KICK-OFF EVENT ”DANUBE CULTURE PLATFORM”
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 10.00 – 12.30, Ringturm, Schottenring 30, 1010 Vienna

DISCOVERING HIDDEN HERITAGE
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES FOR CULTURE & TOURISM
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 13.00 – 17.00, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Concordiaplatz 2, Room Oscar, 1010 Vienna

The Danube Culture Platform – Creative Spaces in the 21st Century dedicates itself to detective work: it aims to leave well-trodden paths, reveal hidden cultural heritage and develop contemporary artistic interpretations and new educational formats for historic sites and events. The platform seeks to discover old and new stories about the visible and invisible cultural heritage in the Danube region. These are intended to encourage the development of new cultural tourism offers for an international audience.

Headed by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, the project is being carried out with eight partners from six countries as part of the Danube Transnational Interreg programme. It started at the beginning of this year and will run until June 2019.

On 20th April 2017 the Kick-off event and the first cultural policy workshop “Discovering Hidden Heritage“ takes place in Vienna. Experts from the fields of culture, cultural heritage and tourism will discuss theoretical and practical issues in two panels:

Panel 1 Experiencing Cultural Heritage: How can cultural heritage be treated and conveyed in a contemporary way for a 21st-century audience? What contribution do cultural institutions make to the development of new destinations? And what are the benefits of the cultural heritage and cultural routes for a region and for tourism?

Panel 2 Making the Invisible Visible: How can new narratives – stories that stretch over the entire Danube area – be narrated for old and new cultural heritage sites? How can previously undiscovered sites be upgraded and included? What are the artistic tools to make the invisible visible?

On 21st April an internal project workshop along with the first steering committee meeting will inform all project partners about administrative and communicative activities within the project to learn about the requirements of a Danube Transnational project. The second working meeting concerning the research activities of the project will take place to present the expectations and tasks for the joint implementation of the activities and the upcoming cooperation.

The Austrian Federal Chancellery, Division II: Arts and Culture is very happy to invite you to the kick-off event of the project CultPlatForm_21, which was successfully submitted in the first call of the INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme. This meeting will take place at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Division II: Arts and Culture in Vienna, the official office of the lead partner of the project.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna.

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