The EEA pro­ject fol­lo­ws up on the long-term and sys­te­ma­tic recons­truc­ti­on and revi­ta­li­za­ti­on of the Umel­ka buil­ding and the enti­re com­plex by the Slo­vak Uni­on of Visu­al Arts over a peri­od of more than 15 years:

- 2010: the con­cept of modi­fy­ing the Umel­ka com­plex was cre­a­ted on the basis of a com­pe­ti­ti­on, the win­ner of which was ATELIÉR ART — Ing. arch. Ľubo­mír Boháč

- Novem­ber 2011: SUVA obtai­ned a buil­ding per­mit for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of the pro­ject; in the fol­lo­wing years, the first sta­ges were com­ple­ted

- On Novem­ber 28, 2019, a mee­ting was held in the UMELKA Gal­le­ry with repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of the local and regi­onal artis­tic com­mu­ni­ty in order to pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the pro­ject by the repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of the sub­mit­ter (Slo­vak Uni­on of Visu­al Arts), pre­sen­ta­ti­on of com­mu­ni­ty invol­ve­ment in the pro­ject, pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the possi­bi­li­ty of coope­ra­ti­on wit­hin the pro­ject imple­men­ta­ti­on. The pre­sent par­ti­ci­pants of the mee­ting were acqu­ain­ted in detail with the pro­ject and posi­ti­ve­ly eva­lu­ated the sub­mit­ted pro­ject plan. They sta­ted that in the case of suc­cess­ful acqu­isi­ti­on of funds for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of the plan, it would be a very wel­co­me con­tri­bu­ti­on to the dig­ni­fied celeb­ra­ti­on of the cen­te­na­ry of the nati­onal cul­tu­ral monu­ment, an ico­nic pla­ce of Slo­vak cul­tu­re.

- Novem­ber 2019: SUVA sub­mit­ted an app­li­ca­ti­on for an EEA grant, in which it inc­lu­ded the next sta­ge of recons­truc­ti­on in accor­dan­ce with the modi­fied pro­ject