Relevant finished or on going projects:
- 2012 - 2013: sub-contractor in the European project LIMES - Large Scale Innovative and Mobile European Services for Culture Tourism in Rural Areas
The Roman limes is the only European cultural heritage which binds together ten European countries since antiquity: From the North-West in the United Kingdom to the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Serbia to the South East in Bulgaria it is a unique monument for many regions and partly already nominated UNESCO world heritage. Only a small part of the limes is accessible at the moment as the former fortification leads through rural regions which are not fully developed for tourism yet.
Therefore the main objectives of the LIMES project are
- to develop innovative mobile services along the limes which support information brokering, travel mobility and additional services for visitors as well as local people,
- to network touristic sites along the limes in all respective countries via these services,
- to support established as well as new businesses along the limes route,
- to create income and new jobs for rural areas,
- to make the European identity and the common European history visible and perceptible for visitors all over the world.
The partnership from Germany, Austria and Bulgaria focuses on the technical development of mobile services as a source for regional development and the creation of new, innovative value chains for the touristic sector in all countries.
- 2010 - 2013: partner in the European project MEMORI - Measurement, Effect Assessment and Mitigation of pollutant Impact on movable cultural assets – Innovative research for market transfer
MEMORI Objectives:
To provide the conservation market with innovative measurement technology, improved pollution effects knowledge and evaluation and control methods for the reduction of gaseous pollutant impact on movable cultural assets, - also facing increased use of protection measures, such as enclosures for movable cultural assets located indoors in new or rebuilt cultural heritage buildings, to satisfy demands for energy saving to mitigate climate change.
ACW is the responsible partner for market transfer activities and is also included in dissemination activities.
2010 - 2012: EVoCH - ECONOMIC VALUE OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
The main idea of the project is the creation of a European Network and Observatory for the study and promotion of the Economic Value of the European Cultural Heritage.
The main objective of this European Network and Observatory is to create a European wide body of study, analysis and dissemination of the Economic Value of Cultural Heritage, as well as a common place for sharing a high quality knowledge and experience, with the added value of exchanging expertise and different approaches and stimulating cooperation within Europe.
More about EVoCH
Seminars of ACW are announced and documented at www.evoch.eu
- 2010 - 2012: Fashion Talk
Fashion Talk is a so called "learning partnership" of the EU GRUNDVIG programme
- "Fashion plays an extremely important role in the lives of most juveniles and young adults. Peer groups create an intrinsic net of open or hidden requirements for the individual, and only persons with a high self-esteem and self-conscience dare to negate the dictate of fashion. For low income persons, the inability to equip oneself with all the “must have” very often leads to frustration and to a feeling of inferiority.
- Because of the omnipresence of fashion, and the social importance connected with it, “fashion” could therefore be used in the educational sector as an ideal vehicle to convey knowledge about, and competences for the world in which we have to live and to work. “Fashion talk” means a horizontal educational activity that combines young adults’ passion for fashion with important information about issues which help them to become conscious, socially, economically and environmentally responsible European citizens.
- The partnership will organise study visits in the countries of the partnership to investigate different models and approaches. It will put together staff members and learners from different European countries with the aim to communicate and to reflect fashion aspects at their personal levels, the level of the respective peer groups and in the context of globalisation."
- 2009 – 2011: coordinator of a cultural economy project funded by the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the city of Altenkirchen, Title: „Identifizierung der Potenziale neuer Informationstechnologien bei der Generierung ökonomischer Effekte für die Kulturwirtschaft“ (”Identification of the potentials of new information technologies for generating economic effects for cultural economy) More
- 2009 - 2010: sub contractor in the WISAWI-project of the city of Mannheim, an ESF-project which qualifies scientists from the humanities for the working market in culture; ACW is developing a working field in cultural heritage (”small museums in rural areas”) together with the scientists
- 2009: coordinator of 2 studies on the economic potential of the German city of Altenkichen together with the Technical University of Vienna (results published at www.vertikult.de and www.kultur-und-arbeit.de ; the studies were the first Germany wide which identified the cultural economic potential for small cities in rural areas
- 2009 five seminars were offered (partly together with the International Centre for Cultural Heritage Research and Protection at Bronnbach Monastery, Germany) for target groups from cultural heritage, cultural entrepreneurs, culture tourism and municipalities on different topics for identifying and fostering economic effects in culture and cultural heritage
- 2009 – 2011 partner in the LEONARDO – Lifeling Learning Project ”StopDropOut” (coordinator Austrian ”Verein Blickpunkt Identität”, Unterrohrbach-Vienna), an employment project for young grown-ups
- 2009 – 2010: Organization of 6 events in Rhineland-Palatinate for municipalities, economy and cultural workers for communicating cultural economic strategies (together with Zukunftsinitiative Rheinland-Pfalz (www.zirp.de )
- 2009: Implementation of a nationally funded employment market project for special schools in order to support the employability of cultural workers (especially artists) in schools with children with higher foster demands
- 2008: Implementation of the workshop “From Research to Sustainable Exploitation – How to Benefit Economically from Research Results in Cultural Heritage” at the 8th European Conference on Research for Protection, Conservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage
- 2008 – 2013: Development and implementation of a sustainability strategy in economic terms for 2 cultural heritage projects of the German Bundesland Rhineland-Palatinate: ACW accompanies these project for 6 years in order to identify and install cultural economic effects; contracting bodies: a German municipality (Bad Kreuznach) and the Protestant Church of Hessen-Nassau
Inclusion in relevant networks
The ACW has initiated three networks: the AKULTOUR.net, the vertikult-network and the TRANSFER-network.
- The AKULTOUR.net is a network in cultural tourisms which started working in 2009 and aims at building a sustainable infrastructure for cultural-touristic activities in the Westerwald region (between Cologne and Frankfurt/Main).
- The vertikult-network includes 20 research and application institutions in Germany, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Great Britain and Italy with the aim of bringing together expertise in fostering employability in culture.
- TRANSFER is an independent network of researchers, project developers and entrepreneurs of the cultural heritage (CH) sector. It was founded in 2008 at the 8th European Conference on Research for Protection, Conservation and Enhance-ment of Cultural Heritage. The network fosters the sustainable exploitation of CH research results by disseminating relevant information.
Market transfer and employment aspects are of special interest.
All interested parties are welcome to join the network, which is hosted by the Association Culture & Work.
Please register for inclusion in the network and the quarterly newsletter.
vertikult and Transfer are hosted at ACW.
ACW is also included in the MEDICI-network (www.medicif.org ), a European Commission Cooperation Framework, hosted by the Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Alfredo Ronchi). The network aims at fostering multimedia access to Cultural Heritage
