Our Way Heritage Lives Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Way Heritage Lives

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The OWHL (Our Way Heritage Lives) Project brings together 7 partners representing a range of organisations that provide learning in European cultural heritage to adults in situations where they face challenges of small organisational capacity or geographic isolation. Individually the organisations share a wealth of experiences and ideas about how to address common challenges such as the best use of digital media, working with volunteer staff, managing geographic and climatic conditions, engaging with diversity among learners and staff and communicating local cultural heritage within its wider context.

The project will share best practices between staff through a series of joint training events, one in each country over 3 years. Here we will see each others situation, experience each others teaching methods, and discuss how we might adapt these to our own situations. Different staff will go on different visits to embed the learning across our organisations and it will be documented in a handbook that can be shared outside the partnership.

Through the project we will gain a better understanding of our shared European cultural heritage and, in this context, what is the distinctive contribution of our own people and places. We aim to create a supportive network between our organisations that will be a legacy of the project to be shared with others.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170909 Eur

Project Coordinator

Friluftsmuseet Gamla Linköping & Country: SE

Project Partners

• High Life Highland
• Earth Building UK and Ireland Ltd
• Sagalunds museistiftelse
• Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga
• Karin Jonssons i Ångsäter stiftelse, Ljusdalsbygdens Museum
• Haus Gutenberg