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The Past and the Present of the Pori Cotton Factory
The PoriCotton Factory was established in 1898 and operated until the end of the 1980’s. Once the factory closed some textile industry continued in the building on a small scale until 1994. In 1994 an industrial restructuring took place and the rooms of the factory became vacant, but today the old mill is once again lively. In the future more changes can be expected as the plan for a shopping center is realized.
On April 24, 2012 at 13.00 The Past and Present at the Pori Cotton Factory Project published a webpage that illustrates how the factory has changed in the last 75 years. In 1937 the factory’s facilities and the process of producing cotton fabric, which had been recently modernized, were documented in a photo album which was used as the factory presented its operation to international and domestic stakeholders. The album is now preserved in the Finnish Industries EK Archive which also owns the rights to the images. The folder’s 52 photographs have been the starting point for this project. Additional photos document the change that has taken place in the factory over a 75 year period. The photos are now on a public webpage and show the difference between the past and present day spaces.
The webpage is available here:
http://puuvillapastpresent.wordpress.com/
The site consists of four parts. The Map page provides information on where the various plants and buildings were located within the factory as well as how these facilities are being used currently. The Photos page contains more pictures about the cotton-making process as well as the use of the premises today. The Office page presents the factory’s head office building. From the link page you can find links to the University’s webpage as well as the links to the project groups home departments.
This project was carried out in cooperation with the University of Turku’s European Heritage, Digital Media and Information Society Master's Program and Cultural Production and Landscape Studies Degree Program. The project team includes Anu Virtanen, Elissa Ernst, Georg Sedlbauer, Johanna Frondelius and Katherine Johnson and was directed by Anna Sivula, Professor of History.
European Heritage student project receives positive media attention
Student project documenting the photograps on former cotton factory of Pori, nowadays in higher education use, received media attention, with newspaper and radio coverage. Read more about the findings (scroll down for English version): http://www.ucpori.fi/uutinen.aspx?id=920
Graz becomes the new EuroMACHS partner
The Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, has become our new international partner, they begin teaching in the Winter term 2010-2001.
Visit their pages at http://www.uni-graz.at/euromachs
Application round closed
THE FOLLOWING APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO THE
MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN HERITAGE,
DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011
BAWA Jacob
ERNST Elissa
JOHNSON Katherine
JOVANOVIC Danica
SEDLBAUER Georg
SHEN Xinxin
YANG Lan *
In addition to the applicants on this list, there were 6 admitted applicants to this
programme, who did not give permission to publish their admission result on the Internet.
* Conditionally
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EuroMACHS chosen to be featured in EU theme year brochure
EuroMACHS has been chosen to feature in the brochure "Creativity and Innovation -- best practice from EU programmes" that is produced for the conference of the same name that took place in Brussels from 2 to 3 March 2009. The brochure will also be used for other events that will be organised during the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
From the 200 project invited to compete to feature in the brochure, EuroMACHS was chosen by a panel of 10 independent experts as an example of best practice in the field of creativity and innovation, helping to illustrate how DG Education and Culture supports this important subject which is at the heart of European Union policies.
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University of Coimbra main page, where the news were made to be the headlining story:
Welcome to Daniel Habit's (Univeristy of Munich, Germany) visiting lecture on European Capital of Culture policies, in Wed the 8th April, 12-14, Pha1.
"This lecture focuses on the diverse programs, strategies and approaches in the Union’s cultural policy and especially on the concept of the European Capital of Culture as it marks an outstanding example of the interference between the Union itself, the aligning city (or even region) and its civil society and the consuming visitors."
Next application round for the programme will be in Spring 2010.
If you have a three years Bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree at the university level in an applicable field and a good knowledge of English, you can apply for the Master programme.
For more detailed knowledge of admission requirements visit, http://www.europeanheritage.utu.fi/apply/