Urban heritage transformed into a first-rate educational tool.

The Beit Project responds to the need to create a dialogue between young people from different social-cultural backgrounds and functional diversity through the study, study, and interpretation of their urban environment and its history. For several days, youth from two schools get to know each other and work together. Around a temporary and nomadic school installed in a place of heritage, they appropriate this historical
place by working on traces of the past, social issues and video production. The idea of the project is to transform the perception of diversity into richness and build a shared
dialogue, as well as to develop a reading of the city through the interpretation of the traces of the past. When the project was launched in 2011, the places studied were related to the history of Jewish communities in Europe, hence the acronym Beit, which in Hebrew means 'house' but also the number '2', the second letter of the alphabet. Then the project opened all the places of urban heritage to work the relationship with the
other, happy or painful, and to reflect on living together, today. How to transform my city into a home for others and me.

Programme:
Urban sessions: from 16/01/2023 to 03/02/2023
Video editing workshop: week of 6/02/2023
Final presentation: week of 27/02/2023

Pupils between the ages of 11 and 17 from 6 classes from a wide variety of Timisoara educational centres will take part.

The project has already been realised in 16 European and Mediterranean cities: Paris, Marseille, Barcelona, Brussels, Rome, Berlin, London, Lodz, Tangier, Sofia, Skopje, Nice, Athens, Nantes,
Bucharest, Iasi. This year is the first time in Timisoara.

The European Union co-funded the project as part of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme – European Remembrance. This programme supports projects aimed at commemorating defining events in modern European history, including the causes and
consequences of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and at raising awareness among European citizens of their shared history, culture, cultural heritage and values, thereby
enhancing their understanding of the Union, its origins, purpose, diversity and achievements and
of the importance of mutual understanding and tolerance.
In Timisoara, the leading local coordinator is the Institutul Intercultural Timisoara.