Past in Future Bridge

Through the work on the project, the aim was to pay attention to the preservation of cultural heritage with the power of modern technologies and to find a new way to combine past and future. The p...

Through the work on the project, the aim was to pay attention to the preservation of cultural heritage with the power of modern technologies and to find a new way to combine past and future. The project involved 2 extremely large groups namely students and adults each one of these groups can contribute to the development of the other. Students raise their awareness of their cultural roots apply modern technologies for educational purposes and communicate with adults. Through the wide variety of technologies, we were able to create a large amount of digital materials through which to spread the concept of sustainability of cultural heritage through the use of digital technologies. The relationship between the partner organizations achieved intercultural integrity in terms of the participation in the consortium of a VET school, a natural mathematical high school and a non-governmental organization. A network between partners with common interests of two nationalities was achieved through the project which was a priority in their institutional development not only education but also culture.

NHSFB participated in the project by coordinating the overall organization of the activities planned and distributed the budget among the individual partners made constant communication with the partners solved problematic situations and other high schools took part in mobility to the city of Catania in Sicily as part of the project activities within which were laid the foundations for the creation of international business models for start-ups protecting cultural heritage and crafts. Within the framework of the second mobility, Bulgaria hosted the project activities. The program for this mobility included a presentation of the interviews and videos filmed so far and the project week included the creation of a financial plan for a business model. The program included acquaintance with the local traditions customs and culture the guests got acquainted with traditional crafts for the capital such as shoemaking, creating kukeri masks, beekeeping and others. For the project activities was created a separate page on the website of NHSFB, corresponding to the individual activities in the project and providing visual information and evidence of what has been achieved.

The specific objectives set out in the signing of the project proposal were reflected in concrete results. Videos were created on the basis of interviews with people involved in crafts and preserving Bulgarian traditions and customs. These videos with English subtitles are suitable and will be used to promote Bulgarian culture in foreign language classes both in Bulgaria and in the Italian school. The students exercised their level of language proficiency by communicating entirely in English with their classmates from Italy. The videos are uploaded to the project's YouTube page and in Google Drive. The project taught students to work in a team to successfully present and reflect when creating a business model for starting a new successful business based on cultural heritage and crafts preservation. These business ideas will help students in their school activity not only in the project and would be an extremely valuable experience especially for young people wishing to start their own business.