EUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL

The European Industrial Heritage Summer School is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines, in particular museology, cultural studies, (public) history, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism management, architecture and urban planning, as well as heritage conservation, sustainability and communication studies.

The intensive program combines interdisciplinary knowledge transfer with practical project work. In preparation of the Summer School, the participants visit an industrial heritage site in their home country – preferably an ERIH site – which they present to their fellow students during their stay in Berlin. The first week of the Summer School focuses on acquiring knowledge about industrial heritage in its broadest sense. In the second part, small groups of students work individually on own projects. International experts are there to help them reflect on their ideas. The academic part of the summer school is supplemented by exciting excursions to industrial heritage sites in Berlin.

The 'European Industrial Heritage Summer School' is a joint program of ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage (bzi) and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin). Thanks to an ERIH scholarship, the participation fees for the students is kept low. ERIH kindly invites the participants to keep touch with ERIH after the Summer School and to get involved in the ERIH Young Professional Network (ERIH YP).

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Summer School 2023  

How can industrial heritage sites credibly practice sustainability? 17 Students from Europe and beyond addressed this question at our 14-dayEuropean Industrial Heritage Summer School "Industrial Heritage x Sustainibility".

The founding of the ERIH YP is one result of the work of the students of the Summer School 2023. The other student projects dealt with the adaptive re-use and a concept for telling the heritage of the former AEG Behrens-Ufer areal in the south-east of Berlin. A group of students developed a concept for “Sounds of Industry: Industrial Heritage x Club Culture” and two individual students engaged themselves in the topics of “Independence and Sustainability in a Museum” and a pitch for a “Sustainable Industrial Heritage Hotel Project”. The Summer School and the results of the working groups were presented at the ERIH Annual Conference.
 

Summer School 2024  

Our award-winning Summer School took place this year from 10 to 25 August 2024 under the theme "Shaping Sustainability in Industrial Heritage"; 22 students from 12 countries participated.
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The next summer school is planned for summer 2026.

The "European Industrial Heritage Summer School" has been awarded the Best Practices Award 2023 of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe