Jasna Fakin Bajec

Jasna Fakin Bajec has a BA in History and in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. At the same faculty she received a PhD from Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (2010). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the social and economic processes of construction of cultural heritage between tradition and innovation in the Karst region in Slovenia. From 2012 to 2015 she led postdoctoral project, where she researched a theoretical and applied definition of the role of cultural heritage in establishing sustainable development in a local space and the development of sustainable communities. The project was financed by Research Agency of Slovenia. Furthermore, she also worked on European INTERREG projects (THETRIS, Green education), where she concentrated on issues of how encourage local resident to take an active part in the processes of researching, safeguarding and manage tangible and intangible cultural heritage from their local environments. At the moment she researches the concept of participatory approach, public-private partnerships in management of historical buildings and intellectual rights of practitioners of heritage activities for economic purposes. She is also the leader of the ZRC SAZU team in INTERREG project Urban green belts, where the anthropologists, experts in cultural studies and geographers work on participatory planning. Special attention she put on analyses and development of methods and techniques of how experts should encourage and empower residents to become main stakeholders in decision-making processes. For these purposes she still works with NGOs and municipalities in Western part of Slovenia to find out how to achieve collaboration and networks among different sectors (public, private and voluntary). References: - Cultural heritage and the role of voluntary associations in the process of achieving sustainable development in rural communities. Studia ethnologica Croatica, 2016, vol. 28, page: 21-45; - The uses of cultural heritage for innovative development of rural communities. In: Heritage 2014 (Amoêda, Lira, Pinheiro (edt.). Barcelos: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, page: 153-162; Procesi ustvarjanja kulturne dediščine : Kraševci med tradicijo in izzivi sodobne družbe/The