Welcome to the AEPJ Incubator Project
Our incubator helps you to develop Jewish Heritage Routes: Cultural, educational, heritage and tourism co-operation projects with a transnational importance and significance.
We offer support, training, consulting, mentoring and assistance for institutions and associations that are developing Jewish heritage routes, as well as for those who want to develop a project from scratch.
In this web you will find all the information related to this project, as well as information to participate, the call for routes, trainings and much more.
The European Route of Jewish Heritage
The AEPJ Incubator Project serves as a means of development of the European Route of Jewish Heritage, within the framework of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
The program of the Incubator is directed by the staff and the scientific committee of the AEPJ, which will be responsible for certification, evaluation and assistance for all those who wish to be part of the European Route of Jewish Heritage.
The projects approved by the scientific committee form the European Route of Jewish Heritage as a whole and will be integrated into the Council of Europe program.
Each year, a training program will be organised within the framework of the AEPJ Incubator Project. Likewise, a call for new routes will be opened annually for those who want to be part of the European Route of Jewish Heritage of the Council of Europe.
What we offer
The key goals of the European Route of Jewish Heritage are to preserve, promote and keep alive Jewish heritage, through the development of projects in the fields of research, heritage, contemporary culture and art, and cultural tourism and sustainable cultural development. Also, to develop tourism around these sites, and to broaden awareness of the cultural richness brought by the Jewish people to Europe.
The locations involved in such routes include archaeological sites, synagogues and cemeteries, ritual baths, Jewish quarters, monuments and memorials, archives, libraries and specialist museums, and a route itself can vary in scale from neighbourhood, to city, region, country and indeed can be transnational. Also includes face to face contacts with locals.
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Guidance
AEPJ is committed to provide guidance to help establish the proposed Route. Likewise, access to experts who can give advice on content and best practices.
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Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Quality Label
The programs that acquire the validation of their programs by the scientific board, in addition to acquire the label of the Council of Europe and its program of Cultural Routes, will be incorporated into the website of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage of the AEPJ, from where the AEPJ will work in the promotion of the different programs, and through the AEPJ will acquire the label of the Council of Europe.
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Promotion
The Route will be promoted by AEPJ through being featured as AEPJ approved in all AEPJ-materials, including its website. AEPJ will represent, and promote, the European Route of Jewish Heritage within the Council of Europe and more generally within the international arena.
What we ask
Applicants must understand and support the rationale behind the European Route of Jewish Heritage, must have a credible background and a credible plan for the Route. Also, they must ensure the information on the Route is up to date, especially in relation to online media.
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Collaboration
The provider will work collaboratively with AEPJ and will respond positively to all reasonable requests for information and to participate in AEPJ initiatives.
The Provider is willing to work collaboratively with other appropriate heritage-related programmes in the area and other Jewish heritage programmes in and beyond the area. This will include promoting the wider European Route of Jewish Heritage, and sharing the Provider’s experiences with other Routes of the European Route of Jewish Heritage.
Step by Step
Whether your institution already have a developed route or you want to acquire the tools and support structures for the development of a Jewish Heritage Route, we have an option for you.
If you already have a developed Jewish Route
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If you need tools or support to develop your Jewish Route
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Step One
Launch Call
This is the main door to the European Routes of Jewish Heritage. Every year, we’ll open a call for applications for those interested in participating and being part of the European Route of Jewish Heritage.
This call is open to all types of organisations, institutions and associations, with the ability to create and operate a cross-sectional project, with different stakeholders.
We also welcome projects on a local level with potential to develop regionally or nationally, as well as projects already operating on regional or national levels that wish to upgrade them. Institutions can present their Route from a geographical or conceptual approach.
Institutions can present their Route from a geographical or conceptual approach.
The call is open annually from September 15 to December 15.
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Step Two
Training programme
It is a method-oriented program focusing on acquiring the necessary tools and support structures for the development of their Jewish Heritage Route. The program is designed by the members of the scientific committee of the AEPJ.
The program will combine sessions oriented towards all the participants on general topics with individualised sessions with a mentor of the scientific committee.
The objective of the program is to give the participants the opportunity to create a work plan for the following year to implement in their projects.
This training is organised annually. In the section Training Program we will announce the details of the next training.
Approved Projects
Fee and AEPJ membership
Results of the call will be published at the end of January.
The projects that have been presented in the call from new routes will be reviewed and evaluated by the scientific committee. The approved projects by the scientific committee will be integrated into the European Route of Jewish Heritage of the Council of Europe and will be monitored for three years - the overall lifespan of the incubator. Then after, the forecast is that the Route will be self-sufficient and can continue to develop on its own, under the umbrella of the Cultural Routes program of the Council of Europe.
The institution that leads the Route will be asked to submit a candidacy to become a member of the AEPJ as a condition for joining the European Route of Jewish Heritage.
This candidacy must be ratified in the General Assembly of the AEPJ. In the case that it is approved, the institution will become a member of the AEPJ, its Route project, part of the European Route of Jewish Heritage.
The minimum annual membership fee of the AEPJ is €1,000 per year. This membership will give access to the institution to participate in other heritage projects, access to the services of the headquarters of the Association in Barcelona and access to European project funds.
