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EU: Syria workshop addresses Mediterranean cultural heritage

Global Arab Network - - Maha Karim

Sunday, 06 June 2010 00:33

The EU-funded Euromed Heritage 4programme in cooperation with the Syrian General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums is organizing an international workshop on the theme of “Heritage Economics and Conservation Funding” with the objective of helping the partner countries strengthen the institutional and legislative framework of their heritage policies.

A press release said the seminar, to be held from 6 to 8 June at the Damascus National Museum, Syria, seeks to define the modalities for developing heritage in a modern policy of sustainable human development consistent with its proper preservation and the safeguarding of its values.The workshop will explore ways by which national legislations can be adapted to the major international guidelines, and elaborate practical and concrete recommendations for the organisation of the relevant departments and the financing of conservation/restoration programmes in heritage sites and in museums.

“The improvement of the institutional and legislative framework of heritage policies is one of the priorities defined in the Strategy for the development of Euro-Mediterranean cultural heritage 2007-2013 agreed by all Mediterranean partner countries of the European Union,” says Marcus Cornaro, who heads the Directorate for the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument at DG EuropeAid, European Commission. “The theme of funding mechanisms for cultural heritage is essential and key to developing appropriate policies at the regional and local levels and stimulating real socio-economic advancement”.

The workshop will examine various business models and formulate proposals for the regulatory framework on the process of decision making and the accompanying managerial imperatives. It will also examine the range of financing techniques for the conservation and enhancement of heritage, with particular attention to forms of public-private partnership. An inventory of the different practices in European countries and in Mediterranean partner countries will be set as the basis for the workshop.

EuroMed Heritage IV is a €17 million EU-funded programme which contributes to the exchange of experiences on cultural heritage, creates networks and promotes cooperation with the Mediterranean Partner Countries. It focuses on the appropriation by the local populations of their cultural heritage and favours access to education and knowledge of cultural heritage. It supports a framework for the exchange of experiences, channels for the dissemination of best practices and new perspectives aimed at the development of an institutional cultural environment.

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