EUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL

How can industrial heritage sites credibly practice sustainability? Students from European universities addressed this question at our 14-day European Industrial Heritage Summer School "Industrial Heritage x Sustainibility" from 5 to 20 August 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

The event was aimed at students from a variety of disciplines, in particular museology, cultural studies, history, public history, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism management, architecture and urban planning, as well as heritage conservation, sustainability and communication studies.

The intensive programme combined interdisciplinary knowledge transfer with practice-oriented project work. In advance, the participants visited an industrial heritage site in their own country - preferably an ERIH member. They presented this site during the Summer School, which took the form of a BarCamp. The first part of the Summer School focussed on acquiring knowledge about industrial heritage in its broadest sense. In the second part, small groups worked on problem solving and project ideas. At the end of the programme, exciting visits to industrial monuments in Berlin took place.

The 'European Industrial Heritage Summer School' is a joint programme of ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Culture and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW). Thanks to an ERIH scholarship, the participation fees are low. Participants are welcome to stay in touch with ERIH after the event and to get involved in the new network of young professionals.

The Summer School and the results of the working groups will be presented at the ERIH Annual Conference in November.

Further information Summer School

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