Programme area:
Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeship and Youth Entrepreneurship
Outcome:
Improved institutional cooperation at all levels of education (formal and informal)
Output:
New teaching and learning practices for work and life developed and knowledge and good practices shared on advancing skills and competencies in education
Project title:
Heritage School for New Generations: Recognition and Understanding of Local Cultural Heritage and Restoration Skills in Primary School Education Using New Teaching Methods for New Generations of the 21st Century and Beyond
Project acronym:
Heritage School for the New Generations
Project Promoter:
The Association of Historic Towns of Slovenia
Project Partners:
Partner 1: University of Primorska
Partner 2: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia
Partner 3: Elementary School Ivan Grohar
Partner 4: Municipality of Škofja Loka
Partner 5: MAGMA Geopark AS (NOR)
Partner 6: School Center Škofja Loka
Start of the project:
01/06/2022
End of the project:
30/04/2024
Co-financing source:
Norway Grants and corresponding Slovenian contribution
Total eligible project expenditure (EUR):
478,510.00
Project grant (EUR):
478,510.00
Main project results:
Inter-institutional environment established; developed and in schools verified new practices of teaching various subjects at the base of the school through examples of cultural heritage and the use of renovation skills.
Project summary:
In Slovenia, the level of public awareness about the relevance of cultural heritage is low. This is most reflected in the physical environment where immovable heritage continues to disappear right before our eyes. Systematic change of community’s attitude towards cultural heritage as a value for life, and the skills for its renovation as competence for work in the 21st century is possible only through the education of new generations. In this respect, the project addresses Slovenia’s needs at the right moment, as it establishes an inter-institutional environment and learning practices for a better planned education of young people at primary school level about cultural heritage and its renovation. The project addresses four challenges: weak presence of cultural heritage content in primary school curricula; shortage of craft and technical occupations, which will be among the most sought-after on the labour market in the coming decades as well; poor teachers’ skills due to the dimension of cultural heritage and the untapped opportunity for inter-institutional cooperation and interdisciplinary treatment, learning in the local environment and the introduction of modern didactics. In the project, a new teaching practice is developed, tested and evaluated on a pilot basis, which enables immediate and easy integration of examples from cultural heritage and renovation skills into teaching certain selected contents of the existing lesson plans of subjects and activity days, which at the class and subject level can be treated with with the help of cultural heritage.