The Joint Association, manager of the Grand Site de France
As the actual managing body of the Grand Site, the Joint Association holds the label, coordinates the implementation of the overall project for the preservation, management and promotion of the area, and oversees its day-to-day operations.
Since its creation, the Syndicat Mixte du Grand Site has initiated and developed numerous initiatives that are essential to the preservation, protection and revitalisation of the Grand Site de France. Here are a few examples:
- Creation of the Maison du Grand Site de France
- Landscaping of the Teghime Pass and Barbaggio viewpoint
- Design of an educational programme in collaboration with the French Ministry of Education
- Establishment of a consultation committee for project leaders, responsible for implementing the Landscape, Architectural and Environmental Charter.
- Construction and renovation of footpaths...
structured governance
serving the Grand Site
The Joint Association
The Syndicat Mixte du Grand Site de Conca d’Oru manages the Grand Site de France. It is composed of the six municipalities in the area, the Community of Municipalities and the Collectivité de Corse. It works in consultation with the Winegrowers' Union, which is consulted as a qualified body. Together, these institutions enable the implementation of the Grand Site management plan.
The Steering Committee
Participatory governance flows naturally from the collaborative development of the regional development plan and complements institutional governance.
This governance helps to involve local institutional and non-institutional stakeholders in the implementation of the Grand Site project through a cross-cutting approach to regional development.
It helps to maintain and amplify the partnership dynamic established during the development phase of the management plan for the listed site, then the Grand Site regional project, as well as contributing to the strengthening of collective dynamics.
The steering committee for the Grand Site, jointly chaired by the Prefect of Haute-Corse and the President of the Joint Association, is composed of elected officials and representatives of the Grand Site's stakeholders. It is made up of a college of elected officials (mayors, president of the community of municipalities, president of the Executive Council of Corsica), a college of services from the Collectivité de Corse and others (Corsica Tourism Agency, Office for Agricultural and Rural Development, Office for the Environment, CAUE of Corsica), a college of State services (Prefect of Haute-Corse, DREAL, Architecte des Bâtiments de France, DDT, DIRECCTE) and a college of professionals (Syndicat des vignerons AOP Patrimonio, Office communautaire de Tourisme, Comité Interprofessionnel des Vins de Corse).
As a true decision-making centre, its role is to validate strategic directions, define the operations and actions to be undertaken, and determine the human and financial resources to be requested and mobilised. It is also responsible for monitoring the progress of the project to preserve, manage and enhance the Grand Site and for evaluating the actions implemented.
As such, this committee, which meets once or twice a year, aims to steer and monitor the implementation of the regional project, ensure its consistency and guarantee the quality of the actions carried out.
It may take decisions relating to the action programme for the regional development project, with a view to continuous improvement:
- Organisation of its deployment; ;
- Redefinition of priorities in the implementation of actions; ;
- Mobilisation of partners; ;
- Definition of new actions or reorientation of existing actions; ;
- Assessment of the action programme and formulation of corrective conclusions.
It may also draw up reports, proposals or recommendations concerning the management of the Grand Site, for the attention of the managing body responsible for implementing them.
A technical committee
Chaired by the Director of the Grand Site, the Technical Committee is the technical working tool for carrying out and monitoring operations and actions related to the Grand Site project. It is the forum for debate and technical consultation prior to the steering committee. For each action relating to the regional project, this committee may be called upon at the request of the project owner/promoter, in particular to organise the technical and financial partnerships necessary for the implementation of the actions, to refine the action schedule, to pre-validate the intermediate stages and progress of the project, and, more generally, to provide technical support for the implementation of the actions.
It is also the place of work and exchange with the various relevant government departments (DREAL, DDT, UDAP), as well as technicians from regional public partner institutions, the EPCI and the municipalities concerned.
Thematic working groups
These working groups, which bring together a highly diverse range of partners and key players from the Conca d'Oru, Patrimonio vineyards – Gulf of Saint-Florent« have played a major role in the participatory approach to co-constructing the project to preserve, manage and promote the Grand Site de France and in the in-depth consultation with local institutional, socio-professional and associative actors. Acting as genuine »local sounding boards« and sources of proposals from the »field«, these working groups demonstrate their ability and usefulness in identifying and developing concrete and relevant actions.
- Working Group 1: «Restoring, protecting and promoting natural, landscape and cultural heritage»
- Working group 2: «Promoting local benefits, improving the quality of the visitor experience at the Grand Site, and developing wine and maritime ecotourism»
In addition to these two thematic working groups, other more specific groups are set up as needed, particularly in the areas of «urban planning and development» and «cellar effluent treatment».
