[ars.edu] - European Network of Cultural Heritage Education Centres

The aim of this project is to provide a strong link between Culture and Education through the establishment of a trans European network of Cultural Heritage Education Centres delivering digital educational objects specifically designed accordingly to different user profiles ranging between pupils, students, mentors and tourists. Education institutions and professionals should be taken into account as well. Spreading knowledge, popularising the Cultural Heritage (both tangible and intangible) is the duty of all humanity. Developing a system that will achieve this task will have a big social impact, it will preserve natural and cultural properties of outstanding universal value and will improve the quality of life. Digital educational objects should even help in preserving cultural diversities. In education. teachers can have all needed supports for their teaching tasks, on the other side students can found all the required help that will allow them to participate and to have more active role in the learning processes. In order to achieve such result [ars.edu] will establish a Trans European Network of Cultural Heritage Education Centres. Such Centres should be both virtual and physical. The reference model inspiring the current project was originated two years ago on the occasion of the development of the educational web site named [louvre.edu]. The basic idea of this service, addressed to France market, was to provide copyright free customised content suitable for scholars and tutors. Comments, texts were expressly written for this purpose. Additional features such as the "Buro" concept were implemented as well. [ars.edu] will expand and extend the basic concept of [louvre.edu]