On 14-15 December, Patrick Leech, member of the ATRIUM Scientific Committee, made a contribution at the international conference in Madrid on ¿Qué hacer con el patrimonio comódo? (How to deal with uncomfortable heritage).
View the conference programme.
The “Next Routes” Project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, kicked off on 14 November 2023 at the Salzburg Congress Centre. The project will reinforce Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe managers’ competencies and skills in all aspects related to digital and creativity.
The project brings together 6 Cultural Routes certified by the Council of Europe: Phoenicians’ Route as the Lead Partner, along with the European Route of Jewish Heritage, European Mozart Ways, Routes of the Olive Tree, ATRIUM and the Iron Age Danube Route. Other participants are: Mobile Idea Srl, one of EU’s leading private companies specialized in technological innovation applied to the cultural and tourism sector and a research institute, the Stichting Breda University of Applied Sciences. The European Mozart Ways, based in Salzburg (A), was and excellent host for the whole partnership! Next meetingwill be in May 2024, at the University of Breda.
On 19-20 October 2023, ATRIUM Director Claudia Castellucci participates at the international General Assembly, the XVI Euromediterranean Diaologue on the Phoenician's Route, which takses place in Cabras (Sardinia). The international meetings brings togehter experiences from different European Cultural Routes and involves representatives of the Councli of Europe, such as such as Stefano Dominioni, Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes.
Patrick Leech, Professor at the University of Bologna and active member of ATRIUM's Scientific Committee, participated at the International Conference "CONTESTED LEGACIES. Competing Central, Eastern, and Southern European narratives on authoritarian lieux de mémoire" organised by the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, which took place on 22-23 June 2023.
From 30 May to 2 June, the Council of Europe's cultural routes met in Périgueux-Montignac and Les Eyzies de Tayac in Dordogne, for a highly constructive exchange of ideas at the 10th edition of the Training Academy for Cultural Routes managers.
During the workshops, we had the chance to exchange our experiences and discuss three central themes for the development of the Routes: Visibility, Cooperation, Sustainability.
Thank you to all the partners, particularly the organizers: the Prehistoric Rock Art Route and the Dordogne Departmental Council, for the wonderful time spent together and the chance to discover the magnificent Dordogne region.
Visit the CoE website for further information.