On 9 May 2022, ATRIUM President Patrick Leech presented the ATRIUM Cultural Route at the Italian Parliament.
The event took place in the meeting room Nuova Aula dei Gruppi parlamentari a the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.
The afternoon session focused on Cultural Routes as a platform for intercultural dialogue and as places of commemoration and education for democratic citizenship.
The PEOPLE Project has completed its first transnational event in Labin, Croatia. From 5-7 April 2022 delegations from several European countries visited the Croatian city of Labin to participate in the event.
Every partner in the project has worked with young people in the preparation of several cultural products that have been collected and presented during each international event, which in Labin took the form of video presentations and a photo exhibition. Whilst every partner focusses and presents its own specific theme, special attention was placed on the topic discussed by Labin: the discrimination, repression, and eventual persecution of the Jewish community in the region. Young people from the local high school created an impressive and highly professional video which told the story of the Holocaust as experienced by men and women who inhabited their town, and some still do.
On 12-13 April 2022, the FARO project partners meet in Forlì, Italy for a Transnational Project Meeting organized by the ATRIUM Association. During the two-days session, partners will discuss a series of issues related to the wide topic of "Dissonant heritage in European Towns: Creating a European narrative of contested identities through citizens’ participation". For more details download the programme of the event.
Find out more about the FARO project.
From 29 September to 1 October 2021, ATRIUM participated at the 10th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum in Kutaisi, Georgia. The event was organised 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. This year's focus of the Forum was: "Resilient and Sustainable Routes: Innovating out of Crisis". ATRIUM contributed in a thematic seminar with best practices.
Download the programme of the 10th Cultural Routes Annual Advisory Forum.
Find out more about the Forum on the CoE website.
Previous Forums: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
After the kick-off meeting, the partners of the WalkEUR project held a number of meetings to carry on their work. Main focus was to elaborate a workplan for training by exchanging best practices and defining learning activities. Other tasks involved project management and the dissemination of the project. While the meetings in March and May 2021 were held online, the International meeting on 26-29 July 2021 took place in Jarandilla de la Vera (Spain).
Find out more about the WalkEUR project.
On 23 September 2021, the Fab Route project partners met online for a Transnational Project Meeting organized by Routes of the OliveTree. During the session partners discussed the validation of the first intellectual output concerning the development of the Model Strategy to insert Cultural Routes within the cultural and touristic service system. Moreover, the group started to discuss the development of the new training methodology for Cultural Route officers, which will be defined in more detail in view of the staff training event, which will take place in Rimini.
Find out more about the FAB Routes project.
From 1 to 6 July 2021, the ATRIUM Association particpated in a mission organised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Permet Region in Albania, in particular in the cities of Permet and Gjirokastër. The mission was part of an Italo-Albanian cooperation project focusing on the diaspora within the promotion of local development.
ATRIUM's objective was to verify the quantity and typology of the built heritage, its state of conservation, the logistics, the interest of the Municipalities of Permet and Argirocastro to join the ATRIUM cultural route, the presence of local institutions and organisations to develop a local ATRIUM tourist product.