PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Digital and Immaterial Village’s Archives – DiVA’s project is a philanthropic initiative aimed to promote universal and digital free-access to unseen cultural heritage of rural-peripheral, low-density and depopulating areas in the Europeancontext, representing more than 40% of EU territory, and in certain countries like Portugal might go up to 60%, with a population density lower than 10 inhab./km2 in these areas.
The project, intends to stimulate a sustainable and higher social and territorial cohesion, as well as an inter-generational awareness of the local cultural heritage value, in a new History perspective and integrated view, by implementing a grass-root approach that replicates and interconnect communitarian nodes, each one representing a village access point of DiVA’snetwork.
As a result, this digital content repository – “digital hub” compiles cultural heritage elements with ethnographic, anthropologic and historical relevance, which might be essential for guiding virtual or physical cultural visits to a specific destiny of interest in Europe, making it visible and keeping alive their memories, traditions and unique traces of identity, even when alive testimonies of the past are passing away. Additionally, it stimulates the sense of belonging of remaining inhabitants and theirs descendant generations of native digitals in diaspora.
Further info: https://www.europeanheritagedays.com/Story/Routes-Back2-Roots

ORGANISATION DESCRIPTION

Cultural Heritage preservation in very low-density, depopulated rural territories