Project Title

I SHARE KNOWLEDGE – I PRESERVE HERITAGE

Acronym

Priority

2nd preferential task: Permanent management of natural resources

Lead Partner organisation

PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY SENTJUR

Country of Lead Partner

SLOVENIA

Partner organisations

LOCAL TOURIST BOARD LJUTOMER PRLEKIJA

PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY KRSKO

TOURIST BOARD OF STRIGOVA COMMUNITY

THE TOURIST BOARD OF THE MARIJA BISTRICA COMMUNITY

Regions involved

Start date

End date

01.03.2011

31.03.2013

Total budget of the operation

336.767,37 EUR

IPA amount requested

286.252,26 EUR

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Specific cross-borders objectives of the operation
The primary purpose of the project is to develop a model of cooperation between partners, based on social responsibility for cultural heritage. We want to revive and complete experiential knowledge of the elderly and prepare them for voluntary work in museums and museum collections. Furthermore, we want to enable museum workers, managers of museum collections to understand the scope and nature of organized volunteering of the elderly in the culture. Integrating cultural and tourist destinations in the programme area in the common cultural and tourist attractions on international markets.
The specific objectives of the operation:
-    designing a programme and realization of volunteer training in the field of cultural and natural heritage,
-    raising awareness of professional volunteer work in non-traditional areas, including culture,
-     to enable permanent transfer of knowledge in the natural and cultural heritage,
-    a link and a joint promotion of heritage in a common web site, a multilingual catalogue and info points,
-    reduce the deficit of professional staff in museums in the target area,
-    to contribute to preservation of the European cultural heritage.

Added value of IPA funding
The project includes partners from less developed parts of the legitimate NUTS3 areas where there was a need to introduce volunteers to the activity of preserving natural and cultural heritage.
The IPA co-financing partners in the project will gain the possibility of establishing a common training programme for the transfer of knowledge in the field of natural and cultural heritage. Participants of the education will meet the natural and cultural heritage of the entire project area. It encourages citizens to the study of languages, history and civilization of their own country and neighbouring countries.
Together with the completed multilingual catalogue of natural and cultural heritage and a common website, which includes both a catalogue and educational materials, we will: promote the common development of cooperation in the field of heritage, increase the offer of cultural tourism, improve the joint protection of natural and cultural heritage.
The Cult PRO info points that will be established during the project will work even after the completion of the project for all partners and will be the hub information for volunteers, caretakers of the natural and cultural heritage, random visitors, tourist operators and other interested people.

Outputs
A developed training programme with four modules, with an emphasis on natural and cultural heritage.
Course materials, designing of materials (Slovenia, Croatia) for participants of training.
Workshops for caretakers of the natural and cultural heritage of the area.
Participants of the course to be trained for volunteer work.
A common website. Publication of the project activities, presentation of the natural and cultural heritage.
A catalogue of the natural and cultural heritage, a joint creation of a multilingual catalogue (Slovene, Croatian, English, German, Italian, French).
The Cult PRO info points.
Information and publicity, press conferences, public cross-border events, TV and radio shows, advertising in print media.
Coordinating meetings of partners for a qualitative implementation of the project.

Results
Within the project a 60-hour training programme with four modules will be prepared and carried out jointly with motivational workshops in five locations with the project partners. At least 60 volunteers will be qualified who will receive teaching materials. For caretakers of the cultural and natural heritage workshops will be carried out with all partners.
One common Web site will be designed and 8000 copies of the multilingual heritage catalogue of the area will be printed. With all the project partners we will establish the contact points called Cult PRO. Partners and caretakers of the natural and cultural heritage will be presented at a joint public event in Šentjur. For the purposes of information and publicity press conferences, contact TV and radio shows will be held, printed and radio spots and articles in print media will be brought out.