Memoro
Memoro - The bank of memories (Italian: Memoro - la banca della memoria ) is a not-for-profit project based in Turin , Italy . It is dedicated to the establishment and maintenance of an interactive contemporary witness archive of oral history on the Internet . The organization, founded in 2007, aims to pass on the wealth of experience of older people to younger people. Memoro means in Esperanto : "memory".
Memoro is online in 16 countries. On the Memoro website, people over 60 years of age tell in short video and audio clips how they experienced the war and the post-war period, about social and political events, but also about very personal things. In this way, the memory of history, traditions and wisdom of the past is to be kept alive and made available free of charge to future generations worldwide. There are 12,000 clips online, 1200 of them in German.
The German branch was founded in 2009. It is a non-profit registered association in Munich .
Working method
The audio and video clips are recorded by club members and volunteer memory collectors, uploaded and then activated after checking the content. The classification is done through categorization and keywording. Every registered user has the opportunity to upload their own recordings, which are activated after checking the content. You can also create your own topics by grouping new clips by the user with existing ones and adding photos.
financing
Memoro develops mainly through the personal commitment of the Italian founders and employees in the respective countries. The German association is financed through donations and through projects with companies, associations, administrations and the institutions of the EU.
External perception (selection)
Spiegel Online reports on the newly founded project in Italy . Four young Italians let old people tell about the past, film the stories and put the clips on the web. A comprehensive collection of everyday life in Italy was created in Turin. The Frankfurter Rundschau reports on the bank of memories. Four Italian students invented a “contemporary witness YouTube” - now there is a German version. The chair for pedagogy with a focus on adult and further education in the project: Network Political Education Bavaria of the University of Augsburg conducts an interview with the founder of the German branch. MEMORO - The Bank of Memories eV An interview with Nikolai Schulz.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports on the bank of memories. The Germany radio reported several times about the project Memoro. Lifetime: From Photo Album to Chip - How our culture of remembrance is changing. The weekend journal: biographies, family trees, memories - the longing for one's own story. The Hörzu reports on the association: “The first kiss or last wisdom: The Memoro website collects life anecdotes from seniors. Everyone can join in and find pearls. ”Memoro received a scholarship at startsocial in 2014/2015 . Bayerisches Fernsehen reported on the project on May 5, 2015 in the program Wir in Bayern . Die Welt reported on the project on July 2, 2017. Brand eins reported on the project in the December 2019 issue.
Initiatives and projects (selection)
EU project "HIS-Story" - Lifelong Learning Program
As part of the “European Year of Active Aging and Solidarity Between Generations 2012”, a two-year Grundtvig Lifelong Learning project with the title HIS-Story: History, ICT and Seniors (2012-2014) was won. Senior citizens are introduced to the Internet and interview techniques in workshops in the five partner countries.
See also Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig : His pedagogical concept was the living word between teacher and student. There are no grades in Grundtvig schools. It is not the teachers who are lecturing material, but rather they are learning by asking the students. All from the point of view of enlightenment. Grundtvig wanted the school of life, lifelong learning for everyone involved. The theory of the Grundtvig school is not written down in a compact canon. Rather, it is primarily passed on orally and above all through practice. Today Grundtvig is the namesake of an EU program of the same name, which is dedicated to the idea of lifelong learning under the Socrates program. The Grundtvig programs seek to develop European cooperation in the field of adult education.
The channels of memory
The Channels of Memory is a project realized by Memoro - The Bank of Memories at the request of the Foundation of the City Museums of Venice (Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia). In agreement with the foundation, a website was created on which the residents of the lagoon report on their life experiences and the changes in the city. The idea is to offer a different perspective on the city: a virtual place in which audio and video contributions, as well as photographs, are collected, categorized, tagged and made available. The different aspects of the city are represented by thematic focuses. In this way it is possible to discover the nesting or meandering of city histories and toponomics (place-name studies, place-name research). With the help of selected place names and quotations, a mirror of the Venetian labyrinth is offered.
Involved in the project:
- The house of the cinema / La Casa del Cinema
- Growth of Civilizations / Incroci di Civilta
- IVSER / Istituto Veneziano per la Storia della Resistenza e della Societa 'Contemporanea
- The competition Pasinetti / Video Concorso F. Pasinetti
- The Jewish Study Center / Centro Veneziano di Studi Ebraici Internazionali
- The “Canali di Memoria” project.
Awards
- 2016: "HelferHerzen - The dm award for commitment" of the drugstore chain dm .
- 2016: "Golden Internet Prize Digitally Active in Age 2016" Special prize "Young and old - online together" from the Federal Working Group of Senior Citizens' Organizations BAGSO .
Web links
- Website of Memoro - The Bank of Memories eV (German language)
- Italian website of Memoro (Italian speaking)
- US website of Memoro (English language)
- International website of Memoro (English language)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Il progetto , Italian website; Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ↑ Interview by Lorenzo Fenoglio in Quotidiano Piemontese . As of November 8, 2008 (accessed August 7, 2016)
- ↑ Web tip The Italian Bank of Memories , Spiegel Online , August 1, 2008
- ^ The bank of memories , Frankfurter Rundschau , December 4, 2008
- ^ The Bank of Memories , University of Augsburg , February 17, 2010
- ↑ A sheet as big as the sea - memory, in other words: A successful attempt to archive oral history on the Internet. (PDF; 185 kB). In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2011
- ↑ Lifetime: The Change in the Culture of Remembrance (MP3; 5.5 MB), Deutschlandfunk , September 2, 2011
- ↑ The longing for one's own story (MP3; 7.7 MB), Deutschlandfunk , November 12, 2011
- ↑ Treasure of Memory (PDF; 2.8 MB), Hörzu , June 8, 2012
- ↑ startsocial scholarship holder startsocial , 2014/2015
- ↑ We in Bavaria - lust for home. (MP4; 185 MB), Bavarian TV , May 5, 2015
- ↑ "An Ark for Everyone's Memories". Die Welt , July 2nd, 2017
- ↑ "It is what you want to pass on". Fire one , December 2019
- ^ EU Project - History, ICT and Seniors , Grundtvig , 2012–2014
- ↑ European Year of Active Aging and Solidarity Between Generations 2012 , European Union , June 8, 2012
- ↑ Channels of Remembrance , 2010
- ↑ HelferHerzen - The dm award for commitment , 2016
- ↑ Golden Internet Prize Digitally Active in Age 2016 , 2016