EU funds for heritage projects

Eight Maltese projects, seven of them dealing with heritage and one with cart ruts, have been allocated funds by the European Directorate for Education and Culture under its programme Culture 2000, Tourism and Culture Minister Francis Zammit Dimech...

Eight Maltese projects, seven of them dealing with heritage and one with cart ruts, have been allocated funds by the European Directorate for Education and Culture under its programme Culture 2000, Tourism and Culture Minister Francis Zammit Dimech said yesterday.

The European Commission will be contributing about €2.1 million for the projects, he said.

Culture 2000 is an EU programme that supports trans-national projects in the cultural sector including art, heritage and literature with the aim of bringing peoples closer to each other.

This year, 233 projects from various countries mainly dealing with the cultural heritage qualified for €32 million of funding. A total of 850 cultural operators from 30 European countries are participating.

Dr Zammit Dimech said Malta started benefiting from Culture 2000 when it was still an applicant country for EU membership. It was very encouraging that eight of a total of 233 projects chosen were from Malta.

He called on those possessing talents to come forward and make use of such programmes.

Dr Zammit Dimech said that in the period 2007-2013, the EU would be proposing a €400 million programme that would concentrate on the mobility of artists and cultural and inter-cultural dialogue.

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