Digital Culture Bridge - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Digital Culture Bridge is a modular DESİL initiative where young people explore heritage on site (field visits to museums and landmarks) and through online exchanges (mentorship and micro-workshops), then turn their findings into a permanent, open digital archive via AI-assisted production. The program delivers practical training in project writing, media literacy, data collection and verification, copyright/ethics, storytelling, and digital production. Participants create texts, photos, videos, short documentaries, oral-history records, map-based micro-stories, and interactive pieces; outputs are archived with open standards and made accessible in multiple languages.
The first phase operates along the Anatolia–Balkans corridor—Sarajevo, Travnik, Mostar, Počitelj–Blagaj, and Višegrad—focusing on mosques, bridges, and administrative/architectural nodes. The pilot cohort of 20 students (ages 14–18) from Trabzon/Çaykara Şehit Ahmet Çamur High School works within a partnership model spanning schools, local authorities, universities, and technology providers. The project strengthens sense of belonging, digital literacy, and project development skills while adhering to accessibility, data security, and attribution principles. Designed for growth, the model scales annually by adding new schools and routes, expanding from the Balkans toward Central Asia.