The specific objectives of the project “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB@ISCED 3 LEVEL” are: • SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To improve the competencies of secondary school teachers for the development of industrial heritage-related teaching methodology in line with the new understanding of industrial heritage as well as the related interdisciplinary themes ( • SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To enhance the provision of the cultural heritage education at the ISCED 3 (upper-secondary) level through wider integration of the industrial heritage contents into the school curriculum in full compliance with the contemporary/participatory approaches to heritage policy and practice. The expected results linked to the SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1 of the project are as follows: • RESULT 1.1: Enhanced competencies of secondary school teachers for developing thematic/cross-curricula contents in relation to European urban industrial heritage sites and related concepts (sustainable urban development, s participatory approaches, social innovations, smart specialisation, funding instruments) in an integrated way; • RESULT 1.2: Ensured exchange of good-practices among the secondary schools-project partners regarding the teaching standards, innovative pedagogies and didactic materials used in cross-curricular investigation of urban industrial heritage and its revitalisation. The RESULT 1.1 and the RESULT 1.2 of the project will be accomplished through implementation of the following activities: • Delivery of the Intellectual Output 1 - State-of-the-art situation concerning the industrial heritage education; • Delivery of the Short-term joint staff training events (three targeted trainings) • Pilot-testing of the Curriculum Framework “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB” under the Blended mobility of school learners (secondary school students from 3 partner schools). The expected results linked to the SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2 of the project are as follows: • RESULT 2.1.: Curriculum Framework “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB” that enables effective embedding of the industrial heritage contents into the school curriculum of the secondary schools/contextualized learning of the industrial heritage contents within the general subjects at the ISCED 3 (upper-secondary) level is developed, pilot-tested and further disseminated; • RESULT 2.2.: A comprehensive methodological guidelines that practically demonstrate core quality factors required for successful implementation “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB” and relevant teaching/learning (innovative pedagogies and didactic materials used in cross-curricular investigation of urban industrial heritage) are developed, pilot-tested and further disseminated. The RESULT 2.1 and the RESULT 2.2 of the project will be accomplished through implementation of the following activities: • Delivery of the (a) Intellectual Output 2-Development of the Curriculum Framework “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB”, (b) the Intellectual Output 3 - Methodological guide to teach "INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB” at the ISCED 3 (upper-secondary) level and (c) dissemination by means of the web-platform (Open Education Resource on Educational Provision of the “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB”). • Pilot-testing of the Curriculum Framework “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE LAB” under the Blended mobility of school learners.
With the implementation of this project we wanted to achieve several objectives: firstly, to encourage students to research about local history and to realize the interconnection with historical processes in Europe and the world. In this way students can develop a positive attitude towards local and national history. Secondly, the activities in this project could also motivate students to actively participate in the current issues of local community. Doing so, students are becoming active citizens which one of the main objectives of modern educational systems in Europe and the world.
Industrial heritage consists of the remains of industrial culture which are of historical, technological, social, architectural or scientific value. Hence, it is considered to be the important part of the European cultural heritage. This initiative aimed at promoting good practice to transform Europe's industrial, religious and military heritage that have lost their original function for new use(r)s and to turn it into a driver of economic and social development for European cities and regions. Rijeka is the city with very interesting history, especially regarding industrial heritage. Unfortunately, a great majority of this heritage is abandoned and devastated. There are some attempts of local authorities for revalorization of such heritage but in our opinion it is not enough. Therefore, we applied for this project with intention to raise awareness among students and whole local community for this topic.