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After a succesfull first meeting last year in October, attended
by representatives from 11 countries, E-FAITH is now going to organize
a second European contact weekend for volunteers and non profit
organisations that are engaged in the research, the preservation,
the interpretation and/or the presentation of the industrial and
technical heritage.
It will again be an open and stimulating meeting where organisations
and individuals can present and compare their ideas, projects and
results - and find out where cooperation or common projects can
grow, how they can support the aims of colleagues and how colleagues
can support their objectives. This will be possible by lectures
and oral presentations, leaflets, information stands, posters and
small exhibits. Each participant is allowed to use the presentation
techniques that to him/her seems to be the most appropriate.
The main themes of the meeting will be:
- European bordercrossing cooperation between industrial and
technical heritage associations
- twinning between associations
- exchanging experiences from the field
This second contact weekend is organised on November 16th-18th
in Kortrijk and Zwevegem (Belgium). Both towns are situated on the
French-Belgian border, less than 30 km from Lille (France)
This second European Industrial and Technical Heritage Weekend
will take place in in the former electrical power station of Zwevegem
(protected by law and now being transformed into a multifunctional
cultural, music, meetings and business center) and in the National
Flax Museum in Kortrijk. The power station of Zwevegem holds turbo
generators and other machinery of Belgian, French, Swiss, Swedish,
Hungarian, etc. origin and offers a real 'European' story of electricity
production.
Participants will have the opportunity to visit the power station
in detail.
On Sunday November 18th there will be a facultative bus tour in
the region (25 euro, lunch included), visiting the flax heritage
(e.g. retting and scutching), windmills (oil and grain mill, and
the last flax scutching windmill of Europe recently restored by
a volunteer association), steam engines, etc.
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