Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

The aim of the project was a discovering of how culture development, cultural activities organization and exploitation are conditioned by social and institutional setting of a region and how to employ this knowledge in the activities of the subjects engaged in culture and cultural heritage maintaining. Social environment was understood as the structural characteristics of the inhabitants, measure of social capital and social cohesion and their regional distinctiveness institutional environment was understood as regional public administration, self-government particularly, then non-profit and private sector organisations. The project was focused on the initiative and coordinative function of local public administration in culture and cultural heritage maintaining and on the exploitation of culture and cultural heritage in regional tourism development.