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Project "SOS Culture: Saving Endangered Cultural Assets in Remote Regions of Armenia and Georgia by Involving Local Youth in Their Preservation"

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Duration: 24 months

Goals:

To improve the conservation of and raise awareness for the neglected, ignored and endangered culture assets in the border areas of Georgia and Armenia.
Empowering local villagers to estimate values of nearby monuments and create a strong sense of ownership, especially among youth.

Objectives:

To promote inter-cultural cross-border dialogue including minorities and fostering democracy, civil society and equal access to culture.
Youth empowering re. local culture assets.
To raise tourists interest for the culture assets in the project region.
To improve pedagogical capacity and practical skills of local teachers, youth leaders and other representatives of educational institutions in order to establish a sustainable working mechanism for the SOS Culture activities reaching beyond the project time-frame.
To create an interactive SOS Culture website and database as a hub for cooperation.

Milestones / Results:

Grass-route level - video-photo database of min. 10 culture objects in the GE-AM border region, DVD with short films about those culture assets, SOS Culture website, 200 young villagers trained in photo and video skills and historic assets documentation;
Multiplier level - info campaign, 2 workshops for educators of different levels, youth leaders, a manual for teachers developed, educational material for children and youth developed; maps for hiking tourist and culture sites developed.

Contact information:

Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)

20 Myasnikyan Street, Yerevan 0025, Armenia

Tel.: + 374 (10) 555 209

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Lead Partner:

FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD LIFE AND CULTURAL ASSETS (Armenia)

Other Partners:

dvv international Regional Office for Caucasus and Turkey (Georgia)
Research on Armenian Architecture NGO (RAA) (Armenia)

April 23, 2013 SOS Culture Youth Clubs are about to produce their own short films After few weeks of hard work the SOS Culture Youth Clubs are approaching the stage of making their own short films. The young club members spent much time and effort to have the final topics for their films and draft scenarios that are going to be completed very soon. The trainers on film-making and journalism will guide them during the film-making process. The topics of the future films are very interesting, focusing on the diverse cultural and natural heritage of Armenia.
Young people do believe that their films will have a huge impact on raising awareness about their communities, about the rich cultural heritage in the region and also those films will serve as an advocacy tool for gaining the attention of the authorities.

March 28, 2013 SOS Culture local coordinators participated in the environmental education training course From March 18th until the 22nd SOS Culture project coordinators from Berdavan, Varagavan, Akhtala and Alaverdi participated in the environmental education training of teachers in Vanadzor, Lori region.
The aim of the training course was to introduce teachers from different schools of the region to environmental education and its role in educational curricula. During those five days many important topics were discussed such as biodiversity, environment and cultural heritage, organic agriculture and GMO.

November 23, 2012 FPWC’s EU funded SOS Culture Project celebrated room-opening in Berdavan Normally on Sundays the municipality in Berdvan is closed, but on Sunday November, 18^th the ground floor of the building was buzzing with activity and crowed with visitors. They all joined for the cause of the opening of the newly renovated, spacious meeting room for the local SOS Culture Youth Club. Among the guests were not only many of the young members of the Berdavan club together with their coordinator but also the coordinators of the SOS Culture Youth Clubs in Berdavan, Akhtala, Alaverdi and Varagavan.

November 14, 2012 SOS Culture Training of Trainers and Steering Committee Formation in Berdavan On 16^th -18^th of November, 2012 in Berdavan, Tavush region a Training of Trainers (ToT), and the official inauguration of a newly renovated room for the local SOS Culture Youth Club will take place.
SOS Culture is an EU funded project, implemented by the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) in cooperation with dvv international– Georgia Country office and Research on Armenian Architecture Foundation (RAA).

September 13, 2012 SOS Culture Project’s summer camp in Odzun The SOS Culture project’s summer camp in Lori region from August 13-19 is over. In the framework of the EU funded SOS Culture project, which is implemented by the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC), 50 most active members of the five Armenian SOS Culture Youth Clubs in Varagavan, Akhtala, Berdavan, Alaverdi and Yerevan were invited to take part in the summer camp.

April 11, 2012 “SOS Culture”. Revival of Forgotten Cultural Assets in the Armenian and Georgian Border Regions Abandoned and ruined churches, monasteries, dwelling caves from the Middle Ages, graveyards or prehistoric cult sites…Throughout remote areas in the South Caucasus one can find a large number of neglected cultural assets, that are in deep need of care and attention. This issue is currently addressed by the “SOS Culture” project which was launched in January 2012 by the Foundation for the Protection of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC).

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Project "SOS Culture: Saving Endangered Cultural Assets in Remote Regions of Armenia and Georgia by Involving Local Youth in Their Preservation"

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