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'Learning from the Past so that we are not condemned to repeat it' (LFTP) was an innovative ICT-based participatory community heritage project, designed to engage both adults and young people in European cultural heritage. The aim of the project was to develop value and appreciation of European cultural heritage in relation to social cohesion, in particular to the value of human rights, equality, diversity and peace. This project expanded, transferred and implemented Global Link's innovative heritage learning practices with transnational partners in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Slovenia, in particular building on Global Link's recently completed and very successful heritage and global citizenship project 'World War I: Sowing the Seeds of Global Citizenship.' In Learning from the Past, Global Link trained partners to recruit and work with adult volunteers to research and document peace activism, internationalism and global awareness across Europe during and after the First World War. Partners worked with 56 adult volunteers to research stories of local League of Nations activists across Europe, as well as women's peace activism, Esperanto societies, youth exchanges relating to international efforts for peace building, anti-racism, anti-fascism and cross-European connections. The time period for the research was World War I until shortly after World War II. Global Link provided training to partners on recruiting volunteers, identifying local archives and sources of historical information, and IT-based formats in which to gather the information and upload it to the online map. Each partner ran a short project with their target groups, taking them to archives, museums and libraries to inspire the beneficiaries to research their own local histories. The partners trained and supported the volunteers to write short accounts of their research in the IT-based format required to upload the information to the website, and trained them how to upload to the website. This resulted in Output 1: the Online Map. The partners and their volunteers then held Multiplier Events to share this heritage learning with 212 young people and supporting adults (teachers/youth workers) in their localities, who in turn engaged critically with the material, linking it to current debates around peace and conflict as well as responses to refugees and migrants in their societies. 193 young people across the partner countries then took part in producing creative arts-based and/or digital outputs which reflected on their local heritage and what this means for their roles as global citizens in the world today. This resulted in Output 2: Artistic Responses. These art pieces and the process of creating them were digitised via video for Output 3. The videos were uploaded to the project website and widely disseminated via social media. The final Multiplier Events were ‘Living Museums’, where adult and young volunteers worked with project partners to share all the project outputs with a wider local audience. One partner held their event face-to-face, as originally planned, in their local museum, while all other partners had to hold their Living Museum events online because of Covid-19 restrictions. Nonetheless, all partners managed to host lively, interactive events with diverse audiences, reaching a combined total of 476 people. The final Living Museum event was held by Global Link and involved the launch of the Learning from the Past online exhibition. An offline version of the exhibition will also open at Lancaster City Museum UK for six weeks from July 2021, bringing together the outputs from across Europe in one space. The LFTP partnership has secured further Erasmus+ funding for a follow-up project: Sharing Learning from the Past in Youth Work’ involves bringing together volunteers from six countries involved in LFTP to share best practice, visit the final LFTP ‘Living Museum’ exhibition taking place in the UK and strengthen our capacities as a network to develop heritage projects with young people. This will include the creation of joint ‘manifesto for heritage work with European youth.’All outputs have been shared on the project online platform (learningfromthepast.net) and widely disseminated through social media including the LFTP Facebook page, through our organisational websites and newsletters, in local news/radio/TV coverage, through conferences and events and via other networks such as heritage groups.
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