RUHR 2010 supports Kosice 2013

Very similar artistic program, inspiration in the field of creative industry but a different city circumstances for its application were the main subjects of several days of very intensive meetings of the new director of Kosice  2013, Jan Sudzina and professor Oliver Scheytt, director of RUHR 2010.

In Kosice we feel very glad to have a possibility to share past project’s experience especially when it’s an experience of a successful story of European Capital of Culture which is the case of RUHR 2010. Professor Scheytt was invited to Kosice by one of the project’s most important partners from the private sector, RWE. All three days of his visit were meant to share his experience with the project, to give the team Kosice 2013 ideas to think about, to warn them not to repeat the same mistakes as they did in RUHR 2010. “We are very glad that professor Scheytt accepted the invitation of our partner, RWE, and came to share it’s unique experience with the organization of ECOC project with us in Kosice," said Renata Lenartova, vice mayor of the city of Kosice.

{C}{C}{C}{C}Professor Scheytt stressed the positive example of the project RUHR 2010 where a typical industrial part of a country has a potential to be changed into a dynamic and modern european cultural centre. According to him this is a chance for Kosice as well. “Project European Capital of Culture is not a project of an individual but a project of the whole city, the region and the country. In 2013 it will be of no importance who was working on the project but what the city of Kosice is able to provide to Europe,” said the professor in his reaction on the recent personal changes in the direction of the project.

Another very important thing in the project according to the professor Scheytt is a good propagation of the prestigious title and the city itself. Not only tourists should be interested about the title but the most of all the people who live in the city themselves. It should be especially them who should benefit from the title and who should identify themselves with their city.“ The project needs to be open for a wild public, needs to engage the citizens of the city, it should show the city in its reality, local artists should adopt this vision of the project and of course, the modernization of the infrastructure is very important as well," said professor Oliver Scheytt who during all the meetings - with the new director Jan Sudzina, mayor of the city of Kosice, Richard Rasi and in front of the journalists declared its full support to the project Kosice 2013.

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