Re-designing and co-creating innovative cultural heritage services through libraries Erasmus Project

Project Title

Re-designing and co-creating innovative cultural heritage services through libraries

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 2018

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; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

During the project “Re-designing and co-creating innovative cultural heritage services through libraries”, a professional development program, short-term training for employees, as well as the development of an online MOOC course were created for cultural heritage and memory institutions.

The project consortium consists of six organizations from which two are libraries (National Library of Latvia and Belgrade City Library), three universities (Tallinn University, Hacettepe University and De Marne La Vallee University) and Stichting Project Realisatie van Initiative door Modulatie van Entrepreneurschap, whose priority is offering innovative teaching methods to both business and cultural institutions to improve and expand their services and attract customers / users.

The idea of the project arose due to the lack of innovative approaches and solutions in cultural heritage promotion services in libraries. Hence the aim of the project is to encourage society to become more involved in identification, preservation, and consumption of cultural heritage by developing training programs and educational materials for libraries, using methodologies that are actively used in other industries (IT, business, marketing).

The tasks are directly related to the project goal and intellectual results (IO): to identify the situation (IO1), to design the training programme (IO2), to implement the training programme (IO3), to make project results available via MOOC (IO4).

IO1 – State of the art report includes general overview and the situation in iTSELF project partner countries – Estonia, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, Turkey – regarding cultural heritage in libraries.

IO2 – the training programme was developed using less widely used methodology in the cultural field: Agile Framework (SCRUM and KANBAN), Lego Serious Play, Business Model You.

IO3 – four short-term joint staff training events which included learning new methodology, designing training programme, toolkit and e-learning platform to develop innovative services.

IO4 – MOOC (Masive Open Online Course) was created, allowing a wide range of professionals to get acquainted with the results of the project and use them.

These innovative approaches and solutions are further used by Belgrade City Library (promotion of cultural heritage in social networks) and the National Library of Latvia (game design and its potential use in the promotion of cultural heritage among users of different generations). The impact and long-term benefits ar provided by MOOC, giving librarians and other information professionals the opportunity in learning new various modern techniques, methods and tools and developing innovative services.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 203820,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF LATVIA & Country: LV

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITE DE MARNE LA VALLEE
• HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI
• TALLINN UNIVERSITY
• Biblioteka grada Beograda
• Stichting Project Realisatie van Initiatieven door Modulatie van Entrepreneurschap