European Heritage Forum

Not archaeology strictu sensu - but the message below may interest
fellow-archaeologists:

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> From October 7th till October 10th the Flemish town Kortrijk
(Courtrai) will host the <B>European Heritage Forum CONSERVARE
2005</B>. This is only a few weeks before the 2006 projects for the EU
funding programme Culture 2000 have to be sent in at the European
Commission. CONSERVARE 2005 thus offers a unique (and last!)
opportunity to meet and find partners, to discuss and formalize final
details of projects.

The aim of CONSERVARE 2005 is to promote contacts and cooperation
between heritage organizations and institutions throughout Europe, and
to stimulate bordercrossing activities of all those involved in
heritage prservation and restoration.
The emphasis of the European Heritage Forum CONSERVARE 2005 will be
on meeting people, exchanging experiences and information, establishing
contacts and discussing future forms of bordercrossing co-operation.
One expects museum curators and archivists, architects and interior
designers, historians, art historians and archaeologists, public
authorities and members of consultative bodies, heritage interpreters
and educators, consultants, as well as conservators-restorers, owners
of historic buildings and collections, associations and organisations
campaigning to save heritage sites, tourist boards, training and
research institutes, publishers and many others.

CONSERVARE 2005 is built up around five showcases (trade fair and
exhibitions, workshops and conferences, a book fair, an audio-visual
forum, and a whole series of sideline attractions and site visits).

Kortrijk is situated in a traditional contact area between European
cultures and languages. The town is at the crossroads of countries as
The Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Luxemburg. It
is a central location with good connections by train, plane,and car and
is a stone's throw from Ieper (Ypres, 20 km), Bruges (50km), Ghent
(45km), Antwerp (100km), Brussels (100 km), and Lille, the European
Capital of Culture 2004 (at 30 km, where the Eurostar arrives). The
distance to Paris, London, Amsterdam or Cologne is only between 200 and
300 km.

The most recent information on Conservare 2005 is available on the
website http://www.conservare2005.org - which is updated at least twice
a week with new details, as there are continuously new initiatives and
lectures announced.
To receive further information and updates on the heritage forum
one can register online for an electronic newsletter (on the website
http://www.conservare2005.org, go to 'newsletter'). This will not only
hold details and progress reports on the various aspects of Conservare
2005, but also on heritage initiatives and projects in the European
countries.
An last but not least, Conservare also launched the internet
heritage calendar http://www.eur-heritage.org. This website holds
information about heritage conferences, meetings, trainings that may be
of interest to you or to your colleagues.

The Transactions of Conservare 2005 will be published next year. A
second edition of the European Heritage Forum is already announced for
2007.

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