EcoHeritage: Ecomuseums as a collaborative approach to recognition, management and protection of cultural and natural heritage it’s a Project with the focus on ecomuseums sphere, with partners on Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. The project aims the cooperation between ecomuseums, communities and Project’s partners for the innovation and the exchange of good practices on heritage management.

In Portugal, the partners are MINOM Portugal - International Movement for a New Museology and Lusófona University, where it takes place within the scope of CeiED and is developed in the Department of Museology.

EcoHeritage will address the target groups with the overall objective of contributing to the awareness and consolidation of ecomuseums as a model of sustainable and collaborative heritage management for the development of economic growth and social cohesion among rural communities in the consortium countries.

Objectives

• To raise awareness about ecomuseums as a collaborative heritage management model, establishing a set of criteria for its recognition and a common methodology to improve its contribution to social, economic, environmental and heritage sustainability of rural areas.
• To provide skills to adult learners in rural areas through the creation of innovative training materials on active citizenship promotion and participatory heritage management.
• To generate steady communication networks between ecomuseums at national and European level thus fostering knowledge and good practices exchange that will contribute to the sustainability of consolidated and new coming ecomuseums.
• To foster the creation of ecomuseums as an endogenous resource for competitiveness and social, economic and environmental sustainability of rural areas.

Given the cultural and natural richness of rural areas, heritage can definitely represent an alternative source of development for these territories.

Research team

• Mário Moutinho
• Judite Primo
• Maristela Simão
• Nathália Pamio Luiz
• Marcelo Murta

Partners

• Universidad de Jaén
• CEI Patrimonio
• Lusófona University 
• Museology Department – Lusófona University
• Universidad de Alcalá
• On Projects
• Ecomuseo di Parabiago e Parco dei Mulini
• Fundacja Miejsc i Ludzi Aktywnych
• MINOM Portugal
• Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca