SEE Heritage member organization Dragodid is organizing for the 10th time a dry-stone camp at mountain Ucka in Istria, Croatia. The volunteer camp for students and young professionals will take place at dry-stone village Pretrebisce from July 27th to August 4th 2019.

Participants will:
– learn dry-stone basics
– learn to shape stone using hand tools
– build a dry-stone wall ‘from scratch’
– repair a stone slate roof
– renovate dry-stone and wooden village infrastructure
– participate in an informal dry-stone competiton and a petanque competition!

There will be interesting lectures about building techniques, architectural heritage and related topics, as well as a walking and hiking tour along NP Učka.

We are the Stonefish. The land is located on the hill overlooking the town of Vis, on the island of Vis, Croatia. We want to create something magical on top of the hill - sustainable, beautiful and fun.

Over the past months we spent many beautiful days -and nights- here, and this is where we started using machetes and chainsaw 

If you want to help us cleaning the land a bit further, or make this space more cozy, you will be most welcome to join our volunteer team this summer!

"HeritageForAll" initiative has the pleasure to inform you that for the second time, we offer a number of internship vacancies during the upcoming summer vacation. We require TEN interns. Those will do their task along six months (July – December 2019).

(three days per week / two hours per day)

Responding to the WH annual theme, the main theme of HeritageForAll Internship program 2019 “Rural Heritage & Traditional Food”. Therefore, the interns – as a researcher in cultural heritage “Tangible & Intangible” - are in charge of the following tasks, under the responsibility of an initiative founder. An intern is responsible monthly for writing the blog articles and doing online short lectures or recorded videos which to cover the following themes:

Within the WWII - MONUMENT SEE project, on 14/05/2019, a one-day regional workshop will be held in Podgorica on the new cultural route of the monuments dedicated to the Second World War in Southeast Europe. We invite interested parties to apply for participation in the workshop.

The workshop will present the results of the process of "Assessment of monuments after the Second World War in order to develop a new regional tourism product / cultural route in South East Europe". Estimates of the monumental heritage after the WWII were carried out by researchers from: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo *, Montenegro, Serbia and Northern Macedonia. In addition to individual research, the workshop will also present a REGIONAL assessment for the development of a new regional tourism product: the cultural route of the monuments dedicated to the Second World War in Southeast Europe.

The first “Meet, See, Do – LAB” will take place on Monday, 20th of May 2019, in the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (duration of the event is from 09-17 hours). MSD LAB will offer three hands-on workshops that will be run by international experts from Oslo Jewish Museum, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jewish and the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. The workshops will allow participants to learn about best practice examples and the methodology that has been used, which is often low-tech and realized with limited resources. Each workshop will address a different target group of formal and informal museum learning programme.

On the first MSD LAB participants will have the opportunity to hear from Ms. Lucja Koch who comes from POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jewish about how their museum combines historical education with civic and anti-discriminatory education and how educational programmes of museum have been developed.

Learn the fascinating technique of dry-stone walling. Dry-stone walls are an integeral parrt of Dalmatia's cultural landscape and and the most eco-friendly way to build a wall - without the use of steel or concrete.

Expect two fun days with good vibes! Free lunch and camping is provided for all paricipants. The workshop will be led by the association Dragodid, who are our guests for the sixth time.

21 May-10 June, 2019

Nafplion, Greece

Digital Tools for acquiring, processing, managing and analyzing spatial data are crucial for sustainable management of cultural heritage and allow a better understanding of the objects under study. Laser scanning, photogrammetry, topography and GIS are important tools to facilitate this complex management process. Within the context of this summer school, the Heritage Management Organization (HERITΛGE) – in close collaboration with its partners – Ghent University College (HOGENT, Belgium) and Leica Geosystems (Italy), organizes three integrated and consecutive specialist courses on various topics in geomatics.

The Volunteer Leader call for the 2019 RRCs is open! CHwB Albania would be delighted to have you again on board with them, this time as a camp volunteer leader. 

This is a valuable opportunity to gain new skills and build knowledge and experience in the field of cultural heritage, specifically on building conservation, conservation of artifacts and interpretation.

Camp volunteers will help organizers, craftspeople and participants with issues of coordination, communication and guidance.

Read carefully CHwB Albania's call for volunteer leaders for eligibility criteria, deadlines and camp volunteer leader's tasks.

The Belgrade Fortress, also called Kalemegdan, is the most important cultural and historical monument of Serbia’s capital town. Kalemegdan is protected as immovable cultural property of exceptional importance for the Republic of Serbia. It represents the key point for understanding Belgrade’s development as well as to comprehend its history of diverse civilizations that were involved in Belgrade’s life.  The fortress needs to be preserved entirely in its originality without implementation of awkwardly abundant structures such as lift gondola.

The Belgrade Fortress is situated at the conjunction of two rivers, Danube and Sava. Kalemegdan’s walls are offering fantastic views to this attractive scene. Moreover, this sight is easily accessible and anyone can reach it without difficulties. However, the gondola lift is planned to be erected in the length of 1km among the fortress and opposite side of the conjunction. Any intervention of this type would mean irreversible and irrecoverable loss for present and future citizens of Belgrade, Serbia, Europe and World.

BALKAN EARTH conference and REGIO EARTH festival 2019 favor the connection between the earthen specialists in the Balkan Region and the awareness of the similarities of our rural/traditional architecture as well as of the socio-cultural dynamics that characterize our countries. This will help taking more informed decisions about the conservation and capitalization of the potential of this shared heritage, organization of vocational trainings and transnational routes on the theme of traditional architecture in the Balkan region.