Digital Cultural Youth Curriculum – Cinema
The Erasmus+ Project Digital Cultural Designer (DCD) aims to extend and enhance the digital skills and competencies of young people particularly in the field of culture by promoting cultural education through innovative online tools and methods. In the framework of the DCD project, a curriculum will be developed to cater to the needs of museums, archives, libraries, and cultural institutions. The Digital Cultural Youth Curriculum will encourage young people to increase their knowledge and abilities in using digital tools to […]
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness
On 26 April 2020 Manuela Barreto from University of Exeter, Pamela Qualter from University of Manchester (the research partners in our project) and their colleagues published the article “Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness” in Personality and Individual Differences. In this article they describe a number of issues that are […]
The Evolution and Benefits of Digital Culture
Digital culture is the act of how we as humans communicate and interact with our surroundings through the ever-growing enhancement of technologies (GDS, 2020). This includes how we have capitalised on the Internet and used the data that has been made available to us. Sites such as social media platforms and devices such as personal computers and smartphones have boosted data flows […]
Digital Tools and Digital Resources
Traditionally, cultural institutions, such as libraries and museums, have been responsible for the storing and preservation of cultural material. However, due to technological advances, primarily digital tools, such institutions are coming up with new approaches to how users experience art and culture. This can be achieved via digitisation of artifacts, which is the process of converting information from a physical format into […]
Youth employment and digital culture
Digital culture refers to the change in how technology is reformulating the way in which we behave as humans. It eludes to how technology has encompassed our everyday life and that it is simply not as mundane or restricted to the internet or modern technological devices but rather finds itself intertwined in humans’ everyday activities (Miller, 2010). […]
Language learning to support active social inclusion mid-term meeting in Vilnius!
The mid-term meeting, Vilnius in April 2022 ! Language Learning To Support Active Social Inclusion, within the meeting we are exploring possibilities of drama, improvisation and English teaching/ learning methodologies and how to reframe them for an active social inclusion. The project is funded by #Adultseducation #ErasmusPlus, with collaboration between 3 international organizations from Poland, […]
Linked Open Data: It’s place and its potential for cultural sector development
As discussed in our previous blog post on this subject, linked open Data or LOD is an online development— part of the semantic web— which has the potential to be hugely impactful for the cultural and educational sectors in particular. As we introduced previously, LODLAM, which stands for linked open data for libraries, museums and archives, is the name given to this area of work—projects that have been undertaken already include the […]
Linked Open Data: Introduction
It’s still shocking to think that it has been a mere three decades since the introduction of the internet to our daily lives: the breadth and speed of the developments which followed have been so colossal that we can sometimes take for granted just how new these technological landscapes are. Particularly in the case of the internet which has been […]
‘’YouthMinds’’
We kicked off the project “Promotion of Youth Mental Health through Awareness, Prevention & Resilience Building”, together with our partners from Tavo Europa (Lithuania), FSR (Spain), Iris (Poland), Emphasys (Cyprus), Atermon (the Netherlands), Hellas for us (Greece) and Association Walktogether (Bulgaria)– the coordinator of the KA2 Strategic Partnership. From 21st until 24th of March, Association […]
‘’Digital Cultural Designer’’
Nowadays digital technology is an integral part of human life. They facilitate and simplify socialization processes, provide an opportunity to communicate with family, friends or team members, even if we are far apart or working remotely. The Erasmus+ Digital Cultural Designer project aims to introduce young people to the concept of open data, allowing them […]