Announcing the 2018 Regional Restoration Camps

For 2018, all four classic Camp themes are back. Besides we are proposing this year a new Camp location!

• Building conservation & interpretation
• Conservation of museum artefacts & interpretation
• Dynamic heritage interpretation
• Historical crafts and entrepreneurship

The 2018 Regional Restoration Camps will provide participants with engaging lectures and hands-on experience with restoration, conservation and historic crafts, using traditional materials and techniques, as well as with the interpretation of cultural heritage sites and museums. During each 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 different locations around the region.

Each activity will be directly helping local residents – working to preserve their historic monuments, artifacts and crafts, and giving them new ways of understanding, enjoying and revitalizing them.

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.

For Albania, this year’s Camps will be a continuation of the enlarged RRC program that features cooperation between CHwB Albania and the Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF), the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana.

The 2018 Regional Restoration Camps are financed by the Albanian-American Development Foundation and the Government of Sweden.

Don’t miss your chance to take part in this incredible experience!

Save the dates!

Be sure to pay close attention to the dates, themes and deadlines for each of the 2018 Camps. This year we propose two application windows.

Second application window: OPEN NOW! You can now apply to become parts of the following Camps scheduled in September.  The deadline for sending your application will be 17 June.

First application window: The application deadline for the Spring 2018 Camps scheduled in May and June was 15 April. This window is now closed.

Fees & Scholarships The fee for participation in the Camps is 800 euros. This fee will cover tuition, on-site accommodation with breakfast, camp materials and tools, emergency health insurance 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.

*EXCEPTION: For the RRC-VERNADOC camp in Serbia, participants are responsible only for their travel costs. The cost of accommodation and meals is covered by CHwBA.

Are you a former participant? You can still attend the other thematic Camps. Considering the variety of themes the RRC offer, we would like to give former Camps participants the chance to attend a camp with a new theme without having to pay the fee. (For example, if you were at a building conservation camp, you can submit your application for the interpretation camp or the historical crafts camp.) We like to see familiar faces, but keep in mind that first-time applicants will still have priority.

The same country-based eligibility requirements apply. (Participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are eligible for free attendance).

If you are applying to a camp with the same theme as the camp you attended before, then you must still pay the fee.

How to Apply

1. Download the PDF application form (below):
   camp_application_SEPT2018
2. Fill out the application completely, including all supporting documents
3. Send the entire application by email or post to:
   Email:
   gro.b1685327823whc@C1685327823RR1685327823
   Post:
   CHwB Albania
   Rr. Ismail Qemali
   P. 34/1, Kati III, Zyra 15
   Tiranë, ALBANIA
4. CHwB Albania 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.b1685327823whc@C1685327823RR1685327823

Volunteer leaders needed 

A note for past RRC participants: Would you like to experience the Camps again from the perspective of an organizer? Visit this page in order to see what it takes to become a volunteer leader at the RRC: http://chwb.org/albania/news/camp-volunteers-2018/