Expeditio representatives took part in the training in Bánffy Castle, Romania

Marija Dragišić and Martina Đeković, representatives of Expeditio, participated in the training in the Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre Bánffy Castle Bontida, in Romania, in the period of June 19-29^th, 2011. The training encompassed theoretical part, directed on the management of cultural heritage, and practical part which involved restoration works on the Bánffy Castle. Besides, the participants had an opportunity to visit the locations where the training organizer (the TransylvaniaTrust) practiced protection of built heritage. All together, 15 participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Romania, took part in the training.

The training was organized by the Transylvania Trust (Romania) in the frame of the CSE in Heritage project (“Civil Society Engagement in community building through the understanding, development, management and preservation of the built cultural heritage of the Western Balkans - CSEinHeritage”). Partner organizations in this project are: Europa Nostra (the Netherlands), EXPEDITIO (Montenegro), Cultural Heritage without Borders - CHwB (Sweden), Emancipimi Civil Ma Ndryshe (Kosovo), Europa Nostra Serbia (Serbia).

The idea of the Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre - Bánffy Castle Bontida is to promote quality in protection of cultural heritage, through learning of traditional crafts that can be used in reconstruction and maintaining of protected objects. The Centre plies for minimum intervention, combined with a strategy of compatibility of techniques and materials, as well as usage of local resources.

The training was financially supported by the European Union and the National Cultural Fund (Hungary) and Szülőföld Fund (Hungary). It is being implemented in frame of the European Commission – DG Enlargement IPA 2009 – Civil Society Facility – Multi-beneficiary Programmes "Support to partnership Actions between Cultural Organizations".