument trail. The ambition of the project is to use the North Sea Trail and a network of old traffic routes along the North Sea coast to establish a connection between creating new assets in the past, present and future, including the involvement of the arts.

The Nærøyfjord World Heritage Park
The fjords were among the pioneering aspects of the development of modern tourism in Norway, and the fjord landscape is still the most important icon in the marketing of the country as a tourist destination. This project to create new assets in Nærøyfjord has as its aim that the local community should master the role of World Heritage Site host in a good and sustainable fashion.

Norwegian Traditional Fishing
The Norwegian Traditional Fishing (Norsk Tradisjonsfisk) project aims to safeguard the sited cultural monuments along the coast by putting them to active use. The project takes as its starting-point the Norwegian Traditional Fishing network and six of its member companies who wish to safeguard the dying art of crafts linked to fishing and manufacture, and to use this knowledge actively in the broader aspects of brand creation and enterprise development.

The Value of the Coastal Culture in Nordland
The project of creating new assets in Nordland encompasses Vega municipality and the Lofoten municipalities of Vega, Vågan, Vestvågøy, Flakstad, Moskenes, Værøy and Røst. The project contains themes such as tourism, infrastructure, fishing, a venture involving the common eider, place development and building traditions; activities are particularly concentrated in a number of selected local communities.