Geographic Area: Cairo

Area of Development: Control and sustainable management of the environmental, artistic and cultural heritage

Sector: Museums, conservation and restoration

Executive body: DGCS – (direct management)

Institutional counterpart: Ministry of Culture – Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)

Other Funding parties: -

Beneficiaries: Governmental institutions and private operators in the field of restoration and archaeology

Period of implementation: 2002 - 2005

Amount and nature of the funds:Bilateral channel. 360,825 € [grant]

Type of intervention: Professional training

Objective: Contributing to the conservation and protection of the Egyptian cultural heritage

Description of the project:

The project transfers the techniques of innovative restoration to the counterpart institutions and to the private enterprises working in this sector, in the aim of contributing promptly and efficiently to the control of the monumental heritage of Old Cairo. The relevant activities are:  

1. Professional training in the field of restoration of Islamic monuments;

2. The Restoration, for didactic goals, of the monumental complex of the Mewlewi Dervishes; 

3. Research and scientific diffusion, also for didactic ends, and raising the public awareness of the local community.