Heritage and New Media for Sustainable Regional Development
The intention of the HERMES project is to promote and to support sustainable regional development by innovative interactions of cultural heritage and the new electronic media. In particular, the project aims to upgrade regional identity by improving the perception of heritage with the help of new media tools and to maintain historical sites by new uses. All HERMES activities are based on a completely new approach of interaction between urban, cultural and media spaces. The following main activities will be carried out: - Trans-national feasibility studies and pilot projects as a basis for media promotion and tourist use of common European Heritage Roots (Ancient Greece, Byzantine culture, Romanesque/Gothic, Classical Period, Industrial Heritage, Deformation of European Cultures by Fascism and Totalitarianism, Modern/ Bauhaus); - Preservation and redevelopment of cultural heritage sites based on trans-national concepts by introducing new utilisation and settling of SME, especially in the field of new media; - Promoting the attractiveness of cultural heritage sites by electronic forms of presentation and communication, (i.e. Heritage-Internet-Cafés); - Building up a CADSES Heritage-Internet-Radio with the involvement of radio stations from 8 countries, developing new tools of Internet Live-Streaming as well as presenting CADSES Heritage-Media-Bridges (virtual cultural routes); - Providing CADSES-wide open educational and qualification offers for young experts and multipliers; - Establishing a sustainable, long term HERMES network as future tool of communication and co-operation within the CADSES space.