We are celebrating our first year with more than 30 associated municipalities and having achieved participation in expert forums and a programme of art and heritage management initiatives with an impact throughout the province.<\/p>\n
The entity’s annual work plan has contemplated measures related to research and projects, communication, investment and development. Among the actions, it is worth highlighting the participation in the Desaf\u00edo Programme<\/strong>, the ‘rural Erasmus’ promoted by the Diputaci\u00f3n de Zaragoza through the DPZ Chair on Depopulation and Creativity, which has allowed four students from the University of Zaragoza to carry out training internships within Territorio Mud\u00e9jar. <\/p>\n In this way, between July and October, the students worked on “quality in the management of accessibility to monumental heritage” through different practical training and applied research activities, broadening their skills and improving their preparation through training based on direct work with the territory and its resources. Their work, which will be presented in mid-November, has made it possible to design a tool for information and diagnosis of the possibilities of the historical-artistic resources of Territorio Mud\u00e9jar on Google Earth, opening up multiple possibilities for the future. <\/p>\n Along the same lines, in August the call was resolved and five work placements<\/strong> were awarded in rural areas in which 16 researchers and professionals will study the design and implementation of projects linked to cultural and heritage resources, seeking synergies with innovation in rural schools, skills-based training and the creation of professional heritage networks in rural areas. The selected teams will develop their projects in the coming months. <\/p>\n In addition to this, we have been incorporated into the group of models of good practice in the management of heritage resources in rural areas to form part of the MOMAr Interreg Europe Project <\/strong>of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza, financed by the European Union, which will work until 2023, together with agents from five other European countries, on the definition of new effective and sustainable management strategies through the historical, artistic and natural resources of the province of Zaragoza, taking into account the special characteristics of our territory.<\/p>\n Territorio Mud\u00e9jar, increasingly present in heritage and innovation forums <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n In our first year, we have developed an intense agenda of visits, presentations and various actions <\/strong>to show the potential of our network of municipalities among experts in heritage, development and innovation. As examples, in the academic field, we are actively working with the universities of Zaragoza, Granada and Santiago de Compostela<\/strong>; we have participated in environments to promote innovation that focus on the possibilities of rural areas, such as ‘Tomorrow begins today<\/strong> ‘ -promoted by Empresa Nacional de Innovaci\u00f3n S.A. and organised by Ifema Feria de Madrid and the Barrab\u00e9s Group in June – and will participate at the end of October, for the second time, in the Digital Tourist<\/strong> congress – promoted by Segittur, REDES and different ministries -, a key event for the ecosystem of smart destinations. <\/p>\n In terms of forums for heritage experts<\/strong>, in August we organised a working meeting in several towns in the province of Zaragoza with a delegation from the board of directors of the Spanish Committee of Icomos<\/strong>, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the only non-governmental organisation in the world dedicated to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage. It is associated with Unesco, and advises it on nominations of properties as World Heritage Sites, as well as supervising their maintenance. The Council is made up of experts from different disciplines who work on the basis of common principles, and who promote the protection and use of monuments, also developing promotional actions. <\/p>\n In addition to this working meeting, we will participate in the 1st Annual Symposium on Natural and Cultural Heritage Icomos Spain<\/strong>, to be held in Madrid from 21 to 23 November, and in the World Heritage Managers Meeting in Cordoba<\/strong>, an annual event promoted by the Ministry of Culture and Sport to which we have been invited and which encourages the meeting, analysis and discussion of the problems that managers of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List encounter on a daily basis. In this edition, which will be held in Cordoba from 6 to 8 November, the central theme will be accessibility and cultural heritage. <\/p>\n At this meeting, the entity will present the keys to the project “Definition of a specialised professional profile for cultural heritage declared UNESCO World Heritage located in rural territories”, a proposal approved in the call for grants 2019 for the conservation, protection and dissemination of properties declared World Heritage of the Subdirectorate General for the Protection of Historical Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and which will be developed during the next year 2020.<\/p>\n Territorio Mud\u00e9jar has also been a collaborating entity in the recent commemoration of the 625th anniversary of the appointment of Benedict XIII<\/strong>, Pope Luna, as Pope.<\/strong><\/p>\n Similarly, the association is working to generate “network” projects with which to articulate public-private partnerships for the development of projects that attract investment to the territory based on its cultural and heritage identity. In this sense, we are collaborating with the Aragonese Network for Rural Development <\/strong>in the preparation of a cooperation project with eight local development groups and rural schools, which will be developed in the coming months. <\/p>\n In addition, Territorio Mud\u00e9jar is co-director of the project “Cartograf\u00eda de Identidades Rurales”, directed together with Marta Fern\u00e1ndez of the company Ad Hoc, <\/em>and which has been selected by the Ministry of Culture in the 2019 call for proposals to promote cultural industries.<\/p>\n In terms of dissemination, so that the inhabitants of the municipalities of Territorio Mud\u00e9jar are aware of the treasures they have in their villages and become prescribers of this wealth and diversity, conferences and visits<\/strong> have been held – and will continue in this new academic year – coinciding with important dates in the towns that make up the association. We have also taken part in fairs such as Aratur<\/strong> – the Aragonese Tourism Fair – which was held in May, where the tourism and cultural potential of the associated towns and villages was shown. <\/p>\n We will continue to promote Mudejar cultural heritage during 2019 with other initiatives such as the organisation of a working day for specialists and media professionals<\/strong>. Our aim is for them to learn about this exceptional legacy firsthand and to appreciate the potential of its declaration by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. <\/p>\n A solid and well-designed foundation<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Our director, Victoria Trasobares, recalls that this association was born a year ago as an association of town councils interested in consolidating a unified and collaborative management network for their historical-artistic resources after many years of effort to define a solid organisation for the future. The more than 30 localities that currently make up the association have in common an artistic legacy of Mudejar art, declared a World Heritage Site since 2001. <\/p>\n “We believe that the balance we can make of this first year of Territorio Mud\u00e9jar is more than satisfactory,” says Trasobares. “After the constitution of the association, we carried out all the internal start-up work and, in these months, we have also begun to build the technical and theoretical foundations that are fundamental for the dynamisation work that we will carry out in the coming years to be based on a solid and well-designed foundation that is essential to support the different lines of work that Territorio Mud\u00e9jar is putting in place so that the historical and artistic resources of its municipalities become a real driving force for development”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are celebrating our first year with more than 30 associated municipalities and having achieved participation in expert forums and a programme of art and heritage management initiatives with an impact throughout the province. 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