This year, the award-winning CHwB Regional Restoration Camps are back, with a series of 4 camps held across the Western Balkans.
The 21st through 24th Regional Restoration Camps will provide participants with engaging lectures and hands-on experience with restoration and conservation, using traditional materials and techniques, as well as with the interpretation and management of cultural heritage sites and museums. During each 10-day camp, participants will follow a rigorous but very fulfilling schedule, which combines theory – through lectures and presentations – with exercises and physical work on historic monuments and artefacts in Albania, Kosovo or Serbia.
Each intervention will be directly helping local residents – repairing and conserving their valuable artefacts and monuments and giving them new ways of understanding, enjoying and revitalizing them.
Last year, the Camps won an EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award in the category of “Education, Training and Awareness Raising”. Don’t miss your chance to take part in this incredible experience!
Be sure to pay close attention to the dates, themes and application deadline for each of the 2015 Camps:
21st Camp: Gjirokastra, Albania / 9 – 20 May
Themes: Building conservation / heritage management / interpretation
Application deadline: 30 March
22nd Camp: Rogljevo, Serbia / 9 – 20 May
Themes: Building conservation / heritage for development / interpretation
Application deadline: 30 March
23rd Camp: Gjirokastra, Albania / 9 – 20 September
Themes: Building conservation / heritage management / interpretation
Application deadline: 10 July
24th Camp: Mitrovica, Kosovo / 9 – 20 September
Themes: Conservation of movable objects / interpretation
Application deadline: 10 July
While they will be conducted separately, these restoration camps form part of a region-wide push to encourage people to understand the value and learn how to care for their local heritage. The main objective is to use cultural heritage as a platform for professionals, both men and women, to meet and create conditions for building peace within a democratic society, respecting human rights, and stimulating local economic growth through the development of cultural heritage.
The fee for participation in the Camps is 800 euros. This fee will cover tuition, on-site accommodation with breakfast, camp materials and planned excursions. Participants will be responsible for paying for their own meals,* as well as travel to the location of the Camp. Those costs are not included in the participation fee.
For all accepted applicants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, there will be a scholarship to cover the costs of the Camp. The scholarship will pay the full 800 euro fee, including: tuition, on-site accommodation with breakfast, Camp excursions and materials for camp participation, including tools, papers, etc. Participants will still be responsible for covering their meal costs,* as well as travel to the location of the Camp.
*Note: CHwB will cover meal costs only for participants of the Camp in Rogljevo, Serbia, due to the lack of dining options in the village where the Camp is located.
TO APPLY:
1. Download the PDF application form (below)
2. Fill out the application completely, including all supporting documents
3. Send the entire application by email or post to:
Email:
gro.b1686369482whc@C1686369482RR1686369482
Post:
CHwB Albania Office
Rr. Ismail Qemali
P. 34/1, Kati III, Zyra 15
Tiranë, ALBANIA
4. CHwB staff will confirm that we have received your application. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 1 week, please contact us at gro.b1686369482whc@C1686369482RR1686369482.
We look forward to see you at one of the exciting Regional Restoration Camps of 2015!
A note for past RRC participants: If you would like to experience the Camps again, you may apply to be a volunteer leader (for more information, click here), or you may attend a second time by paying the full participation fee.