Project Summary

The subproject refers to the topic “conservation and enhancement of cultural resources”. Starting point is the presence in all partner territories of good cultural resources, located in museums and “on the field” and the willingness of local actors to develop cultural potentialities for education activities but also for tourist development. Culture in the project is intended as a pivotal theme for local integrated development: and the methodology proposed by the project for the enhancement of local cultural resources is the creation of local networks connected at transnational level.

The subjects involved in the project that will be part of that network are local small museums, each one with some specificities that have to be strengthen and promoted in coordination with the specificities of the other, and integrating different categories of operations, in the field of cultural infrastructures, training, provision of social services and tourism services. Mountain Community of Carnia created the first museum network at the end of the 1990s and the network is now involving local structures. The experience made shows that small museums can be a very important instrument to strengthen education but even to promote new ways of sustainable tourism. Mountain Community of Alto Agri, inside the Integrate Territorial Project is starting the creation of a museum network in its territory thanks to regional, national and EU funds.

The regional museum of Jicin would like to start a similar experience with other local museums in its region and will use to this aim the already existing experiences of other partners. This organization wants to create the catalogue of traditional games include models of these, to connect schools to education via games. It will prepare feasibility study for the restoration or construction of infrastructures for children accommodation open especially to handicapped children.

All partners will develop these activities in the prospect of an implementation in the next programming period.

The partners identified a theme on which they will work inside the project: children, local culture, old games. The theme is very important because the aim is to transfer to new generations not only the knowledge of local culture (strengthening in this way the sense of belonging to their communities) but even of other European cultures (strengthening in this way their sense of belonging to the big European community) using games as education methodology.

Activities are distributed among local activities and transnational activities: at transnational level there will be a common programming of local activities, study visits for exchanging experiences, common elaboration of multimedia supports for children education. At local level the programmed activities will be tested to see how methodologies will work in practice and to give to managing committee some evaluation instruments.