Pilot actions serve as small-scale, real-life tests that translate transnational concepts into practical local solutions. They allow partners to experiment with new methods, co-developed tools, and community-driven approaches before wider uptake, ensuring that project outputs are not only theoretically sound but proven in practice. In COMMHERITOUR, pilot actions function as the core mechanism for verifying heritage-based valorisation models, testing community-involvement approaches, and exploring new economic and tourism opportunities linked to cultural crafts. They bridge research, stakeholder engagement, and practical implementation by enabling each thematic partner’s region to trial selected solutions under a shared methodological framework. Through these pilots (jointly designed, peer-reviewed, and monitored) the project refines its strategies, strengthens local capacities, and generates evidence that directly feeds into the transnational strategy, action plans, and the HeriCraftMarket platform. In this way, pilot actions act as the connecting thread between analysis, community co-creation, and lasting, scalable results across the Danube Region.
