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By David Fuegi - October 2001
David Fuegi introduces Cultivate Central and Eastern Europe (Cultivate CEE), a new addition to the Cultivate Cultural Heritage Applications Network (CULTIVATE) [1] which supports the cooperation of memory institutions (archives, libraries and museums) under the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). It brings to the network 10 new nodes in the Accession countries. These nodes should become established from the autumn of 2001.
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CULTIVATE CEE began work on 1st April 2001. At a stroke, this added 10 more countries to the Cultivate Cultural Heritage Applications Network (CULTIVATE). In formal terms Cultivate CEE is a separate contract with the Commission with its own partner structure. In practice, it will work very closely with Cultivate EU with which it shares a common workprogramme and a common technical infrastructure. Cultivate CEE runs for 2 years and so formally ends March 2003, soon after the end of Cultivate EU. The partners met in Torun, Poland in May 2001 to plan their work and again in Vienna in June. A further meeting will be held at the end September in Budapest and from then on the new Cultivate nodes should be operational according to their local circumstances.
A full description of the Cultivate network has already been given in Cultivate Interactive [2] and no attempt is made to reproduce that here.
In essence, Cultivate CEE extends the Cultivate concept into the following countries of Central and Eastern Europe:
A co-ordinating body for cultural heritage will be established at national level in each of these countries. As a result, it is expected that
The project is coordinated by the British Council (Poland) and managed by MDR Partners (UK). The project’s partner line-up includes strong partners from all the CEE countries listed above and includes players from the libraries, museums and archives sectors.
Cultivate CEE aims to increase take up of the IST programme and awareness of its results in its target countries concentrating on the cultural heritage sector. It will work closely with NCPs and other relevant organisations and projects to achieve its aims. Whereas under the 3rd and 4th Framework Programmes a network of National Focal Points (NFPs) was established in all EU Member States as part of the Telematics for Libraries Programme, the Cultivate CEE partners have less of a tradition on which to build. Nonetheless, the Cultivate CEE partners aim to create a network of national nodes similar to those in the EU countries.
Within the archives, libraries and museums sector the CEE National Nodes will aim to:
Cultivate CEE will not duplicate the infrastructure provided by Cultivate EU. It shares the same technical partners as Cultivate EU and makes a substantial financial contribution to the provision of the following common services:
The corporate identity of CULTIVATE CEE was discussed with the partners in CULTIVATE EU at a meeting held in Vienna in June under the auspices of CSC. From a contractual perspective CULTIVATE CEE is and will remain a separate project. However from the point of view of the clients of the project, separate identities could be confusing and counterproductive. The two projects (and CULTIVATE Israel) have therefore decided to present one face to the outside world through:
Within the framework of the separate contracts on which the projects rely, it has been decided to hold joint management meetings to discuss matters of common interest (mainly the common services listed above and most aspects of marketing). The two projects have also asked to be peer-reviewed at the same time. These management arrangements fully come into effect in a joint meeting of the two projects planned to take place at the Hungarian National Library in Budapest at the end of September. Most of the national nodes will be represented and the experience should be mutually beneficial in cementing together this pan-European network.
The Central and Eastern European national nodes have begun work and are in process of:
Cultivate Russia is currently under negotiation and expected to start late in 2001. This project is expected to complete the Cultivate cluster. It will be coordinated by the British Council (Moscow) and managed by MDR Partners. It will seek to work very closely with the existing Cultivate network.
The Partners in Cultivate CEE are as follows:
| Name | Short name | Country |
| The British Council (Poland) - Coordinator | BC | UK |
| MDR Partners - Manager | MDR | UK |
| Technical partners (in both Cultivate EU and Cultivate CEE) | ||
| The Library Council | CL | IRL |
| Resource: The Council for Libraries, Museums and Archives | RESOURCE | UK |
| University of Bath | UBAH | UK |
| Cultural Service Centre Austria | CSC | A |
| Institute for Learning and Teaching Research Technology, University of Bristol (subcontractor to CL) | ILRT | UK |
| Riksbibliotektjenesten | RBT | NO |
| CEE Country Partners | ||
| Nicolas Copernicus University | NCU | PL |
| Head Office of State Archives | NDAP | PL |
| Museum of Art Lodz | MAL | PL |
| Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | CL-BAS | BG |
| Institute of Cultural Memory | CIMEC | RO |
| Vilnius University | VU | LT |
| Ministry of Cultural Heritage (Hungary) | NEKOM | HU |
| Institute of Baltic Studies | IBS | EE |
| Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia | IMCS | LV |
| Narodni Muzeum (National Museum, Prague) | NM | CZ |
| Slovak partner to be announced | SK | |
| Ministry of Culture (Slovenia) | MC | SI |
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David Fuegi
david.fuegi@mdrpartners.com
http://www.mdrpartners.com
David Fuegi manages Cultivate CEE. He is a partner in MDR Partners, a consultancy company established to engage with strategic IST developments in Europe and specialising in international work involving libraries. He is joint author of “Library Performance Indicators and Library Management Tools” (1995) and of “Study of Library Economics of Central and Eastern Europe” (1998) both published in Luxembourg by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
He is currently project manager for LIBECON and is joint author of the project’s Millennium Study. Other major recent projects include business planning for the TACIS Russian State Library Project in Moscow and drafting public library standards for England for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. He manages the IPF public library benchmarking clubs and is special adviser to the UK Committee on Public Library Statistics. Other European library projects in which he has worked include the Publica Project (DG13), ISTAR (DG5), PLDP (DG16), PULMAN, TACIS TELRUS etc. Formerly he was Library Advisor to UK government ministers responsible for Libraries and held senior positions in public libraries.
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For citation purposes:
Fuegi, D. "Cultivate Reaches Out to Central and Eastern Europe", Cultivate Interactive, issue
5, 1 October 2001
URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cee/>
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