La Ponte Ecomuseu
The Ponte ecomuseum is an interdisciplinary, open, experimental and collaborative work space in which science, territory and heritage are central themes. It´s a community and rural heritage organisation located in a small municipality (Santu Adrianu), with less than 260 inhabitants, in the central area of Asturias (Spain). It was described as a social enterprise of knowledge, which works based on the rationality of economic means and resources, but with social and cultural purposes and a strong link with the territory and its community. So the ecomuseum Works together action-research, science and knowledge, community action, cultural heritage and territory.
One of the cornerstones of the ecomuseum is the idea that sustainability of rural territories is not possible without valuing the ancestral knowledge of the communities that created our cultural landscapes. This is the reason why an important part of our work is aimed at promoting values and attitudes of respect, coexistence, empathy and collaboration towards rural communities, the heirs of peasant memory.
Historical, archaeological and ethnographic research is carried out at the ecomuseum. Scientific and cultural heritage dissemination is carried out through interpretative cultural routes, annual heritage days and scientific publications. It also develops community work and innovation, science and experimentation through social entrepreneurship.
La Ponte EComuseu CULTURALITY TEAM
Jean-François Alberghi
Jean-François is an expert in european project design and management in the fields of culture, education, social innovation, sustainability rural development. He has worked during the last 20 years for various organizations (public and private) from all over Europe, mainly in identifying and implementing the best internationalization strategies through of European cooperation.
He experimented and supported the creation of several collaborative group processes (formal or informal networks, associations,cooperatives, social enterprises…) and developed training and mentoring programs for different entities (NGOs, universities, consultancy companies, universities…), thus contributing to promoting collaboration, creativity and sustainability as motors of change.
In 2012, it created Europimpulse Training & Network to train and support civil society on European cooperation and funding issues. Since 2015, he has also worked as external advisor for the evaluation of projects for the Erasmus+ French National Agency. Since 2022 he works as a project manager at La Ponte Ecomuseum (Asturias) where he defines the association’s development strategies and manages various european projects within the framework of different european programmes: Next Generation, Creative Europe, Erasmus +, Leader, Horizon Europe
Carmen Pérez Maestro
Carmen is a Doctor in History, Culture and Thought from the University of Alcalá, and holds a degree in Geography and History with specialisations in Prehistory and American Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. She belongs to the research group on prehistoric graffiti and human settlement of the area of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá, to the Ibero-American Research Network on Rock Art in Latin America created from the University of Seville, to the group of Teaching Innovation in Heritage Education at the University of Vigo and is a team member of La Ponte Ecomuseum since 2013 where she has developed her expertise as an interpreter of cultural heritage. She was a professor at the University of Vigo and at the Universidad de los Andes, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad del Externado in Colombia. Her current research lines are rock art and landscape and heritage, memory and communities. She is the editorial secretary of the ecomuseum’s scientific publication Cuadiernu: International Journal of Heritage, Social Museology, Memory and Territory.
