In the frame of the European Heritage Days, the NETCHER project will organize a public conference on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage.

European renowned experts will speak to youngsters and adults with the mediation of a famous expert Youtuber. The event will take place in the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels) or on the web, depending on upcoming developments regarding COVID-19.

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The OpenHeritage team has investigated and mapped adaptive heritage reuse policies in fifteen European countries. Join the first OH Dialogue to learn more about these results and discuss the future of heritage reuse policies in Europe!

What are the current regulations regarding heritage reuse? What are the overlaps and differences between reuse policies in various countries? Who are the most relevant actors and decision-makers? And finally, what are the best heritage reuse practices and how can European stakeholders learn from them?

During the first Dialogue we will present an overview of current heritage reuse policies based on the results delivered by the OpenHeritage researchers, and discuss them in the context of urban planning, cultural heritage, participation and sustainability issues. Together with our partners from CLIC and RURITAGE, we will look at the current regulations from both urban and rural perspective and dive deeper into differences between tangible and intangible heritage. Our guests from the European Commission will reflect on current and future actions in the EU, as well as supportive measures regarding heritage reuse.

The OH Dialogues are interactive workshops full of interesting conversations and exchange. We believe that your active participation is necessary for its success.

Panellists:

• Hanna Szemzö, Managing Director at the Metropolitan Research Institute, OpenHeritage Coordinator
• Loes Veldpaus, Senior Research Associate at the Newcastle University, co-lead of the OpenHeritage Collaborative Heritage Lab (Sunderland)
• Simona Tondelli, Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, RURITAGE Coordinator
• Ugo Guarnacci, Policy Adviser at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission
• Maciej Hofman, Policy Officer at DG for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission
• Speaker tbd, CLIC project

The webinar will be facilitated by Jasmin Miah, Governance and Social Innovation Officer at ICLEI Europe.

This Dialogue is a part of the OpenHeritage Dialogue Series which aims to bring relevant stakeholders and multipliers together to discuss key aspects of adaptive heritage policies in Europe, such as stakeholders engagement and governance or financing and economic sustainability. The series consists of three interactive workshops, each co-organised by one of the OH Cooperative Heritage Labs.

Click here to register today, and join the conversation on adaptive heritage reuse!

Do you have any questions about the OH Dialogues? Contact us at: [email protected]

For more information on the OH Dialogues and a draft programme go here.

This webinar will focus on explaining best practices for choosing rights statements when submitting digital objects to Europeana

In this webinar, Ariadna Matas and Maša Škrinjar will focus on explaining best practices for choosing rights statements when submitting digital objects to Europeana.

• They will explain how the copyright status of a collection item relates to the process of choosing a rights statement, license or tool;
• present the standardised tools that Europeana works with;
• walk the audience through the accurate use of these tools and important aspects to note;
• showcase these processes through relevant examples.

Ariadna Matas is a Junior Policy Advisor at Europeana Foundation. She contributes to the management and development of Europeana’s policies and frameworks with a strong focus on copyright, and supports the implementation of them through the Europeana Network. Ariadna studied Law in Spain and Germany and has a Masters’s degree in Intellectual property Law.

Maša Škrinjar is a Data Ingestion Specialist at Europeana Foundation. After completing her degree in Art History and Sociology of Culture, and before joining Europeana, Maša worked for various cultural organisations, such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Art UK. She is passionate about democratising access to art through digitisation.

Registration

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Civil society organisation DRAGODID and International scientific society for dry stone interdisciplinary study S.D.S – Société ScientifiqueInternationale pour l’Etude la Pierre Sèche S.P.S. wish to announce the be held on October 2nd-4th 2020 in Croatia the host of the Congress. Save the date!

Congress aims to bring together dry stone practitioners, researchers, professionals and enthusiasts in order to spread knowledge and techniques, discuss topicalities and widen the cooperation network between countries. All interested can participate as listeners, speakers and/or poster exhibitors.

It will consist of:
Sep 27th Arrival of participants
Sep 28th – Oct 1stInternational d
Oct 1st evening Welcome to Congress!
Oct 2nd-3rd Congress papers + S.P.S. General Assembly
Oct 4th Thematic visit to dry stone localities in Konavle
Oct 5th Departure of participants

For more information click here.

OpenHeritage invites you to join the session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’ taking place on 2 October as part of Mannheim2020.

Mannheim2020, the 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, is organised as a virtual event from 30 September to 2 October 2020. It will bring together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe. Visit the conference website to know more about the event and register.

As part of Mannheim2020, OpenHeritage actions will be presented at the Solution Session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’. The session will take place on 2 October from 9:30 till 11:00 CET.

The session will present first-hand examples of how cultural heritage serves as a driver for the sustainable regeneration of urban areas. The Cities of Hamburg, Rijeka, Sunderland, and Turin will showcase their best practices and reflect on lessons learned focusing on the guiding questions:
• How do heritage, culture and creativity contribute to local sustainable development?
• What is the role of cultural heritage in promoting social inclusion and cohesion?
• What is the link between cultural heritage and resilience – and how can cities benefit from synergies between the two?

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The purpose of the conference is to explore the transformation of public space and administrative activities in Republican and Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary exploration of the topography of power. The emergence of the Roman Republic produced a reorganization of the administrative structures, leading to the emergence of various entities and institutions responsible for the organization and governance of Rome, its civic life and public spaces. In different ways, this spatial model was exported to the colonies with the expansion of the Republic. Throughout the Roman world, building projects created spaces, the topography of the city, for different civic purposes: for the meetings of assemblies, senate meetings, the administration of justice, the public treasury, and the management of the city through different magistracies, offices, and even archives. These administrative spaces –open and closed– characterized the Roman life throughout the Republic and High Empire, until the profound administrative and judicial transformations of the Dominate. This conference aims to study the public and private spaces related to administration through urban development, the existing interrelation between the different administrative bodies, the analysis of the architecture of the spaces already discovered and the study of the written sources. We will try to find an answer to the dilemmas such as where did the administration work? Were there offices and where were they located? Were there social class differences between the different levels of administration?

Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (Real Academia de España en Roma)
Piazza San Pietro in Montorio 3
Rome, Italy

Sponsored by: University of Helsinki

Call for Papers Deadline: December 1, 2019

ESACH Talks are an interactive, fast-paced event that provides a platform for sharing knowledge amongst students and young professionals working within cultural heritage studies. At the same time, the talks can serve as a meeting point for institutions and young people, where dialogue and involvement is encouraged on both sides. To make things more interesting, each presentation lasts five minutes, and must accompanied by a slide presentation. You can choose to present the work alone or as a team.

The deadline for submitting the abstract is Tuesday 22nd September 2020. If you have any questions, visit www.esach.org. You can register as an attendant for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/115979605121The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form. 

ESACH Talks are an interactive, fast-paced event that provides a platform for sharing knowledge amongst students and young professionals working within cultural heritage studies. At the same time, the talks can serve as a meeting point for institutions and young people, where dialogue and involvement is encouraged on both sides. To make things more interesting, each presentation lasts five minutes, and must accompanied by a slide presentation. You can choose to present the work alone or as a team.

The first session will take place online, on the topic of People and Heritage.
Participation is open to all ESACH members.
• Topics: civic involvement in heritage matters, democratic participation and youth involvement.
• Keynote speaker: Manon Richard, Europa Nostra (main partner)

Not a member? Not a problem! Membership is free and you can become a member just to participate in the Talks. Interested members must submit a 300 word abstract and short bibliography about the topics highlighted above. Presenters will be selected by the ESACH Coordination Committee, in coordination with key partners.

If you have any questions, visit www.esach.org. You can register as an attendant for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/115979605121The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form.

For practical guidelines on how to submit an application for the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021, consult the Presentation of the Awards Webinar that took place on 3 September 2020. Detailed instructions on how to complete the Entry Forms can be found below.

Click here to apply.

Future for Religious Heritage (FRH) is delighted to announce its seventh biennial international conference from 27th to 28th of May 2021 in Barcelona, Spain.

The conference will provide a forum for policy debate and exchange of knowledge among decision-makers, professionals and volunteers in the field of heritage and culture. The 2020 conference theme “Europe’s Living Religious Heritage” will ask questions about the heritage we received from past generations and which we still use. Living religious heritage, in continuous, extended or even new use, can help us to understand the present and to make choices for the future, contributing to the well-being of both heritage and to society as a whole.

FRH calls for abstracts of best practice examples in one or more of the following topics:

• Use of religious heritage, from traditional to extended and new use of places of worship
• Community and Dialogue: religious heritage as a resource for community development, encouraging traditional and new communities to engage, social sustainability, public interest
• Cultural Expressions: intangible heritage; rituals and traditions, (sacred) art and music
• Sustainable Care: maintenance, sustainable preservation, museums, legislation, official policies

Submission guidelines:

Submit a written abstract of no more than 400 words in English, along with your title, name, role, institutional affiliation of the author(s) and contact information.

Selection procedure:

An international jury will review abstracts and make a selection The 20 selected abstracts will be exhibited during the conference The 8 best abstracts will have their authors invited to give a 5-minute plenary presentation at the conference

To keep in mind:Only one abstract submission is allowed per person, and you can only co-author two abstracts

Abstracts should be submitted as a Word or PDF document by the 1st of October 2020 via: [email protected]

Selected abstracts will be notified by the 30th of November and will be invited to produce a poster for the conference exhibition.

Submissions for the joint event are completely electronic, and both the paper and all supplementary material must be submitted through the online submission website. The EuroMed2020 Proceeding will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (www.springer.com/lncs).

Conference papers

The Symposium accepts only original, unpublished work written in English. All the papers will be published by Springer Verlag in LNCS. We are soliciting two types of contributions: The  PROJECT Papers (research/on-going innovation projects) and SHORT Papers (Posters).

The 10 best submitted papers will be published on a special issue of an International Journal on Digital Heritage.

For your convenience, we have summarized in the Author Guidelines document how a proceeding paper should be structured, how elements (headings, figures, references) should be formatted using our predefined styles, etc.

We also give some insight on how your paper will be typeset at Springer.

The PDF of the Authors Guidelines can be downloaded here or as part of the zip files containing the complete sets of instructions and templates for the different text preparation systems.

More information.

The International Conference on Cultural Heritage (CH) brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, the use of cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the CH content. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, SME’s, owners, managers and conservators of cultural patrimony.

Several organizations have decided to join together in order to create an optimal environment for the discussion, explanation of new technologies, exchange of modern ideas and in general to allow the transfer of knowledge between a maximum number of professionals and participants during one common time period.

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