ELAICH holds cultural heritage course for students in Malta

The ELAICH (Educational Linkage Approach In Cultural Heritage) Consortium completed a special course for teenage students at the Junior College of Malta earlier this year.

The main focus of the course was on creating awareness of the rich cultural heritage of Malta. It was organized by ELAICH partnering with the University of Malta. 

The course, which was originally meant to take 15 participants, received more than 80 applications and, in the end, had to be redesigned to take 30 “very interested and motivated” students.

The course ran from February to May and covered practical and theoretical lessons over 35 hours. The lessons ranged from interactive sessions in class to site visits and hands-on conservation sessions. Lecturers included both local and foreign specialists from Israel, Italy, Belgium and Greece.

The 600-year-old parish church of Siġġiewi, itself a recent winner of the annual Din l-Art Ħelwa Award for Architectural Heritage, was used as the site at which practical analysis and research of the conservation process could be studied first hand.

Overall, the course developed students’ practical life skills of teamwork, respect for other persons’ opinions and how best to present reports or results.