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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 [...] University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin) and the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). Each year, around 20 students from across Europe and beyond come together to explore key questions [...] European 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

The Kymenlaakso Museum operates in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in the Old Port of Kotka. The Museum tells stories about life and everyday toil in the border region, about the river and the sea as well

ian Tourism' highlights the evidence of the region's rich industrial and technical history on the ERIH Regional Route 'TECHNOTRASA'. The virtual route leads to more than 30 technical objects connected

Johann Baptist Čžjžek Edler von Smidaich was one of the leading entrepreneurs in the Habsburg Empire with interests in several major industries as well as in finance. His father was the geologist Joha

George Stephenson is often called the father of the modern railway. As a civil engineer of railway routes and a mechanical engineer of rails and locomotives during the industrial revolution, he transf

As a young man Robert Stephenson worked closely with his father, the giant of railway history George Stephenson . Later, he became one of the greatest civil and mechanical engineers of the 19th centur

The inventor and businessman Andras Mechwart led the Ganz engineering company at Budapest after the death in 1867 of its founder, Abraham Ganz . He joined the company in 1859 and remained with it for

Matthias Schönerer (later awarded the title Ritter von Schönerer) was an engineer who pioneered railways in Austria. Schönerer came from the area south of Graz in Austria, where his family were farmer

Carl Zeiss, by origin a maker of lenses, was one of the leaders of the photographic industry in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century the successors to the company he foun

Ernst Karl Abbe was a German physicist who, in partnership with Carl Zeiss , revolutionised the manufacture of optical glass and microscopes. He and became head of the Carl Zeiss company, one of the w

The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by André Oscar Wallenberg and its business was expanded by his so

Abraham Ganz founded an engineering company in Budapest that became the largest in Hungary and influenced developments in technology, particularly in roller milling and electric traction, beyond the b

Johanna von Schaffgotsch managed and expanded a vast industrial empire in Silesia and became one of the wealthiest women in Europe. Born Johanna Gryzik, she was the daughter of a miner who died when s

Gabriel Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the business people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in bank

Juan Maria Ybarra Gutiérrez de Cabiedes was one of the people responsible for the growth of the iron and steel industries in the Basque Country. He had diverse commercial interests in banking, mining

along with a true-to-life ‘tunnel experience’ and famous rail travellers on the ‘Train of Destinies’. ERIH aricles in 'Industriekultur' (de): Einst Strom und Wärme, heute Wissen. Das Kulturzentrum EC1 in Lódź

many as 3 Anchor Points. In 2019, ERIH obtained the certification of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, which was confirmed by recertification in June 2023. ERIH Conference 2024 [...] questions we will jointly seek answers to when meeting in Łódź – says Dr. Adam Hajduga, Vice President of ERIH . During the three days of the event, nearly 100 participants from several European countries will [...] processes - both architectural and social - using our institution as the example. And during the ERIH conference, we will organize an audiovisual panel, debating the presence of film techniques in po

impressive spatial effect, albeit horizontal, is achieved by the Hall of the Century Bochum . Today's ERIH site made its glamorous debut in 1902 at the Düsseldorf Industry and Trade Exhibition. Decorated with [...] innovative enough for Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the inauguration ceremony in 1899 in person. Today, the ERIH Anchor Point offers vivid insights into inland shipping and the canal system of the last 100 years [...] mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began its unprecedented transformation into what is now one of the key monuments of

Once again, the Summer School was jointly hosted by ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage (bzi) and the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin. The participants came from a wide range of [...] students such a fruitful experience and enables the results of the Summer School to be applied in ERIH's work. This year, interesting ideas emerged for a more targeted way of communicating. These include [...] to their natural state – a project that is likely to underpin one of the workshops at this year's ERIH Annual Conference, deals. Another Summer School project group explored ways to raise awareness among