Aims and Objectives: The project aims to strengthen the participation of European children and young people in the cultural heritage process: that is, defining, protecting and renewing cultural heritage. It increases awareness of the importance of engaging young people in these processes. In practical terms, the project encourages and guides pupils (aged approximately 11–16) at selected pilot schools in Finland, Serbia and Spain to identify cultural heritage that is meaningful to them.
Through this process, they familiarise themselves with their own cultural heritage, as well as learn, interpret and practice the cultural heritage of others. The pupils’ own voice and vision of cultural heritage will be foremost in devising and producing the presentations, events and activities of the project. Exchange visits between schools during Spring 2019 gave young people direct and meaningful experience of European heritage and active cross-cultural dialogue. This dialogue encourages reflection on the links between local, regional, national and European cultural heritage, and to notice historical continuities in the development of cultural heritage.
Funding: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish National Agency for Education, and Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Serbia.
Project duration: 2018-2020
Partners: Urban Development Centre (Serbia), Fundación San Millán de la Gogolla (Spain) and Viteco E-learning (Italy).
Project Manager: Kati Nurmi
Links:
Heritage Hubs in Creative Europe Project Results
Heritage Hubs in European Heritage Days Stories (2020)
Heritage Hubs Virtual Library (to be harvested to Europeana in Spring 2021)
Publications:
Heritage Hubs Manual for Cultural Heritage Education (Finnish, English, Swedish, Serbian and Spanish) can be downloaded for free here: https://heritagehubs.eu/results/
Heritage Hubs Recommendations for Cultural Heritage Education:
- Heritage Hubs suositukset kulttuuriperintökasvatukseen
- Heritage Hubs rekommendationer för kulturarvfostran
- Heritage Hubs recommendations for cultural heritage education
Poster and related exercises handout:
Peer-reviewed articles:
Nikolic, A., Nurmi, K.&Andonegui Navarro, M.2021. Cultural heritage and social learning: the case of Heritage Hubs project.In Mika Metsärinne (ed.) 2021. Kulttuuri ja perinne – koulussa ja kotona. Turku: University of Turku.
Published articles:
Nikolic, A., Nurmi, K.& Andonegui Navarro, M. 2021. Heritage Hubs: Practicing the principles of Faro Convention through transnational heritage education. Memoria Viva 12. A special issue on the Faro Convention Network series People, places, stories. (To be published in March 2021.)
Unpublished articles and reports:
Aleksandra Nikolić, Kati Nurmi and Mariola Andonegui Navarro. Heritage Hubs – towards multicultural and transnational heritage education
Other information about the project:
eTwinning annual conference 2018: Europe’s cultural heritage in the classroom
