What is Portico

The objective of the article is to present the most representative research led by the International Center for Didactics of History and Heritage of the University of Bologna with the participation of schools and teachers of all levels, and institutions and local authorities in the field didactic of history and heritage teaching. Specifically, it will analyse: the project called Roots to fly, where the scholars who have carried out research inherent to the heritage can expose their results and make proposals for the protection and enhancement to the leaders of the institutions appointed to these tasks; the European project STEP, which has developed a preschool and primary interdisciplinary curriculum to create relationship between children school experience and informal education; and, finally, research projects oriented to the perception of teachers in training and in service on the theme of heritage education for active citizenship.