Participating in the two-year project, along with the Osijek academy, are Comune di Cividale del Friuli from Italy, Lutkovno Gledalisce from the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana ("Ljubljana Puppet Theatre") and Titeres Etcetera Granada from Spain.
The project, which is part of the EU's Creative Europe programme, is designed to preserve and promote the puppetry tradition of the first decades of the 20th century, with emphasis on the work of three puppetry masters of the time - Italy's Vittorio Podrecce; the founder of professional puppetry in Slovenia, Milan Klemencic; and Spanish puppeteer Hermenegildo Lanz.
Parts of their work will be restored and put on display at a major exhibition that will, together with plays by those authors and numerous seminars and workshops, visit festivals in the project participants' towns. The exhibition will be staged in Osijek as part of the Lutkokaz event in 2016.