Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB), together with three prestigious partners in the field of heritage conservation and enhancement – the Romanian Order of Architects, the Mihai Eminescu Trust and the Monumentum Association (Ambulance for Monuments – Southern Transylvania) – has laid the foundations for the creation of the Heritage Center (HC), a multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinary entity of excellence in (1) applied education and training, (2) research-innovation-development and (3) enhancement and integrated socio-economic services for cultural and natural heritage resources, says ClujToday.ro.
UBB initiated and organized, on February 2, 2023, an inter-institutional meeting in which the terms of the partnership for the establishment and operation of the HC were established, namely the major coordinates envisaged regarding its activities.
“The initiative aims to bring major and multiple benefits – vertical and transversal – for the specific objectives and activities of the partners, programmatically assuming to identify sustainable and durable solutions for the development of communities and the socio-economic and entrepreneurial environment in Romania in the field of cultural-identity and natural heritage resources valorisation. This comes as a complementary approach to the UNESCO Chair in Sustainability, recently launched at UBB”, says UBB rector, Prof. Daniel David.
HC programmes and projects aim to provide a practical framework for formal, non-formal and continuing education, research, documentation, analysis, innovation, sustainable development and the provision of high quality integrated services in a variety of related fields:
interpretation and valorisation of heritage and traditional local-regional-regional specificities (history and archaeology; history of architecture and art; conservation and restoration; ethnography and folklore; heritage interpretation; cultural tourism; philosophy and law; engineering, physics and chemistry; digitisation/virtual, augmented and mixed reality),
sustainable and sustainable community development (economics and business; political and administrative sciences, European studies),
environment/natural environment (biology, geology, geography and environmental science, i.e. eco-system services and ecology, enhanced from a traditional local perspective and interlinked with architectural practices),
psycho-social challenges (e.g. psychology, sociology and social work),
multiculturality and interculturality (literature and theology; art, theatre and film).
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