Let’s Open a new window into Cultural Heritage Consciousness through Digital Technologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Open a new window into Cultural Heritage Consciousness through Digital Technologies

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

Project Summary

Cultural heritage has a universal value for us as individuals, communities, and societies. It is important to preserve and pass on to future generations. Europe is a continent which has a rich cultural heritage. Cultural heritage is the fabric of our lives and societies so our European heritage is, in fact, the result of the contributions of many different cultures. It was built over a long period of time and also across many borders. According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, eight out of 10 Europeans think cultural heritage is not only important to them personally, but also to their community, region, country and the European Union as a whole.

The diversity of our heritage will illustrate the diversity of European. Understanding cherishing our heritage is essential to the development of a genuine openness of mind and to understand how Europe and the European cultures have been developing in the past and will develop into the future. The project will bring communities in partner countries together and build shared understandings of the places we live in.

Moreover, advances in computer and multimedia technologies allow for the production of digital information and large repositories for multimedia storage at little cost. This has led to the size of multimedia collections increasing rapidly, including digital libraries, medical imaging, art and museum collections, journalism, advertising, and home photo archives. As a result, it is necessary to design automated multimedia retrieval systems that can operate on a large scale. The main goal is to create, manage and query multimedia databases in an efficient and effective (i.e. accurate) manner.

Objectives:
• to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage and at the same time preserve the heritage in their neighborhood ;
• to encourage the sharing and appreciation of Europe’s cultural heritage as a shared resource;
• to raise awareness of common history and values;
• to draw attention to the challenges cultural heritage faces, such as the impact of the digital shift, environmental and physical pressure on heritage sites, and the illicit trafficking of cultural objects;
• to encourage more people discovering and exploring the opportunities of Europe’s rich and diverse cultural heritage reaching manifestations of cultural institutions such as archives, libraries, and museums;
• to bring people together and make a contribution to more cohesive societies

Number and profile of participants:
5 European secondary schools from 5 countries in Greece as a coordinator and Turkey, The United Kingdom, Iceland, and Spain all wishing to have curricular and/or extra-curricular programmes for digital cultural education.

Methodology:
We want to develop the digitised material from cultural institutions in school education such as:
• learning and educational content;
• documentaries;
• tourism applications;
• games;
• animations;
• design tools.
Approach
– Study of relevant bibliography, from the Internet, school libraries, magazines, documentaries,
– Whole school approach strategies
– Group and hands-on approach
– Classroom lessons on the topic of the project, extracurricular cultural activities
– Setting up an Erasmus Corner or wall in each school to share the outcomes and information about our multicultural project
– Creating a WEB, electronic booklet based on tradition and customs
– Cooperation, implementation, dissemination, evaluation through English, E-mail, Skype, greetings, contact between staff, students of participating schools
– participation in transnational mobility of teachers and pupils, preparing them for a better integration as European citizens.

Results :
Learning to use modern languages, more or less spoken, getting new information about the culture and civilization of European countries, the project will stimulate motivation for education, curiosity, awareness for our cultural environment.
The teachers will use the pedagogical methods and materials developed in the classroom to sensitize their pupils, the parents and the community in general to these intercultural issues, for a new European dimension.
describes how face-to-face and online collaboration enabled diverse institutions to achieve the most salient goals of the Digital Cultural Heritage project.

Long Term Effect :
This enormous trove of digital information produced today in practically all areas of human activity and designed to be accessed on computers may be lost unless specific techniques and policies are developed to conserve it so as our primary goal of the project is to create an online database that housed digitized materials from archives, museums and libraries, participants will have a chance to preserve cultural heritage information for future generations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114680 Eur

Project Coordinator

1o Epagelmatiko Lykeio Geras & Country: EL

Project Partners

• St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic College
• Smáraskóli
• Mehmetçik Anadolu Lisesi
• IES SAN MATÍAS