Erasmus+ Project BePart

Erasmus+ Project BePart
	Cartella Erasmus+ BePart
	Categoria formazione
	Partner University of Macerata (Italy), Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungary), Technological University Dublin (Ireland),
	Bando Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation partnership in higher education
	Inizio october/november 2024
	Referente Wikimedia Italia Ilaria Diterlizzi

Proposal by the University of Macerata to Wikimedia Italia to participate in an Erasmus+ project KA2. See details below:

Action type:

• Key Action 2 – Cooperation partnerships in the fields of education, training and youth
• KA220- HED - Cooperation partnership in higher education

• Deadline: 5 March 2024 at 12:00

Proposal

• Name: BePart – Boosting arts and heritage students’ skills in promoting Participatory processes through digital tools
• Keywords: arts and cultural heritage sustainability; cultural practices; participatory processes; community engagement; community well-being; cultural welfare.
• Partecipants:
  • Project leader: University of Macerata (Italy)
  • Partners: Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungary), Technological University Dublin (Ireland), Wikimedia Italia (TBD).
• Expected results
  • Review of practices and methods for promoting and implementing participatory processes in the field of arts and cultural heritage
  • New participatory teaching methods in the field of arts and cultural heritage
  • Innovative open-access methods for involving communities in the arts and cultural heritage
• Estimated Start Date: October 2024
• Project duration: 2 years
• Role Wikimedia Italia: partner

Proposal rationale and objectives

In the current context, a virtuous relationship is recognized between citizens’ engagement, arts and cultural heritage sustainability and community well-being. On the one hand, an increasing understanding of cultural heritage and its environment “leads to people valuing it more and […] caring for it better” (Thurley, 2005, p. 26); on the other, as stated by the Faro Convention, cultural heritage can be a “shared source of remembrance, understanding, identity, cohesion and creativity” (Council of Europe, 2005, art. 3). As a consequence, citizens’ involvement in cultural heritage can foster “a sense of shared responsibility towards the places in which people live” (Council of Europe, 2005, art. 8), supporting not only cultural heritage preservation through time, but also quality of life and well-being. This kind of virtuous relationship can be generally extended to various cultural practices, involving museums and libraries, visual and performing arts.

Within this framework, in the scientific debate, Cultural Welfare is emerging as a new, integrated approach to promote the well-being and health of individuals and communities through practices rooted in the arts and cultural heritage. In the last decade, scholars have explored tools to improve citizens’ participation in the arts and culture. Particularly, cultural professionals are required to learn and apply digital participatory tools to involve local communities and allow them to enjoy arts and cultural heritage and learn more.

Aiming to satisfy this need, the project aims to improve arts and heritage students’ skills in promoting participatory processes through digital tools. European HEIs involved in the project will learn and share new teaching methodologies and tools to involve communities in the arts and cultural heritage. The project’s results, i.e. review of practices and new participatory methods, will be open access.

Wikimedia Italia role

Project dissemination:

• creating project pages on wiki-meta and eventually on other Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia and Wikiversity)
• supporting activities related to Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap and open licences, with coaching and by providing dedicated didactic materials
• involvement of the international Wikimedia communities in the related countries of the project (Finland, Ireland, Hungary)
• the documentation of the project will be published - according to the kind of content - on wiki-meta, Wikipedia (for the improvement of articles related to the project), Wikivesity (methods to collaborate with communities) and on OSF Open Science Framework (for content which is not pertinent for the Wikimedia projects)
• participation in transnational meetings
• event to present the project and its methods to the interested Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap volunteers (possibly event during WLM cerimony dedicated to Wikimedia Italia coordinators and volunteers active in GLAM and Wiki Loves Monuments projects
• sharing of training evaluation (used to evaluate the training of trainers) and form on LimeSurvey

Wikimedia Italia request

• All the documentation of the project will be released under the double license CC BY and CC BY-SA (to adopt the license recommended by the EU for open science and to facilitate the interoperability with the Wikimedia projects).
• Open software and tools will be recommended and preferably adopted within the project (i.e Limesurvey).

Team

Università di Macerata (project lead)

• Mara Cerquetti, project lead
• Pierluigi Feliciati

Wikimedia Italia

• Ilaria Diterlizzi (staff), as coordinator for Wikimedia Italia activities
• Marco Chemello (staff), as experts in GLAM-Wiki activities
• Iolanda Pensa and Elena Marangoni (WMI board)

Budget

• TDB - dedicated budget provided by the project for the specific activities

• In-kind contribution by Wikimedia Italia (i.e. amount of hours for the coordination and training)

Documents to fill out

• Erasmus+ Project BePart/PIF
• Erasmus+ Project BePart/Partner Activities