Educational Digital Innovative
CUltural heritage related
Learning Activities

About EDICULA

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.

The EDICULA project addressed the following requirements of the innovation, education, modernization and internationalization:

  • Social and educational value of European cultural heritage, its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion. The project raised awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage through education, including actions to support skills development, social inclusion, critical thinking and youth engagement. It also included new participatory and intercultural approaches to the protection of monuments, as well as educational initiatives aimed at fostering intercultural dialogue.
  • Innovative practices in a digital era, with focus on actions that promote advanced methods and tools for teaching, training and learning on different levels of education, including postgraduates and experts and a broader audience enhancing social participation, economic growth and social cohesion.

EDICULA Consortium

Intellectual Outputs

EDICULA educational toolkit

The educational toolkit is an open e-courses platform.

EDICULA curricula reformation

The curricula reformation aims to identify the common ground to merge the different focus of three complementary MSc Programs.

EDICULA hands-on framework

Hands-on experience introduces students and experts in the complex array of scientific and engineering challenges.

EDICULA digital games

Digital games aim to present a first attempt for the presentation of a holistically documented monument, the Holy Sepulchre.

EDICULA synthesis

Innovation is the key element for producing new knowledge. This can be more effectively transferred to the general audience through education, instead of research.

Contact Us

Prof. Antonia Moropoulou

National Technical University of Athens
Zografou Campus
9 Iroon Polytechniou St.,
15780 Zografou
Athens, Greece.
Phone: (+130) 210 772 3276, 210 772 1429
Fax: (+30) 210 772 1960
Email: amoropul@central.ntua.gr

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