ABOUT
Ballybofey-Stranorlar to Donegal Town Recreation Corridor Group was formed in 2021 as part of the Innovating Communities Project.
Our Mission: The Group's mission is to develop a sustainable recreation corridor between Ballybofey-Stranorlar and Donegal Town as a key tourism destination in the North West of Ireland.
The corridor will offer linked and varied experiences which will attract a variety of users and appeal to locals and visitors. We are undertaking this project to deliver economic and social benefits to the community along the corridor and to Co. Donegal as a whole.
Who are we? The Group is a collaboration of local organisations, businesses and individuals stretching from Donegal Town through ‘the Gap’ to Ballybofey-Stranorlar.
About Innovating Communities
Innovating Communities is a free training and mentoring project designed to empower local people and groups to work together and overcome challenges facing their areas in Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth.
Courses have been developed based on public submissions to the Challenge Bank and teach participants, along with fellow community members, the proven principles of Design Thinking to target these Challenges.
Find out more about Innovating Communities here.
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Views and more from our Recreation Corridor
More about Innovating Communities
Innovating Communities aims to encourage and create a rural population that is open to new ideas and ways of working. The project will deliver innovative and creative training modules, using Design Thinking (DT), which will meet current challenges and opportunities. By adopting new techniques, community groups and individuals will increase their problem-solving capability and build their confidence to cope with changes and challenges in the future.
The project’s training modules are be determined by the public submissions which localise and theme the content. IC is a two year LEADER inter-territorial co-operation project and is the first of its kind in the Border region, spanning across counties Donegal, Monaghan, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo and Cavan.
DLDC was inspired by the Nature of Innovation (NOI) project which was rolled out in four regions of Upper Austria, spurring on the development of IC. NOI projects included; Smart Villages, developing smart districts and combatting the main problems of rural areas such as limited access to technology, transport, etc.; A Dementia Orchestra, making society accessible to people with dementia and their relatives; A Cycling Region, looking at how they can make cycling nationally tangible for different target groups; and more
