1. Project title:          

??? Culture – A Human Channel of Communication With Nature

??? Human and Nature - One Circle of Resources and Emotions

                        ??? Culture and Nature - Our Cross-Border Values

                        ???

 

2. Project area (field):                      

Environment, human contacts and know-how, culture, science (semiotics), education;

 

3. General Aim:

 

The aim of the 24 - month project is to work out new innovative models of human cultural technology and cultural policy, and to promote long-term changes in the field; to raise human awareness about culture as creator and user of our natural environment.

 

4. Plan of Activities:

 

Activity

Timetable

Interim results

4.1. Strategic planning

 

4.1.1. Choosing and discussing the methodology of analysis;

 

4.1.2. Choosing of cultural events;

 

 

4.1.3. Forming of partner teams;

 

 

 

4.1.4. Seminar

 

 

Month 1-6

?Nov.02-Apr.03

 

 

4.1.1. Common methodology for description and analysis of cultural events will be stated;

 

4.1.2. Partners will choose diverse cultural events for visiting, describing and analysing;

 

4.1.3. Every partner(?country) will form a team (?3-5 persons) who will visit and analyse events, participate in culture management training and organise a final event;

 

4.1.4. Leaders of projects teams will get together and discuss the basics of the project;

4.2. Implementation

 

4.2.1. Visiting of culture events;

 

4.2.2. Analysing of events;

 

 

 

 

4.2.3. Working out culture management training program;

              

 

4.2.4. Seminars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.2.5. Concerts

              

 

Month 7-22

?May 03-Aug.04

month 7-11

 

month 7-13

 

 

 

 

month 11-14

 

 

 

month 7-22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

month 7-22

 

 

4.2.1. Partner teams will visit events organised by project partners; 

4.2.2. Teams will describe and analyse events organised by project partners; 

(Possible theme: how (?sustainably) is solved the interaction of cultural and natural resources?);

 

4.2.3. A new program of culture management training will be worked out, based on analyses and new experience;

 

 

4.2.4. Every partner will organise a seminar in one of the following topics:

·        culture tourism;

·        green energy in culture projects (biofuel, water resources, know-how, air,…);

·        waste problems by culture events;

·        cultural event and their surroundings (nature, urban area, manor-houses, national parks, …)

·       

 

4.2.5. Every partner will bring a culture group to the seminar. The aim is to facilitate contacts and introduce the culture of one’s region;

 

 

4.2.6. Culture management training;

 

 

 

4.2.7. Organising of new cultural events

 

 

month 15-19

 

 

 

month 19-22

 

4.2.6. Training of culture management, based on the worked out program. Partner teams will be trained, new practical models will be developed and shared;

 

4.2.7 Training participants will organise new cultural events under lecturer’s guidance;

4.3. Conclusions

 

4.3.1. Analysing of new cultural event;

 

4.3.2. Conference

 

 

 

 

 

4.3.3. Publications

month (15)23-24

?Sept.04-Okt.04

month 15-23

 

 

month 24

 

 

 

 

 

month 15-24

 

 

4.3.1. Training participants will analyse together with lecturers the changes in the essence of cultural events;

 

4.3.2. Conference of ecosemiotics will be organised by Tartu University. (Possible title: ?"Human, culture, nature - activities, resources, problems").

Ecosemiotic point of view of the project and its development will be introduced;

 

4.3.3. Next publications will be worked out:

·        Handbook on Culture Management;

·        Web site and CD-ROM about cultural management + a database about project activities and partners;

 

 

5. Aims and objectives of project:

 

5.1. Long-term aims

·       To raise human awareness about sustainable models in interaction with environment;

·       To work out the infrastructure and database systems for collecting and sharing human culture technology information in the Baltic Sea region;

·       To describe and analyse the current situation of human culture technology (compared with history and future scenarios) in the Baltic Sea region;

·       To raise the quality of culture related projects;

·       To find, analyse, implement, develop and share different new financial and action models of cultural events and institutions;

·       To support and considerably increase the number of cross-border meetings of culture groups, managers and researchers;

·       To raise the level of public awareness and information on cross-border co-operation and the process of European integration;

·       To support small-scale actions which may form a basis for larger cross-border co-operation projects;

 

5.2. Short-term aims

·       To work out methodology for describing and analysing of using all available resources in cultural activities;

·       To create an international team for implementing this project and for preparing next ones;

·       To visit, describe and analyse different cultural events;

·       To work out a culture management training program;

·       To organise ~10 seminars, thematically connected with culture and environment;

·       To organise ~10 small concerts of different groups;

·       To educate and train ~30 cultural managers;

·       To organise ~10 new cultural events based on new human culture technology solutions;

·       To publish a "Handbook on Cultural Management", web page and CD-ROM;

·       To organise a scientific (ecosemiotic) conference on topics of human cultural relations on environment;

 

6. Partners of the project:

 

Estonia -

Tartu Folk Culture Centre (Tiigi Seltsimaja)

            NGO Tartu County Central Society of Folk Culture

            Haaslava Male Choir

            Tartu University

            Leigo Lake Music Festival

            Purtse Stronghold

            ?Ülenurme Singing Society

 

Finland -

            Sysmä County

            Innoline Oy

            Neopoli Oy

            City of Lahti

 

Lithuania -

 

            Nida peninsula - national park

            ?

 

Latvia -

            Liepaja town -

            ?

 

Denmark -

            ?Danish Cultural Institute

            ?

 

Russia -

            ?

 

8. Possible financial resources:

Culture 2000; Phare Small Project Program; Open Society Institute; Nordic Cultural Fund; local foundations supporting culture, education, environmental activities; local municipality; 6th Framework Program;

 

9. Evidences for sustainability and further development of the project

 

·       ?To work out a strategy for measuring the quality of cultural projects (~Green Key, TQM)

·       ?To create the Institute of Human Culture Technology.

 

10. Contact

Aleksander Sünter

Chairman of

NGO Tartu County Central Society of Folk Culture

11 Tiigi st, Tartu 51 003, Estonia

Phone: + 372 7361 562, mobile: + 372 56 912 291

e-mail: aleksander.sunter@raad.tartu.ee