IL COINVOLGIMENTO DEI GIOVANINELLA CULTURAE NELLA

VALORIZZAZIONEDEI SITI ARCHEOLOGICI: PROPOSTADI UN

METODO INNOVATIVO

Francesca Caterina Izzo , Guido Biscontin , Elisabetta Zendri , Eleonora Balliana , Laura Falchi ,1 1 1 1 1

Antonia Moropoulou , Agoritsa Kostanti , JoAnn Cassar , Roberta De Angelis2 2 3 3 1.

Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Via Torino 155/b,

VeneziaMestre,fra.izzo@unive.it

2. National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 9, Iroon Polytechniou St., 15780 Zografou, Athens,

Greece

3.UniversityofMalta,DepartmentoftheBuiltHeritage,FacultyfortheBuiltEnvironment,MsidaMSD2080,Malta

ABSTRACT

This article deals with the delicate relationship between young students (middle-high school) and

Archaeological Cultural Heritage. Normally, young people are not really attracted by those which consider

as “just old stones”. The reason lays in the fact that they are generally not taught and involved in a proper

way to archaeology and Cultural Heritage. The Project ELAICH (Educational Linkage Approach In Cultural

Heritage), a 3-year EU funded project (2009-2012), aimed to raise awareness of Cultural Heritage among

young people through the development of an innovative educational approach. Besides traditional lectures,

the ELAICH course included in fact the “intellectual in-situ work” focused on the study of selected

archaeologicalsites.

This paper takes into consideration two courses, held in Athens and in Malta during the ELAICH project,

highlighting the direct involvement of young people in the study of the historical sites, in the understanding

andintheappreciationofArchaeologicalHeritage.

Parole chiave/Key-words: ELAICH project, intellectual in-situ work, knowledge, experience, appreciation

ofArchaeologicalHeritage,valorizationofarchaeologicalsites