Editorial

Dear EH 4 Partners and Friends,

We are happy to announce that our training on “Internal communication and project management”, held on April 21-22 in Brussels, went smoothly: the general enthusiasm expressed by our partners at the training and throughout the launching events of the many projects is quite encouraging.

Our up-coming activities will be a workshop on “Preventive conservation and maintenance”, to be held in Algeria in the early autumn, and another workshop on “The Circulation of objects and illicit traffic regulation”, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2009. You will eventually be able to learn more about them on this website.

We are also happy to inform you that the first issue of Connecting, the EH 4 programme quarterly newsletter, is available through the Resources menu of this website. This newsletter will allow you to follow on thematic discussions related to cultural heritage, news from the field, interviews with EH 4 projects and cultural heritage actors, images, and much more.

The main theme of our first issue focuses on how the EH 4 programme bridges the perceived dichotomy between tangible and intangible heritage, and how it is addressed in two of the selected projects. You will thus learn more about the intriguing paths of Mediterranean languages and calligraphies and explore the fascinating universe of the hammam...

We invite you to subscribe to our mailing-list in order to be up-dated on our forthcoming events and on news highlights from the cultural heritage world.

Enjoy your browsing.

The RMSU team

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How the EH 4 programme bridges the perceived dichotomy between tangible and intangible heritage, and how it is addressed in two of the selected projects? You will thus learn more about the intriguing paths of Mediterranean languages and calligraphies and explore the fascinating universe of the hammam...
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(Beirut, Lebanon, 26 May 2009)

National museums, hubs for education and knowledge on cultural heritage
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(Paris, France, 25-26 May 2009)

The main objective of this seminar is to provide projects’ partners with information on the EH 4 framework and on the “Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage” mechanisms and the proposed safeguarding and management measures.
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This international conference, organised on 8-9 April 2009 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, focused on the management and interpretation of written heritage.
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(21-22 April 2009, Brussels, Belgium)

First training module on Internal Communication and Project Management addressed to EH 4 projects coordinators and /or administrators.
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Launching events and kick-off meetings: paving the way for the EH 4 implementation
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Following a selection process led by the European Commission’s EuropeAid Co-operation Office and the delegations to Morocco and Syria with the support of the RMSU, twelve projects have been awarded within Euromed Heritage 4 for the next 36 months.
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(10-12 December 2008, Paris, France)

First legal workshop on cultural heritage inventories in Mediterranean Partner countries organised by the RMSU in collaboration with the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement
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This "Directory" is a selective bibliography and should be considered as a preliminary exercise to the comparative studies foreseen within RMSU activities in the framework of the institutional and legislative strengthening of Mediterranean cultural heritage.
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