DEMONSTRATIVE WORKSHOP FOR BOOK BODY AND BOOK BINDING RESTORATION

Event date: Monday, January 19 this year, time slot 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Event location: Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca Branch About the event Four representatives of the Old Books National Conservation and Restoration Center within the Alba-Iulia National Unification Museum, whose activity is dedicated to the identification of the factors of damage to objects […]

DEMONSTRATIVE WORKSHOP OF MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHIC WRITING ON PAPER AND PARCHMENT

Event date: Monday, November 14 this year, time slot 8:30 – 11:00 Event location: Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca Branch With a solid medievalist training obtained as a former foreign student of the École Normale Supérieure and a scholarship holder of The Warburg Institute-London, Maison française d’Oxford and New Europe College-Bucharest and benefiting from a doctorate […]

WORKSHOP FOR THE PRESENTATION OF PARCHMENT PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Perfect successor of a long tradition of parchment production and processing, dating back to the beginning of the 14th century, Lucreția Miu, one of the very few masters of this increasingly rare craft in an age dominated by digital technologies, will coordinate two demonstration workshops in the framework of the exhibition organized within the project […]

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION AT MAIHAUGEN MUSEUM IN LILLEHAMMER

Bjerkaker LearningLab, together with the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer, invites you to participate to the opening of an exhibition organized within the international project entitled “FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle. Reconstructing medieval culture from manuscript fragments” developed in partnership with the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch (Romania) and with the National Union Museum, Alba-Iulia (Romania). The […]

OPENING OF THE IN SITU EXHIBITION “A TRANSYLVANIAN PUZZLE: RECONSTRUCTING MEDIEVAL CULTURE FROM MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS”

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:00 p.m Library of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch M. Kogălniceanu Street, no. 12-14 Thanks to the FRAGMED project – “A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval culture from manuscript fragments of codices”, financed by SEE Grants 2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program, implemented by the Ministry of Culture – Project Management […]

Staff training

One aim of the FRAGMED project is to train the staff at the Romanian Academy Library in Cluj. The librarians will be initiated into studying fragments of medieval manuscripts.  Thus, assoc. prof. Dr. habil. Adrian Papahagi (UBB-Cluj) held monthly training sessions with Dr. Bogdan Crăciun, head of Old Book Department at the Library. Project funded […]

Parchment (in the) making

Perfect successor of a long tradition of parchment production and processing, dating back to the beginning of the 14th century, Lucreția Miu, one of the

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Proiect finanțat prin Granturile SEE 2014 – 2021 în cadrul Programului RO-CULTURA

This project is financed with the support of EEA Grants
2014 – 2021 within the RO-CULTURE Programme

The EEA Grants represent the contribution of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway towards a green, competitive and inclusive Europe. There are two overall objectives: reduction of economic and social disparities in Europe, and to strengthen bilateral relations between the donor countries and 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics. The three donor countries cooperate closely with the EU through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).

The donors have provided €3.3 billion through consecutive grant schemes between 1994 and 2014. For the period 2014-2021, the EEA Grants amount to €1.55 billion.

Further  information available here:
www.eeagrants.org and www.eeagrants.ro

RO-CULTURE is implemented in Romania by the Ministry of Culture through the Project Management Unit. The Programme aims at strengthening social and economic development through cultural cooperation, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural heritage management.
The total budget amounts to 34 million EUR. For more details: www.ro-cultura.ro