Europe ritual cuisine– digital presentation and preservation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europe ritual cuisine– digital presentation and preservation

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

For hundreds of years, traditional ritual food has been an important ethnocultural trait for different nationalities. Characteristic of any ethnic group, its foods were also a product of its folklore and religious traditions. In modern times, as links between different nationalities become more accessible, there is a serious “modernization” of traditional cuisine. Through the internet, the cuisine of the peoples from all over the world is accessible by anyone, whether resident in a small village or in a city. The phenomenon of unification of the kitchen and commercialization of holidays (when it is mainly the preparation of traditional ritual food) is increasingly occurring.
EuRiCa Project strives to contribute and foster the preservation of the ritual cuisine, its ethnocultural traits, as well as the folklore and traditions connected with it via the development of a methodology for digitization and creation of digital representations of ritual recipes which to be integrated into the virtual culture space of Europe and thus to be accessible globally.
The digitalization of ritual recipes and the creation of their appropriate virtual representations increases the need for appropriate methods and IT solutions that support access to these little-known ethnographic objects, as well as providing the means to make them popular. As the culture sector evolves and changes, so do the skills required of individuals active in the sector who are specialists in areas, which require high-levels of knowledge but most often they are not directly connected to the IT sector. To meet this challenge EuRiCa will elaborate open and innovative training program, educational materials and e-tools for less time-consuming and cost-effective teaching on how the Europe ritual cuisine as a specific ethnographic object, could be presented, promoted and preserved in a global and long-term perspective. Moreover, a practical guide on how to implement developed methods and how to use the defined procedures and acquired skills in other domain will be provided as well in order to foster the preserving and developing cultural diversity and creating a “common” European identity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 274519 Eur

Project Coordinator

BURGASKI SVOBODEN UNIVERSITET & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Kulturverein “Blaues Fenster”
• UNIVERSIDADE PORTUCALENSE INFANTE D HENRIQUE-COOPERATIVA DE ENSINO SUPERIOR CRL
• LATVIJAS ETNOGRAFISKAIS BRIVDABAS MUZEJS
• MUNICIPIO DE LOUSADA
• SPEHA FRESIA SC
• Regional Historical Museum Burgas
• LATVIJAS KULTURAS AKADEMIJAS AGENTURA LATVIJAS KULTURAS AKADEMIJAS LATVIJAS KULTURAS KOLEDZA