Conference "Maritime Heritage in local communities - models of sustainability" was held in Betina, where local lovers of sea and tradition were together with representatives of foreign countries from the Atlantic to the North Sea, as examples of good practice from which Croatia can learn.
19 speakers, nine from Croatia and ten from abroad: Ireland, Greece, Great Britain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy and the United States talked at the Conference about their experiences as well as the problems they are faced with.
Along with MEP Picula, the speakers were:
- MEP Miltiadis Kyrkos, Member of the Parliamentary Intergroup for Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas, Greece
- prof. Ph.D. Vladimir Skračić, Center for Adriatic onomastic research, University of Zadar
- Thedo Fruithof -Secretary General of the European Maritime Heritage
- Lucy Gross - Head of The Association of Sail Training Organisations
- prof.dr.sc. Joško Božanić, founder of the Ars halieutica
- Elisabete Curtinhal, director of Seixal’s Municipal Ecomuseum, Seixal Municipality, Portugal
- Cathy Buchanan, general manager of Meitheal Mara community boatyard in Cork, Ireland
- A. Michael Vlahovich, Coastal Heritage Alliance/Croatian American Society
- Martyn Heighton, Director of the National Historic Ships, (UK)
- Kate Šikić Čubrić, director of the Museum of Betina wooden shipbuilding
- Ph.D. Tea Perinčić, director of the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka
- Tamara Nikolic Đerić, Head of the the Ecomuseum / Ecomuseo "Batana"
- Davide Gnola, Director of Museo della Marineria Cesenatico, Italy
- Kirsten Monrad Hansen, Han Herred Havbåde Association, Denmark
- Thomas Højrup, Han Herred Havbåde
-Goran Stojanović, Director Savitri j.d.o.o.
-Lovorka Šimunec, President of the Outward Bound Association Croatia
Speaker presentations are available on the links: