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According to agreement on the cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, signed in 2007, the Balkankult Foundation is appointed a coordinator for Serbia of the Regional Programme on Cultural and Natural Heritage in the South East Europe
Balkankult Foundation coordinates the Council of Europe’s Regional Programme on Cultural and Natural Heritage in South East Europe for Serbia
On the basis of agreement on the technical cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, signed in November 2007, the Balkankult Foundation is appointed an official coordinator for Serbia of the Regional Programme on Cultural and Natural Heritage in South East Europe –Project Plan for the Integrative Rehabilitation of Architectural and Archeological Heritage.
The Programme started in 2004 as a joint activity implemented by the Council of Europe and the European Commission in SEE region and is based on the belief that the heritage of each country is part of common European heritage. In this respect, various actions have been launched such as the evaluation of needs, identification of priorities and technical requirements associated with 160 significant buildings and sites of the Region, with a view to conservation, restoration, appropriate rehabilitation and long-term sustainability. One of the programme’s priority goals is to promote the notion of social and economic sustainable development in these sites through the enhancement of cultural and natural heritage.
In 2008 on-going phases of the Programme aim at ensuring public and private funding for a significant number of the 26 “Consolidated Projects” selected by national authorities, among the 186 monuments on the Priority Intervention List, because of the quality of the rehabilitation process carried out so far, their symbolic, historical and cultural value, and the economic potential of the projects. The fund-raising activity and the simultaneous elaboration of financial strategies for the heritage sector should be conducive to a coherent incorporation of these sites’ rehabilitation into the regional economic development plans.
According to the definitions of the Agreement the responsabilities of the Balkankult Foundation on the project refers to the coordination of the two main activities:
- work on four Feasibility studies on the integrative rehabilitation projects of cultural heritage,
- promotional activities of the above mentioned projects designed for target groups of potential donors and investers
Balkankult Foundation's promotional activities on the project done so far are:
1. Sandro Weltin, a photographer of the Council of Europe, was guided by the Balkankult Foundation on his mission tour in Serbia in June during which ten monument sites on the Priority Intervention List were photographed.
2. Brochures published in Serbian and in English
3. Web site designed, will be operational in two weeks time
4. Analysis of media considerations for monument sites on the priority intervention projects list and the quantity of the touristic
5. Two traveling exhibitions regarding Senjski Rudnik planned for November/December; the exhibitions include a round table on Ljubljana Process and the significance and the developing potentials of Senjski Rudnik, Bac and Felix Romuliana, a press conference in the Ministry of Culture; short films on the three projects
6. A traveling exhibition regarding Bac; the exhibitions include a round table on Ljubljana process and the significance and the developing potentials of Senjski Rudnik, Bac and Felix Romuliana,
7. Presentation of the plan for establishing artists-in-residence center in Senjski Rudnik at the Res Artis 11th General Meeting in Amsterdam, between 9th and 11th October 2008.
8. In September 2008 Reinhard Doubrawa, a German artist hosted by the Balkankult Foundation, visited Senjski Rudnik with the purpose of eximaning the conditions for establishing the artists-in-residence center.
Ongoing activities:
1. Research on the potential investors in the projects is on going activity
2. Filming short documentaries on the monuments is on going activity
Published: 2008-07-21
Updated: 2010-11-10
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