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Final Conference of the European Project HERMES
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The final Conference of the European Project HERMES (Heritage & New Media for Sustainable Regional Development) was held in the city of Weimar, in Germany, from 5th to 8th of October. This final Conference was entitled "Heritage & Media in Europe - Contributing towards Integration & Regional Development".
As partner of the project, DEMEKAV has sent a delegation of three people: Vasilis Sgouris (director of DEMEKAV), Efrosini Koutsiana (Planning & Programs Dept.) and Filippos Kalogiannis (IT Dept.).
In the final conference each partner has presented the outcomes of the local implementation of the project.
Specifically, on Thursday 5th of October the meeting of the Steering Committee was held and the leading partners discussed issues regarding the smooth running of the project. Furthermore, the first unofficial meeting of the Heritage Radio Network took place.
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Officially the conference started on Friday 6th of October. The sessions of the conference were: project coordination, scientific framework - feasibility studies, electronic media in museums, heritage radio network, summer courses & workshops, cultural heritage & regional development. Four presentations regarding the city of Volos were made in the context of these sessions.
The first presentation (V.Sgouris) was about the cultural strategies that were implemented in the city of Volos during the last decades and the local activities of the HERMES project. The second one (F.Kalogiannis) was about the cultural site www.i-politismos.gr that DEMEKAV has developed within the project and the perspectives for its future continuation after the end of the project. The third one (E.Koutsiana) was about the procedures of the strategic cultural management, taking examples from the case of Volos.
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The forth one (H.Fischer) was about the outcomes of the Summer School that was held in Volos by DEMEKAV, in the period 25th of August - 1st of September. On behalf of the Greek side, Spyros Mercouris has also spoken about the initiative of the European Cultural Capital.
A visit to the Museum of Wieland, to the environs of Weimar, was held on Saturday 7th of October.
In this Museum, which was partly financed by the project, new technologies are being used for the presentation of the exhibits. Specifically, the visitors had the opportunity to use a model electronic guiding system that has been developed for this Museum. |
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Other cultural places of interest were also visited by the partners, such as the conference center Maloca Auerworld, which makes a difference because of its original design.
The delegation of DEMEKAV, through the direct contacts with the other partners, had the opportunity to exchange experience and to understand how the project was locally implemented in other parts of Europe, as in Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Germany.
Lastly, the partners discussed with each other the perspectives of the development of new collaborations in the field of culture in the near future. |
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