Partners:
23
PARTNER
36
MUNICIPALITIES
Associates:
Transhumance Routes | Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
26
ENTITIES
10
COUNTRIES
Colaborators:
3
ENTITIES
The Association
European Cheese Route Association
The European Cheese Route Association was established in 2014 with the aim of uniting the efforts of various local European entities to make cheese a strategic pillar of local economic development.
The Association defines, implements, and promotes the European Cheese Route project; it also mobilizes key local stakeholders to participate in and bring to life an innovative tourism product based on a sensory journey unique in Europe.
The European Cheese Route Association currently comprises 23 members representing 36 cheese-producing municipalities. Our main projects target the agri-food and tourism sectors, sharing the common goal of revitalizing the rural areas where we live by showcasing their diverse local resources. Among other activities, we share best practices, generate innovative ideas, implement pilot projects, exchange strategies, and benefit from collaborative networking.
Since 2024, the European Cheese Route Association has been part of the Council of Europe’s "Transhumance Trails" Cultural Route. This initiative aims to protect and promote the tangible and intangible heritage of transhumance—the seasonal movement of livestock—by transforming these historic routes into engines for sustainable socioeconomic development and rural tourism to combat depopulation. The Transhumance Trails project involves 26 entities from 10 countries across Europe and beyond: Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Turkey, Lebanon, Mexico, and Guatemala.
The aim
Cooperate to articulate local development strategies in our territories.
Priority
Promote relations between the agri-food and tourism sectors.
Commitments
To Agglutinate
- We seek to unite cheese-producing municipalities around spaces for collaboration and joint work with local development as a transversal and main axis.
To preserve
We want to preserve the identity, culture and historical and gastronomic heritage of the environments in which our cheeses are produced.heeses are produced.
To generate
The project seeks to generate wealth through the promotion and marketing of a tourism product that provides external projection to cheese-producing municipalities.
To ensure
Our goal is to ensure the product, maintaining livestock and milk production and promoting the incorporation of young people into the sector.
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Projects
- The European Cheese Route Association develops various projects related to the agri-food and tourism sectors.
Becoma a member
The European Cheese Route Association is open to collaborations and new incorporations from municipalities, regions and territories. If you would like more information about the project, please contact us.