Description
Representing about 22% of the Romanian population in the interwar period, minorities have registered a constant decline, today only 10% of the citizens being part of an ethnic minority. In order not to forget the contribution and impact that these communities had on the Romanian culture, the project “Minor Minorities” presents cultural and historical elements inherited from 5 national minorities: Germans, Hebrews, Russians-Lippovans, Ukrainians and Turks. The objective is to recover through a study the cultural heritage of ethnic minorities with poor visibility in present, to raise awareness about it among general public through a documentary movie, to promote and safeguard it through 5 gala events through a Minorities Cultural Tourist Catalogue containing tourist routes addressed to the local, national and international community. The results include 5 tourist routes on 5 minorities developed and tested; 1 Minorities Cultural Tourist Catalogue; valorisation of the ethnic diversity as an educational tool in 500 schools, as a tourist offer in 200 travel agencies in Romania and abroad, as a media tool in 100 TV stations in Romania and abroad, as a tool for local development in 100 public institutions/organisations. The target groups are 50.000 consumers of the documentary movie through TV and internet channels; 250 participants to the 5 gala events for minor minorities; 15 specialists participating in 3 workshops aiming at elaborating the touristic and cultural catalogue of minorities; 900 institutional beneficiaries of the touristic and cultural Catalogue comprising touristic offers representative for the minorities and of the movie. The project supports, promotes and implements a community development model of ethnic communities through cultural tourism history. To develop and promote cultural tourism Catalogue with 5 offers / concrete routes and involvement of internal and external travel agencies is a first step towards economic development through tourism.
Summary of project results
The project addressed the issue of the decrease in ethnic diversity, including cultural diversity, which Romania suffered during the last century. In 1930, 22.11% of the population declared other ethnicity than Romanian, while in 2011 only 10.40% of the population was part of an ethnic minority group. The project aimed at supporting a larger variety of ethnic/cultural diversity and at bringing forefront small minorities: Hebrews, Germans, Ukrainians, Russians-Lipovans and Turks etc. that, although are demographically declining, provided a significant historical/cultural heritage to our country. This was achieved by recovering the cultural and historical heritage of the ethnic minorities with low visibility in present, by facilitating the awareness of its importance to the general public, by promoting and capitalizing it through public events and through touristic itineraries. The projects’ results were achieved through 4 main methods and instruments. 1 Cultural-historical study; 1 Documentary film about the cultural heritage of 5 small minorities broadcasted to at least 64.398 TV/online viewers; 5 Minorities fairies in 5 major cities of Romania involving 72 minorities representatives, 41 specialists and 217 other participants; the events were highly promoted and they included: the Study presentation, the Documentary film projection, scientific debates, traditional buffet, artistic daces and school contests; 1 Cultural touristic catalogue edited in Romanian and English being distributed alongside with the Cultural historical study and the Documentary film (with subtitles in French, English and German) to 500 high schools, 200 tourism agencies, 100 TV stations and other 100 organizations/institutions in Romania and abroad. The projects implementation leaded to the recuperation of the cultural heritage of 5 minorities less visible today through a Cultural historical study; the awareness rising of the importance of this cultural heritage among 64.398 TV/online viewers through a Documentary film; the promotion of this cultural heritage through 5 Minorities fairies; the capitalization of this cultural heritage through the distribution of a Cultural touristic catalogue together with the Study results and the Documentary film to 900 relevant organizations and institutions in Romania and abroad. The publications and productions are also available on the project website
http://minoritati.fundatiacorona.ro/ which reached at the report date over 43.000 views.
Summary of bilateral results