ERIH project Shine4Future: Project Management Group met in Terrassa, Spain
Implementing seven work packages by 2028 is the target set by the EU funding programme Creative Europe Networks for the ERIH project Shine4Future, backed by €1.2 million. The guidelines are being defined by a Project Management Group (PMG) consisting of the Executive Board and ERIH management. On 22 and 23 May, the steering group met in Terrassa, Catalonia, to hold its second strategy meeting.
A key component of the Shine4Future project is to engage young people and encourage them to discover industrial heritage sites as places to visit or even work. Only this can ensure successful generational change and prevent the loss of extensive local and industry knowledge among museum experts, site operators and former employees. This is were the ERIH Young Professionals (YP) network, established two years ago, comes in. Jule Lux (6th from left, squatting), PhD student at the University of Marburg and one of the new YP spokespersons, represented the network at the PMG meeting in Terrassa, while the YPs are also involved in various other ERIH projects.
Other topics discussed at the PMG meeting included the call for proposals for a follow-up event to ‘WORK it OUT’ and preparations for the ERIH Annual Conference 2025 in Chemnitz, to which the ERIH YPs will once again contribute their own workshop. The steering group was hosted by the ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia in Terrassa. It is affiliated with a regional network of 29 Catalan science, industry and technology museums (MNACTEC).
While visiting some of its sites, ERIH President Dr Walter Hauser presented the membership certificate for the Regional Route to museum director Jaume Perarnau. The guided tour was part of the side programme of the PMG meeting, which was organised by the national representative for Spain and ERIH board member Javier Puertas.