On 14 May 2025 the "Gaming Lab" is organised in Forlì, Italy to test the game developed within the Next Routes project. The initiative is realised in synergy with CollegAmentI - Let's boost your content!, a project of the Municipality of Forlì aimed at creating a digitally aware community among young people.
View the event's programme and the press release.
On 7 May 2025, the 4th Transnational Project Meeting of the Next Routes project was held in the Archeological Museum of Zagreb (AMZ), the headquarters of the Iron Age Danube Route (IADR). The meeting opened with inspiring contributions from Marta Rakvin (IADR) and Antonio Barone (The Phoenician’s Route) kicking off a day full of collaboration and creativity.
Project partners explored the NEXT ROUTES Training Methodology, Toolkit, Gamification Apps, and Communication Strategy – with a visit to the Archaeological Park of Andautonia to experience the connection between heritage and place. The insights and contributions shared during the meeting further reinforced our shared commitment and the pivotal role of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. Download the event's programme.
This year, the ATRIUM General Assembly was held in Cervia (Italy), from 7-9 April 2025, under the title “Heritage, landscape, urban development Cultural, sustainable and inclusive tourism offer”.
The annual General Assembly is a very important moment: the year's activity plan and budget are approved, new projects are imagined, relationships are strengthened. This year’s meeting featured a rich collateral program, ranging from guided tours, practical workshops, thematic sessions and conference speeches. In addition, three new members were admitted to the ATRIUM Cultural Route: Massa Marittima in Italy, Permet in Albania and Benetusser in Spain.
The association Pro Torviscosa in collaboration with ATRIUM has recently been dedicated to the project Fuga dal campo. The project is funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region to promote guided tours to the Villaggio Roma, a prison camp built during the Second World War, in which the internees were forced to work for the SNIA Viscosa Company of Torviscosa.
Find out more about the project on the dedicated website (in Italian and English language).
Students from the two high schools GYMME and GANDHI at the discovery of Merano’s rationalist architecture …
As part of the activities of the ATRIUM Cultural Route, the Association La Fabbrica del Tempo involved two fourth classes of the Italian and German high schools GANDHI and GYMME with teachers Gisella Mareso and Rosanna Pruccoli in the creation of a didactic notebook that would allow all classes from grade 3 to grade 5, to walk the streets of Merano and gain a solid understanding of the propaganda and civic architecture built in the city between 1920 and 1945.
Read the press release (in Italian language).
On 18 January, an educational meeting of the EUrban DECO project takes place in Forlì with the aim to introduce the topic of colonialims in Italy. Diverse speakers approach the topic with different foci: Carlo de Maria focuses on the different phases, heritage and memory of Italian colonialism; Giulia Crippa presents on imagery and colonial propaganda. Download the programme of the event.
On 15 January, within the framework of the project Developing an Inclusive Process for Communicating Dissonant Heritage, experts, guides and teachers had the opportunity to exchange on the dissonant heritage that ATRIUM deals with, in particular on the mosaics of celebrating the myth of flight in the interiors of the former Military College of Aeronautics in Forlì. The focus groups, organized by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna (Cesena Campus), involved tour guides in the morning and teachers in the afternoon. The aim of the project is to define a participatory and inclusive methodology for the narration and valorisation of this complex and controversial heritage.