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Title: 'Blue Ribbon' – European waterways as cultural infrastructures.

Acronym: BlueR

All the partner countries participating in this project are supposed to provide their own history of events, vicissitudes, achievements and destiny tied to their rivers, canals and waterways in general, here visited as a fundamental aspect for the origin of the European landscape and a co-builder of its history and memory.

´Blue Ribbon´ with a high cultural, social and economic value that characterises Europe by creating a deep cultural sense of belonging and recollections.

Water seen as the origin of settlements, activities, communication, urban and agricultural landscapes featuring different territories. A route, a communication network and a way of contacts, exchanges, ties and connections.

Along these networks of waterways there are landmarks (icons) of identities strongly shaped and tied to the territory, and part of its historic, economic, religious development.

The main topic enhances a cross-curricula exploration of the landscape and its network of waterways as elements of natural and cultural infrastructure. Many school subjects (history, geography, economics, urban design, architecture, history of art) and artistic visual aids are involved.

The main objective is to realize a ´topic mapping´ to focus a series of meaningful landmarks along the waterways in order to state the fundamental importance in history of the waterways in the creation of both landscapes and cultural-social-economic identities of communication and exchange.

The pair ´communication and exchange´ is vital in all cultures and the landscape witnesses it.

The general framework will enclose a MOSAIC (Blue Ribbon Mosaic) as the conceptual and formal synthesis of the project.

On this website you can find the followings related to the project,

· * The school presentation

· * Logo presentation

· *2 pedagogical cards

· *The applications of these cards;

The students' presentations