Development of Continuing Professional Development for Heritage Interpretation staff to facilitate Lifelong learning for social Inclusion and European cohesion

How can cultural heritage educators strengthen European values and identity?
For many citizens, Europe is an abstract concept primarily associated with bureaucracy and the restriction of national interests. When it comes to regional or local features, such as cultural or natural monuments, people rarely make the connection with the European idea and its values.
DELPHI aims to professionalise cultural heritage educators in order to strengthen European values and identity at a local and regional level. Target groups include cultural heritage educators, migrants, and the local population.

In order to place local cultural heritage within a European context, cultural heritage educators should be enabled to highlight the European aspects of cultural heritage phenomena. To this end, they should be empowered to transform local cultural heritage sites into learning environments.

To achieve these objectives, the project is developing

• a comprehensive qualifications framework for the professionalisation of cultural heritage and adult educators (similar to the EQF)
• a blended learning programme on a holistic learning platform whose learning environment facilitates learning, validation and documentation
• training materials and a system for validating learning outcomes for the continuing professional development of cultural heritage educators