Postgraduate Programme

“Administration and Promotion of Cultural Resources and the Environment”

(D.A.P.A.P.)

Introductory memo

The Postgraduate Programme “Management and Promotion of Cultural Resources and the Environment” of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management of the School of Humanities of the University of the Peloponnese began in the fall of the academic year 2016-2017.

The Programme’s instructors come from various fields and are recognized for their scientific excellence, scientific research, and successful professional careers in the field of culture. The curriculum provides students with the necessary tools for them to enrich their experience and broaden their scientific pursuits. The Programme’s main objective is to teach students how to successfully plan, organize, and implement cultural programmes and activities. With the instructors’ help and guidance students become familiar with the concepts of originality, scientific method, innovation, and aesthetics in an approach that combines theory and practice, so that the acquired knowledge can be translated into actual experience and the applied skills essential for successful professionals in this field.

The Programme is aimed at graduates in the humanities, social, economic, and other sciences, or professionals in the private and public sectors who wish to acquire or deepen their knowledge of the multifaceted challenges of management, protection, and enhancement of both tangible, and intangible culture and the environment. The Programme proposes a diachronic approach to the multifaceted enhancement of cultural resources in keeping with the historical and social context in which they occur. It also highlights the combination of a variety of types of events and activities with particular emphasis on an intercultural approach for the promotion of cultural capital. The engagement of experts from different fields achieves the necessary complementarity required for modern challenges. In this context, the Programme promotes innovative approaches that create a dialogue between the past and present and enliven, update, and integrate the past in the current cultural arena. Echoes of the past are used to understand the present and vice versa.

Vasiliki Penna (DPhil, Oxon)

Professor

Director, Postgraduate Programme “Administrationt and Promotion of Cultural Resources and Environment”