3rd TPM of the U-Mar Project in Cadiz, Spain - January 2023

On Wednesday 25 January, the 3rd Transnational Meeting of the project “U-Mar – Enhancing underwater archaeology to make it an innovative tool for development Sustainable & Creative Tourism” took place in Cadiz (Spain), at the headquarters of the partner International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEI.MAR).

The meeting served to present in detail the work done to realise and complete the output of PR1 (an innovative course on the enhancement and communication of underwater archaeological heritage) and to show the final result, which was presented by ICUA Zadar representatives Maja Kaleb and Ivan Vidulić. Moreover, the partners discussed and defined the common structure to be followed in the national On-site trainings, which will be implemented in each country before summer 2023, to test the training course. In addition, the state of the art of the E-learning platform (PR2) was presented and the common approach for the creation of the Interpretation/Learning Centres (PR3) was discussed. At the end of the meeting, the videos planned and connected to PR1 were recorded, to be later implemented into the e-learning platform. Next Transnational projectm eeting is scheduled in the middle of June in Paphos on Cyprus.

As this meeting marked the completion of the project’s first phase, the baton was passed on to our partners at the CEI-Mar institute as leading partner of the Project Result 2, who have taken on the development of an online platform for the digital transmission of course knowledge to users. After the end of the Project Result 2, the leadership role will go to The Phoenicians’ Route as leading partners of Project Result 3 - the implementation of the interpretative educational centres on underwater archaeology. The project is due to end by January 2024.

Detailed information about the U-Mar project is available on the Internet site of The Phoenicians’ Route association.

The project, led by the Phoenicians’ Route – Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.