EDICULA “Educational Digital Innovative CUltural heritage related Learning Alliance” is a Strategic Partnership for Higher Education in Erasmus+. Strategic Partnerships aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices at organizational, local, regional, national or European levels. Institutions of Higher Education work with others (other sector fields, enterprises, social partners etc.) to help to improve higher education across Europe and to deliver high quality education which is relevant to national and European labor market needs.
A major challenge for Europe and the world is to promote cultural heritage protection as a lever for the enhancement of the society’s identity and the integration of ‘culture as an enabler for sustainable development’.
New knowledge must break the boundaries of science and engineering and be integrated in education. In the field of CH protection, this was achieved through the development of new learning mechanisms and educational material, taking into consideration the experience from existing interdisciplinary postgraduate study programs and actively promoting in situ education. The added value of this approach is the education of the youth towards this new vision.
EDICULA is an innovative approach that fuses the interdisciplinary collaboration among the sectors of applied sciences in the protection of monuments with humanities disciplines using XR technologies, to develop an educational framework to advance scientific transdisciplinary synthesis. The innovation of the EDICULA project is that it emphasizes that this transdisciplinary collaboration can be instrumentalized through education, with the various universal educational tools and the experience from the emblematic Holy Sepulchre rehabilitation acting as common base.
Prof. Antonia Moropoulou