May 13, 2016 Friday at 17.30
Suggestions from "Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society" and opportunities based on examples of good practice: presentation of Ms. Julie de Muer, an expert on Heritage who lives in Marseilles, France and who is part of the “Hôtel du Nord” experiment, a residents’ cooperative founded in 2011 and inspired by the Faro Convention. Although there is no significant built heritage to mark or market the territory, the work that has been carried out in Marseilles since 1995 by residents, associations and businesses with a heritage conservator for the city has, over time, led to active experimentation of the principles and tools that constitute Faro. Julie de Muer talked about this experience, recounting the principal stages from the field, and took a few present-day examples that could open up prospects for using Faro to respond to the contemporary challenges of democratic renewal and urban development.
Workshop for local stakeholders from each community involved to discuss on the future and the importance of small communities as “Custodians of European Heritage” and the need to launch a European campaign for their valorization, exchanging ideas and suggestions that are useful for the letter proposal that will be addressed to the European Commission and the Council of Europe asking them to support the European campaign “Small, Great! Europe”. The workshop was held under the guidance of Ms. Chiara Bianchizza, an expert of the International Sociology Institute from Gorizia.
Presentation of each delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Serbia, with the active involvement of young participants and the opening of the joint exhibition “Small, Great! Europe” made by Adriatic GreeNet with selected photos and text that have been sent from each involved community during the preliminary activities.
May 13, 2016 Friday – 19.30
Welcome dinner prepared by local associations from Rakovica with traditional songs, dances and old way of combing wool presented by the local Cultural and Performing Society “Izvor” from Rakovica.
