The distance learning program set up by the Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attivittà cultural kicks off on 8 April, in agreement with the MiBACT Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes (DG-ERIC), for the professional updating of MiBACT personnel and for all cultural heritage operators.
An initiative with which the Foundation established by the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism, Dario Franceschini, aims to provide professionals in the sector with the most qualified methodological tools, in line with the social distancing needs required by the current health emergency.
“Distance training, therefore, but increasingly attentive to approaching the care of heritage according to a broad, transversal and integrated perspective with the needs of a constantly evolving society.
“Cultural heritage professionals never stop studying and updating themselves” adds Giuliano Volpe, full professor of Archeology at the University of Bari and adviser for education and training to the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. "This first experimental course is in fact only one step in a broader training project strongly desired by Minister Franceschini, which I hope will also constitute an opportunity to develop ever more positive relationships of fruitful collaboration between universities, higher education, research and the MiBACT , which can also be extended to the world of cultural professions".
From 8 April, the day on which the Foundation's e-learning platform will go online, accessible from the website www.fad.fondazionescuolapatrimonio.it, the cycle of eleven "Open Classes" will be made available, Lectio magistralis held at the Foundation in the two-year period 2018 and 2019 by some of the most important protagonists of the world of culture and heritage (Michele Ainis, Francesco Bandarin, Silvia Costa, Michele De Lucchi , Luciana Duranti, Christian Greco, Marco Magnifico, Daniele Manacorda, Massimo Osanna, Alessandro Portelli, Salvatore Settis).
A training course aimed at the concept of heritage and how this has been interpreted, protected and valued in the past century, with a particular look at contemporary cultural politics. The contents will be freely accessible on demand by all professional and non-professional users, through free registration on the site.
From April 14, the offer of live webinars will start.
April 14, 15, 16 and 17 will be dedicated to a first group of webinars, open to the participation of all interested parties, which address some issues related to the current emergency and which will subsequently be made available on the platform also in on demand mode. Registration is free, for a maximum of one hundred participants for each seminar. A certificate of participation will be issued, but without the right to training credits.
On April 20, the cycle of webinars on technical-scientific topics will begin, dedicated exclusively to the professional updating of MiBACT staff, by registering on the Ministry's Course Portal (portalecorsi.beniculturali.it). Participation in the cycle of meetings, spread over four weeks, will allow participants to acquire training credits and will be made possible through the issuing of a specific circular from DG ERIC. These webinars will also be made available on demand later.
All information for registering and participating in the webinars is available at: https://www.fondazionescuolapatrimonio.it/.
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