Bergolo Digitale Training Course
Program co-founded by Erasmus+ and Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani.
Hosted and organised by Associazione Vagamondo.
"Preserving and protecting cultural heritage is a fundamental human right."
With this project, we want to develop a process of awareness of the value of the cultural heritage, through the digitalization of this heritage, all aimed at the social valorization of art and culture as instruments of inclusion, growth, and pride.
About the Training Course
Today, art and heritage play an essential role in the well-being of our society. In 2005, the Faro convention presented heritage as a resource for human development and cultural enhancement as well as a model of sustainable growth. Related activities enable people to share their experiences and be connected, leading us to social integration and mutual understanding. As an initiative, we have already started working on a trial version of the project. More specifically, with the Bergolo Digitale project, we would like to share the methods on how to archive the heritage of a rural site in a single digital platform and give easy access to the public through QR codes that will lead them to the website and social media with audiovisual contents.
Through ‘learning by doing’, you will get to know more about heritage conservation and digitalization. We believe that the digitalization of heritage enables better conservation, restoration, research, and promotion of the region by awakening the public cultural awareness and interest in heritage.
However, art and heritage can be easily damaged by improper maintenance, natural phenomena, or vandalism. Therefore, their digitalization is an essential and effective way to preserve them over time. With the project, we would like to awake the cultural awareness in the art and heritage field. The attention and participation of the youths are the main keys to protecting our heritage and transmitting it to our future generations.
The project will take place in Bergolo, Italy from the 27th of April until the 5th of May 2022.
Goals
Provide participants to have on-site work with other people who have different backgrounds, and they will be able to apply their academic knowledge to a real project and feel proud of themselves that they are bringing a positive cultural change to the rural area.
Exchanging good practices of heritage conservation, especially related to digitalization from different countries, and learn the methods.
Goals
Increase awareness in youth workers about the importance of digital platforms and the process of digitalization as tools for art and heritage conservation.
Give participants a chance to understand the value and meaning of art and heritage and learn the concrete process of the conservation work especially focusing on digitalization starting from Bergolo to Langhe area.
GOALS
To archive artistic and cultural heritage in Bergolo and Langa area in a single digital platform and give easy access to the public through QR codes that will lead them to the website and social media with audiovisual contents such as maps, pictures, videos and descriptions of each heritage.
Enhance participants’ skills in photography, filming, and promotion with media.
GOALS
To apply what they have learned during the project to their local community with their organizations and share their activities for the sustainable development for their societies after the project.
Provide participants know-how of heritage conservation focusing on digitalization and to advise on how to adapt it to their communities.
Methodology
The working methods used are mainly in the field of non-formal education and experiential learning.
Participants are going to work all together as a group, in small groups and individually; they are going to learn by doing and by their involvement in the activities, which allows each of them to take further steps starting from your current position, independently form the differences present in the group.
The project will be mainly orientated in the methodology SOLE, which means Self Organized Learning Environments. It was created by the professor Sugata Mitra. With this methodology, the participants are the responsible and protagonists of their own learning experience and they will learn from each other and themselves during the process with our guided questions and topics related to the project.
The success of the training course is based on a pro-active attitude of the participants, the method is also called learning by involvement.
The training course is a space for you to learn about the main topic of digitalization of cultural heritage and to share with the other participants what you know already about it.
In small groups, participants will recreate the process of digitalization of the cultural heritage in different small villages near Bergolo.
After the project and in national groups participants will recreate, together with the support of your sending organization and ours, the digitalization of a cultural heritage of your location.
How it started
Vicky, one of the members of the team was participating in an ESC project called ‘Vitality’ offered by Vagamondo as a volunteer. The goal of the project is to bring vitality and dynamism in different levels. When finding artistic heritage in Bergolo, she came up with a brilliant idea of its digitalization to preserve it and share its value with people. Now she is happily working on the project, turning her idea into reality.
Yesoo was an intern at Vagamondo, supporting ‘Vitality’ and the development of tourism in Bergolo. With her academic background and interest in tourism and heritage study, she has been working on the ‘Bergolo Digitale’ project. She’s very glad that she’s getting hands-on experience and contributing to the development of the rural site for the local community.
Fabri is the vice-president of Vagamondo, and was the coordinator of the first generation of volunteers from Vitality. He made real the idea of the digitalization and inspired Vicky and Yesoo through all the process, coordinating and supervising the project of Bergolo Digitale, in the village that has become his second home.
Phases of the training course
Bergolo Digitale is made in three phases. Participating partially cannot be an option. If you want to take part in the training course make sure that you can take an active part in all the phases of the project!
Preparation
23rd March - 24th April
Participants organize their travel to the training course.
We will create a Facebook group where participants can start to get to know each other and work. We will organise also a meeting in gather platform to get to know each other a week before the implementation of the mobility, with 2 interactive activities to do together a team building and a presentation of who we are.
Training course
27th April 2022: Arrival Participants
28th April - 5th May: Program days
6th May 2022: Departures
It is the core activity of the whole experience, a space where participants meet, get inputs, learn tools, exchange their knowledge about the main topics, experience and deliver non-formal education activities and the main points of the training course.
Post-Training course
May-July 2022
It is the closing step of the training course. Participants digitalize a cultural heritage of the place they live in through . Further, they write a short testimonial of their experience, fill in the evaluation formand share the pictures, documentary and other outcomes of the project in their social media. Each participant fills in and receives a youth pass certificate.
The program
Arrival and welcoming.
Introduction of the project.
Let's get ready to digitalize!
Digitalization activities in other villages.
Digitalization activities in other villages & welcoming back.
Preparation of exhibitions.
Exhibition and fire night.
Closing events, youthpass, plan of dissemination, feedback and evaluation.
Departure
Locations of the digitalization
Where?
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The Training Course will take place in Bergolo, a village of 50 inhabitants located on the hills of south Piedmont, in Italy. The village doesn’t have shops and it is the ideal place for disconnecting, dive in nature and stay together as a group without external distractions.
Bergolo has a long tradition of music, art & cultural festivals. It is a peaceful destination for nature and outdoor activities lovers.
We'll stay in L'Alveare hostel (meaning "The Hive"). If you prefer, you can choose to be accommodated alone in a tent in the camping which is 300 meters far from the hostel, we can provide you camping mattress, sleeping bag and pillow. The camping has 6 toilets and 6 showers.
As a group, we will be responsible for the caring and cleaning of the spaces that we will be using, to keep a functional and harmonious environment.
Participants will take part in simple house duties to make the whole accommodation system work (preparing coffee breaks, arranging and cleaning the dining area, cleaning the common spaces and their own rooms etc.) this will happen in small groups with a duties rotation system. See also the "COVID-19 REGULATIONS" section for more info.
It is an educational choice: we believe that it is relevant to learn to take care of our own needs as a group. In case you are searching for an experience where somebody else is cleaning for you or serving you, this Training Course is not suitable for you.
Reimbursement and expenses
Meet The Team
Fabrizio Gallo
Fabrizio is the trainer of Bergolo Digitale, he believes in the power of creativity and movement.
Vice president of Vagamondo APS, educator and founder of New Wellness Education Has been working with education, training, project management and social innovation for 6 years.
He has worked with various municipalities and organisations to promote the territory, develop cultural, educational and social empowerment projects. According to him, every goal can be achieved through education, teamwork and good planning.
Yesoo Yang
Yesoo is studying heritage conservation and site management as a master's student in Germany. Before coming to Europe, she worked in a financial company in Seoul for five years. However, she felt tired of her job and decided to study culture and tourism management. Then she moved to Germany to explore a bigger world and get more knowledge and experience in the heritage tourism field. Through several heritage conservation projects, she found her interests more in on-site fieldwork rather than the academic world. Now, she's working on her thesis about digital heritage database system for natural history museums.
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COORDINATOR
Vagamondo, based in the south of Piedmont region, in Italy, is an NGO focused on European mobility and non-formal education. It provides learning and growing opportunities for young people and youth workers. The name Vagamondo comes from the concept of travel as a powerful tool of self-discovery and personal development: it is through direct contact with cultural and personal differences that identity becomes more visible to every individual; it is coming out of the comfort zone, getting involved in new activities, different from the usual ones, that people can identify room to grow and work on themselves.
In that condition of clarity non-formal education becomes a playground where people can practice new ways of thinking and acting; an effective tool to make a change that can create a long-term positive impact once back home, thus to improve the quality of personal and professional life.
From 2013 to 2020 Vagamondo took part in the organization and implementation of more than 140 international projects in Italy and abroad, involving more than 400 young people and youth workers.
Associazione Vagamondo
Country: Italy
E-mail contact: info@vagamondo.info
Partners
Roes Cooperativa
Country: Greece
Contact person: Ilias Giannopoulos
E-mail contact: weare@roescoop.com
Youth centre breclav z.s.
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Contact person: Jana Parolková
E-mail contact: info@eycb.eu
Active Rainbow
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Contact person: Cathy Manousaki
E-mail contact: info.activerainbow@gmail.com
Dinámica
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Contact person: Victoria Del Rio
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Country: Estonia
Contact person: Eleri Paatsi
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Active Bulgarian society ABS
Country: Bulgaria
Contact person: Kiril Spasov
E-mail contact: absociety.erasmus@gmail.com