European Digital Cultural Heritage and Values for Migrant Empowerment and Inclusion in Adult Education

COVID-19 pandemic had a sudden and substantial impact on the arts and cultural heritage sector. By March 2020, most cultural institutions across the world were indefinitely closed. One of the key ...

The project builds upon this crucial aim by incorporating to its core the European cultural heritage to stimulate European awareness and values and making it accessible to less privileged communities. The project’s general objectives were to: • Support the social inclusion of adult immigrants considering the underlying European values; • Stimulate their participation in civic and social life; • Encourage intercultural dialogue and build mutual understanding between new arrivals and receiving communities; • Promote tolerance, mutual understanding, social cohesion, and support the fight against racism and xenophobia by cultivating critical thinking • Develop transversal skills and competences in order to support the socio-educational and personal development of immigrants and locals, particularly young adults. The project’s specific objectives were to: • Help adult immigrants learn about and make European values their own; • Provide adult educators with tools in order to raise awareness on the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage, and values; • Develop (young) adults’ creativity skills through video recordings of cultural heritage products; • Organise National and European events to spread the project’s products and results.