A European programme
    The REMER programme is a transnational operation financed by the European Commission within the framework of the RAPHAEL programme under the heading of a call for cooperation projects for the study, rehabilitation and enhancement of European pre-industrial heritage sites.
    For REMER the European funding amounts to 250.000 Euros for a total budget of 500.000 Euros.

Object of the programme
    The project aims at enhancing the water mills of three Mediterranean rural zones in Greece, Italy and France, through specific programmes of cultural and educative tourism.
    Common feature of the three territories is that they are fragile rural zones with strong similarities in their territorial identity and especìally the rural heritage they have generated. The choice of the mills as link for a transnational co-operation between three rural territories enables to achieve a transfer of experience on the new uses of pre-industrial heritage and its consideration in local development.
    The interdisciplinarity of the network is determined by the prevailing subject of intervention on each site on a thematic point, agro-tourism for the Italian site, the development of a sensitive site for the French project and renewable energy resources for the Greek site.
    Access to heritage and sensitisation of the public form a privileged transversal issue on the three sites. Each of the mills which is subject to a rehabilitation integrates a didactic exhibition accompanied with a brochure proposing a discovery itinerary of the mills on a larger territory around the mill restored.

Duration
   This programme runs from May 1998 until December 1999 with in accompaniment to the rehabilitation and equipment works on the sites the realisation of transfer workshops.

The partners
   The project is co-ordinated by the Centre Méditerranéen de l'Environnement (Mediterranean Centre of the Environment), a non governmental organisation based in Avignon/France.
    Responsable for the local project in Italy, the Comunità Montana Valnerina intervenes on the Mills of the Marcite in the region of Norcia.
    For the French site it is the Municipality of Gordes which intervenes on the Water Mills of the Veroncle Gorges.
    In Greece, the site of intervention is situated at Bourazani in the Region of Epirus and the project is lead by the agency ANEZ in collaboration with the Municipality of Konitsa.