FORUM
2007-12-24
Summary of the Project
In March 2006 the University of Zagreb’s International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (IRCLAMA) applied to the competition organized by the European Commission as a part of Sixth Framework Programme and Invitation, INCO Specific Support Actions for Western Balkans. The application to the European Commission funds was a logical next step in consistent implementation of the Centre’s programme policy especially as in the past fifteen years the Centre, under the guidance of Professor Miljenko Jurkoviæ, has developed into a leading European centre for the study of European cultural heritage in the period of Late Antiquity and Middle Ages. Furthermore, the application was grounded on IRCLAMA’s clearly defined development strategies.
2007-12-10
Objectives
Overall project objective is strengthening the research capacity in the field of archaeology and art history in Croatia and the Western Balkans, through:
- programmatic and institutional strengthening of the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages – IRCLAMA;
- broadening the Centre’s geographic scope of activities, and
- improving the overall impact of Centre’s activities through:
a) increased mobilization of young scientists,
b) improved dissemination of research results and
c) putting the research results to use in supporting local socio-economic development.
2007-12-09
Impact
Impact on local standards and policy development
Through implementation of this project, the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (IRCLAMA) shifts its activities from a narrow scientific focus towards an inclusive cultural policy, with the aim to ensure access to knowledge and skills to local cultural institutions, thus assisting in overcoming the limitations of regional cultural centres which until now have been excluded from general scientific tendencies and supporting the development of strong and well-informed centres of cultural life of the local community. In cooperation with local institutions, IRCLAMA intends to strengthen the mechanisms of knowledge dissemination and flow of relevant information. In addition, the Centre’s goal is the decentralization of acquired knowledge through utilization of new technologies, digital data bases, informational networks and specialist education of local partners.
At the same time, through diverse activities of its micro-regional branches, IRCLAMA supports regional and local government in creating an inclusive cultural strategy, which closely follows their programmes of cultural, as well as economic, social and educational development. This is the role of production of technical documentation and feasibility studies for archaeological parks, conducted in cooperation with eminent European experts and partners from local cultural institutions—creating an all-encompassing policy of local cultural development, stemming from the idea that overall societal development is closely connected with cultural development, as it encourages the flow of knowledge, experience and cultural interaction between local and regional cultural institutions with international partners.
Through implementation of this project, the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (IRCLAMA) shifts its activities from a narrow scientific focus towards an inclusive cultural policy, with the aim to ensure access to knowledge and skills to local cultural institutions, thus assisting in overcoming the limitations of regional cultural centres which until now have been excluded from general scientific tendencies and supporting the development of strong and well-informed centres of cultural life of the local community. In cooperation with local institutions, IRCLAMA intends to strengthen the mechanisms of knowledge dissemination and flow of relevant information. In addition, the Centre’s goal is the decentralization of acquired knowledge through utilization of new technologies, digital data bases, informational networks and specialist education of local partners.
At the same time, through diverse activities of its micro-regional branches, IRCLAMA supports regional and local government in creating an inclusive cultural strategy, which closely follows their programmes of cultural, as well as economic, social and educational development. This is the role of production of technical documentation and feasibility studies for archaeological parks, conducted in cooperation with eminent European experts and partners from local cultural institutions—creating an all-encompassing policy of local cultural development, stemming from the idea that overall societal development is closely connected with cultural development, as it encourages the flow of knowledge, experience and cultural interaction between local and regional cultural institutions with international partners.
2007-01-11
Management structure
Advisory Board
Noel Duval, PhD, Professeur Emérite D’archéologie de l’Antiquité Tardive a l’Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, France
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, PhD, directeur des études, Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts, Paris, France
Igor Fiskoviæ, PhD, Professor of Medieval Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Nikola Jakšiæ, PhD, Professor of Medieval Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia
Miljenko Jurkoviæ, PhD, Professor of Medieval Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Chair of the Board
Gisela Ripoll-Lopez, profesora titular de arqueología, Universitat de Barcelona, España
Jure Zovko, Associated Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Fulvio Zuliani, Professore di Storia dell’Arte Medioevale, Univesità di Padova, Italia
2007-01-11
