Avec le soutien de Grundtvig (Programme Éducation et formation tout au long de la vie)

Située près de Dinant, la Maison du patrimoine médiéval mosan est à la fois un musée et un centre d’interprétation. Elle a pour mission de valoriser le cadre naturel, historique et patrimonial exceptionnel de la Meuse. Elle renferme des collections originales qui illustrent la vie sur les bords de Meuse depuis le Moyen Age.

La MPMM a eu l’occasion de rencontrer des partenaires italiens et français intéressés par l’éducation au patrimoine et à la culture et prêts à collaborer. Un projet a été développé en vue d’intégrer la population défavorisée au contenu scientifique du musée par le développement d’une stratégie d’animation. Qu’il s’agisse de théâtre, de musique ou d’ateliers créatif, à destination d’un public d’adultes.

La MPMM coordonne ainsi le projet “Heritage for Everybody” avec plusieurs musées européens sensibles à cette problématique globale, et avec le partenariat du Programme Grundtvig.

L’objectif final consiste notamment à créer un DVD (sorte de coffre aux trésors) dans lequel on trouve les outils pour la réalisation de modules de formation, ateliers, cours d’été ou des formations continues pour animateurs et enseignants en contact avec ce type de public. Ce projet doit permettre à une population défavorisée de s’enrichir grâce à la culture et d’acquérir également une meilleure estime de soi. C’est une des vocations essentielles de la culture à laquelle la Maison du patrimoine mosan entend participer: favoriser l’épanouissement personnel, permettre à chacun de mieux appréhender le monde et de jouer un rôle de citoyen responsable.

ENCATC is a key organisation participating in the newly launched European Heritage Alliance 3.3. The name of this newly created Alliance refers to the article 3.3. of the consolidated version of the Lisbon Treaty of the European Union which stipulates that “[The Union] shall respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that Europe’s cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced.”

This Alliance intends to advocate together the necessity to develop a future EU strategy for cultural and natural heritage, in compliance with article 3.3. of the Treaty, and will seek to develop stronger synergies between their respective activities with regard to European policy.

The Alliance is currently preparing a joint document in which will underline the relevance of cultural heritage for achieving the goals of the EU Agenda 2020. The ultimate goal of the Alliance should be the launch of a future “Heritage Europe” Agenda in 2021, which should be complementary with the Creative Europe Agenda and the Sustainable Europe Agenda; This should be an integrated EU agenda with an over-arching vision by the EU and a due incorporation of the heritage dimension in all relevant EU policies.

The organisations and networks, of which ENCATC is an important player, bring together Europe’s civil society organisations, historic cities and villages, museums, heritage professionals and volunteers, (private) owners of collections of artefacts, historic buildings and cultural landscapes, educators, town planners, etc. The “European Heritage Alliance 3.3” thus represents a very large constituency composed of tens of millions of Europe’s citizens. Europa Nostra, the Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe, will be acting as facilitator of the newly created alliance.

The website domain “europeanheritagealliance.eu” will be launched soon, and will comprise the press releases on the Alliance and information on Alliance members. The next Plenary meeting of the European Heritage Alliance will take place in January/ February 2012.

For more information about this new Alliance:

http://www.europanostra.org/news/164/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ENewsletter+July+2011&utm_source=YMLP&utm_term=/

Wiki Loves Monuments is a European contest – organized in over 15 countries – around monuments. Cultural heritage is all around us, and this contest gives you the opportunity to discover the heritage nearby you! In every participating country you can win nice awards, and the best 10 photos in each continues to a European jury – which will select the best monument photos of Europe.

Make sure to keep track of this blog for more information, updates and glimpses how things are going in other countries! Below the latest uploads you will find more updates and blogposts.

So, don’t sit around but go to your local Wiki Loves Monuments website, find a monument nearby you, take a photo and upload it through our special upload wizard which makes uploading to Wikimedia Commons much easier! We are looking forward to see how you picture the cultural heritage around you, and share the inspiring buildings with the rest of the world.

For further information, please go on: www.wikilovesmonuments.eu

European cooperation project ECHOE-Education for Heritage, Outdoor Education, coordinated by the Centre for Professional Training in Culture, has a multilingual website now, which can be accessed at www.echoe-eu.eu.

With a friendly interface, the website presents to-date information on the educational project involving organizations from Romania, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Norway and Turkey, and posts its results while educational and methodological guidance materials designed for professionals from cultural institutions, adult education trainers, organizations and companies providing cultural, educational and leisure services are developed.

The content of the website is available in the Romanian, English, Italian, German, Turkish, Flemish and Norwegian languages. The “Involved Communities” section presents the way in which beneficiaries have participated in the project activities so far, while the “Results” section contains the research report on the working methods with adults used in education for heritage and outdoor education.

The ECHOE project explores methods to combine education for and about heritage with outdoor education, in order to provide organizations with support in the realization of educational programs adjusted to adults’ needs. The experts involved in this project are currently working for the development of a series of documents providing methodological guidelines to trainers and organizations from the educational and cultural fields. In 2012, the project partners will organize workshops to present and test the proposed practical approaches.

The whole press release is available here.