The Ecoheritage Project: how Ecomuseums can Reinforce the Relationship among Culture and Nature

This article presents the first results of the Ecoheritage project, which aims to raise awareness on ecomuseums as a tool of participative heritage management. After a briefly explanation about the situation of Italian ecomuseums, with a focus on their network tools and objectives, the results of Ecoheritage survey are illustrated. Ecomuseums are a tool of sustainable development and Ecoheritage consortium aims to create a common framework and best practices in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Poland. Ecomuseums’ training needs will be analyzed in the conclusions of the article and will also be the next steps of Ecoheritage project, which will involve European marginal areas in an education program.