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• Heritage, live! — Our digital educator toolkit is officially launched

  Nov 20, 2024

  The HEART digital educator toolkit, the culmination of a two-year European collaboration project, was officially launched today at our online international seminar.

• HEART online international seminar

  Nov 8, 2024

  Join us on Wednesday, 20 November 2024, for the publication of our educational toolkit—bringing Intangible Cultural Heritage into a variety of educational activities!

• Project team visits Ireland for its final transnational meeting

  Jun 15, 2024

  Our last transnational meeting focused on the publication of the HEART digital educator toolkit and subsequent dissemination activities for the project.

• Developing workshops on Saxon furniture painting: considering the technique

  Jun 4, 2024

  The Saxon traditional style of furniture painting is a detailed technique with many traditional elements to consider. Artists Carmen and Victoria explained the process and elements during the pilot workshops in Cisnădioara, Romania.

• Introduction to ceramics

  May 14, 2024

  Discovering the origins and benefits of ceramic art.

• Ceramic Workshop ‘Manetes’

  May 7, 2024

  In this workshop in Ibi, an activity on ceramics was carried out.

• Heritage workshop: ‘Reading and ceramics’

  May 3, 2024

  A reading and pottery workshop worked as a perfect combination to maintain the oral tradition around Ibi, Spain.

• Recovery of oral tradition for children's books

  Apr 24, 2024

  Xaro Navarro from Blue Beehive describes her process of recovering and recording local oral traditions, which she uses as materials for children's books to teach about heritage and language.

• Learning about intangible heritage through ceramics

  Apr 24, 2024

  In Ibi, pilot course participants had an opportunity to work with clay while learning about local traditions related to ceramics and pottery.

• Painted furniture in traditional Saxon style — an element of intangible heritage

  Apr 17, 2024

  A model for heritage education as it explains the process by which a cultural element evolves over time and gradually becomes heritage. Depending on the context, this model can be adapted for teaching any heritage subject.

• Who should be directly involved in safeguarding heritage?

  Apr 11, 2024

  In building students' competence in heritage education, they will find out who should be responsible for protecting, preserving and saving heritage. Depending on the level of teaching, the material can be used in an interdisciplinary context, with teachers adapting this bibliographic source.

• How do we protect heritage?

  Apr 8, 2024

  It provides some theoretical guidance on how we can protect heritage. The material can be used as a bibliographical source in both pre-university and university contexts by teachers and students It can be adapted to the needs and objectives of heritage education.

• Why is it essential to protect and save our cultural heritage?

  Apr 3, 2024

  It explains the importance of protecting, preserving and passing on heritage. It can be used as a bibliographical source by teachers as well as students for educational projects.

• How do we identify heritage? How do we know whether an item is of heritage value or not?

  Apr 3, 2024

  This theoretical material can be used in an interdisciplinary context by teachers and students in secondary schools and universities. It offers several explanations on how we can identify heritage and the values it should possess to be considered heritage.

• What is heritage?

  Mar 29, 2024

  This resource can be used by teachers, trainers, students as a theoretical support in teaching heritage concepts. A proper understanding of the basic concepts provides the required skills for heritage education.

• The elements that give heritage value to painted Saxon furniture

  Mar 26, 2024

  The uniqueness and exceptional value of a heritage item is given by the modelling style. This material helps us analyse a heritage item and better understand how it has evolved over time and space. This analysis model can be adapted by teachers and students to other subjects.

• How did the painted furniture of the Saxons become a tradition?

  Mar 15, 2024

  Developing argumentation skills is particularly important when talking about heritage. Not every cultural element has heritage value. We therefore present this material as a model for understanding the long process of evolution of a tradition. This model can be adapted to other teaching and learning contexts.

• Third transnational meeting of the project takes place in Romania

  Mar 6, 2024

  The digital toolkit for educators began to take shape during this meeting.

• Intangible cultural heritage in Ibi: ‘Botijo’ pottery workshop

  Feb 29, 2024

  A pilot workshop in Ibi, Spain, focused on a local form of pottery, the “botijo” clay pitcher. Participants learned the practice of making a botijo and considered the many elements of intangible heritage involved.

• Storytelling gives us a sense of place

  Feb 12, 2024

  The Oideas Gael pilot project explored storytelling and a sense of place through the medium of Irish traditional music.

• The intangible cultural heritage of villages and villagehood

  Feb 5, 2024

  The point of interest in University of Eastern Finland’s pilot project was found in villages and villagehood and the wide intangible cultural heritage that they have.

• Discover an ancient Transylvanian tradition

  Jan 30, 2024

  Our Romanian partners introduce a technique of producing painted furniture with origins in the field of craftsmanship dating back long before the Transylvanian Saxon guilds.

• Transformative learning

  Oct 12, 2023

  What is transformative learning?

• The Kaustinen fiddle tradition as a source of learning about intangible cultural heritage

  Sep 14, 2023

  This tradition was inscribed to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2021.

• Community-based art education helps us look at ICH from different perspectives

  Sep 7, 2023

  In HEART, community based-art education is used as a method to study intangible cultural heritage and to promote transformative learning.

• Intangible cultural heritage — from theory to practice

  Sep 1, 2023

  What is intangible cultural heritage?

• Partners gather in Ibi, Spain, for second transnational meeting

  May 25, 2023

  All five partner organisations were represented at the second transnational meeting, which took place in Ibi, Spain between 19th-21st May 2023.

• Oulu hosts first transnational meeting of the project

  Apr 12, 2023

  Representatives from the five partner organisations of the HEART project came together in Oulu, Finland for their first transnational meeting over 15–16 February, 2023.