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The BRIDGE Digital Museum brings together good practices, educational proposals and images that inspire reflection and action
Social Challenges
Analyse social challenges to intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and democratic cohesion
Good Practices
Discover experiences that generate social impact
Educational Space
Access teaching guides, activities and materials for the classroom
Documentary Photography
Explore the social challenges in a visual, reflective and educational way
BRIDGE Main Challenge: A.2. Gap between regulatory frameworks, institutional discourses and actual inclusion practices
Across Europe, there is a lack of sustainable community management of cultural heritage and limited representation for certain groups (youth, women, minority groups and communities). These local actors do not have the skills and knowledge to manage heritage for cultural administration purposes and are not aware of its economic and social value. Most reviews of EU and local cultural policies and practices stress a more technocratic, top-down approach which diminishes the vitality and sustainability of cultural and creative industries and the economy in general.
In line with the priorities set by the EU 2020 Agenda and respectively the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, CUBES aims at empowering all societal sectors in order to own and administer their cultural resources in a sustainable way, thus leading to both cultural democracy and cultural sustainability.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, CUBES facilitates local communities to sustainably manage their cultural heritage. With a focus on building the capacity of women and youth, the project promotes cultural democracy and sustainability in a participatory, accessible and ICT-based way. Many different local actors and stakeholders of tangible and intangible heritage can manage their heritage and start off local activities and cooperation with other sectors.
All over Europe, experts notice a lack of know-how in community-based cultural management, which compromises the more active and knowledgeable involvement of members of the local communities in the sustainable administration of their cultural resources.
CUBES aims to set grassroots approach in the management of cultural heritage, moving away from the technocratic model that is applicable today. The current approaches to cultural policy and heritage management produce inequalities as only a few voices are heard on the relevant issues at local level, i.e. from community managers, institutions and formal/registered groups, while the vast majority of communities and their different voices are excluded from decision making processes.
CUBES encompasses A2 Challenge by illustrating the lack of community-based administration in culture and cultural heritage. Due to the technocratic approaches implemented so far, cultural heritage is not contributing enough to inclusive growth, innovation and social cohesion.
CUBES introduces a sustainable model for community-based cultural management which primarily seeks to develop the competences of members of local communities through a comprehensive, evidence-based, online training programme, delivered via a digital training platform that hosts multilingual educational content. This way, the project aims to empower local actors, with an emphasis of underrepresented groups (women, youth, minority groups), so that they can appreciate the economic and social value of their cultural heritage and manage their assets in a sustainable manner.
The Cultural Administration & Sustainability Boosters Curriculum
Manual
An evidence-based Curriculum outline for the training of community members as access point-role mentors.
Professionals, General Public
CUBES Policy Paper
Digital publication
A document translating experts' views on the administration of cultural heritage into relative policy recommendations for EU policy makers.
Policy Makers
https://cubesproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CUBES_IO5_Policy-Paper-1.pdf
CUBES Interactive e-Platform
Interactive digital resource
A modular, e-learning platform for the development of cultural heritage management competences
Professionals, General Public
Methodological Approaches Guide for Educators
Teaching guide
A set of guidelines on how to train adults on cultural administration as well as on how to support trainers and adult educators in properly using the curriculum, the digital platform and its tools developed during the project
Teaching staff, Professionals, General Public
https://cubesproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CUBES_IO4_English.pdf
CUBES Review Paper on Parameters Mapping
Digital publication
Best practices and case study analysis for the sustainable management of cultural heritage in line with UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and UNESCO's Conventions, in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers, Professionals, General Public