Cultural heritage is a common good passed from previous generations as a legacy for those to come, however to provide this we face lots of challenges regarding its preservation and access, including financial, social and, in the digital era, technical issues. Therefore, not without a reason the year of 2018 was "The European Year of Cultural heritage" with its objective of recognizing the value of the historical dimension of the built environment. Now is the right moment to continue and expand these activities in forthcoming years. From our own experience we all know that the world is not the same today as it was yesterday, and it will be different still tomorrow. We can be victims of that change, or we can proactively drive changes by learning and developing new skills and competencies as individuals and professional community. It is important to get together and bond for the changes that we want to make and share about values of European history and its rich and diverse cultural heritage. WAAT project brings together 6 international partners: as lead Plungė Public Libary (Lithuania), ICARUS HRVATSKA (Croatia), EGInA SRL (Italy), The Multidisciplinary European Research Institute Graz (Austria), Centro de Educación de Adultos de Olmedo (Spain) and The Reinwardt Academy (Netherlands). They engaging present professionals working in culture, heritage management, adult education and research institutions to develop new learning system and digital movies, that creativily raise awareness of engage 4 aspects in cultural heritage. This partnership project would be one of the initiatives that motivate and inform adult educators/ learners about cultural heritage will engage and it will use shared history and innovation for the benefit of heritage. The WAAT project will aim to promote an exchange of good practices and to develop new material to spread knowledge for adult educators on how to effectively teach learners about values of cultural heritage between different European countries. The project will open a range of different angles to access cultural heritage content. The expected results are to develop a modern and dynamic system of understanding and promoting 4 aspects of cultural heritage through digital stories. PRIMARY TARGET GROUP Present professionals working in: - culture, cultural heritage management and research institutions; -adult educators; - staff of GLAM institutions; - other relevant stakeholders (e.g. working on preserving or on dissemination of information about cultural heritage). OBJECTIVES 1. MOTIVATE dialogues between professionals on cultural heritage (intangible, tangible, digital, nature). 2. TO DEVELOP new material for adult educators and leaners on raising awareness and connecting people on the subject of cultural heritage. 3. TO REVEAL uniquely 4 aspects of cultural heritage throughout making digital stories/short films. 4. TO IMPLEMENT specific training of testing created toolkit (during the Project) in practice at learning activities. 5. TO PROMOTE cultural heritage of different European countries throughout integral learning system created during the Project. Together in a transnational joint learning partners will: - IMPLEMENT comprehensive materials on raising awareness for the European heritage sector. - EXCHANGE of good practices on cultural heritage presentations. - CREATE training material for cultural heritage presentations/film making. - DEVELOP an open digital platform for the collection and presentation of stories on cultural heritage. - INVOLVE the public in the cultural heritage world through a platform. Expected outcomes: - increased knowledge and visual fixation skills for the heritage professionals and educators; - increase creativity of target group working in cultural heritage sector; - increased number of people discovering and engaging with Europe's cultural heritage; - increased representation of cultural heritage in digital form; - reinforced cultural exchange between European citizens. Main deliverables: - TOOLKIT - introducing the project's rationale and methodology, illustrating the use of the educational material created throughout the project in order to promote and raise awareness about cultural heritage. The toolkit will integrate all the resources created during the WAAT project. - 2 LTTA , which play a crucial role with regard to the achievement of project results, as they are devoted to support beneficiaries‘ acquisition of competences and skills related to the cultural heritage and digital stories, in order to engage them in the enhancement of local cultural heritage and make them aware about the creative and digital tools (filmmaking) which can be used for promoting cultural heritage. - Publicly available digital material on cultural heritage (films). Atleast 31 digital movies/stories. - 6 multiplier events. - WAAT digital platform.
Together in transnational joint learning activities and meetings, we IMPLEMENTED comprehensive materials on raising awareness for the European heritage sector. Design to strengthen and expand non-formal adult education by offering a new, intriguing, and important cultural heritage theme and new, more modern tools - a newly developed non-formal teaching and learning guide and attractive, and engaging forms of activity (creative ways of representing cultural heritage). Therefore, we develop two intellectual products: a guide for educators/leaners and a digital platform. Basically, help non-formal adult education professionals to clarify and help understand the 4 aspects of cultural heritage. Also prepared detailed instruction on the creation of films for heritage, teach the practical details of the dissemination of heritage, and have created films accessible for all on the digital platform.
The initial project idea was born during the TCA meeting (contact seminar) on 2018 November 14-17 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The result of the seminar was achieved and WAAT project partners were united there in Spain. All partners came from diverse backgrounds, but the main idea was to raise awareness of cultural heritage. We wanted to aim to introduce learners to 4 types of heritage because heritage is still thought of as an object (static, immovable, etc.). It was important for us that non-formal adult education had a new opportunity and products and invited people to learn about cultural heritage differently and to be able to recite it in a film format. As a professional working in the field, we felt that people still don't connect with heritage or have limited access to it, and by creating an easy tool we can provide access and raise up the creativity of professionals who works with heritage, because professionals in the field are often immersed in the work of documentary bureaucracy and stop cultivating their creativity.