Preventing Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage:
Educational Resources
2021 - 2024
Erasmus+
PITCHER
After three years of dedicated work, the Erasmus+ PITCHER Project is now over, however its results will stay available, updated and maintained.
Through its trans-sectoral approach, the project developed the following resources to raise awareness about illicit trafficking of cultural heritage to educational communities:
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17 Open Educational Resources: Available in English and additional languages, these resources address every stage of looting and illicit trafficking, tailored to various student age groups—primary, secondary, and upper school.
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Teachers and Cultural Mediators Guide: This guide introduces innovative tools and resources to help prevent the looting and illicit trafficking of cultural artifacts. It equips educators with engaging activities, real-life case studies, and expert insights to empower their students.
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Recommendations for Policymakers: This resource provides a detailed strategy for integrating these critical topics into education systems, raising public awareness, and updating legal frameworks. It includes a concise two-page Policy Brief that highlights the main recommendations.
What is PITCHER?
The general objective of PITCHER consists of the design and test of a set of open educational resources focusing on improving the educators’ capacity in preparing new learning experiences to support the fight against looting and illicit trafficking of cultural goods.
The project proposes a new model for showing young people how they can support the fight against looting and illicit trafficking of cultural goods, addressing their school teachers, to raise teachers’ awareness and enhance their professional development in this field.
8 European partners
5 countries
An expertise in formal and nonformal education
News
Activities
The general objective of PITCHER consists of the design and test of a set of open educational resources, to be made available online, focusing on improving the educators’ capacity in preparing new learning experiences to support the fight against looting and illicit trafficking of cultural goods. This will be done by:
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Empowering schools with tools to help their students acquire the critical thinking skills necessary to play an effective role in tackling this problem,as a young citizen and as an adult;
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Creating educational materials based on STEAM Education as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking;
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Using the educational potential present in European digital heritage collections (archeological sites, museums, libraries, etc.) to help teachers develop lessons and workshops focusing on the fight against looting and illicit trafficking of cultural goods.
Partners
Advisory Board and Associate partners
