Meeting of ERASMUS+ Program in Seville

The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest in the framework of its actions for the accessibility of the visually impaired and people with mobility problems in the monuments of the geological heritage and especially in the geosites of the Lesvos Geopark, participates in the ERASMUS + program Geology for the Visually Impaired and Disabled». This is an important program that will include the creation of educational applications for mobile phones aimed at giving the opportunity to people with visual impairments and mobility problems to discover our geological heritage and geosites of UNESCO Global Geoparks.

Within the framework of the Project, a special meeting of the partners was organized in Seville where the models created by the University of Patras were examined in order to make accessible geosites such as the petrified tree trunks of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, volcanic structures and geosites of erosion, that the participants had discovered during the inaugural meeting of the program which took place in Lesvos from 19 to 23 July 2021 at the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean and the Museum.The meeting in Seville was attended by the Director of the Museum, Professor Nikos Zouros and the Head of the Department of Educational Programs, Ms. Konstantina Bentana.