mAPP My Europe

Cultural heritage represents the field that helps people discover their origins and history, it provides details on the evolution of social inclusion and the most important, it shapes one’s identity. Unfortunately, nowadays, this domain seems to be neglected, especially in some EU countries and communities, lacking institutions, NGOs and trained people that could develop its dimensions.

Therefore, acknowledging, preserving and promoting cultural heritage became a must. Above all, the development of some useful, interesting, modern educational tools and trainings is needed in order to raise young people’s interest in exploring and learning more about it.

Project Name
We designed mAPP my Europe as a complex 2-year project, implemented by 10 partners from: Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Spain.

Project Aim
The aim of the project is to develop interesting tools for youngsters in order to facilitate and promote a modern access to cultural heritage education, stimulating their interest, with focus on the development of the project outputs: trainings for youth workers, mAPP – a smartphone app for youth tourism that will offer different attractive routes for young people, a website that will provide details on the project, an online Non-Formal Cultural Heritage Education Book for trainers and teachers interested in cultural heritage activities and monthly activities for the open public, Coolt Events.

Collaboration
The project seeks to involve various institutions, organisations, stakeholders, artists, youth workers, young people, experts from IT, architects, youth workers and teachers from different fields that have a connection with Cultural Heritage (history, art etc.).

mAPP my Europe fosters an active partnership between experts, teachers, youth workers, disadvantaged and young (aged 13-19), creative change-makers that are interested in cultural heritage, education, youth tourism, innovation and promotion. We chose this target group as we would like to give visibility to the perspective of young people on creating the itineraries for the phone app and to their decisions on what the most attractive routes in their regions are. Their participation will provide not only a great intercultural experience but also the development of some soft skills, improving language and digital abilities and at the same time having the opportunity to explore new domains such as volunteering, non-formal education, cultural heritage, art and entrepreneurship.

Trainings
The mAPP My Europe project have planned six trainings for young people and youth trainers:

• Non-formal Methods for Cultural Heritage Education – host organization Directorate in Kalamata, Greece
• Regional Ambassadors – host organization CAJA in Granada, Spain
• Cultural Entrepreneurship – host organization HEI in Constanta, Romania
• Cultural Heritage in a Digital Era – host organization Unseen Pro in Varna, Bulgaria
• Urban Art for Regional Legacy – host organization KANE in Kalamata, Greece
• ARTCULT: Design and Creative Writing – host organization CELEI in Granada, Spain