The Nafplion Digital Recording Project Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Nafplion Digital Recording Project

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project will conduct digitisaton of the cultural heritage of Nafplion, a small town of great architectural significance in the Peleponnese of Greece, in order to support better preservation of this tangible cultural heritage, and by so doing will valorise the role of cultural heritage in supporting job creation, economic growth and social cohesion through supporting the town as a venue for sustainable tourism.

It will allow the partner organisations to develop and reinforce their contacts as a network, so increasing their capacity to share ideas, practices and methods while operating at a transnational level.

It will promote best practice in managing heritage by using digitization as the best practice tool. It will achieve this through a programme of laser scanning, which will be linked to a summer school for 17 early-career heritage management practitioners and VET students in digital tools for heritage management.

The project will formally liaise with the municipality of Nafplion – our key target group – to decide on which areas of the town will be digitised. This will be a decision taken on the basis of the needs of the municipality, to help them manage change and threats of change to the urban landscape.

The key activity of the project will be the undertaking of a month-long digitisation process, during which we will laser-scan and record buildings and the urban layout, preparing a perfect (and usable) record of the areas scanned. The digitisation season will incorporate and form part of a month-long summer school for early career cultural professionals, technicians and students in Digital Methods for Heritage Management. The results, techniques and equipment used in the digitisation exercise will be used extensively as source materials for the Summer School.

The results and approach will be updated after receiving feedback from the municipality on the process and results of the digitisation, together with feedback from the Summer School attendees and teaching staff on the educational value and use of the digitisation’s outputs.

The project will conclude with a workshop on digital preservation looking at the methods and results of the project and how this can be contextualised in the wider picture of contemporary digital preservation of heritage. As well as involving project participants, this will engage representatives of other projects, particularly Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships, that focus on digitisation and cultural heritage.

Over the long-term, the cultural heritage of Nafplion will be better preserved, leading to economic and social benefits resulting from enhanced (higher-spending) tourism in the town. Furthermore, a new generation of cultural heritage professionals will have developed skills that can be applied in other sitations and contexts elsewhere in Europe, and the partners will have strengthened their shared capacity network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47013,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

LANDWARD RESEARCH TEORANTA & Country: IE

Project Partners

• Initiative for Heritage Conservation
• HOGESCHOOL GENT