SELECT

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 * https://www.selecteplus.eu

Author/Editor

 * Eduardo Orduña Aznar

Description
SELECT: Self-Learning Atlas of Ancient European Cultures is an Erasmus+ project coordinated by the University of Genoa and in which educational institutions, foundations and private companies from Italy, France, Spain, Finland and Poland participate, following in the wake of previous initiatives such as AELAW (Ancient European Languages ​​and Writings).

The SELECT project aims at enhancing the study of ancient history and geography by means of a multidisciplinary, multilayered, interactive and user-friendly self-learning Atlas of the cultures of ancient Europe before Romanisation. The ancient peoples outside the Greek-Roman world are the "minorities of the past", whose heritage is often neglected in the school system. The ATLAS will provide the European citizens with an overall view of the most ancient European heritage, which will be objectified on a map, a powerful visual tool in learning the past. The map refers to a territory which, in the present as well as in the past, continuously develops and changes its borders.

Ancient Europe The Select project assumes as most relevant to reconstruct the historical scenario those peoples settled in ancient Europe which have left a written presence. A chronological range from oldest written documents in the 8th c. BC up to Romanisation era (3rd c. AD) is set. The geographic area covers Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Greece and the Balkans from Slovenia up to the European Turkey.

Outputs
IO1: ATLAS of Ancient European cultures, will be a flexible, attractive open-source web application available on the SELECT platform to build on-demands maps.

IO2: GUIDELINES FOR TEACHERS will be written by the teachers of two high schools on possible uses of the ATLAS for different educational purposes (Pont de Suert, Spain, and Liceum Swidniku, Poland)

IO3: STUDENTS’ BOOKLET FOR STUDENTS, written by the students of two high schools to supply information and strategies in creating maps with the Atlas.

The atlas is currently in the preparation and information gathering phase. We would like to highlight and thank the close collaboration that the Hesperia Paleohispanic Languages ​​Data Bank is giving us in these initial moments for all the activity related to the Iberian Peninsula. The first versions of the digital atlas will be ready by the beginning of 2023 and its public launch will take place in July 2023. Visit selecteplus.eu for more information about the project and updated news about it.