APPROACH has emerged from a multi-sector cooperation containing heritage, architectural and cultural organisations, municipality with architectural and media enterprises and a VET institution with media classes. The partners involved are summarised in section 2.1. The main objective of this transnational consortium is to assemble an online learning platform as an open educational resource, targeting firstly architectural, art historian and urban analyst students and, in parallel, media and web designer students in VET and on other levels. The main output of the programme is a 4-piece collection of interactive 3D city maps showing the centres of Edinburgh, Granada, Budapest and Lublin as non-formal educational tools. The creation of the animated models is based on a scientifically carried-out historical and urbanistic research collecting all available source materials, like old maps and archive texts to be able to rebuild and represent the selected time periods of the cities - from their foundation to modern times. This approach gives the possibility to freely explore the urban environment in both space and time, collecting knowledge about the monuments and urban textile through interaction with the models. Moreover, each “time map” marks significant periods of social and political changes, which drove architectural and spatial changes. Our aspiration is to provide APPROACH users with an opportunity to compare how and where each city evolved in different historic phases. We are proud that the APPROACH online platform is a free of charge, intuitive, and accessible. The development of the “time maps” was managed by a comprehensive methodology that involved historic research, transformation of raw data to 3D models, ongoing verification of outputs, and the compilation of a learning narrative. The project was delivered by four groups: researchers, modellers, project managers/coordinators, and students. Each modelled city had its research team collecting historic information, turning them into visual templates that would then be passed onto modelling teams based in Budapest and Cluj. In the next stage the modellers created 3D “white models”; their accuracy was verified by the researchers before the entire model received textures and was turned into the “interactive content”, which involved a fair amount IT engineering. A vast amount of historic information was collected throughout the process. The research teams used a wide range of sources including: maps, drawings, paintings, photos, and texts. “Info-boxes” provide narrative to the models, containing the most relevant learning information. They redirect to external sources for those seeking more detail. Some of the most interesting research discoveries can be found in this comprehensive study, which binds together all outputs of the project, summarising the steps of the product-oriented co-operation with the architectural and media enterprises. Its main purpose is to promote the project ideas among VET institutions and relevant stakeholders and in this way to contribute to the creation of further educational material similar to the products of this project. To help the same initiative, a series of video tutorials and text descriptions was also produced to teach the creation of 3D interactive contents. The production of this online material is connected with a training programme, in which blended mobility of VET students took place combining virtual involvement with short-term physical mobilities. As a part of the training, the media and web designer students were involved in learning, testing and therefore the creation of the final resource. The chapters of the material are to teach useful techniques and methods about 3D modelling, composing animations and programming interactive functions in co-operation with for-profit firms. In this way the training leads to the recognition of the latest trends of CAD, BIM and game development technologies, providing knowledge and competencies with remarkable labour market relevance. With different techniques and target groups, all the outputs of the project provide working models and pathways for the easily intelligible visualisation of urban environment and monuments as well as for the integration of digital competences to the development of further educational resources.Following a series of public meetings in all partner cities we have confidence in the educational value of the project’s outputs and their future potential for development. It is important to stress that the project involved design students from the Riga School of Art who actively participated in the project delivery and engaged with professional modellers and researchers. The educational aspect of the project is also represented by a series of online modelling tutorials, which can be found on our beautiful website.

The long-term objective of REDIAPRO’s partnership was a contribution to the forming of a small scale construction industry from traditional architectural professions, building customs and architecture-related handicrafts. The program made a suggestion for re-linking the former connections between handicrafts and architecture while providing a working model for the comeback of arts and crafts to the architectural thinking and contributing to the revival of the old and disappearing building traditions. The movement’s general aim is strengthening the local communities with preserving their unique culture and providing valuable professions, lifetime occupations locally, especially in rural and disadvantaged areas. The program collected the most important disappearing architectural professions, building techniques and architecture-related crafts in the partner countries in order to conceive future strategies for them as part of the new workshop-based building industry. This aim was reached by a transnational research carried out through workshop activities held by the representatives, masters of the selected crafts. As part of these activities there were talks recorded and short films shot with the profession representatives showing their every-day work and their thoughts about the future possibilities. Based on the research a comprehensive study was published by the members of the consortium about the possible played roles by these crafts as part of the new branch of building industry with important modern-time requirements taken into consideration like ecological thinking and sustainability. The study and the collection of short films popularizing craftsmanship provide good basis for VET sector to change the current curriculum and to assemble new learning materials for new generations of craftspersons who are closely connected to constructional activities and restoration works.The consortium consisted of eight participating organisations with various profiles: architects, VET institutions, builders of traditional building methods, representatives of artisans, heritage professionals and restorers. The main product of the partnership was an online platform containing the common study and collection of short films popularizing craftsmanship. The platform's main objective was the start of an international network with the same representatives that the partnership owns. This network with its registered users and forum possibilities will later act as an international database and medium for exchanging best practices and realized examples while conceiving new project ideas and courses of actions in order to reach common goals of the growing community.

A new thinking of #European Heritage to better #share the Culture and the Values of Europe and to #explore the unity and the diversity of European Culture: this was the ambition shared by the participants in the ProPEACE project.At the very beginning of our project, there were some meta-issues that have been discussing in the French team and among the Students of our first Joint Master Degree Erasmus Mundus « Dyclam »: To what extent is it possible to speak of European cultural Heritage? How the appropriation of European cultural Heritage could develop the European awareness and encourage the consolidation of European values?What role could play the University to reinforce among the Students a sense of belonging?A European Strategic Project was submitted to United Europe by Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne); in July 2016, the Project has been accepted. The inaugural session took place in Saint-Etienne (October 2016). ProPEACE is a Strategic Partnership involving 10 partners: -5 universities from France, Iceland, the Nederland, Romania and Spain-3 economic and cultural actors enhancing heritage in Europe (Italy, Romania, Scotland)-2 non-European universities with expertise in digital mediation (Canada) and interculturality (Israel). The team is an example of European diversity: partners from the North, the South, the East, the West of Europe, from the Atlantique to the Mediterranean Sea, involving Europeans out of Europe, from a linguistic diversity to a cultural mix. This project is also supported by political (e.g. Firminy, Saint-Etienne), economic (e.g. Italian local authorities) and cultural (e.g. Europa Nostra) institutions.ProPEACE seeks to place the academic field of heritage in a European perspective. In order to do this, it has to offer innovative solutions for a dynamic modernization of the European higher education about heritage. Over 3 years, ProPEACE proposed a program of activities to reconsider the European heritage and teaching in a European perspective. Every year, in April, May or June, Intense Programme (IP) gathered academics, students, economic or cultural actors. It was moment for new form of teaching avec activities (encyclopedia, lexicon, experience of virtual exhibition), workshop (about news jobs), lectures and visits. 3 places: Edinburgh (2017), Ravello (2018) and Santiago (2019). Some activities took place during Intensive Program in spring:- A virtual exhibition created by students helped by all partners- A moment of discussion about jobs in Europe (specificities to find a job in Europe) managed by Cluj and Sibiu.- A moment to discover a new methodology of Cultural research with Tel Aviv partner.Every year in December or January, Workshops -Wageningen (2017), Cluj (2018) and Reykjavik (2019)- has been organized for professors and cultural/economic partners in order to define the notion of European Cultural heritage, discover new methodology developing by each partner. It’s also a time to exchange points of view, to visit heritage sites, to meet actors, and to understand the challenge of each national heritages.The main Activities and Achievements realized with all partners:- Lexicon: project coordinated by Iceland with participation of students and all partners- Encyclopedia: project coordinated by Quebec with participation of students and all partners- MOOC: France has designed a MOOC to spread the results of the ProPeace project, integrating video, lectures, power point, articles- GUIDE-LIGNE to sensitize teachers, students and cultural mediators to the challenges of cultural EuropeA new Master: In-depth and collective thinking has been conducted to imagine a new way of thinking and teaching European cultural heritage. This resulted in the creation of new certificate: the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree: DYCLAM+, opening in September 2019A European Jean Monnet CHAIR: thanks to the dynamic created by this partnership, his coordinator presented a project for the creation of the Jean Monnet European Chair which was accepted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in 2018.

The MESH project will provide, and facilitate, new visions of historical space. Based on outstanding documentary and cartographic resources in Edinburgh, the project team will deploy digital technologies to develop new types of historical maps based on social, cultural, political, religious, military, environmental, architectural and economic information. The project will be structured around the emergent themes of the city's spatial evolution, and guided by the operating principles of cartographic projects eg administrative areas, cadastral plans, and jurisdictions. The Edinburgh Atlas (E-ATLAS) will provide a new digital atlas of Edinburgh structured around six temporal periods: the early city; medieval city c.1300-1550; the early modern city 1550-1680; Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1680-1820; the 'modern' city, c.1820-1914; the capital city, 1914-2000. The changing nature and structure of the city will form the basis to 30 interpretive essays organised around key themes with analytical emphasis on the processes of change in a spatial context. The E-ATLAS will provide a world-leading innovative intellectual product. The web-based e-atlas provides an internationally innovative research facility. The emphasis will be on customisable maps based on the NLS' 500 digitised Edinburgh maps. As demonstrated by the highly successful and publicly acclaimed open-source tools piloted by the AHRC-funded Visualising Urban Geographies Knolwedge Transfer Project (PI Rodger) (see Attachments for Impact of VUG) users' historical data will be plotted on historical maps appropriate to the period, and saved in personal accounts accessible either by individuals or groups. This customisable web-based delivery will be suitable for researchers at all levels; it will be available to the general public, and by extending the historical frame will have far reaching consequences for scholars and the public. This provision of an e-atlas facility is a central objective based on a key principle of the project: public accessibility and scholarly additionality (and is consistent with the AHRC 2011-15 strategic emphasis on the Digital Economy and Creative Hubs). By facilitating the publication of newly-created maps of Edinburgh on a variety of topics, the project will demonstrate the utility of spatial analysis for different disciplines. It will assist the development of linkages between acadenic and non-academic users. The MESH project connects with two other AHRC objectives. First, MESH provides a stimulus to public history by facilitating spatial analysis in a historical setting through the use of user-friendly mapping tools. The project will bring spatial analysis firmly within the grasp of local history societies and voluntary organisations by means of Knowledge Transfer both in a technical environment of web-based mapping, and by providing examples of best practice from experienced historians. Second, the project provides civic authorities, museum curators, and planners with mapping tools (e-atlas) designed which will assist their professional work as they seek to understand the way Scotland's capital evolved. Public interest in the MESH project is significant and widespread. Representatives of Edinburgh's World Heritage Trust, City Council, RCAHMS, Edinburgh Central Library, and local historical societies have expressed strong support. Graduate and undergraduate students have much to gain from the spatial approach to historical analysis.' In addition to history and geosciences, scholars in several humanities and social sciences disciplines - divinity, literature, archaeology, architecture, criminology - and in biological sciences have expressed considerable interest in the project. In sum, MESH will stimulate and provide a new research resource (E-ATLAS); advance research capacity (e-atlas); develop an online research facility; and enhance user engagement and inter-institutional collaboration within and beyond Scotland's capital.

The proposed research aims at analyzing two parallel but concurrent phenomena: I) The increasing recognition of the interest of diverse stakeholders in cultural heritage located in the metropolitan peripheries of European cities; II) The need for new developments (infrastructure, housing) in the periphery of European metropolises resulting to unprecedented densification pressures and extensive renewal of the existing urban fabric. The conjunction of these trends creates both opportunities and risks for cultural heritage in the Metropolitan peripheries. Using innovative interdisciplinary methodologies, this project asks the following questions: How can we create value on the heritage of the urban peripheries, encouraging new development scenarios while protecting cultural heritage? What are the necessary mechanisms and tools to involve local communities in the policy making of cultural heritage at the urban peripheries? How can this heritage be used as a means to promote spatial justice and balance between the different areas of the metropolises? How can heritage in the peripheries play a role as the "cement" of metropolization? The project will have very direct local impacts through co-creation workshops held at key sites of peripheral urban heritage, designed to assist institutional and community stakeholders in imagining and interrogating innovative strategies for (re)developing heritage sites, feeding directly into local initiatives. The empirical and persuasive materials produced through the workshops will be designed with community participation to address broader audiences, inviting and promoting "heritage savvy" citizens, willing and able to participate in the processes of both heritagization and metropolisation. In addition, we anticipate that the online observatory platform created through this project can act as an open resource for stakeholders in the many peripheral urban sites that face similar challenges and opportunities, but which do not have access to the broader view of the issues they face and the discourses surrounding them.