Adrion Cultural Heritage Collections Network
The Project aims at promoting, valorizing and protecting cultural heritage in the Adriatic-Ionian area. Its specific aim is to contribute to the enhancement and conservation of specific cultural properties, in particular books, and to make the digitized heritage accessible to a wider public in the project area of Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece and Serbia, through the creation of a network between operators of the cultural and tourism sectors and their training, through the digitization of selected collections, performed with common standards and methodologies and integrated on a common platform, and through the tourism promotion of the CH sites, by means of an Adrion tour.

In this way, the projects will deal with the following common challenges: the need for cooperation between public and private sectors and between all sectors of cultural heritage, the lack of trained specialists in the field of sustainable CH tourism model, the necessity of a common strategy for digitization of cultural properties, statistical indicators shared in a systematic way, the lack of funds for training and professional travels, a serious aggregation of metadata, the absence of a recognizable tourism brand for Adrion CH collection; the necessity of knowledge of Europeana among the general public and the professionals and the need of knowledge among operators of opportunities offered by the agglomeration of digital CH resources.

Therefore, outputs of the project will be the networking structure between operators of cultural and tourism sectors, digitization pilot actions and the increase in visitors of CH sites. As a consequence, the project will contribute to raising awareness on common heritage in the Adriatic-Ionian area as an orientation framework for individual actions, to the valorization of cultural heritage within an Adrion brand name as well as the enhancement of the “body of knowledge” through the digitization pilot actions.