LTTA Meeting in Selinunte, Sicily - May / June 2022

On 31 May – 4 June, the Phoenicians’ Route – Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, Lead partner of the “Erasmus+ U-Mar project - Enhancing underwater archaeology to make it an innovative tool for developing sustainable & creative tourism”, hosted the LTTA – Learning Teaching Training Activity in Selinunte, Sicily.

Three members from each project partner met for a week of transnational training, in order to exchange their knowledge and define together how to develop the new innovative training course on underwater archaeological sites for cultural operators, the first project output led by ICUA Zadar. At the previous transnational meeting in Selinunte, it was decided that each of the project partners would choose which of the lessons they would contribute to, guided by the covered topics and their level of expertise and experience in these topics, and that ICUA Zadar would collate, organise, and interpret these contributions in order to implement the course.

The course is divided into seven learning units:

1. Underwater archaeology, documentation techniques, and the importance of the in situ protection of underwater cultural heritage
2. Communicative interpretation, valorisation and dissemination of underwater heritage
3. Shared management strategies
4. Assessment of the impact of tourism activities on the marine environment with a focus on the natural environment and cultural heritage
5. Creation of underwater cultural itineraries
6. Digital transition of cultural activities
7. Legislation for protection, museum activity regulations, tourism, and recreational diving

ICUA Zadar representatives Maja Kaleb, Roko Surić, and Ivan Vidulić presented the summaries of the contributions of the other project partners in the frame of the realisation of the Project Result 1. At this meeting the project partners discussed all the definitions and points that need to be presented and covered in the course and determined the necessary guidelines for each lesson in order to see the course syllabus processed and prepared to the highest possible standards. The next transnational meeting of the U-Mar project will be held in September in Zadar, Croatia, hosted by ICUA Zadar.

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.