Owner of the Project: ARCH Network , Scotland, United Kingdom (http://www.archnetwork.org)
Title of the Project : Innovation in Cultural Heritage Interpretation 1 (ICHI 1)” http://www.archnetwork.eu/blog/ICHI200
Title of the Project in Turkish : “Kültürel Miras Kavramında Yenilik”
Reference Number of the Project: UK/06/A/INS/163370
Duration of The Project: 1 Year (September 2006- Ağustos 2007)
Countries of the Partners of the Project: Turkey , Bulgaria, Island and Slovakia
Partner from Turkey: Friends of Cultural Heritage-FOCUH
Days of Visiting Program in Turkey : 24 April-4 May 2007
Numbers of Visitors: 10
Project aims: ICHI stands for ‘Innovation in Cultural Heritage Interpretation’ and seeks to give those who work in the field of Scottish Heritage Interpretation and Tourism an idea of what is being done abroad in their field, and the inspiration to apply new methods at home that work well abroad. ICHI is sponsored by the ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ program, which is concerned first and foremost with vocational training. In Leonardo’s words, the exchanges aim to provide ‘opportunities for those involved in the design, delivery or implementation of training or careers guidance to undertake visits to partner organizations to exchange experience and best practice.’
Activities in Turkey: This project aims to improve the skills of professionals who train others in cultural heritage interpretation, build links between our European partners and encourage participants and partner organizations to share best practice. In this lights of these aims, visiting program in Turkey was prepared by FOCUH with the kind and voluntarily contribution of Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce, Head Office of Southeastern Anatolian Project, (Ankara) and Arsan Travel Center in Gaziantep.
Together with FOCUH representatives, 10 experts of cultural heritage from Scotland , visited and trained in the Project’s landscapes in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey (Especially in Gaziantep city and its neighbors cities such as Diyarbakır, Mardin, Adıyaman, Urfa..etc.) where these projects are organized by the national and EU grants and prepared taking into account the relationship between protection of the cultural heritage and improving sustainable development. They had also the opportunity to exchange the ideas together with the responsible persons, trainers..etc of these projects. In addition, they find the chance to visit the natural, historical properties of the regions and visit to museums.
During the First Day of the Project, “INFO DAY” organized in the Gaziantep European Union (EU) Information Centre at the Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce; representatives of FOCUH (Istanbul) , ARCH (Scotland), Gaziantep Chamber of the Commerce (Gaziantep), EU Cultural Heritage Development Program CHDP (Urfa), Southeastern Anatolia Project, (Urfa), and Ministry of the Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, (Ankara), made presentations for our gests and other participants.
During the visit of the “Mosaic School” which the output of the EU Project of the Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce , Mine YAR and Celaleddin KUCUK who are the members of FOCUH and worked in this Project as “Training Coordinator and Expert Trainer” trained our Scottish guests on the productions of the mosaics. They produced a mosaic table and presented it as a gift to the Mosaic School.
Visit Program: Visit program in Turkey was is organized by ARSAN TRAVEL CENTER.It arranged also the hotel accommodations, flight tickets of the visit program..etc.. www.arsan.com.tr
ICHI 1 in Media and Publications.
Project and news from “Info Day” published in detail on the media in Gaziantep City.
Article “ Cultural Heritage’s Travel from Scotland to the Southeastern Anatolia” by Saadet Güner about the Project published on “Education & Youth Magazine “in 2007 Number 4, which is the official publication of the Centre for European Union Education and Youth Programmes in Turkey Turkey
More information about Project and its photos please visit http://www.archnetwork.eu/blog/ICHI2007
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the General Directorate of Cultural Properties and Museums of the Ministry of the Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, (Ankara), Head Offices of the Southeastern Anatolia Project-GAP (Ankara) and EU-GAP- Cultural Heritage Development Program (Ankara), Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce and Gaziantep European Union (EU) Information Centre, Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi and Filiz HOŞÜKOĞLU (FOCUH’s friend) for their valuable and voluntarily supports and contributions to the INFO DAY of that Project.
