A new practical resource supporting inclusive and community-based approaches to cultural heritage is now available!
Developed by the University of Évora as part of the WP4 capacity-building activities of the TRANSITION project, the Cultural Heritage & Minorities: A Practical Toolkit is designed to support partner universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Yemen in delivering cascade training activities and strengthening their educational programmes.
The toolkit will also contribute to the implementation of the Action Plans developed under WP3, guiding partner universities as they revise selected curricula related to tangible and intangible cultural heritage, with particular attention to the heritage, knowledge and experiences of minority and underrepresented communities.
Bringing together conceptual foundations, international conventions, inspiring case studies, digital resources and practical methodologies, the toolkit explores topics such as cultural diversity, minority rights, safeguarding, oral history, heritage mapping, storytelling, community engagement and digital documentation. It encourages students, educators, researchers and heritage professionals to recognise minority communities not simply as subjects of preservation, but as active participants in defining, safeguarding and transmitting their own heritage.
A selection of the toolkit’s resources is now available on the UNIMED eLearning Platform and can be accessed by anyone interested in developing more inclusive, participatory and sustainable approaches to cultural heritage education and practice.
The TRANSITION Toolkit is available here.
Read the Executive Summary here.