Danube's Stories. Building a Future by Using the Past in Riveran Communities

  • Project idea information

    Priority

    Environment and culture responsible Danube region - Increase competences for business and social innovation - Foster sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources - Support environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems and balanced accessibility of urban and rural areas - Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges

    Project Idea Promoter
    (name of the institution)

    Babes-Bolyai University, Institute of Oral History

    Needs and challenges
    (Needs, main problems or challenges to be addressed)

    Lack of contacts between communities living on the border of the Danube, but in different countries.
    Danube as border - dividing rather than uniting communities.
    Economic underdevelopment of Danube communities

    Objectives
    (main and specific objectives to be achieved)

    Finding the stories of the past told by people living on the Danube
    Using and promoting the (i)material cultural heritage of these communities.
    Identifying commonalities and differences between the ways communities living in different countries remember

    Main results and core outputs

    An oral history archive.
    A virtual museum.
    Guidelines for: local business based on traditional occupations, project ideas for joint projects along and across Danube, identifying main elements for a (i)material cultural heritage of the region
    Maps with

    Main foreseen activities

    Project management
    Theoretical research
    Field investigations (oral history interviews, anthropological, ethnographic and geographic investigations)
    Entrepreneurial training for local communities
    Dissemination of the results (conferences, publications

    Innovative character of the project idea

    Interdisciplinary, transnationality and the capacity of transferring theoretical knowledge into real benefits for local communities.

    Estimated Total Budget
    (in EUR)

    4,700,000.00 euro

    Estimated duration
    (in months)

    30

  • Partners involved at this stage

    ERDF Partners

    Danis Foundation, and Research/Entrepreneurial entities from Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary

    IPA Partners

    Serbia

    Associated Strategic Partners

    University of Iceland

  • Partners requested

    ERDF Partners

    Research/Entrepreneurial entities from Croatia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine.

    IPA Partners

    Bosnia

    Associated Strategic Partners

    Ministry of Culture, Romania

  • Contact Person

    Name

    Lavinia Snejana Costea

    Address

    Napoca Street, no. 11, Cluj-Napoca

    Country

    Romania

    Telephone number

    E-mail address

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Programme co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI)