About Us

Starting from the fact that cultural heritage in multiethnic communities is recognised as the means of communication and respect in a civilized way, along with the fact that historical experience is passed from generation to generation, ʺThe young and heritage – tradition and future in the cross-border region – HERINFUTURʺ was created with a purpose to make the cultural heritage of the cross-border region more accessible and comprehensible to the younger population of Csongrád – Csanád county, as the target group of the project.

Cultural heritage oﬀers people the connection with particular social values, beliefs, religions and customs. It enables the identiﬁcation with a similar way of thinking and origin. It gives the automatic feeling of unity and belonging to the group and it realizes a better understanding of the previous generations and the historical area, from which we come from. The other beneﬁt by the gained maintenance of the cultural heritage is, in general, the community support. The ones who are closely identiﬁed with the particular heritage, more than oGen, try to help the others in the same community. Cultural identity relies on the memory of a community and individuals: that being crucial for the identity, beneﬁt, making decisions and acting. Cultural and creative sectors are the important incentives and social inclusions and economic growth. The investment in these sectors creates an interdisciplinary dialogue in multicultural societies and stimulates the opening of new posts in the sectors of culture and tourism. Investing in cultural heritage, on the one hand, oﬀers the feeling of belonging, however, on the other hand, it, simultaneously, gives energy and inspiration for creativity and investment in the maintaining development of the region. Material or non-material cultural heritage surely helps local and regional development via the greater social connection, just as via tourism, education and employment connection.

As the leading user, The Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with religious communities is in charge of running the whole project, taking into consideration the dynamic of the project realization and the realisation of obligations. Besides the obligations related to organization, The Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations withreligious communities has speciﬁc tasks connected to the project- the creation of the web portal for collecting the relevant information in the ﬁeld of culture, making promo movies, the organization of study trips for students and the organization of the media coverage. The Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with religious communities is, also, going to, actively, participate in all the other project activities.

The government of the Csongrád-Csanád county, traditionally, has a signiﬁcant role in collecting and preserving the elements of cultural heritage, both on the local and county level. In this project, the government of Csongrád-Csanád wants to share its good traditional practice in the above-mentioned ﬁeld, with the aim to organize workshops, study trips, project happenings, to take part in the mutual running of the project and gathers the relevant experts from the Hungarian side who possess great experience in the topics related to the project. Along with that, the government of Csongrád-Csanád county is going to promote the project and its results in their region.

Since it has long-term experience in the realization of the project, the Fund ʺEuropean aﬀairsʺof the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina will participate in all the project activities and it will provide support to their partners. The Fund will be in charge of the numerous activities: public procurement and coordination of the tender procedure, the creation of the report, the making of promo material in accordance with EU requests and demands of project events ( workshop, panels and expertise conferences), just as the creation of the smart phone application.

The project includes the following:

Two-day workshops (2x) on the preservation and protection, organized in Novi Sad for high-school students and the students from the University of Architecture and Art from Serbia and for the high-school students from Hungary.

Two-day workshop (1x), on the preservation and protection, organized in Szeged, for the high-school students and the students from the University of Architecture and Art from Hungary

Two-day workshop (1x), in Szeged about the presentation of non-material cultural heritage of the county Csongràd for the high school students and the students of Architecture and Art from Serbia and for the high school students from Hungary

The study trip for the students ( the participants of the workshops)

The web portal which collects the news and information related to cultural heritage in the cross-border region

The online brochure – non-material and material heritage in the South Bačka county and the Csongrád county

Two panels, where the experts, from the ﬁeld of cultural heritage protection from Serbia and Hungary, participate

One of the most striking results of the project will be the transferring of knowledge during those four held workshops. The workshop’s model aimed at students can be used for the other groups of high school students and university students, and it can be also involved in the regular programme of the relevant educational institutions. The other important result, the electronic