I N V I T A T I O N TO THE CLOSING CONFERENCE OF THE PROJECT ENTITLED PARTNERSHIP AND ACTIVE INSTITUTIONAL NETWORKS OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS ROUTE IN THE MORAVIA-SLOVAKIA BORDER AREA
Term: Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 9:30 – 16:00 hrs
Venue: Slavonic Hall, Stojan Grammar School, Nádvoří 1, 687 06 Velehrad, Czech Republic
Provisional agenda:
9:30 – 10:00 Attendance checking, coffee break
10:00 – 10:40 Opening greetings
Aleš Mergental, Mayor of Velehrad
Michal Hegr, Director of Stojan Grammar School, Velehrad
Mons. Jan Graubner, Olomouc Archbishop
Jan Pijáček, Councillor of the Zlín Region, Chairman of the ECR C&M Association
Katarína Mihaľová, General Director of the Section of Cross-Border Cooperation Programmes, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic
David Machač, Head of Implementation Section, Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic
Constanze Metzger, Routes4U: Joint Programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union (video)
10:40 – 11:00 Cyril and Methodius Route on the way to European partnership: Martina Janochová and Martin Peterka, ECR C&M
11:00 – 12:15 Cyril and Methodius Route in the Moravia-Slovakia border area: Tatiana Mikušová (Slovak House of Centrope, Bratislava), Tibor Ujlacký (Regional Authority of the Nitra Self-Governing Region), Ivan Peko (Regional Authority of the Trnava Self-Governing Region), Alice Kozumplíková (Mendel University, Brno), Miroslav Kovářík (LAG Buchlov)
12:15 – 12:30 Programme ‘INTERREG V-A SK-CZ’ in pictures, numbers, and future projections: Andrej Batyás, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Recent researches of Cyril and Methodius heritage in the Slavonic Institute: Václav Čermák, Director of Slavonic Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Considering major points of the Cyril and Methodius Route's cultural heritage: Vida Vukoja, Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb
The Cyrillo-Methodian tradition - a cultural phenomenon of the European world: prepared by Slavia Barlieva / presentation by Elka Zlateva, Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
The story begins: Cyril and Methodius in Pannonia: Ágnes Ritóok, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Cyril and Methodius heritage in North Macedonia and its importance for today’s Europeans: Maja Jakimovska-Tošić, Institute of Macedonian Literature, SS Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
Cyril and Methodius Centre, Staré Město: Tomáš Chrástek, Museum of Moravian Slovakia in Uherské Hradiště
Musica Cordis 2020: Ján Všetečka, European Viticulture Forum, Nitra
Days of Slavic Culture 2020: Vojtěch Merunka, Slavic Union, Prague
Zobor and Skalka Benedictine Monasteries – Part of Cyril and Methodius Route: prepared by Mons. Viliam Judák / presented by Tibor Ujlacký, Bishopric of Nitra
15:30 – 16:00 Questions; conclusion
16:30 – 17:30 Support programme: Organ concert and guided tour to the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius, Velehrad/ ’Water of Life’, Modrá
From 18:00 Informal evening programme hosted by the Zlín Region in Centre of Moravian- Slovakian Traditions in Modrá for Scientific Committee and General Assembly meeting participants.
Compere: Zdeněk Urbanovský, East Moravian Tourist Authority
Simultaneous interpreting to/from the English language.
The conference is organized by the project’s leading partner, The European Cultural Route of Saints Cyril and Methodius, an Interest Association of Legal Entities (ECR C&M), in cooperation with the Interreg V-A Slovak Republic – Czech Republic Cooperation Programme, project partners and other partners, and the Zlín Region.
Photographic and audio-visual recordings will be made at the event for the purpose of documentation and subsequent presentation of the organizers’ activities. Change of programme is reserved.