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The Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, which this year takes place in an online format, was inaugurated yesterday. The Forum is organized by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA) in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia and Kutaisi City Municipality.
Within this framework, a meeting was held with representatives of all the cultural routes certified by the Council of Europe, with the participation of Assumpció Hosta, Secretary General of the AEPJ, and Victor Sorenssen, Director of the AEPJ.
The purpose of the meeting was to provide Cultural Routes representatives with a space to openly discuss cooperation, synergies, and topics of common interest, including the organisation of the 2022 Training Academy.
Over two Sundays in October, The Together Plan, AEPJ member in Beralus, are opening up their doors to welcome you to Zoymen, an exciting online event with a warm and friendly atmosphere and so much to explore.
Broaden your horizons and come on the journey – you won’t be disappointed. There is something for everyone with some fascinating opportunities to join the DIALOGUE which is this year’s theme of the European Days of Jewish Culture Festival taking place across the whole of Europe, and which Zoymen is a part of.
So what can you expect to discover at Zoymen…..? The event will open at midday BST on Sunday 10th October with a welcome session to set the scene for the event and from 13.00 event attendees will have a choice of sessions to attend at each time slot on the hour throughout the day.
Last Thursday, a new meeting of the FabRoute project was held.
The general objective of the project is to design a new training methodology and educational module aimed at fostering and enriching the knowledge and transversal competences of the staff members and operators of the EU Cultural Routes (CR) recognized by the Council of Europe, in order to improve CR management and promotion in the field of sustainable and cultural tourism. It was a very positive meeting.
We discussed the progress of the project, in particular the Intellectual Output IO1 – “Model Strategy to insert Cultural Routes within the cultural and touristic services system” developed by Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism – CAST – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, we validated the model strategy for the management of the life of the Routes and we defined the future steps.
Home to an isolated part of the Jewish Diaspora for over two millennia, the Uzbek city of Bukhara is characterized by its traditional houses–exceptional representations of the woodworking craft developed by Bukharian Jews over centuries. Today, less than 200 Bukharian Jews remain in Bukhara’s old Jewish mahallah, and its traditional houses were included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch to raise awareness of the growing threats of disappearance and inappropriate alterations. With a small number of community members still in Bukhara, how can we ensure the documentation and protection of these unique examples of vernacular architecture? How can we design adequate standards for their conservation and adaptive reuse?
Join us on September 30 for an online discussion exploring how WMF’s project in Bukhara, launched in 2020 with the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS), can address these questions by using new digital technologies, community engagement, and knowledge exchange.
Good Practice: Project combining research, local animation, tourism and social participation.
Shtetl Routes – Jewish heritage cultural tourism trail in the borderland of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus is a perfect example of a transborder cultural project where heritage acts as means for social integration. It may be seen as a way of strengthening human capital through swift collaborations with local communities which act as informers and memory keepers. It was a successful project linking places with memories and making both of them accessible. The balance between conservation and interpretation was perfectly sustained, while the leader, Teatr Brama Grodzka, acted “as a bridge” between the past and the present by revitalizing human stories. Membership in the European Routes of Jewish Heritage gave the leaders and other participants opportunities for learning and exchanging skills and know-how, especially within the domain of heritage interpretation.
Each year, the Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum is organised in close collaboration with one of the member States of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes (EPA).
The Annual Advisory Forum enables the reunion of member States representatives, Cultural Routes operators, candidate networks to the certification “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe”, international organisations, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, chambers of commerce, foundations and other donor organisations and heritage and tourism organisations and platforms.
The Annual Advisory Forum discusses trends and challenges in relation to Cultural Routes and provide a platform for the exchange of experience, review of progress with the implementation of Cultural Routes, debates on new professional practices, the launch of new initiatives and the development of partnerships.
B’nai B’rith is an international NGO, accredited to the UN, represented at UNESCO and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, bringing together Jews of any origin to serve the communities in which they live.
This year, in partnership with AEPJ under the umbrella of the NOA project (Networks Overcoming Antisemitism) and with its participation in the Task Force Group, B’nai B’rith Europe has inspired its lodges to become coordinators of the European Days of Jewish Culture with the central theme Dialogue.
Here are the words of Serge Dahan, President of B’nai B’rith Europe:
The European Days of Jewish Culture are celebrated every year during autumn in Europe with the support of B’nai B’rith lodges. The fundamental objective of this European collaboration is to highlight the diversity and richness of Judaism, with the intention of promoting dialogue, mutual recognition and exchange through conferences, concerts, performances, guided tours and other activities.
Past Sunday, September 5th, in the heart of the city of Luxembourg, the kick-off of this year’s European Days of Jewish Culture was held, with the central theme of Dialogue.
After an introduction by our AEPJ President, François Moyse, as well as the addresses of the Ministers, the Mayor of the City of Luxembourg, Lydie Polfer, and the Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes, Stefano Dominioni, the unveiling of the plaque took place in the presence of H. E. the Israeli Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Emmanuel Nashon, as well as the Chief Rabbi of Luxembourg.
The AEPJ and the Administration of Public Buildings installed a plaque that recalls the exact location of the first synagogue of Luxembourg, which occupied the premises of the former refuge of the sisters of Differdange from 1823 to 1894.