Project Coordinator - Transylvania Trust

The Transylvania Trust is a registered charity, set up by conservation professionals and volunteers in 1996. The  principal aim is to conserve and promote the  built heritage, to encourage the society to be receptive towards the built environment. The Trust is active in all fields of conservation: data-recording, inventory, survey, building restoration, maintenance, training, and also scientific research.

The Transylvania Trust has extensive experience in Heritage assessment  and practical crafts skills training through their work at the Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre at Banffy Castle Bontida, Romania, awarded in  008with the main prize for cultural heritage of the European Union - Europa Nostra.
The philosophy and principals of cross culture co-operation practiced at the centre will be projected into the other participating countries and adapted to local/regional needs. Those principles relating to heritage development, education and practice, transfer of know-how, interaction of cultures, and promotion of mobility through networking, have been developed over a number of years since 1999, through the implementation of international projects supported by international institutions and funders (ICOMOS, World Monument Fund, The Getty Grant Foundation, the British Headley Trust and the European Union). In addition to the Transylvania Trust the project Team will include a major NGO from each country, active in the field of Cultural Development through Heritage Conservation. Collaboration of this team, in association with Cultural Ministries and Universities, brings together a high level of expertise which can significantly influence the future of heritage understanding, restoration, and management in the S E European Region.

Details about all the projects co-ordinated by the Transylvania Trust can be found on the following websites: http://www.transylvaniatrust.ro and also http://www.heritagetraining-banffycastle.org
Mailing Address:
Transylvania Trust
400253 Cluj-Napoca
O.P. 1, C.P. 379
Romania
E-mail: director@heritagetraining-banffycastle.org
Phone/Fax: +40-264-439-858