Future for Religious Heritage (FRH)

📣 We are excited to announce the release of our "Study on the Situation of Craft Professions Involved in Safeguarding Built Heritage". This study presents the results of the Europe-wide survey conducted by FRH Europe and Mad'in Europe during the European Year of Skills 2023/24, which aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the situation of crafts professions in terms of education, certification, practice and transmission to new generations. Our survey had three key target groups, 1️⃣ craft professionals working in the context of built heritage; 2️⃣ architects, conservators and owners of historic buildings; 3️⃣ and educational institutions offering craft training. The final document not only analyses the challenges, threats and opportunities facing each of the targeted groups but also presents a series of actionable recommendations to foster collaboration among several actors and develop long-term strategies for preserving crafts for future generations. You can read the full report here:  🔗 https://lnkd.in/gBjvY-4V 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gaxVwcr9

🎉The winner and finalists of the #FRHInnovatorOfTheYear have been announced! 🏆 Congratulations to this year's overall winner, Scotland's Churches Trust for their "Recording Scotland’s Closing Churches: A Race Against Time" project which has demonstrated an incredible capacity to mobilise and train volunteers to record the movable assets of hundreds of churches in the process of closing in Scotland with a simple but effective methodology. 🏅 And congratulations to our four finalists for the excellent quality and high impact of their projects: 🔸 Municipality of Haarlem & seven local congregations for "Buurtbakens Haarlem" 🔸Asociación Amigos de Villamorón for "Una catedral en el páramo: Villamorón – Burgos, España" 🔸Rivne Museum of Local Lore for "3D Sacral Art of Rivne region" 🔸PARCUM for "Focus Craftership: Ora et Labora" Find out more about all the selected projects on our website🔗 https://bit.ly/49xC6Eh

👏Congratulations, Glenn Micallef on being appointed as European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture, and Sport. We wish you much success and look forward to working together in support of our rich European cultural and religious heritage⛪️🕍🕌!

📢 📖 Call for Chapters | Cemetery Tourism: Exploring the Sacred Landscape of Graves (Deadline: 1 December). Cemetery tourism is an emerging trend linked to #ReligiousTourism. The book "Cemetery Tourism: Exploring the Sacred Landscape of Graves" will offer a selection of articles focusing on the motivations behind cemetery visits, modern funerary traditions and rituals, cemetery and tomb architecture, the place of cemeteries in the cultural landscape, etc. through recent research works and practical examples. ❗ Deadline for submission of abstract: 1 December 2024 ✉ Decision on acceptance: 10 December 2024 📄 Deadline for full chapter: 1 August 2025 📙Tentative book publication date: December 2025- January 2026 More information: https://lnkd.in/dpdqfqY5

🗨 Our Advisory Board President, Lilian Grootswagers, has co-moderated KAICIID's webinar on regional approaches to protecting #CulturalHeritage and #ReligiousHeritage through interreligious and intercultural dialogue. The webinar showcased initiatives implemented for and by young people in Guatemala, Yemen, Italy and crossborder organisations 🌎 🤝 to foster connections between people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Lilian, who shared the music concert series "Caminos que nos Unen" (Roads that Unite Us) as a successful example of interfaith cooperation, concluded: "I was very impressed by all these presentations which show us that dialogue is about understanding where the other is coming from, and respect religious beliefs and cultural backgrounds, even if sometimes we may not agree on some questions". #CulturalHeritage #ReligiousHeritage #FutureforReligiousHeritage #KAICIID

💬Meet Inge Basteleur, guest speaker of our next #FRHTalks session! Inge is the project leader of education at the Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken and will share with us the School Church project, an inspiring example of how a historic medieval church can been transformed into a lively educational space to discuss the traditions of different religions 📖 🧒 . During her presentation, Inge will explain how this project has influenced heritage preservation and education. Join us on 24 October👉http://bit.ly/3Ydd5Jh

💬Meet Tudor Coman, guest speaker of our upcoming #FRHTalks session! Tudor combined his skills as a computer science graduate with heritage studies and developed a program that identifies facades of traditional houses in southern Transylvania from archival photographs 🖥 📚 🏛 . He is currently an advisor on historical properties for Sotheby’s International Realty Romania and the Technical Coordinator of the Blue Houses Map project. Join us on 24 October at 17:00 CET👉http://bit.ly/3Ydd5Jh

💬Meet Meetali Gupta, guest speaker of our upcoming #FRHTalks session! Meetali is an architect specialising in World Heritage Studies who is currently focused on EU policies and frameworks for young heritage professionals. She recently coordinated and co-authored the publication 'Heritage for Young Professionals – A Call to Joint Action' under BTU Cottbus. In her presentation she will address the challenges and opportunities for young people in the current scenario. Join us on 24 October at 17:00 CET👉bit.ly/3Ydd5Jh #HeritageProfessionals #CulturalHeritage #ReligiousHeritage

💫We would like to invite professionals, researchers and representatives of cultural heritage organisations to contribute to ARCHE's public consultation to design a masterplan for future research and innovation activities on cultural heritage in Europe🗺️. Why is this important? We explain it briefly⬇️ What is ARCHE🏛️? The Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe (ARCHE) is an EU-funded project launched in 2022 to co-design a roadmap for research and innovation strategies in cultural heritage in the EU Member States. Who are its partners👥? ARCHE brings together a network of institutional bodies responsible for managing research or cultural heritage in the EU Member States. The whole network includes researchers, innovators, heritage professionals, institutional bodies and citizens. What is this consultation📢? The Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) will be a pan European framework for a holistic approach to cultural heritage research and innovation. This masterplan will guide policy coordination across Europe, and act as a roadmap for future transnational calls for research projects and complementary activities across Europe. Why does your contribution matter🗣️? By answering this consultation you're contributing to the a collective effort that will steer the direction of research and innovation in cultural heritage. This will the final stage of the creation of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda before its launch in 2025. More information about ARCHE: https://lnkd.in/eTHyrX9m Contribute to the consultation (📅 until 15 November): https://lnkd.in/gRhvjPUn

💻 New FRH Talk! The members of FRH's Young Professionals and Researchers Working Group have joined efforts to offer an inspiring online session that will showcase the work of emerging researchers and professionals in the field of #ReligiousHeritage through three specific cases. Our three guest speakers will be Meetali Gupta, architect specialising in World Heritage Studies; Tudor Coman, Computer Science Professional; and Inge Basteleur, project leader education at the Groningen Historic Churches Foundation. 💬Join us and find out how emerging professionals and researchers are making a difference!➡️ https://bit.ly/3Ydd5Jh