11th Annual Meeting of the South-East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage “Funding the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-28 June 2017

1. Funding the Safeguarding of
Intangible Cultural Heritage in
Romania
PhD Adina Ciubotariu, Senior Scientific Researcher, The
Romanian Academy, Iaşi Branch

2. The economical politics of culture
dilemma
 “the permanent clash between the
economic need to commercialize
culture (or cultural values) and the
social need to keep cultural expressions
free from market mechanisms”

The White Paper for Unlocking the Economic Potential
of Cultural and Creative Sectors in Romania, The
National Institute for Research and Cultural Training,
Bucharest, Pro Universitaria Publishing House, 2016, p.
6.

3. Present Financing Instruments for Education, Awareness-Raising
and Capacity Building.
A Synthesis
 The Ministry of Culture and National Identity grants two
types of financing regulated through the Ordonance
51/1991:

The Priority Cultural Programme,

The Urgent Cultural Need Financing Programme;

also the programme CultIn is addressed to
entrepreneurs from the creative and cultural
industries: architecture, crafts, design, digital
media.

4. Present Financing Instruments for Education,
Awareness-Raising and Capacity Building.
A Synthesis
 numerous projects are funded by an institution subordinated to The
Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Identity in two yearly
sessions of granting funds for cultural projects (the intangible cultural
heritage represents a special section of the financing)

5. Present Financing Instruments for Education,
Awareness-Raising and Capacity Building.
A Synthesis
 The Programme Creative Europe 2014-2020
 Promoting Diversity in Culture and art in the Field of
European Cultural Heritage (objective: enhancing
cultural dialogue and promoting European identity by
acknowledging cultural diversity) and
Preserving and Revitalizing the Natural and Cultural
Heritage (objective: preserving cultural and natural
heritage for the generations to come and promoting
them for the general public). Their coverage is
assured by The Financial Mechanism of SEE 2009–
2014).

6. Present Financing Instruments for Education,
Awareness-Raising and Capacity Building.
A Synthesis
 The Regional Operational Programme (POR) –
Priority Axis 5 Improving the urban environment and
preserving, protecting and sustainably developing
cultural heritage – Main field of intervention
5.1 Preserving, protecting, proting and developing
natural and cultural heritage
 The National Programme of Rural
Development
 Funds offered by County Councils

7. County Institutions for the Preservation
and Promotion of Traditional Culture

found in all Romanian counties

identification, documentation and research: Traditional
Culture in the Contemporary Village;

public activity related to files in course of submission:
 Mărţişor Holiday

projects related to the inscribed elements on The
Representative List of ICH:
 “Cucuteni 5000” Ceramic Fare, 35 editions
 “The Rose from Moldova” Festival, 49 editions
 “Winter Customs and Traditions” Festival, 50 editions

8. Education and awareness-raising of
the young generation
 NGO http://piscu.ro/
 several books on UNESCO cultural heritage that can
be downloaded free from
http://edupatrimoniu.piscu.ro/carti-patrimoniu/
 10 schools use the edited manuals
 collaboration with NGO’s

9. ICH Manuals

10. Education for children, parents
and educators

Regional School Projects like Let’s Learn from Our
Grandparents, held in 25 schols and kindergartens
from 15 districts

five types of activities involving procedural
memory

two themes teach weaving (UNESCO file)

two activities refer to Mărţişor and the traditional
blouse with altiţă (the next file to be submitted for
the Representative List)

11. Annual Workshop on Didactic Capacity-Building
(Sustainable Development Goal no 4, Quality
Education)
 organized by Iaşi Branch of the Romanian Academy and
disseminated nationally; it gathered participants from Romania
and The Republic of Moldova throughout three editions; it
addressed administrative requests to the Romanian Ministry of
Education.

12. Hvala!