CSDCA (/ Inside Europe/ RAA) is the co organizer of ''ARMENIACA'' project which was selected and supported by the European Commission in the framework of ''Culture 2007-2013'' programme (Strand 1.3.).

1 ARMENIACA The digital area: a new season for the preservation and transmission of knowledge on Armenian architectural heritage
Notwithstanding the invasions following one another, and the provisional domination of foreign rulers, the Armenians remained attached to their land, made sacred with their ancestors' graves and relics.
          

2 ARMENIACA project was selected and supported by the European Commission in the framework of ''Culture 2007-2013'' programme. The Armenian General Benevolent Union (France) is the coordinator of the project.
1. Project The presence in Europe and Armenia of numerous written and photographic collections dedicated to the Armenian monumental heritage whose conservation is threatened due to the lack of financial resources and expertise for maintaining and promoting these documents, led us to conceive Armeniaca project aiming to safeguard these archives thanks to their digitization. It also aims to promote these archives through their union, listing and indexation and finally their transmission to a large audience of Europe and Armenia. The development of a database together with a very interactive website will enable the transmission of knowledge and exchanges between researchers, students, artists or architects at an international level.
The project will enable to safeguard archives dedicated to the Armenian monumental heritage, to launch a new season of studies on this topic, to enrich thesis or masters, to give a new source of inspiration for contemporaneous creation, to raise all audiences awareness on Armenian monumental heritage and to foster contacts between all the people of Europe and Armenia interested in this issue.
The project started with an international symposium from 24 to 26 November 2009 in Paris where the partners approved the archives to be digitized and the implementation of the archives conservation and promotion activities. Some conferences will take place in Europe and in Armenia as well as promotion activities such as an itinerant exhibition, virtual exhibitions and a duduk concert of the maestro Dabaghyan in Yerevan and in Venice. Finally, the website containing the database will be inaugurated in Yerevan in Armenia in October 2011.
For further information on the international symposium on Armenian heritage:
Armenian Herit age_AGBU_Symposium_engFinal

2. Culture 2007-2013 programme
The EU’s Culture programme (2007-2013) has a budget of €400 million for projects and initiatives to celebrate Europe's cultural diversity and enhance our shared cultural heritage through the development of cross-border co-operation between cultural operators and institutions.
The Culture programme aims to achieve three main objectives: to promote cross-border mobility of those working in the cultural sector; to encourage the transnational circulation of cultural and artistic output; and to foster intercultural dialogue.
For the achievement of these objectives, the programme supports three strands of activities: cultural actions; European-level cultural bodies; and analysis and dissemination activities.
For more information on Culture programme: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/doc411_en.htm

3. Partners
ARMENIACA project is the result of a collaboration between Union Générale Arménienne de Bienfaisance (France), two European coorganizers, Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena (Italy) and Inside Europe (Belgium) and the partner from Armenia, Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA).
UGAB France
Union Générale Arménienne de Bienfaisance France
Bibliothèque Nubar
11, Square Alboni, 75016 Paris, France
Tel : +33 1 45 20 03 18
Fax : +33 1 40 50 88 09
contact@agbueurope.org
www.agbueurope.org
www.agbu.org
Since 1906, UGAB’s mission is to preserve and promote the Armenian culture and identity through cultural, educative and humanitarian activities. The NGO is part of AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union) worldwide network the headquarters of which are in NYC.
UGAB France Nubarian Library is a resource centre for historians and philologists but also for students and anyone interested in Armenia and its history. Its main mission is to preserve and promote the Armenian heritage. It aims at safeguarding the collective memory and to preserve the archives at risk, to work in Armenia and in Diaspora and to contribute to fulfill the needs in those fields which had not been developed for a long time.
It also aims at organizing an effort of international collaboration including the coordination of research ambitious projects with institutions in Armenia, manage young researchers’ thesis, recommend and accompany students towards the most relevant researchers’ directors, publish young authors’ works and play a role in the delivery of scholarships for students.
The Nubarian Library also creates pedagogic tools, organizes and participates in exhibitions and specialized seminars. It has already organized national exhibitions, in particular the one dedicated to “Ani, capitale de l’an mil,” in collaboration with Paris-Musées (Pavillon des Arts, 2001) and the publication of inventories on monumental heritage.

RAA, Armenia
Research on Armenian Architecture
National Academy of Sciences, 24c, Marshall Baghramyan Av., Room 61, 375003 Yerevan, Armenia
http://www.raa.am; www.armenianarchitecture.am
Tel : 00374 10 - 52 15 25
Fax : 00374 10 - 52 15 25
The RAA was officially declared as an NGO in Armenia in 1998, becoming a branch of the NGO of the same name founded in Germany in 1978 and continuing work on the same issues related to the Armenian monumental heritage. Its founder, the architect Armen Hakhnazarian, who recently passed away (February 2009) in Aachen in Germany, had transferred most part of RAA activities in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as the archives, may they be architectural or photographic accumulated during the past decades, a heritage of 214 missions that enabled to study 3 000 monuments or architectural buildings. Overall, 250 000 documents and plots are now conserved in RAA headquarters in Yerevan, inaugurated on 22 February 2000, in the Art Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
The RAA also works for the promotion of these materials dedicated to patrimonial heritage thanks to publications (12 volumes published until now), films, exhibitions and its website, still at its first stage of development.
RAA main objective for the coming years is to go on collecting photographic, epigraphic and architectural materials, digitize its collections in high resolution and better promote them through the creation of a highly elaborated website, with multicriteria search that everyone will be able to benefit from it. Apart from other work, the RAA is currently preparing various regional monographs which will enrich its “Scientific Studies” collection. In order to accelerate its programme, it wishes to collaborate with the European institutions which have or could have a documentary fund to complete its collections.
CSDCA, Italy
Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena
Architecture and Restauration and Musique Departments
Corte Zappa, Dorsoduro 1602, 30123 Venice, Italy
Tel /Fax: 0039 0415224225
csdca-milano@fastwebnet.it
www.csdca.it
The Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena (CSDCA) aims at promoting and encouraging research, studies and projects the goal of which is the safeguarding and promotion of all aspects of the Armenian culture, with a particular attention to architecture and music. In the last years, the activities were focused on two main directions corresponding to the two departments of Architecture and Restoration and Music.
These objectives are fulfilled through the promotion and creation of scientific studies, research, projects, consulting activities, lectures, seminars, conferences, congresses and the attribution of scholarships for studies, refreshment courses and scientific research.
Moreover, the CSDCA proposes to maintain close links with experts, researchers, organizations, institutions and Armenian and international communities working in the same field by acting as a catalysis of various competencies useful for innovative tools in the development of Armenian culture.
The CSDCA inaugurated a new section for music that already founded its musical festival since 1987 with the regional organization Veneto Musica. The main goal of the musical section is and remains the promotion and production of Armenian musical activities, through concerts and audio record in its own studios, on the whole Italian territory in cooperation with the most important musical Italian institutions.
Inside Europe, Belgium
Inside Europe (IE)
15, rue d’Arlon, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel : +32 2 76 26 797
Nicolas.tavitian@insideeurope.org
http://www.insideeurope.org/
Inside Europe (IE) is an independent public policy and resource centre dedicated to European affairs relating to Armenia and to the Armenian Diaspora. Its mission is to contribute to knowledge and understanding about the relationship between Armenia and the process of European integration as well as the relationship between the Armenian Diaspora and the European institutions.


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