The project was inspired by Curricula for the subject Art of high school during the school year 2018/19 in Belgrade, Serbia. We, as teachers and students, wanted to tackle the story of lost and preserved heritage and to see who has contributed to the city we now live in . The response was great ! Students loved the topic and the assignment and so the idea was alive! Lets make an app about the Belgrade! And so we did !

The idea was upgraded to a project proposal in cooperation with the XIV Belgrade Grammar School and within the 2019/20 it was supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education. The project received the letter of support of the Mayor of Belgrade and of the National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO in Serbia. The project is managed by teachers Lidija Zupanic Suica and Maja Keskinov who were awarded the City of Belgrade award in the field of education for the this project in 2021. Students of the high schools in Belgrade apply for positions within the project ( photography, app designer, researcher..) and after the selection they are divided into groups. Each group researches a certain cultural or historical topic (Ancient, Ottoman, Jewish heritage, International , Royal , Socialist , middle age heritage, memorials). The project resulted with the fully functional web site https://beotura.rs/en/ and an app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beotura.app which has both educational and touristic purposes and an app which serves as a guide through Belgrade's cultural heritage sites with more than 70 locations. The content of the website and app, (the app development, software engineering, design, photographs, texts, translation) are fully executed by high school students. Each web page/topic has the same structure: The list of cultural heritage cites (buildings, areas , historical structures, monuments) Historical introduction, subtopics/sections on historical/ heritage phenomena, Personal archives/stories The division of tasks implies the existence of a group coordinator/a student who is responsible for cooperating, planning and completing envisioned tasks directed at the digitization of content on the site/application (images, texts, design) Once a year we have a big celebration for all the participants where we organize the humanitarian /solidarity activities. During the research we found lots of interesting personal stories which are now published on our website mostly from minor communities with the aim of presenting them to the wider public. Our project had a significant educational impact within Serbia and Europe. In Serbia we had good promotions in school communities, and we succeeded in encouraging students and teachers to use the website and app as additional educational materials/tools. Recently, we held the conference "Education about cultural heritage in Serbia" in September 2022 where our participants had the role of guides for teachers with the aim of presenting them contested cultural heritage locations. In November 2022 during the first Annual Forum for History Education “Sites of Memories: Learning spaces for democracy.” which was organized by the Council of Europe in Belgrade, seventy participants from all over Europe explored the role of historical sites as education tools that foster the development of competences for democratic culture. The participants had the opportunity to explore several sites of memories in Belgrade through 4 routes: the Belgrade Fortress, the Ottomans and Jewish in heritages, the controversial history, and monuments tour in which the students from our project guided participants. Dissemination of the project’s results and knowledge gained and any outreach or educational activities. We have shared and presented our activities through Europeana platform (Annual conference 2020), with EuroClio Association for history educators (Annual conference 2021). We have also shared our activities with organizations which found them interesting, so we are working on the project proposals for Erasmus+ projects (with school from Greece, Turkey, Croatia) Our Instagram page has more than 1000 followers, our website has more than 300 views every week. This is a youth-based project which connects local communities (officials from the City of Belgrade, Ministry of education, museum curators) and informal groups such as the Liceulice organisation which operates on the principle of economic and social inclusion, employing members of marginalized groups as vendors of the Liceulice magazine (57 issues up until now, 10,000 copies per issue). We have been part of their activities by joining the vendors who are people experiencing poverty, exclusion and homelessness, or people who live with some form of physical or mental disability. Our participant have joined the #JUMPFORHERITAGE initiative which was organised by Future for Religious Heritage challenge in front of The Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Belgrade, Serbia in 2021. More than 50 participants have actively participated in our project and the project is ongoing. The students are now working as guides for our tours that we organise within national and international conferences.

We had a presentation of our project at the Annual conference of Europeana on 11th November 2020. https://europeana2020.sched.com/event/fZ74/belgrade-adventure At the seminar The Holocaust as a Starting Point organised by Mémorial de la Shoah held on October 19th-20th and 28th-29th 2020. we had a presentation about the activities of our project on Jewish cultural heritage in Belgrade. chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://premc.org/doc/Dialogue2/Program_Dialogue_Balkans.pdf We have participated in the European project MemAct! which had taken place during 2020-2022 with the support of Program Europe for Citizens: European Remembrance. Our participants were involved in the Event 7 - Workshop Belgrade, report of visiting on “Judenlager Semlin”. The event took place in Belgrade, Serbia on 13/04/2022. First, young students participants of Belgrade adventure visited the site of the former “Judenlager Semlin” chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://memact.at/conference.pdf At the first annual Forum for History Education “Sites of Memories: Learning spaces for democracy” organised by the Council of Europe from 3-6 November 2022. the participants had the opportunity to explore several sites of memories in Belgrade through 4 routes: the Belgrade Fortress, the Ottomans and Jews in heritages, the controversial history and monuments tourorganised by Education for the 21st Century which were inspired and guided by the project participants of Belgrade adventure. https://www.coe.int/sr_RS/web/belgrade/home