| 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 support each
other’s 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 support the aims of colleagues and how colleagues
can support 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 Ciència i la Tècnica 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 Vapor 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. |
