Month: April 2026

Solar salterns – salt-making areas and natural habitats

Geographical Bulletin has published a scientfic paper entitled »Solar salterns – salt-making areas and natural habitats«. The author is Primož Pipan member of the program group Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national. Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.3986/GV97202 Keywords: geography, cultural heritage, heritagization, traditional salt-making, fleur de sel,…
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17. 04. 2026 0

Walking seminars in salterns in 2024 and 2025

Walking seminars in the research project “A Grain of Salt, Crystallizing Coexistence: Salt Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” (ARIS: J6-50196) in 2024 and 2025. Sečovlje salterns, Strunjan salterns, Slovenia, 2024 and 2025 A walking seminar (or group ethnographic walk) is a method introduced in 2014 by Nick Shepherd, Christian Ernsten, and Dirk-Jan Visser, involving a…
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10. 04. 2026 0

Proposal to inscribe Alpine Food Heritage in UNESCO’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Špela Ledinek Lozej, a member of the programme group, actively collaborated with the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia in preparing a multinational nomination for the inscription of Alpine food heritage in UNESCO’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. The proposal for a community-based programme for safeguarding Alpine heritage – submitted to UNESCO by Switzerland on behalf…
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03. 04. 2026 0