The ERIH Annual Conference 2012 is planned to take place on 12 to 14 September 2012 in Amsterdam / The Netherlands. Please save the date, more information will be available shortly. 

The former ERIH board has successfully managed the network for the last three years since the foundation of the ERIH association. Now the first board election after the foundation in 2008, was held. Representatives from other European countries were invited to join the board to make it more international and to further promote the extension of ERIH allover Europe. The new ERIH board has representatives from six European countries.
Three former board members (David de Haan, Paul Gilman and Ralf Winkels) did not stand for re-election.

The following people have been elected:

Prof. Dr. Meinrad Maria Grewenig (President), Voelklingen Ironworks, Germany
Drs. Hildebrand de Boer (Vice-President), HollandRoute, The Netherlands
Andreas Kuchajda (Treasurer), Hall of the Century, Germany

Board Members:
Randi Bartvedt, Norwegian Museum of Hydro Power and Industry, Norway
Dr. Wolfgang Ebert, ERIH, Germany
Dr. Adam Hajduga, Marshal Office of the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Jonathan Lloyd, ERIH UK
Prof. Massimo Preite, Italy
John Rodger, ERIH UK

Various presentations about the subject “Industrial Heritage & Web 2.0” showed different aspects and examples of good practice, how new media can be used to market and promote industrial heritage.
All experts agreed that Web 2.0 and new media have a great potential for the marketing of industrial heritage. On the one hand a huge number of potential visitors can be reached (in a relatively cost-efficient way) and the community does act as multipliers for concrete offers. On the other hand virtual tours, augmented reality and other new techniques allow interpretation and visitor at sites which are not (permanently) open to the public or are still under restoration. 

The ERIH annual conference will this year be held in Katowice in Poland. The conference will present experiences made, lessons learned, best-practice examples in the field of industrial heritage and new media (apps, blogs, social networks, geo caching, etc.) during the conference day on Thursday. Thursday night the delegates will enjoy a special evening underground in the ERIH Anchor Point Coalmine GUIDO in Zabrze. During the conference excursion on Friday participants will have the chance to visit the Silesian Technical Monuments route including the ERIH Anchor Point Tyskie Browarium. Provisional programme see registration form.
PROGRAMME
This year´s conference will be held in co-operation the “Weimar Triangle” (Co-operation of Voivodeship Silesia in Poland, North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany and Nord-Pas de Calais in France) celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2011. To register please fill in the registration form and send it to the ERIH secretariat. Please note that ERIH and TICCIH members benefit from a reduced conference fee.

The subject of this year’s Conference will be “Industrial Heritage and Web 2.0  – Examples of Best Practice". Deadline for the submission of papers is 12 August 2011. Papers should be submitted by e-mail to germany‎@‎erih.net. We are looking for experiences made, lessons learned, best-practice examples in the field of industrial heritage and new media (apps, blogs, social networks, geo caching, etc.). This year´s conference will be held in co-operation the “Weimar Triangle” (Co-operation of Voivodeship Silesia in Poland, North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany and Nord-Pas de Calais in France) celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2011.