Cities as Classrooms: Integrating Local Heritage into Educational Practices

Four teachers hug the trunk of a large tree in a green outdoor space, suggesting an activity focused on learning or connecting with nature as part of an urban educational setting.

Third-party on-site course

Cities as Classrooms: Integrating Local Heritage into Educational Practices

This 6-day Erasmus course equips educators with tools to integrate Bucharest’s rich local heritage into teaching. Through site visits, storytelling, and interactive learning activities, participants will explore how the city’s history and landmarks can be used to enhance education and promote local identity.

Last updated: 13.08.2025

Next upcoming session:

05.10.2025 - 10.10.2025

Romania , Bucuresti , Bucharest

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Description

This course invites educators to transform Bucharest into a living classroom, using its streets, stories, and heritage as powerful teaching tools. Through interactive lectures, site visits, and hands-on workshops, participants learn to design engaging activities such as educational games, walking tours, and treasure hunts. The program focuses on integrating local history, folklore, and cultural memory into the curriculum, fostering critical thinking, social skills, and community pride among students. By the end of the course, educators will be equipped to create immersive learning experiences that connect students with the city’s identity while promoting values like respect and tolerance.

Learning objectives

Explore Bucharest’s local heritage and memory as educational resources.

Learn to integrate city visits and urban exploration into teaching.

Develop activities using local stories and heritage to enhance pedagogy.

Design educational games, walking tours, and treasure hunts.

Promote values like respect, tolerance, and community pride.

Encourage critical thinking through reflection on local heritage.

Methodology & assessment

Interactive lectures on heritage integration in education.
Site visits and hands-on workshops to develop educational tools.

Group work on creating heritage-based activities.

Critical reflections on using urban landscapes in teaching.

Materials, digital tools & other learning resources

Participants will work with interactive worksheets, digital maps, storytelling templates, and treasure hunt kits. The course includes access to online museum collections, collaborative tools, debate sessions, and visual thinking resources – all designed to support creative, museum-based learning.

Certification details

All participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion of the course.
To be eligible for certification, participants must attend at least 80% of the scheduled activities.

The certificate includes the course title, dates, learning outcomes, and the name of the organizing institution.

Pricing, packages and other information

Price:

480

Euro
Course package content:

The course package includes:
✔️ Entry tickets to all museums and heritage sites included in the official program
✔️ Welcome kit with course materials
✔️ Welcome dinner on the first evening (networking and cultural exchange)
✔️ Public transport (metro) pass for all 6 days of the course
✔️ Traditional Romanian street snack tasting
✔️ Coffee break
❗Accommodation, lunch, and airport transfers are not included in the course package and must be arranged individually.
Additional information:

Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
Cancellation & changes:

Participants may cancel or transfer their booking up to 20 days before the course start date free of charge. After this deadline:
Cancellations made between 20 and 7 days before the course: 30% of the course fee will be retained.
Cancellations made less than 7 days before the course are non-refundable, unless caused by force majeure.
However, participants are welcome to:
✅ Transfer their booking to a future session of the course (within 12 months), free of charge
✅ Nominate a colleague to take their
Additional information:

The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).

Informacione shtesë

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Primary education (ISCED 1)

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
Target audience type:

Teacher

Teacher Educator

Not-for-profit / NGO staff
Learning time:

25 hours or more