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## Experts commit to involving citizens in the development of cultural initiatives in rural areas during the summer seminar of the UJI Expert Network

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The depopulation of rural areas has entered the public agenda, but cultural policies in those same areas have not. This is one of the ideas that emerges from the study "Políticas culturales y patrimoniales en la España invisible. Municipios de menos de 5.000 habitantes" [Cultural and heritage policies in invisible Spain. Municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants], carried out by Antonio Javier González, from the University of Cádiz, which he presented during the summer seminar of the Red Experta (Expert Network). The seminar was held in the town of Viver organised by the University Extension Programme (PEU-UJI) and is aimed at cultural managers and mediators.

The Expert Network is an initiative of the PEU-UJI that was created with the aim of building a stable structure of contact between the Universitat Jaume I and the territory, through a working group formed by technicians with extensive experience and a great proven technical solvency that assume the mediation and liaise. This initiative is part of the PEU's strategy that claims and works to make culture a citizens' right.

The expert in cultural management programmes explained that "culture and heritage in rural areas have been invisible for the last 40 years, both for legislators and for internal leaders who have favoured the creation of what we could call the "geography of discontent" of territories that believe they have been mistreated". González analysed the legislative documents and the plans and initiatives developed from the transition period to the present day, and pointed out that recent frameworks such as the Plan against the Demographic Challenge or the Castilla-La Mancha Depopulation Law do not pay excessive attention to culture in the rural world.

For the scholar, it is necessary to encourage and stimulate cultural and heritage policies in municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants, since "they are the fundamental basis for creating collective identities, they generate economic effects and protect the collective heritage", and at the same time he considers them to be "part of the social policies of the rural areas". González maintains that at present "culture is more a political discretion than a citizen's right".

Faced with this situation, the expert believes that "there is an opportunity to develop cultural initiatives and processes with the involvement and commitment of citizens, as opposed to policies that prioritise attendance and participation and which are linked to seasonality". In this sense, he gave as an example the work and management of the Sociocultural Activities Service of the Universitat Jaume I which, through the PEU, accompanies and supports municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants to develop cultural projects.

Milagros Alario, lecturer at the University of Valladolid, also took part in the seminar. She evaluated the results of the projects financed through the Leader Funds in the rural world, explaining that "many times, the groups and people who apply for them are more satisfied with the process of accompaniment than with the subsidy itself".

The conference also included the participation of Ángel Valeriano, master cheesemaker of "Los Corrales", who explained the experience and philosophy of the initiative that was born more than 30 years ago. Valeriano participated as a representative of the production sector in a seminar, which is financed by the Training Plan of the Culture for Recovery Programme of the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and which ended with a workshop given by Antonio Javier González.

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