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Cultural Landscapes - Protecting Historical Cultural Landscapes to Strengthen Regional Identities and Local Economies

A Project Partly Financed by the European Union - The Project is implemented within the INTERREG IIIB CADSES programme

Partners of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania:

• Agriculture University of Krakow - project lider
• Municipality of Miechow
• Municipality of Wisniowa
• Univesity of Applied Sciences Erfurt
• Heritage Association of Thuringia
• Regional Planning Association East-Thuringia
• Environmental Management Austria
• Grazing Association Ramsar Site Valley of Lafnitz
• Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
• Polytechnic University in Lviv

Romania participates in the project through a Phare grant (90%) and by own contribution (10%) - Perseus code: PHARE RO 2004/016-772.05.02.02.08

The Romanian partner of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is the Babes-Bolyai University and together they are implementing the following activities:

Identification of cultural landscapes elements; research on the dynamic of landscapes, with a special focus on Apuseni Mountains region (locations with economic potential, revitalizing the traditional trades)

Preparation of the pilot project "Rural cultural heritage"; elaborating the curricula "Landscape dynamics in spatial development" and "Valuable Cultural Landscape in Apuseni Mountains region"

Modification of methods for Transylvanian regions; rediscover and preserve rural Transylvanian cultural heritage and its future use for regional development

Preparation of Transylvanian digital CL-register - focus on monuments of folk architecture and traditional craftsmen

Inventory of regional cultural landscapes, including student field camp; monuments of folk architecture, centers of traditional crafts, and traditional folk groups in the area researched; creating digital CL-register "Transylvania"

Trans-national marketing concept promoting educational activities of the Ethnographic Park and co-operations with further cultural heritage institutions including initiatives of regional economy; promoting traditional arts and crafts: organizing festivals and rural regional markets

Pilot project - as a contribution to transnational strategies which would revive traditional arts and crafts of the Transylvanian cultural landscape in order to improve the quality of life: Restoration/extension of one part of building in the Ethnographic Park "R. Vuia", Cluj-Napoca. Necessary pre-condition for setting-up museum information-centre; installing/equipping studio for teaching traditional trades including accommodation and catering (20 trainees, 5000 visitors); education offers on heritage-based economy/regional identity

Setting up the Transylvanian network; workshops and trans-regional trips

Co-operation with project partners; international workshop and trans-regional tour - Cluj-Napoca

Academic exchange, awareness-raising activities, student field camp/teaching exchange; cultural exchange with similar cultural institutions

Multi-media trans-national PR-activities of Transylvanian heritage in CADSES, presented through new museum centre; promotion activities including via internet

More details about the project could be seen here