If you missed the first of our online events, stay tuned for details of the next and join in to further your IE professional connections.
Interpret Europe’s role is to support heritage sites and individual professionals from more than 45 countries and to encourage exchange amongst them. We would love to meet in person more to share ideas over a real cup of coffee – and we encourage regional meet ups wherever possible – but as we are all quite far apart, we recently hosted our first online networking event to support the heritage interpretation community. 20 individuals from various countries attended, with a view to getting to know each other and finding partners for interpretive projects. We had members looking for professionals with musical interests and knowledge, sustainability experience, funding contacts and geological interests, and we had a heritage company looking for individuals interested in starting a new conference for interpretation professionals. The event began with an introduction to people’s projects (a quick summary of the project and then what kind of partnership people are looking for) and then the online discussion moved to breakout rooms for individuals to get to know each other. Participants felt that the time given was too short, so we switched to one common meeting room where we got to know each other more and an interesting 1.5 hours passed very quickly.
We are currently deciding exactly what format future events should take, based on the feedback we received. If you are looking for project partners or want to get to know your fellow IE members better, join us at the next online networking event in 2025. We’ll send out details of the event next year, so keep an eye on your mailbox and social media!
Heidi can be contacted at: heidi.demaine@interpret-europe.net.
To cite this article: De Maine, Heidi (2024) ‘Networking Events‘ in Interpret Europe Newsletter 3-2024, pg.29.
Available online: PDF-Newsletter_2024_3.pdf
