Dear friends of cultural and natural heritage,

 The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural – Historical and Natural Heritage of the Republic of Srpska, Banjaluka has the honour to invite you to participate in the Fifth regional conference on integrative protection that will be held in November this year, organized by the Institute and sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska.  

As well as in previous years, the conference will be the place for exchange of research results, opinions, experiences and proposals for acting in the field of protection and preservation of the heritage. This year’s conference is organized with an idea to overview the possibilities of protection, preservation, usage and contribution of cultural – historical and natural heritage for present and future generations, in as much aspects as possible. Theme of the Conference is New concepts of protection and recovery of urban ensembles – integrative conservation and sustainable development, and it visualized in the way to include several actual research movements in the region. 

Role and potentials of the cultural – historical heritage are the issues significant and up-to-date not only for the protection specialists, but as well for all participants related to the problems of spatial planning.

One of the reasons for the selection of this year’s theme is a recent adoption of new Law on spatial planning and construction in the Republic of Srpska, which as well proclaims the principles of sustainable development, heritage protection, and application of contemporary experiences in spatial planning, and harmonization with the approaches in neighbouring countries.  

Basic objectives of the conference are:

-          multidisciplinary analysis and consideration of the issue of integrative conservation and sustainable development,

-          exchange of new experiences and acknowledgments from the region within the field of protection and recovery of urban ensembles,

-          contribution in the awareness about the importance of the heritage and the role of all participants in its preservation for the future,

-          contribution in the finding the solutions for concrete problems within the protection and recovery of urban ensembles as well as improvement of the heritage status.

The conference conclusions will be submitted to the governments of all countries in the region.

In the attachment, you may find all detailed information and instructions for the participants.

We are sending you the best regards and looking forward to seeing you soon in Banjaluka. 

 Yours sincerely,

Director

Goran Milojevic, B.Eng. Architecture

Banjaluka, July, 2010

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