The goals of the project are the strengthening of international connections and cooperation, the exchange of good practices, interculturality, transnationalism, the promotion of EU citizenship, the strengthening of volunteerism, the positive attitude of the local community and the EU, and the discovery of cultural heritage and why this is important for the goal – to encourage more people to discover and integrate into the European cultural heritage and strengthening the sense of belonging to the common European area.
The applicant of the project is the LAZ association, the partner is Mikroregija Kahan, Zastavka, Czech Republic.
The event will begin on Friday with an introductory introduction to the participants and a visit to examples of good practice in the field of cultural heritage protection. The working day will continue with the workshop: Understanding the Union, History and Diversity and the current changes due to migration and the round table: the European Year of Cultural Heritage and the contribution of cities. At the evening in Zastavka, the project partners will present themselves. Microregion President Kahan will talk about the EU.
On Saturday, the participants will take part in the international minority festival ‘Babylonfest’ in Brno, where the ŽPZ Laz choir from Jablaniška dolina will perform, members of the LAZ association will present Slovenian home-made dishes at the stand and offer promotional material about Slovenia, as well as present the tourist offer of the municipalities of Litija and Šmartno near Litija.
In the afternoon, minority issues and the participation of underprivileged groups of citizens in co-decision-making will be presented, the students of the high school from Zastavka in Brno will hold a workshop on the EU and cultural heritage with young participants from Slovenia. ŽPZ LAZ will also perform at the event in the high school. An entertaining intercultural echer will follow.
On Sunday, the meeting will end with the evaluation of the project and the planning of cooperation in the future.
Young people will make a film about the project in the way they see.
The EU Cultural Heritage project unites us with no. 601233-CITIZ-1-2018-1-SI-CITIZ-TT is co-financed by the European Commission from the EROPA for citizens program.
