GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

The GreenHeritage project aims to integrate cultural heritage, specifically at archaeological parks, with teaching young generations about sustainability. This initiative looks to fill a critical gap in current education by connecting the stewardship of cultural sites to active environmental learning. By leveraging the rich histories and material examples found in archaeological parks, GreenHeritage seeks to cultivate ecological thinking through a novel educational framework.

Archaeological parks serve as both guardians of historical civilizations and living case studies in sustainability. However, their educational potential often remains unrealized, with a traditional focus on conservation and tourism. GreenHeritage addresses this by transforming these sites into vibrant classrooms where the sustainable practices of the past enlighten contemporary actions, demonstrating how culture preservation and environmental consciousness are intertwined.

GreenHeritage resonates with the European Green Deal’s vision for a resource-efficient and climate-neutral Europe by exploiting the full potential of these sites to recount the past, heighten present awareness, and envision a more sustainable future. It aims to knit together a network of educators, cultural heritage managers, and stakeholders from across Europe, enabling an ongoing exchange of best practices and insights to promote sustainability within cultural heritage work.

Strategically aligned with the Sustainability priority of the Creative Europe Programme, the GreenHeritage project contributes innovation by promoting the integration of Europe’s rich cultural heritage into modern environmental stewardship. Through this project, the silent narratives of past civilizations will empower us to trace humanity’s journey, reflecting ancient social, economic, and environmental practices with direct implications for today’s climate challenges.

University of Primorska, Università del Litorale

(Partner) Koper

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Arheološki institut (leader)

Republic of Serbia
Akademija strukovnih studija Politehnika (partner)

Republic of Serbia
Asociación AEI Clúster del Turismo de Extremadura (partner)

Spain (EU)
Casa Árabe e Instituto Internacional de Estudios Árabes y del Mundo Musulmán (partner)

Spain (EU)
Maker Camp Srls (partner)

Italy (EU)
Mapa das Ideias - Edições de Publicações Lda (partner)

Portugal (EU)
Ministero della cultura (partner)

Italy (EU)

Funded projects

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning