Category archives: Events

🏆✨ Big News! The Ignacy Historic Mine has been honored with The European Heritage Awards Europa Nostra! 🏅👏🗓️ On 7th October 2024, the historic Ignacy Mine in Rybnik, Poland, won in the Conservation and Adaptive Reuse category. 🚂🏛️ This incredible site, founded in 1792 and one of Poland’s oldest coal…

🎉 From the 6th to the 8th of September in Tarnowskie Góry, the traditional holiday ‘Gwarki’ was celebrated! 🎉Tarnowskie Góry is an ancient city where for centuries silver and lead were mined. One of the key events of the celebration was a popular-scientific conference titled “Industrialists of Tarnowskie Góry in…

📅✨ On July 18, 2024, Glowny Instytut Gornictwa – Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Bernard Bay at the Barbara Experimental Mine! Mr. Bay is the director of the Superior Art School of Tournai in Belgium and a specialist in industrial and mining photography 📸⛏️.During his visit,…

Annual Political Dialogue of #CoalRegionsinTransition in Velenje On Thursday, July 11, and Friday, July 12, Velenje, Slovenia, hosted the 5th Annual Political Dialogue of Coal Regions in Transition within the EU. This event, organized by the European Commission, the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development of Slovenia and the Municipality…

🚀🌍From June 5 to 7, the BRGM team visited various players involved in the promotion and conservation of France’s coal mining heritage.👷‍♂️🗺️ The BRGM team met with the director and colleagues of Parc Explor Wendel in Petite-Rosselle, Lorraine (https://parc-explor.com), as well as the director and colleagues of the Lewarde Historical…

Successful Progress Meeting in Velenje📍 Velenje, Slovenia – Velenje Coal Mine, a partner in CoalHeritage project, yesterday hosted a significant event to discuss the development of an interregional network for the promotion and protection of coal mining heritage in mining regions.🤩The event commenced with a warm welcome from hosts director…