Cultural Heritage: Rome

each of the three field days models a specific teaching technique — structured outdoor-education observation on Day 2, a spolia heritage scavenger hunt (adaptable for school trips) on Day 3, and a hands-on workshop turning field material into a draft lesson plan on Day 4 — so participants practise the methods they will bring home, rather than only watching a guide.

Day 2 stays inside Ancient Rome's compact civic and religious core — the Colosseum, the Imperial Fora and Capitoline Hill. Day 3 moves to Trastevere and St Peter's, a separate part of the city shaped by a later, Christian era. Day 4 is a dedicated Baroque day — the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, and Caravaggio's and Borromini's work — so participants experience Rome's Ancient, Papal and Baroque layers as three honest, separate days rather than one impossible walking loop.

a dedicated Day 1 session on interactive mapping platforms and QR-code-based instructional tools, held before the field days so the tools are already in hand for the Day 3 scavenger hunt.

structured reflection sessions — including a dedicated debrief built around the week's photographs, sketches and field notes — turn what participants observe on-site, especially evidence of how ancient material has been reused and reinterpreted across later centuries, into classroom-ready awareness-building, not just a description of what was seen. The debrief also covers photographing a living neighbourhood like Trastevere respectfully, and teaching students to do the same before any comparable trip.

the course launches a Curriculum Integration Project in transnational working groups on Day 1, refines it with material gathered across the three field days, and closes with group presentations and peer feedback on Day 5 — so the outcome is a concrete, ready-to-adapt classroom resource, not only a certificate.