The City of Lublin as the depositary of the European Heritage Label, on the one hand, regularly organizes meetings to which representatives of all honored cities and places are invited, and on the other hand, actively participates in the Label's partner conferences.
On July 11-14, 2017 a delegation of employees from the Lublin City Hall, i.e. Ms Katarzyna Czerlunczakiewicz and Mr Michał Trzewik (Municipal Conservator’s Office), participated in an international conference “Cultural Heritage 3.0: Audience and Access in Digital Era” which took place in Tallinn and Tartu (Estonia). Participants of the meeting discussed the opportunities of digitization employed to disseminate cultural heritage and to popularise, in particular, collections held by various types of cultural institutions, including museums and libraries as well as archives in custody of self-government institutions. Some of the fundamental questions that conference participants have asked themselves were:
- what is the role of culture and cultural heritage in building stronger social bonds;
- how to increase the number of recipients of cultural heritage resources and how to boost the potential of entities dealing with this subject.
The meeting was opened by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Estonia, Mr Indrek Saar, and the Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission, Mr Jens Nymand Christensen. Their welcome address was followed by the opening lecture by Professor Pier Luigi Sacco. The conference was a panel discussion with all of the guests being engaged. In the afternoon, the conference took the form of thematic workshops concerning, among others, issues like good practices in building an offer for recipients interested in accessing collections held by cultural institutions and archives; problems and challenges emerging at the digitization and sharing of resources; developing tools for easy access to digitized materials and, finally, high-tech technologies, and so on, and so forth. In addition, the workshops were an opportunity for knowledge sharing.
The second day of the conference was devoted primarily to the issue of cultural heritage and its impact on economic development of particular cities and historical sites. Also, this day was about perceiving heritage as a driving force behind economy development, accentuating a development of tourism industry. A meeting of EHL sites’ representatives was held concurrently under the name of “European Heritage Label Days 2017.” The workshops aimed to find a common denominator on how to network all the EHL awarded sites.
It is worth to emphasise the professionalism and flawless conduct of all meetings, as well as a thoughtful arrangement of study visits, effective organisation and first-class logistics.
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On September 14, 2019, the 10th jubilee edition of Pogórze Science Attractions took place in the Łużna Commune. One of the important events was the meeting of the Polish bearers of the European Heritage Label - the Constitution of May 3 (Warsaw), the European Solidarity Center (Gdańsk), the Union of Lublin (Lublin) and the War Cemetery No. 123 Łużna-Pustki. The conference began with a speech by Dr. Andrzej Siwek, head of the Regional Branch of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Krakow - "The European Heritage Sign and other letters and honorary signs". Then, the director of AGAD, Dr. Hubert Wajs, told about the awarded ZDE Constitution of May 3, and the delegation of the Office of the Municipal Conservator of Monuments (Dr. Hubert Mącik, Katarzyna Czerlunczakiewicz, Michał Trzewik) about the Union of Lublin. Participants could learn about the European Solidarity Center from the video sent. The conference was accompanied by several exhibitions, e.g. two borrowed from Lublin - "Unia Lubelska - European Heritage Sign" and "Cities and Places of European Heritage Sign" prepared by the European Commission, as well as the one in Warsaw dedicated to the Constitution of May 3 and the hosts' exhibition "People of Independence 1918". The participants of the meeting also had the opportunity to make a study visit to Pustki Hill, where the war cemetery No. 123 is located.
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International meeting entitled “Celebration of two Unions. European Heritage Label - Study Visit in Lublin and Warsaw” was held on July 3-4, 2017 and gathered representatives of EHL sites. The first day’s agenda was organised by the Municipal Conservator’s Office of the Lublin Municipal Office, while the second day’s agenda was prepared by the head office of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.
A conference was held at the Crown Tribunal in Lublin. After welcome address by Mr Krzysztof Komorski, Deputy Mayor for Culture, Sports and Participation, keynote speakers addressed participants on the following subjects: “The Union of Lublin in a historical and cultural memory of Lithuania”, a lecture by Professor Jūratė Kiaupienė (Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Lithuania), and “The Union of Lublin of 1569 and its historical significance”, a lecture by Professor Ryszard Szczygieł (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland). Then, preceded by the addresses from the representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the first part of the presentation of EHL sites commenced. We had the pleasure to host the representatives of Archeological Site of Carnuntum (Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria), Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, non-profit organisation Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium) and Łużna Municipality (Poland), a rural municipality which takes care of the World War I Eastern Front Cemetery No. 123 in Łużna–Pustki. After a short coffee break, participants were addressed by the representatives of the Imperial Palace Vienna (Austria), Peace Palace (the Hague, the Netherlands), Krapina Neanderthal Museum and Hušnjakovo Site (Krapina, Croatia) as well as of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk (Poland).
The next item in the agenda was a study visit, during which the meeting participants were shown the sites commemorating the signing of the Union of Lublin, i.e. the Holy Trinity Chapel at the Lublin Castle, Dominican Monastery and the Union of Lublin Monument at the Plac Litewski square.
On the second day of the meeting all the participants visited the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, where director Mr Hubert Wajs, together with his colleagues, presented the EHL awarded Constitution of 3 May 1791 as well as the Act of the Union of Lublin document. During this visit the hosts discussed, among others, the history of the two documents, conservation issues as well as educational and promotional activities.
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