The subject of this year’s Conference will be “Celebrating European Industrial Heritage". We are looking for presentations about events (days, nights, weekends or weeks) celebrating industrial heritage. Experiences made, lessons learned and ideas for a “European night of Industrial Heritage”. 

Pro Torpedo Rijeka (Croatia) - Association for promotion and Protection of Rijeka industrial heritage  is inviting all relevant subjects to apply for participation as lecturers or as publics on this interesting conference that will be organized in beautiful town of Rijeka on the Adriatic Coast on 25th and 26th May  2012. The main topis is civil engeneering heritage but all the other topics are welcome.

For more information and the draft conference programme, please click here.

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.