After almost 3 years of exchange of expertise the Upper Mining Authority of Saxony in Freiberg, the Upper Mining Authority in Katowice, the District Mining Office in Wroclaw and the Marshal’s Office of the Lower Silesia voivodship ended the MineLife project. On the 25.10.2019 their representatives and guests met for the last time during a... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities
VirtualArch project organized an international conference “Digital Heritage - Economic value, technical trends & applications” on 24-26 September 2019 in Trento, Italy. More than 50 participants from archaeology, technology development and computer sciences discussed how the application of innovative instruments and tools for the promotion... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
During the partner meeting on 10 and 11 October 2019 partners of the YOUMOBIL project came to a positive assessment of the Interrail campaign they had realised in summer 2019. More than 2,600 photos and videos were uploaded and shared in social media. Moreover, the feedback of the young travellers is very helpful for the further project... read more
Topic: Transport
On the 9th and 10th of October 2019 a study tour within the MineLife project, which is financed through funds from the INTERREG programme, took place. This time miners from Poland and Germany met on the grounds of the former opencast mining site Wetro in Puschwitz. The object is currently used as a landfill. The participants learned, amongst other... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities
In August 2019 the state-owned company Sachsenforst, Pirna got the final approval of the ArchaeoForest project which was developed together with core-consult. Other partners of this project are in addition to the state-owned enterprise SachsenForst, Pirna, the State Office for Archeology, Dresden and the University of Greifswald with the working... read more
Topic: Climate protection
Books as old as 500 years, certificates about ownership from medieval times and other artefacts from former mining sites of the central Ore Mountains were among the treasures visited by the Archiv-Net project team on 17 September 2019 in Annaberg-Buchholz. During a site visit the project partners and additional stakeholders from Saxony and the... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Institutional capacities
As part of the INTERREG Saxony-Poland project "Kommando", about 70 German and Polish children and teenagers, between the age of 8 and 15, met for a joint exercise of the youth fire brigades. At several stations, they practised various fire brigade skills, e.g. lifting heavy loads with hydraulic pumps, as well as performing first aid. Afterwards,... read more
Topic: Civic protection
Partners of the Saxon-Polish project MineLife have visited the legacy of uranium mining in the surroundings of Bad Schlema on September 4 and 5, 2019. In the Ore Mountains, uranium was mined on military order of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1990, often without consideration of the environmental impact. Participants of the event learned on... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Last weekend the UNESCO World Heritage Committee desided during its meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, to inscripe the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří along the German-Czech border as World Heritage. Consequently, the importance of the Interreg project "Our World Heritage", which core-consult supports in its implementation and where... read more
Topic: Education
The "Routes of the Reformation" have received the certification as European Cultural Route from the Council of Europe. The development of a transnational concept to promote Central European heritage linked to the Reformation and the joint elaboration of an application to the Council of Europe have been activities of the ECRR project that was... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Tourism