please forward this information to interested organisations and individuals
in your country - thanks

<I>(NB: the invitations are also available in French and Spanish, for those
who would like to receive them in another language)</I>



PRESS RELEASE

<B>Industrial Heritage 2008
Second European contact weekend for industrial heritage volunteers and
associations
Barcelona - Terrassa, 24-25-26.10.2008</B>


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 <a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind0809%26L%3DIND-ARCH%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D923%26B%3D--part-SaI-sABD35ImJtsC1Hzo-kY6xvjVN29yuRNWF-ecIgryp%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>
- by fax  +32 56 25 51 73



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E-FAITH
the European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage
http://www.e-faith.org

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