Floods, fires, storms – summer 2021 has made the effects of climate change clear. They devastated villages, houses, and landscapes and brought suffering to many people. Cultural heritage sites were also severely affected by this, and in their case, there is not only a risk of irretrievable loss of substance…
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Cultural Heritage Professions and Skills in an Interdisciplinary World
The Swedish HERITAGE-PRO Multiplier Event (roundtable) has been organised online by HERITAGE-PRO partner Restrade on 28 June 2021, titled “Cultural Heritage Professions and Skills in an Interdisciplinary World”.
Continue ReadingMultiplier Event: HERITAGE-PRO modules presented to students of the Vienna University of Technology
The “Research Department Project Development and Management” of the Vienna University of Technology cooperated with HERITAGE-PRO partner IPRE in the Austrian Multiplier Event. Professor Dietmar Wiegand, managing director of IPRE, integrated the HERITAGE-PRO learning material into university teaching this semester as part of the Master’s module Real Estate Development. The…
Continue ReadingSuccessful Training Event in Madrid
Our HERITAGE-PRO colleagues from Asociación Española de Gestores del Patrimonio Cultural (AEGPC) offered a training week June 14 – 18, 2021, for learners from the cultural heritage and related crafts’ sectors in Madrid. It was organized in a hybrid way (online and onsite) to adapt to the conditions imposed by…
Continue ReadingMultiplier Event: HERITAGE-PRO modules presented to stakeholders from Rhineland-Palatinate
In an online meeting beginning of May 2021, Entwicklungsagentur Rheinland-Pfalz presented the different outputs of the Heritage-Pro project to different organizations and stakeholders coming from different disciplines of the local cultural heritage sector, focussing especially on municipalities. In the beginning, it was discussed why interdisciplinary cooperation in cultural heritage management…
Continue ReadingHERITAGE-PRO German Multiplier Event in cooperation with the Organisation of World Heritage Cities
“Risk Management – from Climate Change to COVID 19 – Future Challenges in Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage Management” was the title of the Multiplier Event of Kultur und Arbeit May 4th and 5th, 2021, the coordinating HERITAGE-PRO organsiation. The association had won a strong partner for the training event: the Germany-based…
Continue ReadingTraining Activity for HERITAGE-PRO Staff Members
HERITAGE-PRO Austrian partner IPRE (Institute of Property Research, Vienna) offered a virtual training week March 15 – 19, 2021 for 13 staff members of all project partners. Methodologically, it was organised as a management game. The training week included five working days and three half-day sessions online via Zoom. The…
Continue ReadingChristmas and New Year greetings and an end-of-the-year review of 2020 by the HERITAGE PRO team
Let’s face it: who would have thought at Christmas last year that in 2020 many people would die in Europe due to a global pandemic and that we would be facing one of the biggest crises in many decades? This crisis affects all areas of our lives, including the European…
Continue ReadingHERITAGE-PRO training camp: application now open
Application period open now: interdisciplinary training camp in Germany for young cultural heritage managers, craftspeople and other young professionals of the cultural heritage sector. Date: April 19-20, 2021 Application period open until December 31, 2020 Location: Region of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley Teaching project: A crane…
Continue ReadingHERITAGE-PRO Training Modules for Cultural Heritage Managers Online!
As a rule, many different disciplines are required in preservation measures in cultural heritage: historians, restorers, craftspeople. But understanding in interdisciplinary cooperation can be difficult, especially when it is necessary to involve professionals who do not have to deal with cultural heritage on a daily basis, such as experts from…
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