European Heritage Volunteers - European Cultural Heritage Summit

During an introduction phase in Weimar, Germany, the volunteers will get to know each other and exchange about their cultural and professional backgrounds. They will receive an overview about volunteering projects for heritage, learn on the example of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Classical Weimar” about tangible and intangible aspects of heritage sites as well as about the challenges to preserve, to restore and to maintain heritage sites and will contribute during two days by their own practical work to the restoration and the maintenance of the site. After having moved to Berlin the group will be welcomed by representatives of the German Cultural Heritage Committee that will provide an introduction about the background as well as about the technical aspects of the European Cultural Heritage Summit. During the European Cultural Heritage Summit every two volunteers will be – alternating in shifts of half a day each – responsible for a particular heritage site resp. a historical conference venue and provide the participants of the Summit with background knowledge about the history of the site and its direct surroundings while identifying links to similar buildings, similar quarters resp. similar heritage linked constellations, potentials or challenges in their home countries or in other European countries and so illustrating the European dimension of Cultural Heritage. In addition, they will support the participants of the Summit while recommending them other activities in the frame of the Summit’s programme that may fit to their interests. The other half of the days the volunteers will have the opportunity to visit the events of the Summits’ programme for free, to establish contacts and to network with other participants of the European Cultural Heritage Summit.