“Bread connects” is a follow-up project of the very successful project “Tastes-of-Danube.Bread.Wine.Herbs” (www.tastes-of-danube.eu). “Bread connects” is going on for two years including a lot of activities on local level in the different regions of all Danube-countries involved and with some transnational main activities. The project will be realised with numerous partners, in close cooperation with the international Association “Danube-Networkers for Europe (DANET) e.V. It .is mainly financed by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg , Germany, with support of other sponsors.
At the heart of the project „Tastes of Danube: Bread Connects“ is the promotion of awareness raising for the common cultural roots in the Danube Region and in Europe and the strengthening of the Danube community by working on the subject of bread. Through various activities, citizens of all age groups, ethnic groups and social situations will be invited to experience bread as a common material and immaterial cultural heritage, which is reflected in many facets of local level. Through doing things together at local and transnational level, the aim is to demonstrate the possibilities offered by the cultural heritage to promote intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and economic development in the Danube Region and in Europe.
These are the main activities in the project:
- Cultural Bread Route in the Danube Countries
In this project, all involved groups from all countries of the Danube Region will be researching for existing bread baking houses, public bread ovens and existing mills (historic mills powered by water power, but also by wind power and electric mills) as well as bread festivals and will be documenting these in their country languages and in English in a previously specified form, the results will be collected and presented in the project website.
Thus gradually, an online-based Cultural Bread Route in the Danube Countries will be created.
- Organization of a Danube Bread-Baking Day in October 2017 in all Danube countries.
In October 2017, a Danube Bread-Baking Day is to take place in all Danube countries. On this day, events with and around bread baking will take place at all partner locations. A media campaign on the local, national and international level should make this event known in advance, call for participation and point out the importance of bread as an important part of cultural heritage.
- Conference on Cultural Heritage and Danube Bridge Breakfast in July 2018 in Ulm.
In July 13, 2018, a conference on Cultural Heritage will take place in Ulm in the frame of the 11th International Danube festival Ulm/Neu-Ulm. There will be lectures from experts speaking about cultural heritage as an identity-building measure and on the topic of “bread” as an intangible cultural heritage. The partner groups will report about their experiences. Presented will be the results of the documentation of Bread Houses as Places of Community Building along the Danube, as well as the results of researches about mills. Also topics such as Social Entrepreneurship and Qualification should inspire new fields of activity.
Through joint baking activities in Ulm and Ulm Region on Saturday 14th and the Danube Bridge Breakfast on Sunday 15th of 2018 the Danube guests will come into contact and exchange with citizens in the Ulm area. If possible, there should be a Danube Networkers stand at the Danube festival, where products from the different partner groups / countries will be sold.
You are invited to join the project!
Contact:
Carmen Stadelhofer, President ILEU e.V. and (DANET)e.V.”
Member oft he board of “Danube-Civil-Society-Forums” (DCSF)
Olgastrasse 109
89073 Ulm
E-Mail: carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
Tel: + 49(0) 731/50-26691
www.danube-networkers.eu
www.tastes-of-danube.eu
www.thewanteddanube.eu
www.danubestrategy.eu