The new challenges that archives face today concern their relationship with space and the environment, a balance that is increasingly fragile and exposed to risk: floods, fires, and climate change are reshaping the risk profile of documentary heritage. The workshop … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! R-MAP is the acronym of the project titled Mapping, understanding, assessing and predicting the effects of remote working arrangements in urban and rural areas. R-Map is a three-year project funded by the European Union under … Continue reading
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The Europeana Aggregators Forum is the network of national, thematic and domain aggregators: organizations which enable cultural heritage institutions to share their content with Europeana and open it up to new audiences. Twice a year all of them meet to … Continue reading
This LabDay from the WEAVE series is dedicated to engage communities in South Portugal, and is composed of various cultural heritage activities, all linked to the practice of Mastros Tradicionais, a cultural practice from Odemira (Portugal). The LabDay is coordinated … Continue reading
On November 5, the World Day of Romani Language, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is organizing the Second International Conference “Safeguarding Our Romani Language”, in partnership with the Council of Europe and the University of Graz. The conference is … Continue reading
photo courtesy of University of Pisa. One of the Pilots of the INCULTUM project, aiming and empowering sustainable cultural tourism in peripheral areas with communities engagement, is coordinated by the University of Pisa and is set in the beautiful landscape … Continue reading
by Emmy van Arent and Trilce Navarrete (Erasmus University Rotterdam). The COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to close their doors, limiting the dialogue with the public and severely reducing the revenue that is normally generated from ticket sales. Museums responded by … Continue reading
Local communites are fundamental for engagement with their heritage and territorial resources: this is a key aspect that project INCULTUM, focused on sustainable tourism, wants to explore so to unlock the potential of development of rural and peripheral areas in … Continue reading
In INCULTUM project, there is an example of cross-borders pilots which try to explore synergies to support sustainable tourism in peripheral areas. One of these areas is the shared valley between Greece and Albania, marked by a river named Aoos … Continue reading
This invite-only event brings together representatives of all running and new Generic Services projects, the funding agency European Health and Digital Executive Agency – HaDEA, and the European Commission. WEAVE project was presented on day 1 the 11th October with … Continue reading
What kind of citizen science initiatives take place in the cultural heritage field? How cultural heritage contributes to citizen science and civic engagement in general? What lessons can be drawn for the relevance of social sciences and humanities to citizen … Continue reading
CitizenHeritage will be presented at the online symposium Participatory Transcription Projects in Museums, Archives, Libraries – A Practical Exchange of Experience, by project partners Katerina Zourou and Mariana Ziku (Web2Learn).The event is organized by the Museum of natural History in … Continue reading
