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 -SLOVAKIA BORDER AREA

Term: Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 9:30 – 16:00 hrs

Venue: Slavonic Hall, Stojan Grammar School, Nádvoří 1, 687 06 Velehrad,

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, 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, ), 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.