European Institute of Cultural Routes
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The European Institute of Cultural Routes is a non-profit association based in Luxembourg whose aim is to help the Council of Europe, as a technical body, in the establishment of European Cultural Routes.
It was established in 1998 and its role is[1]:
- to examine applications for new projects;
- to monitor activities in the field and co-ordinate the work of partner organizations;
- to disseminate and archive information documents.
The Council of Europe:
- entrusted the Institute to follow up the already elected routes, to co-ordinate and provide technical aid to networks, in particular in their development in Central and Eastern Europe, to initiate new proposals as well as to disseminate information and set up a database that will constitute the memory of the programme of the cultural routes.[2]