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HERMES Małopolska

Bertolt Brecht wrote in the 1930s:


"Radio could be the most wonderful public communication system imaginable, a gigantic system of channels - could be, that is, if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of making the listener not only hear but also speak, not of isolating him but of connecting him."


More then sixty years later, the radio entered cyberspace. With the first steps on the Internet already made, Radio Kraków decided to launch the HERMES MAŁOPOLSKA radio website dealing with the cultural heritage of Małopolska province. This has been made possible thanks to our participation in the European Union’s HERMES project, HERitage and New MEdia for Sustainable Regional Development.
Małopolska is a region that is among the richest in historic buildings in Poland and in Europe as well, with a vivid tradition and cultural diversity. Promoting the cultural heritage can help the region’s economic development. New technologies can play an important role in this task. New generations are growing up in the epoch of the Internet, and that gigantic system of communication channels becomes their natural environment. Cyber-Małopolska must not be absent from this opportunity, with all the riches of the region, and Radio Kraków’s many years of experience. We have been broadcasting since 1927 ....
The dialogue between the old and the new is under the patronage of the Greek god Hermes. In one of the first programmes available on our website, a Zator castle guide tells about the maternity ward once located in that historic building. Cultural heritage accompanies us every day, and this is the message we want to convey through the HERMES MAŁOPOLSKA website.

We want our website to be a library of radio forms – commentaries, interviews and dramas. We present audio coverage of major cultural events and offer you a radio journey along the paths of Małopolska’s cultural heritage. On our website you can also find photos and articles, links to websites of Małopolska institutions, galleries, festivals and European Union programmes. Castles, manors, wooden churches both Roman Catholic and Orthodox, heritage parks – all this can be visited on our website.

Małopolska partners of the HERMES Project:

Radio Kraków is one of the 17 regional companies of the national public radio network – we can be heard in southern Poland, and via the Internet in any place in the world. Our regional studios are located in Tarnów, Nowy Sącz, Zakopane and Chrzanów.
A considerable part of the programme deals with the culture of Kraków and the whole Małopolska region, with a special focus on regionalism, and local issues and events.

The Małopolska Cultural Institute is a local government institution of Małopolska Province. The institute implements the Małopolska development strategy set by the regional authorities. The Małopolska cultural heritage is promoted with educational programmes, workshops for young people, and numerous initiatives presenting less known places and buildings in the region, including Małopolska’s Cultural Heritage Days, and a Museum Fans’ initiative. The Institute is seeking answers to questions like “What significance inheres within historical buildings?”, “Why is it important to us?”, “Does it create today’s identity, and if so, how?”.

The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków has one of the most complete collections showing Poland’s cultural tradition. Also collected in the museum are important exhibits from other European countries, mainly Slavic, and even from other continents, totalling 80,000 museum exhibits, almost 30,000 volumes in a specialised library, and more than 200,000 special collection items.

Heritage Radio Network is an Internet radio network established by six European Radio Stations -- Bulgarian National Radio, Croatian Radio, Radio Kraków, Radio LOTTE Weimar (Germany), Slovak Radio and Hungarian Radio – and by the Greek organisations DEMEKAV and Poiein Kai Prattein. HRN was created as part of the European Union’s HERMES Project.

Programmes offered by the Heritage Radio Network present not only the cultural heritage of individual countries, but also major cultural events and portraits of artists and writers, both known and emerging. The website offers a cultural information service in English. An additional music wave band offers a round-the-clock broadcast of jazz, folk and classical music from individual countries. The website makes it also possible to listen to all stations participating in the project.

HERMES


Official website: www.swkk.de/hermes/
Cultural Heritage and New Media for sustainable regional development

There are 16 participants from eight countries in the HERMES project.
The main goal of the project is to promote and support sustainable regional development using new media to protect and further develop the cultural heritage (Internet radio, new technology in museums). The programme also supports regional tourism, creates new jobs, especially for young people, and deals with issues of physical planning, preservation and protection of cultural landscapes (e.g., the use of historic buildings instead of erecting new offices).


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Background:
The situation of participants in the project is typical of almost all CADSES regions (countries of Southern, Central and Eastern Europe), struggling with economic problems such as low industrial output, a high unemployment rate, emigration by young people, etc. On the other hand, these are areas with a rich cultural heritage, which is also typical of the CADSES regions. In spite of the enormous importance of this heritage, it is often challenged by a shortage of public finance needed to do the necessary repairs and remodelling.
The experience of the HERMES project partners, with financial support from the European Union, helps find new ways of regional development.

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