Danube Culture Platform - Creative Spaces of the 21st Century

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

Date of latest update: 2024-03-22

Description

Description (EN):

The Danube area is characterised by rich tangible & intangible cultural heritage, diversity and territorial imbalances. Both to safeguard and develop heritage, to enable sustainable tourism thus contributing to economic prosperity, and to strengthen cohesion joint forces to fully develop the potential of transnational cultural routes are needed. These routes have important integrative power and put themselves forward to touristic exploitation. Relating to the progresses made within the CoE’s “Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes”, the project therefore aims at implementing an innovative multilevel policy framework for cultural routes. Along the way the EUSDR is an important milestone for transnat. cooperation. Now concrete activities based on a participative governance approach are needed in order to exploit cultural heritage to its full potential. Culture & tourism ministries, competence centres, regional authorities and NGOs, united in a culture policy network, develop an integrated transnational policy strategy (“Danube Creative spaces of the 21st century”) including strategies for Danube cultural routes and a feasibility and implementation plan for a small project fund. This policy-making process is based upon studies mapping existing routes, hidden heritage sites, and evaluating their touristic potentials, and concrete experiences for innovative approaches to cultural heritage using ICT and artistic interventions. In result the project will turn traces of history into a contemporary cultural routes strategy, acknowledging the sustainable cooperation of culture and tourism. Main target groups are local, regional and national public authorities, organisations of higher education and research and other interest groups including NGOs. The project invites them to common policy-making (participative governance), stretches the umbrella for their strategies and policies and explores financial tools and delivers a network for their future cooperation.

Achievements (EN):

The main objective of the project was the development of an innovative, multilevel policy framework for cultural routes in the Danube region. This was followed by further topics and activities: - Expansion of Cultural Routes: creation of a Policy Learning Platform as network and think tank of stakeholders from EUSDR countries (series of workshops and conferences). - Discovering Hidden Heritage: through the study “Our Hidden Danube Heritage – Guidebook on Resourcing Hidden Heritage for Tourism” and a collection of hidden heritage sites. - Making the Invisible Visible: pilot projects, artistic and technological (3D applications), following the theme of “Heritage Reloaded” and the concept of making the invisible visible and usable in terms of cultural tourism. The aim of the Danube Culture Platform has been to work against forgetting and to create awareness of cultural diversity and history in the Danube region. New technologies and artistic means contribute to conveying historic places and events in a contemporary way. Interpretation and facilitation by (new) narratives is important for a new culture of memory and remembrance. The project sought a response to multiple themes: the interpretation of historic places and events in a contemporary way (culture), the experience of culture (international audience/tourists) and the development of new destinations along the Danube (tourism). Hidden heritage is defined as invisible because it is situated below ground level (e.g. archaeological sites), destroyed, banned or repressed for political or societal reasons, disappeared, little known or of an immaterial nature. The Danube Culture Platform embarked on a search for traces of history to discover hidden places of cultural heritage and to evoke bygone historic events and facts. Well-trodden paths have been left and hidden cultural heritage has been revealed by contemporary artistic interpretations and new educational formats. The Danube Culture Platform has rediscovered ancient tales and tells new stories to promote historical events to be experienced in the present. These are intended to encourage the development of new cultural tourism offers for a 21st-century audience. Activities and Outcomes: The Danube Culture Platform organised transnational conferences and workshops, partner workshops and project meetings. The core of the project is the Policy Learning Platform, a cultural policy network of the project partners as cooperation between culture and tourism. Over the course of the project – from January 2017 to June 2019 – the workshops and meetings, partially embedded within the framework of the conferences, were carried out to highlight the topics, to exchange knowledge, to develop measures and to implement the pilot actions: “Discovering Hidden Heritage – Contemporary Approaches for Culture and Tourism” (Vienna/AT April 2017), “Audience Development” (Pécs/HU October 2017), “World Heritage and Facilitation of History” (Linz/AT June 2018), “Creating Memorable Experiences and Cultural Routes” (Regensburg/DE October 2018). The main issue of the Danube Culture Platform was to discover places of history, find old and new stories to tell about them, develop artistic and technological pilot projects for the descriptive mediation and to support existing cultural routes by developing contemporary aspects. Thus ‘hidden places’ have been searched along the Danube and further data was collected and elaborated. Results of this research were the “Guidebook on Resourcing Hidden Heritage for Tourism” and a compilation of sites “Mapping Hidden Heritage Hot Spots” along the Danube. Under the heading “Heritage Reloaded” and according to the concept of making the invisible visible, eight pilot projects to create spaces of remembrance – three with digital / technological methods, four by artistic/creative interventions and one applying both tools – have been developed and implemented. Digital reconstructions render lost history visible again and create distinct experiences of historic sites as well as artistic interventions allow encounter and exchange with hidden cultural heritage. Holistic visitor experiences offer new perspectives and support the development of new narrations. The pilot projects were developed by the project partners in a communicative and collaborative way. By drawing up action plans for hidden cultural heritage places, their cultural and tourist value and their potential for connecting to cultural routes were elaborated and the implementation process was recorded in action diaries. The “Future Book” provides details of the pilot projects, their development, design and realisation. It includes photos, videos and audio recordings and is available on the project website. The key result of the Danube Culture Platform was to develop strategies for cultural routes. The most important outcome of the working meetings and conferences was the development of the “Interpretation Framework for the Cultural Routes Based on Hidden Heritage in the Danube Region” and the proposal of “Themes for the Prolongation of European Cultural Routes”. All this should provide the solid basis for the long-term development of culture tourism strategies based on the hidden cultural heritage of the Danube region, one of Europe’s most important lifelines.

Website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Intensity of cooperation of key actors in the programme area in order to strengthen sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources (survey based composite indicator)

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project main result is a resilient network and strategy (“multilevel policy framework”) for cultural routes in the whole Danube region. The region stands out due to intensive coordinated co-operation by combining cultural and touristic purposes. Future activities for cultural routes can build on existing structures and partnerships. The main achievements in terms of intensifying cooperation to strengthen sustainable use of cultural heritage are: - One policy learning platform established involving experts for culture and tourism on governmental and non-governmental level from the whole Danube region to facilitate sustainable cooperation (3 meetings). - Exchange and learning experiences are documented in 1 good practice handbook on sustainable use of cultural heritage. The exchange of good practice exploits existing knowledge. - 1 strategic agreement signed by the platform to declare the common will and coordinate future activities. - Systematic involvement of NGOs in the policy making and innovation process (participation in platform and strategic agreement, and 1 concept for a Danube Small Project Fund). - Demonstration of the cultural and touristic potential of cultural routes in 1 mapping, 1 data collection, 1 ICT feasibility study and 5 action plans for cultural heritage. - Modernisation of cultural routes by means of innovative and contemporary communication tools (ICT and artistic interventions) implemented, evaluated and documented (1 future book).

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Cultural heritage and arts

Specific Objective: Foster sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources (short title). Strengthen joint and integrated approaches to preserve and manage the diversity of natural and cultural heritage and resources in the Danube region as a basis for sustainable development and growth strategies

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Sektion II: Kunst und Kultur

Address: Concordiaplatz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 440 497.00

ERDF budget: EUR 374 422.45

Stadt Regensburg

Name: Stadt Regensburg

Address: Altes Rathaus, Rathausplatz 1, 93047 Regensburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regensburg.de

Total budget: EUR 285 076.00

ERDF budget: EUR 242 314.60

Ministerul Culturii si identitatii nationale

Name: Ministerul Culturii si identitatii nationale

Address: Unirii Blvd. 22, 30833 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cultura.ro

Total budget: EUR 188 770.00

ERDF budget: EUR 160 454.50

Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

Name: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

Address: Königstraße 46, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de

Total budget: EUR 180 878.00

ERDF budget: EUR 153 746.30

OÖ Kulturquartier

Name: OÖ Kulturquartier

Address: OK Platz 1, 4020 Linz, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at

Total budget: EUR 148 409.34

ERDF budget: EUR 126 147.94

Министерство на туризма,България

Name: Министерство на туризма,България

Address: “Saborna” str. 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tourism.government.bg

Total budget: EUR 139 248.30

ERDF budget: EUR 118 361.06

Dunavski centar za kompetenciju

Name: Dunavski centar za kompetenciju

Address: Cika Ljubina 8/I, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.dsnubecc.org

Total budget: EUR 110 000.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 93 500.00

Zsolnay Örökségkezelő Nonprofit Kft

Name: Zsolnay Örökségkezelő Nonprofit Kft

Address: Zsolnay Vilmos u. 37, 7630 Pécs, Hungary

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zsokkft.hu

Total budget: EUR 104 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 88 400.00

Министерство на културата на Република България

Name: Министерство на културата на Република България

Address: Al. Stamboliisky Blvd. 17, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mc.government.bg

Total budget: EUR 80 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 68 000.00

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Federal Chancellery of Austria, Division II: Arts and Culture

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City of Regensburg

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Ministry of Culture and National Identity (MCIN)

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Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

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Upper Austria Culture Quarter

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Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria

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Danube Competence Center

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Zsolnay Heritage Management Nonprofit Ltd.

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Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria

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Summary

Project name (EN): Danube Culture Platform - Creative Spaces of the 21st Century

Project acronym: DTP1-114-2.2, CultPlatForm_21

Project start date: 2017-01-01

Project end date: 2019-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 676 878.64

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 425 346.84

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 331 846.84.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 93 500.00.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Books

Guidebook on resourcing hidden heritage for tourism

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/cultplatform-21

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

CultPlatForm_21_Report_Final_Conference

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/cultplatform-21

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-05-01

Languages: en

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Small_Project_Fund_for_Culture_in_the_Danube_Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/cultplatform-21

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

CultPlatForm_21_Project_Documentation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/cultplatform-21

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-06-30

Languages: en

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CultPlatForm_21_Memorandum “Danube Culture Platform – Creative Spaces of the 21st Century”

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/cultplatform-21

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-06-30

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Danube

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2023-09-22

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155 / 155 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 582 / 1 582 (100%)

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