The “Territory & heritages for a new shared economical value” project is dedicated creating and developing with the unemployed people new economic activities in order to promote the urban community heritage, pointing out the archeology and the local craft abilities.
The EQUAL European program supports our project. As in a kind of laboratory, our original process brings together the approaches of economic development, tourism, and heritage through common values based on social development, solidarity and culture.
 A specific project for a specific heritage
Plaine Commune has always been a land of memoir and a welcoming area to communities. The Early Middle Ages period is the cornerstone of the exceptional architectural and cultural heritage, and the primary richness of the urban community.
The main targets of “Territory and heritages for a new shared economical value” are based on this heritage, in order to create new jobs in the field of craft-skills.
The main focus of the project
The actions are the following:
- Identification of people with specific skills which are frequently unknown,
- Gathering together of artcraft-men in order to develop their business and to consider their involvement in the other actions of the project,
- Technical training of people in different craft abilities,
- Dealing the derivative products and diversifying of the products range in order to maintain the craft activities,
- Gathering together whole participants to confront their positions in order to enrich the answers.
All these actions are bearing in mind the pattern of participative democraty by regularly informing the participants.
The partners of the project
This project is supported by an interdisciplinary and diversified partnership: the Plaine Commune Urban Community, the city of Saint-Denis and the associations APIJ-Bat (ecological building and insertion), Franciade (Enhancement of archaeology and heritage image) and Objectif Emploi (identification and training).
Several actions of our project are also developed with European partners:
- Exchange with two Italian training centres located in Udine on our respective abilities identification methods,
- Identification of extinct craft abilities in Europe,
Identification in Europe of the heritage value enhancement regarding these actions are in keeping with the pattern of economic development and tourism.
- We are developing some exchanges with the AVEC association and with some of the members of this network :
- The city of Mertolà in Portugal is committed since many years in a process of economic development by copying archaeological items,
- The city of Anderlecht in Belgium develops an active inhabitants processing based on enhancement of the local heritage image,
- The city of Arles in France develops an Equal project similar to ours. The city will organise during August 2007 a festival of antiquity in order to rally the inhabitants.
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