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PRESS RELEASE
Industrial Heritage 2008
Second European contact weekend for industrial heritage volunteers and
associations
Barcelona - Terrassa, 24-25-26.10.2008
E-FAITH, the European Federation of Associations of Industrial and
Technical Heritage is a platform promoting contacts and co-operation
between non profit volunteer associations, the place where those can
meet, exchange experiences, learn from each other and sup****t each
other=92s activities an campaigns.
After the succesfull meetings in Beringen (2006) and Kortrijk (2007),
each attended by representatives from a dozen countries, E-FAITH is
now going to organize a third European contact weekend for volunteers
and non profit organisations that are engaged in the research, the
preservation, the interpretation and/or the presentation of the
industrial and technical heritage.
It will again be an open and stimulating meeting where organisations
and individuals can present and compare their ideas, projects and
results - and find out where cooperation or common projects can grow,
how they can sup****t the aims of colleagues and how colleagues can
sup****t their objectives. This will be possible by lectures and oral
presentations, leaflets, information stands, posters and small
exhibits. Each participant is allowed to use the presentation
techniques that to him/her seems to be the most appropriate.
The main themes of the meeting will be:
- European bordercrossing cooperation between industrial and technical
heritage associations
- twinning between associations
- exchanging experiences from the field
- discussing the possibilities of launching joint European projects
This third contact weekend is organised on October 24th-26th 2008 in
Barcelona and Terrassa (Catalonia, Spain)
This meetings themselves will take place at the Museu Nacional de la
Ci=E8ncia i la T=E8cnica de Catalunya - the national science and
technology museum of Catalonia. This museum is located in Terrassa
near Barcelona, a city with good links by train to the Catalonian
capital.
The Museum is housed in an exceptional building. It is an old textile
steam-mill in Catalan modernist style, the Va**** Aymerich, Amat i
Jover, built in 1909. This is surely the most beautiful textile mill
in Europe, now on the Unesco World Heritage List .
There will be visits to museums and sites in Barcelona on Friday 24th
and Sunday 26th of October.
Delegates will have a wide choice of exchanging information,
connecting links and becoming friends across the European borders.
Additional information on the Third European Industrial and Technical
Heritage Weekend is available and will be regularly updated
- on the website of E-FAITH, www.e-faith.org
- or can be requested by e-mail at 2008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
by fax +32 56 25 51 73
E-FAITH
the European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical
Heritage
http://www.e-faith.org
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