The EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND INFORMATION IN THURINGIA (EKT) acts as European contact point for the project VIA REGIA since it has been awarded as „Major Cultural Route of the Council of Europe“ in March 2005.
At present its team works in the following fields:
- - project management
- - public relations, media projects
- - investigation/ information/ documentation
- - international cooperation
- - programming and webdesign
- - financial management / administration
The team is complemented by trainees, collegiate research projects, volunteers.
The EKT is financed by donations, own resources, personal contribution and project grants.
It does not act profit-oriented and is unsubsidized.
The EKT developed as Europe-oriented cultural idea that lives through the creativity and the engagement of ist employees and friends, through the interest of ist partners in Thuringia and Europe.
Its aims are based on a wide definition of culture. In this context culture means the permanent development of the intellectual, sensual amd emotional relationships of humen beings to a social and natural environment.
Its intention is to make cultural processes experiencable as important parts of life in a free, creative, tolerant and democratic Europe and, with that, to make an active contribution to European integration.
The EKT acts as special-purpose business in the association NETZ – MEDIEN UND GESELLSCHAFT e.V..
Since may 2006 the following infobrokers took part in the development of the VIA REGIA database for the model region Thuringia:
in the
working group Altenburg:
Helga Müller,
Rüdiger Großmann,
Joachim Pöschel
in the
working group Apolda:
Marlies Birnschein,
Diana Preßler,
André Wickler
in the
working group Arnstadt:
Jana Schiecke,
André Kind,
Marion Kunert,
Elisabeth Viertel,
Tatjana Mitschenko,
Gabriele Kempe
in the
working group Buttstädt:
Heike Stateczny,
Manuela Koch,
Michaela Karpe
in the
working group Camburg:
Oldrich Matal,
Heidi Seidemann
in the
working group Eisenach:
Sven Burkhardt,
Peter Kästner,
Jan Langenhan,
Klaus-Dieter Wolf,
Marika Buchal,
Dörte Kaiser
in the
working group Eisenberg:
Katrin Pachmann,
Thomas Jakob,
Sebastian Tänzler,
Roberto Tennigkeit
in the
working group Erfurt:
Ute Cerveja, Elena Weingarten,
Ute Görl, Dimitar Alexandrov, Cornelius Böttcher, Erika Steffler, Marc Frey, Dajana Lehmann,
Jutta Rahardt, Reinhard Schwalbe, Heide Udich, Günter T. Senkowski, Franziska Bracharz, Rainer Henning, Olena Zaslavska, Jaqueline Köhler, Susanne Binczyk, Petra Serafimow, Lutz Bachmann, Heinz Ziganki
in the
working group Gera:
Ernst-Dietrich Färber,
Monika Paucke,
Astrid Wiezorek,
Kerstin Beyer,
Monika Becher,
Renate Kretschmar
in der
working group Gotha:
Bernd Eysink, Reinhard Jung, Heidrun Jung, Alexander Schengals, Sascha Schirwitz, Peter Jacobs, Wilfried Winkelmann, Uwe Kärst,
Dirk Schaffenberger, Hans Renner, Günter Lehmann, Falk Schäfer, Jürgen Hör, Manuela Funke,Jürgen Böcking
in the
working group Jena:
Christel Trost, Sabine Heller,
Juan-Marina Hof, Jörn Schiele,
Lutz Günther, Silvia Köster,
Günter Oswald,
Gabriele Deutschmann,
Monika Maron
in the
working group Ronneburg:
Bianca Meister,
Bianka Sittig,
Christian Wolf,
Matthias Weiß,
Ines Galek,
Janet Vonhof
in the
working group Weimar:
Christel Trost, Sabine Heller,
Eva-Maria Sirmaci,
Verena Schütz, Nico Neumann, Monika Kunze, Uwe Krumm,
Elke Helbig, Manfred Dehme,
Siegfried David, Rainer Borsdorf,
Petra Giese, Michaela Weiß,
Judith Illgner, Claudius Schmidt
The database project has been supported by the ARGEs in Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar/ Apolda, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Sömmerda, Gera, Greiz, Ilmkreis,
the Agentur für Arbeit Altenburg, by jenarbeit, the city administrations in Eisenberg, Camburg and Ronneburg, the Kulturbund Gera e.V., the
Kulturbund Altenburger Land e.V., the ACC-gallery Weimar, the EUROPE DIRECT Relais Jena and Kommpottpora e.V. Gotha