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Best wishes,
Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academic and public histories of all modes of civilian 
> transport [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
> Of Adriaan Linters
> Sent: 09 September 2008 21:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Industrial Heritage 2008 in Barcelona
> 
> This may interest some people on this list - sorry for any 
> cross-posting.
> As E-FAITH has little addresses of local associations: please 
> forward this
> information to interested organisations and individuals in 
> your country and
> abroad - thanks.
> One of the themes of the meeting will be how to develop 
> bordercrossing E.U.
> projects between associations.
> Greetings
> Adriaan
> 
> 
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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 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.
> 
> 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 [log in to unmask]
> - 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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