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The event, organised by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Fundation for Jewish Heritage is designed to encourage provocative, creative and constructive dialogue across different sectors and different disciplines and will feature case studies and best practice. Organisers welcome papers from those working in heritage conservation, planning, policy, management, interpretation, museums and tourism and from academic colleagues in fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, business, heritage, history, urban studies.

The Visegrad Literary Residency Program, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).

During the holiday season, our thoughts turn gratefully to our Friends and Partners who have made our mission possible and successful. It is in this spirit that we say thank you and best wishes for the holidays and New Year!

On the Thursday evening of 14th December 2017, the Laurels for Patrons ceremony took place. The event was an opportunity to thank all institutions, companies, organisations and persons who supported the Association’s activity in 2017. The invitation was accepted by representatives of the diplomatic corps, local government, universities, the patronage media and sponsors. The titles of the Villa Decius Patron, as well as Gold and Silver Sponsors were awarded during the meeting.

This year’s edition of the Decius’ Ducats programme has come to an end. Ducats’ participants were students and teachers from primary schools in Małopolska and Podkarpacie regions. Thanks to their participation in the programme, the students had the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the economy, numismatics, and history of the Renaissance. The topics of the classes included selected issues connected with the history of money, its value and role, and monetary policy.

Does the mission and vision of the museum in which you work include the most important needs of your audience? How to create strategies of a cultural institution on the basis of relations with the audience? On Sunday 17th December, we invite you to a lecture “A Dialogic Museum” that will be held by Léontine Meijer van Mensch – Programme Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin and a lecturer in museum studies.

Call for Applications: Winter Seminar 2018, Media and Democracy (Law, Politics, Pluralism and Society in Central and Eastern Europe)
26 February – 2 March 2018 Győr, Hungary at Széchenyi István University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences