2024-2025

Jokimaan Paroni was selected to be part of the EENergy-project. This project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Single Market Programme (SMP), with the aim to support SMEs to define an action plan to improve their energy efficiency performance and to carry out this action plan.

More info: https://www.eenergy-project.eu/

2023-2024

Jokimaan Paroni was accepted to be part of the European Union-funded CE4RT project. CE4RT stands for Circular Economy for Regenerative Tourism – going beyond sustainability.

• The objective of the EU-funded CE4RT project is to DIRECTLY SUPPORT tourism SMEs transitioning to a CIRCULAR and REGENERATIVE tourism business model thus ensuring the future resilience of the sector.
• Collaborative across 5 countries funded through EISMEA (European Innovation and SME’s Executive Agency) Single Market Programme COSME-2021-TOURSME
• The program provides possibilities to training, one-to-one coaching, certification, and networking.

More information: https://ce4rt.euproject.site/

Results:

• Based on one2one coaching, the company achieved Good Travel Seal, an environmental certificate.
• Visit Finland granted Jokimaan Paroni the Sustainable Travel Finland label as a recognition of valuable and long-term work for sustainable tourism.
• The company has applied the training to all its tours and created new ideas for future sustainable tours.