Block 21 to 24 March 2024 in your calendar for the Interpret Europe conference entitled Sustainability: Challenging mindsets through heritage interpretation!

There is hardly any layer in our societal tissue that is not concerned by the serious situation that we are currently facing. Mainstream politics advocate more sustainable growth, since any solution other than growth seems unacceptable to many people. On the other hand, activists believe that people need to make a radical shift in their mindsets and lifestyles.

We believe that heritage sites offer an ideal space for provoking reflection and strengthening key competences for sustainability. At our conference, we will strive to find out how museums, monuments, parks and other heritage sites can help people to interpret heritage in a way that challenges mindsets and makes them more mindful of our common future.

The three-day workshop, located in Aachen and Ahrtal, will focus on built heritage, specifically studying the case of Nepomukbrücke in Rech. It will consist of a mixture of lectures, teamwork, and presentations of participants' outcomes related to the specific tasks announced during the workshop.

Every year, the Europeana Initiative runs the Digital Storytelling Festival. The international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture. We hope our two-day event of talks, showcases and hands-on workshops will inspire participants to create connections between art, culture and history and the contemporary world.

The 18th edition of the Forum is scheduled for May 2024, under the Polish presidency of the Troika. The members will meet in Krakow, Poland, for a meeting whose theme and programme will be announced shortly.
Attendance by invitation only.

An international conference on finishes of built heritage, organized by the Low Countries

From May 29 through 1 June 2024, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) will host the Architectural Finishes Research Conference in Amsterdam. We will do so in collaboration with renowned partners on this subject in the Low Countries: Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium/Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique (KIK/IRPA), SRAL -The Conservation Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Amsterdam.