Call for Grants 2013
Due to the large number of applications received for grants, announcement of beneficiaries will be done on May, 31st. If you are an NGO and if you have new and creative ideas in encouraging and promoting community participation in preservation of cultural heritage in Kosovo, then send a Draft project to Cultural Heritage without Borders […]
Workshops with partner municipalities of the LCHP Programme have finished
Over the past three months workshops were held in seven partner municipalities of the ‘Local Cultural Heritage Plans 2012-2015’ Programme. With joint efforts first steps were undertaken towards the completion of the plan, which is the basis of local development based on cultural and natural heritage resources. The methodology of the workshops was the same […]
US Ambassador Jacobson and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Mr. Krasniqi visited Vushtrri castle and Vushtrri Hamam
On Thursday, January the 17th , CHwB had the pleasure to host at Vushtrri Castle and Hammam, the U.S. ambassador of Pristina, Ms. Tracey Jacobson, minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Mr. Memli Krasniqi and the Mayor of Vushtrri , Mr Bajram Mulaku. CHwB is currently implementing an U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Culture Preservation for […]
Workshops with seven municipalities have started!
The second meeting of Local Cultural Heritage Forums (LCHF) were organized for Gjakovë/Djakovica and Rahovec/Orahovac municipalities from 3 to 8 December, structured as four-day workshops. Workshops are one of the most important activities of the “Local Cultural Heritage Plans 2012-2015” programme, where the prioritized projects of this programme will be pinpointed with the inputs […]
CHwB at “Culture Matters 2012”
From 14-16 November in Norwich, United Kingdom, was held an international cultural heritage conference “Culture Matters 2012”, where Rachel Nordstrom presented our projects “Welcome in Dukagjin” and Emergency interventions, illustrating the social and economic benefits of cultural heritage as a ‘driver for regeneration’. Rachel works with our Kosovo office on various projects. Most recently she […]
In support of hereditary values and the right of community in cherishing them
The Swedish foundation Cultural Heritage without Borders has taken with a great disturb the information that the cobblestones (setts) of “Çarshia e Vjetër” (the Old Bazaar) in Gjakovë/Djakovica have been removed and start being replaced with a stone pavement of a different structure. CHwB, herein, deems such undertaking seriously impairs cultural heritage values which “Çarshia […]