Completed Projects
Quiosq has successfully implemented and/or taken part in several Erasmus+ Program initiatives, fostering collaborative partnerships between European institutions and organizations. Through these projects, we have facilitated knowledge sharing, skill development, and cultural exchange among participants from diverse backgrounds. By promoting intercultural understanding and cooperation, our Erasmus+ Projects have contributed to the growth of a more inclusive and connected European community.
Winsome (2023-2024)
Schools are somehow universal – every culture possesses places where knowledge is passed on to both young and older people. And that universality translates into school museums – they are not the Temples of Culture that many associate with museums, but places where a common experience is put in the spotlight. That makes them a good place to have different groups interact with each other in an informal setting.
WINSOME is an educational project set up by heritage institutions in Greece and The Netherlands. The pilot project started in 2023, offering an educational program for groups of migrants, including families, in school museums. Its aim is to involve migrants more actively with their newly chosen surroundings and, eventually, to promote their integration and well-being.
Revintage (2022-2023)
Throughout history, the interiors of homes—spaces that reflect personal and cultural identity—have often been overlooked in favor of grand, public spaces. This bias likely stems from the association of domestic interiors with women’s roles, historically deemed less significant. Yet these interiors, whether functional spaces like kitchens or formal rooms reserved for special guests, have been central to how people see themselves and their communities. These ordinary living spaces, particularly those from the post-World War II era, face neglect and risk disappearance due to a shift toward globalized, standardized designs.
The Revintage Project aimed to address this challenge by studying 1970s and 1980s interiors, documenting their unique features, and exploring how they are cared for or neglected. By focusing on recognizability, usability, and cultural continuity, the project endeavoured to map current issues and lay the groundwork for larger preservation initiatives, targeting two main groups: Vocational Education and Training (VET) learners and educators, and professionals in heritage and interior preservation, who can support VET education and advocate for sustainable preservation practices.
BACH (2021-2023)
BACH works for the needs of the partners in the heritage sector that stem from their responsibility to render heritage economically and socio-economically sustainable, so that it is able to fulfil its social mission and becomes a more visible and better acknowledged key player in social education, in the economy, the labor market and sectors that gain from a sustainable heritage sector, such as cultural tourism. In addition, it aims to give the sector opportunity to exploit the current (2022) period of positive keenness to get back to socialising and meeting others after the Covid-19 pandemic; the good timing to ride on the positive wave of internal tourism and new creative initiatives that operators of museums and heritage spaces undertook to keep their doors open in spite of lockdown. BACH aims to accomplish this through digital strategies and other outreach efforts, the avenues created by the new readiness for other social players in education, tourism, active aging and cultural operators to engage with digital and remote access and to undertake initiatives for socio economic comeback of their respective sectors. And, finally, the extraordinary demand on professionalisation and business acumen, communication and strategy in a time of dramatic change in the various heritage communities.
CRISP (2020-2022)
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, almost all cultural heritage institutions have seen a huge decline in their visitor numbers. This concerns museums as well as galleries, archives, and libraries. How do we cope with this issue? How have others done, or tried?
CRISP offers an inventory of initiatives in the cultural heritage sector focusing on good practice. This research took place completely using online sources, but we have also interviewed those responsible. We were interested as much in practices that didn’t work as in those that did, as both will teach us important lessons going forward. We were especially – but by no means exclusively – interested in the experiences of adults that are facing economic, social, or health issues. Using four training activities, we discussed the outcome of our investigations and prepared conclusions.
WAAT (2020-2022)
WAAT aims to develop a modern and dynamic system of understanding and promoting cultural heritage through digital stories. Based on the subject of cultural heritage WAAT shows how self-made short films can be applied in adult education and at the same time, WAAT contributes to disseminating heritage in its widest sense by introducing a heritage digital video platform. Besides a constructivist understanding of heritage, we intend to offer an easy approach to the production of digital video stories. There is no need to have specific knowledge in filmmaking and you do not need special equipment. Based on this WAAT Guide for Educators, the camera of your mobile phone or tablet, as well as basic user know-how, are enough to produce short digital educational video stories and upload them on the WAAT digital platform. You will have to choose one of the following four categories to classify your short video: tangible, intangible, digital, and natural heritage.
HeCo (2018-2020)
The Erasmus+ project Heritage valorization of small local communities (HE.CO) was set up by cultural heritage professionals from Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Malta and the Netherlands to learn from each other’s best practices about how to responsibly exploit local cultural heritage sites. The project touches upon several of the Reinwardt Academy’s research subjects: heritage and public space, cultural entrepreneurship, and valorization and ethics.