RLICC - Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (KU Leuven)

17 international students from the Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites spent one week in Utrecht and the Randstad (16-22 April 2023). The study trip included the restoration works of Utrecht's medieval cathedral tower, workshops with heritage stakeholders in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Amersfoort, four world heritage sites from the Roman times to the Dutch Golden Age and Modernist avant-garde, adaptive reuse of churches, railroad journeys through polder landscapes, biking in historic city centers, and much more. A very instructive immersion in the values, conservation, and management models of Dutch Heritage.
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The ILUCIDARE Innovation Kit is a very rich interactive learning tool making connections with all findings from the project, including internal and external resources.
You are invited to visit it and to use it.

Interactive learning resource created and made available by ILUCIDARE ILUCIDARE Innovation Kit is a very rich interactive learning tool making connections with all findings from the project, including internal and external resources. Are you interested in what innovation can bring to the field of heritage and want to learn or teach about it?

The Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage (https://www.jcic-heritage.jp/en/), a Japanese organisation is identifying cultural heritage collaboration projects and activities between Europe and Asia, in particular with Japan.

It aims at identifying possible collaborative connections and understand the potential of such relations in the field of Cultural Heritage.

If you have information to share, contact me through messenger or private mail.

Let's enhance the international netwerk on Cultural Heritage and promote international relations through Cultural Heritage.
Do not hesitate to share this information 😉

K. Van B***n

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Kulla are a specific typology of fortified farm houses which can be found on the cross-border region of Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro.

Our students of the “Master of Science in Conservation of Monuments and Sites” conducted their yearly International Workshop in a rural neighborhood in the highlands of the Western Balkans. The workshop focused on Kulla in the Mazrakaj neighborhood in Dranoc, Kosovo.

While the kulla in this specific neighborhood are protected as an architectural ensemble, several past interventions have affected the architectural integrity of these unique vernacular assets, and the area with its rich natural surroundings and community values does not work as a whole.

The International Workshop is a learning experience in close collaboration with local experts and stakeholders in their day-to-day work environment. The workshop learns students how new data or ideas for local built heritage projects can be co-created with local communities in a specific location – in this specific case focusing on the topics of morphology and typology, functional chains and networks and a conservation plan.

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Stay tuned as, together with the European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage and the European Heritage Tribune, we will announce the selected candidates for the European Heritage Youth Ambassadors Programme 2022. Can't wait 🤗

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On the Dutch cemetery in Surat, India.
Proud on the relevance and contribution of the thesis of Kanaän Thakkar, one of our alumnae!

Home Shared Cemeteries is all about (former Dutch) funerary heritage all over the world. The website is a non-profit collaboration between organizations, institutions and researchers from different countries involved in funerary heritage with a Dutch background. These can be historical cemeteries, church...

Join our online open day on 26 March!

More info & registration via: https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc/news/news-items/open-day-26-3-2022

Online Open Day of our "Master of Science in Conservation of Monuments and Sites" on 26 March

Interested in built heritage and conservation ? Would you like to become part of an international and multidisciplinary programme ? Join our online OPEN DAY session on Saturday 26 March 2022 !

Programme and more https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc/news/news-items/open-day-26-3-2022

Longitudinal section of the proposed adaptive re-use project © Elghamry-Polanco-de Theux-Terzi

RLICC proud coordinator of the project highlighting such inspiring projects. We are supported by amazing partners and by the Europan Commission.

ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2021: 9 projects in heritage-led innovation and international relations shortlisted - Europa Nostra Press releases in 8 languages | Photos | Videos Brussels, 10 June 2021 The ILUCIDARE Consortium including Europa Nostra and the European Commission are delighted to present the shortlisted…

https://www.europanostra.org/ilucidare-special-prizes-2021-9-projects-in-heritage-led-innovation-and-international-relations-shortlisted/

ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2021: 9 projects in heritage-led innovation and international relations shortlisted - Europa Nostra Press releases in 8 languages | Photos | Videos Brussels, 10 June 2021 The ILUCIDARE Consortium including Europa Nostra and the European Commission are delighted to present the shortlisted…

ICOMOS has launched a call for expression of interest for reviewers for the World Monuments Watch 2022.
There is a particular action included for emerging cultural heritage professionals.

If you are an ICOMOS member and have a look at the expression of interest form from the following link.https://www.icomos.org/images/DOCUMENTS/Secretariat/2021/WorldMonumentsWatch2022/WMW22_EOI_ICOMOSReviewers_20210318_EN.pdf

If you aren’t an ICOMOS member yet, please inform yourself how you could become a member.
I remind you that the actual president of ICOMOS is Prof. dr. arch. Teresa Patricio, an alumna of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation and still involved in our advanced master program.

Prof. Koen Van B***n
Director of the RLICC

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Putting Cultural at the heart of the green deal in Europe:

Putting Europe’s shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal - Europa Nostra European Cultural Heritage Green Paper: Executive Summary │ Full Paper│Presentation Brussels / The Hague / Luxembourg / Paris, 22 March 2021 Tackling climate change is this generation’s defining…

Open house presenting the Master in Conservation of Monuments and Sites:

https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc/news/news-items/open-day-27-3-2021

Online Open Day "Master of Science in Conservation of Monuments and Sites" Interested in immovable heritage and conservation ? Would you like to become part of an international and multidisciplinary programme ? Join our online OPEN DAY session on Saturday 27 March 2021 !

OPEN DAY RLICC 2021

Are you interested in understanding cultural heritage in our environment ? Are you keen on resolving the challenges this heritage is facing?

Then, our international and interdisciplinary Advanced Master might be for you.

We warmly welcome you at our Open Day on 27 March 2021.

A virtual get-together where we present our study programme and you can connect with our students and alumni.

WHEN? 27 March 2021, 14h
WHERE? Online, register via the link below
REGISTER via https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc/news/news-items/open-day-27-3-2021

The Raymond Lemaire International Centre offers a world-wide renowned Advanced Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites.

Graduates of the advanced master are passionate to address heritage preservation challenges in an interdisciplinary manner at a national and international level.

As a proud host of a UNESCO chair, the Centre and its more than 800 alumni from 70 countries, collaborate in a vast network with international and local actors.

ALUMNI NEWS

ICOMOS (International Council Monuments and Sites) elected Teresa Patricio as President, and Mario Santana as Secretary General.

They are alumni and PhD from the RLICC International Centre for Conservation. Congratulations, we are proud of you!

Would you like to discover what our programme can do for you?

https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc

Dear alumna/us,

You have received this message in an email. we invite you to read it carefully and to help the new generation of students in the challenges they face:

Preventive Heritage Preservation Fund

Dear alumnus
Dear alumna

Studying in times of corona is not an easy feat. For the Master of Science in Conservation of Monuments and Sites, the pandemic has added an extra challenge: how can we safeguard the cooperation between students from different backgrounds, which symbolises the strength of the master's programme?

To do this, the Raymond Lemaire Centre for Conservation and the Department of Architecture have purchased a large interactive touch screen, which will be placed in a studio in the Arenberg Castle and which will facilitate collaboration between students, both on campus and remotely.

As an alumnus or alumna, you have experienced first-hand the value and importance of cooperation with others.That is why we are calling on you to help give today's students the same unique and fulfilling experience that you enjoyed in your own student days. Every contribution counts.

We wish you the very best. Take care of one another.

Prof. Koenraad Van B***n
Director of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation

COOPERATION DURING CORONA CRISIS
Studying in times of corona
Collaborating with others is an essential learning experience, but one that is not easy to organise in times of corona. That is why the Preventive Heritage Preservation Fund wants to raise 16,000 euros to finance the purchase of a large interactive touch screen. This will allow students of the international Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites to continue their close collaboration, even from 1.5 metres away.

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Fund raises money for educational tools that promote cooperation during corona crisis Samenwerken is een essentiële leerervaring, maar zorgt in tijden van corona voor de nodige uitdagingen. Daarom wil het Fonds voor Preventief Erfgoedbehoud 16 000 euro inzamelen om de aankoop van een groot interactief touchscreen te bekostigen. Zo kunnen studenten van de internationale Master of Con...

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Shortlisted projects for the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 celebrated with online meeting - Europa Nostra On Thursday 16 July, the ILUCIDARE Consortium, including Europa Nostra, and the European Commission co-hosted a virtual meeting with the 6 shortlisted projects of the ILUCIDARE…

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Sneak preview: academic year 2020-21

Dear (prospective) students,
Dear parents, family and friends,
(Dear Cc'ed colleagues)

The June exams have begun. For the first time in months, our students are returning to campus. They get to see their friends and fellow students again, albeit from a 1.5-metre distance. Compared with most European universities, KU Leuven has opted for many exams to take place in the familiar setting of the auditorium. Only 14 per cent of the exams will take place online.

We have made this choice in students' interest. At the same time, it is also a statement to demonstrate that, together, we always do everything possible to approach normality as well as possible under abnormal circumstances. This also applies to the next academic year. We realise that unpredictability makes for difficult planning and that we will still have to rely on advancing insight in the coming months. However, there is no doubt that KU Leuven will try to approach normality as closely as possible in the 2020-2021 academic year as well.

We expect you to be here in the next academic year!

We will offer as much on-campus education as possible, because it is feasible and because it is necessary. After all, the past few weeks have not only taught us that we are able to go completely digital quickly and competently. They have also highlighted how irreplaceable direct contact is between lecturers and students and among students, how important campus life is, how crucial easy access to labs and libraries is. That's what we have missed. That's what we want to bring back.

The theme is high on everyone’s agenda. I am sure you have already heard that some universities, especially in our neighbouring countries, have announced that their activities will largely remain online for the first semester of the next academic year. That is not the path that KU Leuven wants to take. In the past few weeks, we have carefully considered the best approach, together with our Faculties. We aim to take into account the unpredictability of what awaits us, but we are also making full use of the rapidly growing knowledge about the virus and how we can arm ourselves against it.

We want to organise ourselves in such a way that, at any given time, and always taking into account the latest safety standards, we can offer on-campus education as much as possible. Therefore, we will increase on-campus activity if the virus is not circulating heavily and if safety allows for it, and we will reduce it again as soon as the epidemic flares up and greater caution is required. Those are the basics. Here's a little more about how we are planning to do that.

Practicals entirely on campus, lectures partly

There will always be a degree of hybridity. In any case, educational activities that are difficult or impossible to organise online will be offered on campus as much as possible. Think of practicals, seminars, skills training, tutorials, lab exercises, and interactive lectures in groups of a manageable size. That's a lot.

In our auditoriums, we may still have to take physical distance into account. If we can't use all seats, it's impossible to have all lectures take place entirely on campus. That's why we have chosen to organise as many lectures as possible partly on campus. For all students, and especially for the newcomers in the first year, it is very important to have regular real contact with the lecturer, with the study counsellors, and especially with each other. We will make this happen.

Blended education

We are working on several strategies. For some courses, we will apply rotation if necessary: each time, one third or one fourth of the students will be in the auditorium, while the others follow the lecture via live streaming. In other cases, we will opt for blended teaching. This, too, is a combination of online and face-to-face education: students are actively challenged in the online part to study the subject matter at their own pace, while there is room for in-depth discussions, exercises, case analysis, and more in smaller groups on campus.

Bear in mind that KU Leuven offers a wide range of programmes. These are organised by Faculties that each have their own nature and tradition. That is how it should remain. Within the University-wide framework, each Faculty will get to choose the most fitting approach. Rest assured that safety first will always be the guiding principle.

In conclusion: ‘completely digital’ will not become the new normal. We will only opt for online education for courses that lend themselves to this approach, and we will only use it in the way it works well: as effective support or in preparation of face-to-face education. We will also make good use of our time to learn from the past weeks and months in order to bring the quality of our online education to a higher level where necessary.

(Safe) internationalisation

Approaching normality in the best possible way also involves further internationalisation. KU Leuven has approximately 11,000 international students. COVID-19 has not made prospective international students any less interested in our University – quite the opposite. In the next academic year, we will welcome them with open arms and do our utmost to give them an unforgettable time at KU Leuven, regardless of the circumstances. Here, too, safety comes first, with attention to quarantine and testing when required.

We also continue to stimulate international (Erasmus) exchange. The possibilities also depend on the restrictions imposed by exchange partners. However, if a number of leading universities such as KU Leuven give the green light for mobility, others will follow. Always bearing in mind that safety is a prerequisite for any mobility to go on as planned. And in this area, too, we are innovating. For one thing, we are developing forms of virtual mobility. In the case of travel restrictions, this will allow students to follow the courses offered by a partner institution while remaining on a KU Leuven campus. And vice versa. Would you like to take a few courses at the University of Edinburgh or with your colleagues in Helsinki? It will be possible.

Student housing? Yes, of course

One frequently asked question is whether living in a student room (a 'kot') will be possible. Yes, of course! A student residence, too, comprises social bubbles. We are already alerting both tenants and owners to the guidelines for student housing in the time of corona. There will be more than enough activity on our campuses to justify the renting of a student room, for those who wish to do so.

My appeal is simple. Keep coming to the University. Take part live in what we have to offer. Don't hesitate to rent a student room and enjoy the years that will determine your life. The latter is indispensable for your studies and good for your mental health. In the word 'student life', the 'life' bit matters too.

Welcome!

I hope that this sneak preview of the next academic year also offers some perspective in this exceptional exam period. In 2020-21, too, KU Leuven will not entirely be the University it was in previous years; the virus will still have an impact. But in the next academic year, KU Leuven will not at all resemble the online community it has been forced to be in the past few months.

We are striving for a safe but real campus life. Auditoriums, Alma student restaurants, libraries, learning centres, and the bars and restaurants around the corner will once again be venues where students can inspire each other and help each other gain new insights and become more independent. All these places will open their doors again as soon as they are allowed to do so and welcome students from all over the world, just like they have always done. With respect for everyone's safety and care for everyone's health.

We look forward to welcoming you at the end of September for an exciting academic year.

Take care!

Luc Sels, Rector KU Leuven

OUR OPEN DAY COMES TO YOU

Are you interested in heritage and conservation?
Would you like to join an international and multidisciplinary international programme?

During this online event, you can meet our staff, students and alumni.

WHEN? Saturday 25 April 2020, at 14h (CEST)
WHERE? In your living room/kitchen/office/..., online event with pre-registration

Register via: https://set.kuleuven.be/rlicc/news/news-items/open-day-25-4-2020

OPEN DAY RLICC - POSTPONED

Following the measures that came into force yesterday evening in relation to covid-19, the RLICC Open Day will not be taking place on 14 March. We are closely monitoring the evolutions and will keep you up to date for a possible later date for this event.

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