ProPEACE (PROjet pour un Patrimoine Européen pour un Avenir Culturel Ensemble) is a Strategic Partnership involving 11 partners: 6 universities from France, Germany, Iceland, the Nederland, Romania and Spain ; 3 economic actors enhancing heritage in Europe (Italy, Romania, Scotland) and 2 non-European universities with expertise in digital mediation (Canada) and interculturality (Israel). The team is an example of European diversity: partners from the North, the South, the East, the West of Europe, from the Atlantique to the Mediterranean Sea, involving Europeans out of Europe, from a linguistic diversity to a cultural mix. This project is also supported by political (e.g. Firminy), economic (e.g. Italian local authorities) and cultural (e.g. Europa Nostra) institutions.ProPEACE seeks to place the academic field of heritage in a European perspective. In order to do this, it offers innovative solutions for a dynamic modernization of the European higher education about heritage. Indeed, curricula on heritage are usually offered by Humanities and Social Sciences faculties. Those have real difficulties to reform and adapt to new realities. At the end there is an intellectual and social challenge of working on a moving disciplinary field offered by a rigid structure.In Europe, Culture and Heritage are among the main sectors creating jobs and income for youth and the population in general. It is crucial to improve their performance and seek to promote their sustainable development. However it is necessary that the academic system can follow and support this movement. All European cities dream of labeling (UNESCO, European Capital of Culture) but how many of them can develop and manage in a sustainable and successful way their land with their heritage? There is a lack of trained staff and university does not have a prospective vision of the future and is unable to change its methods. Consequently, many European cultural projects do not develop as they could. It is also difficult to define what makes heritage because its media success blurs its definition.Then, over 3 years, ProPEACE will offer a program of activities to reconsider the European heritage, provide citizens’ proposals regarding a cultural future together and meet employers’ needs and expectations. Each year, in December, short-term training events will be held for academics and administrative staff. They will be opportunities for exchange on teaching practices in order to develop and redefine the concept of European heritage. New proposals will be developed during those events. Such proposals will be tested during Intensive Study programmes. Every year, in June, these IP will gather academics (14 of them from partners) and students (up to 90 European students in total). Economic actors and policy makers will also be associated. During IP, the use of digital technology will be expanded. ProPEACE is based on project dynamics, with an entrepreneurial spirit. It is isomorphic: use of digital tools and participatory methodologies are taught to academics in order to train students to design, manage and develop projects for a new concept of heritage, particularly through NICT. Throughout the project, academics and students will be co-working via a digital platform. Activities and productions resulting of this activity will be developed through a spirit of connection, participation, collaboration, and citizenship: free and open access resources such as a virtual encyclopedia on European heritage, a lexicon 2.0 and videos "180s for interculturalism" will be jointly developed by students, academics and representatives of civil society such as elderly people and migrants. Other intellectual outputs will provide proposals for new methodologies and definitions for modernizing teaching practices: a methodological guideline, a learning lab innovating heritage and some European work cafes.Dissemination activities are also planned, such as digital exhibitions, publication or MOOC. They are aimed at sharing the project results within and outside the participants, taking into account specificities of each of them.All tools and intellectual outputs delivered by ProPEACE will be transferable and adaptable in other institutions. These shared resources will contribute to the ProPEACE network and eventually will result to the implementation of a curriculum at master level. ProPEACE will work for a modern and revitalized European heritage. This way, it will give a real meaning to a European experience by all and for all. In addition to knowledge, teaching will be recognized a real function.
A new thinking of #European Heritage to better #share the Culture and the Values of Europe and to #explore the unity and the diversity of European Culture: this was the ambition shared by the participants in the ProPEACE project. At the very beginning of our project, there were some meta-issues that have been discussing in the French team and among the Students of our first Joint Master Degree Erasmus Mundus « Dyclam »: To what extent is it possible to speak of European cultural Heritage? How the appropriation of European cultural Heritage could develop the European awareness and encourage the consolidation of European values? What role could play the University to reinforce among the Students a sense of belonging? A European Strategic Project was submitted to United Europe by Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne); in July 2016, the Project has been accepted. The inaugural session took place in Saint-Etienne (October 2016). ProPEACE is a Strategic Partnership involving 10 partners: -5 universities from France, Iceland, the Nederland, Romania and Spain -3 economic and cultural actors enhancing heritage in Europe (Italy, Romania, Scotland) -2 non-European universities with expertise in digital mediation (Canada) and interculturality (Israel). The team is an example of European diversity: partners from the North, the South, the East, the West of Europe, from the Atlantique to the Mediterranean Sea, involving Europeans out of Europe, from a linguistic diversity to a cultural mix. This project is also supported by political (e.g. Firminy, Saint-Etienne), economic (e.g. Italian local authorities) and cultural (e.g. Europa Nostra) institutions. ProPEACE seeks to place the academic field of heritage in a European perspective. In order to do this, it has to offer innovative solutions for a dynamic modernization of the European higher education about heritage. Over 3 years, ProPEACE proposed a program of activities to reconsider the European heritage and teaching in a European perspective. Every year, in April, May or June, Intense Programme (IP) gathered academics, students, economic or cultural actors. It was moment for new form of teaching avec activities (encyclopedia, lexicon, experience of virtual exhibition), workshop (about news jobs), lectures and visits. 3 places: Edinburgh (2017), Ravello (2018) and Santiago (2019). Some activities took place during Intensive Program in spring: - A virtual exhibition created by students helped by all partners - A moment of discussion about jobs in Europe (specificities to find a job in Europe) managed by Cluj and Sibiu. - A moment to discover a new methodology of Cultural research with Tel Aviv partner. Every year in December or January, Workshops -Wageningen (2017), Cluj (2018) and Reykjavik (2019)- has been organized for professors and cultural/economic partners in order to define the notion of European Cultural heritage, discover new methodology developing by each partner. It’s also a time to exchange points of view, to visit heritage sites, to meet actors, and to understand the challenge of each national heritages. The main Activities and Achievements realized with all partners: - Lexicon: project coordinated by Iceland with participation of students and all partners - Encyclopedia: project coordinated by Quebec with participation of students and all partners - MOOC: France has designed a MOOC to spread the results of the ProPeace project, integrating video, lectures, power point, articles - GUIDE-LIGNE to sensitize teachers, students and cultural mediators to the challenges of cultural Europe A new Master: In-depth and collective thinking has been conducted to imagine a new way of thinking and teaching European cultural heritage. This resulted in the creation of new certificate: the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree: DYCLAM+, opening in September 2019 A European Jean Monnet CHAIR: thanks to the dynamic created by this partnership, his coordinator presented a project for the creation of the Jean Monnet European Chair which was accepted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in 2018.