Participants who take part in the Regional Restoration Camps follow a rigorous but fulfilling schedule combining theory with hands-on restoration work on historic monuments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo or Serbia. Each intervention directly helps local residents by teaching them to use traditional materials and techniques to repair their valuable buildings and by providing a new way of understanding, interpreting and revitalizing them. During the Camps, participants stay in accommodation on site, attending lectures in the morning and working to complete a hands-on restoration project on a historic building in the afternoon. Lectures are conducted by professional conservators and professors who come from prominent local and international institutions. Works on site are guided by a master crafts person, who teaches techniques and ensures that the restoration work is of the highest quality. At the end of the Camp, participants are evaluated on their knowledge of the lectures and their work on site, and they also evaluate their Camp experience.
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09.30.2018
Visit of the AADF Board to CRR Gjirokastra
After the inauguration of the TID area in the historic center of Gjirokastra, the AADF Board accompanied with Country Manager of the World Bank in Tirana, paid a visit to the Regional Restoration Camp in this city. The Restoration Camp is held for 3 consecutive years in the Çabej House, which is a cultural monument of I-st category. During the camp’s visit, the Board was closely acquainted with the camp topics, feedback and perceptions of students on the experience and knowledge gained during the three weeks of training, the techniques of interventions in the cultural monuments and the prospects that these trainings open in the field of cultural heritage. During the visit, the board helped participants draw details from the roof of the Çabej home. Between 2016 and 2018, AADF funded 179 participants in 12 restoration camps organized in Shkodra, Kruja, Berat and Gjirokastra with a budget of $ 210,000.
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09.03.2018
Regional Restoration Camp in Gjirokastra
For the third consecutive year, AADF will co-finance the Regional Restoration Camp in Gjirokastra. The Gjirokastra Camp will be held between September 8th-23rd and the main theme will be building conservation and interpretation. The number of Albanian participants in this camp will be 30 of which 15 Albanians. Student practice will be conducted in the historic city center, where AADF has invested earlier. Regional Restoration Camps in Berat, Shkodra, Kruja and Gjirokastra are projects co-funded by AADF in cooperation with the University of Tirana, Faculty of History and Philology, Ministry of Culture and implemented by the Cultural Heritage without Borders, Albania.
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06.19.2018
Regional Restoration Camps in Kruja, Berat and Shkodra
Between 20th May and 14th June 2018, three Regional Restoration Camps were held in Kruja, Berat and Shkodra. Activities during camps were diverse and covered topics related mainly to crafts tradition, interpretation of cultural heritage assets and conservation of historic buildings. The number of Albanian participants in all three camps was 73 out of which 38 were students from the University of Tirana. The Regional Restoration Camp Project is carried out in a full cooperation among Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF), CHWB Albania, the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana (UT).
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04.30.2018
Regional Restoration Camps 2018
The AADF, Cultural Heritage without Borders, University of Tirana and the Ministry of Culture are organizing a Regional Restoration Camp for the third consecutive year. The main goal of this project is to use hands on reparatory experiences in cultural heritage to build relations among young professionals, exchange know how and best practices, as well as to preserve traditional crafts and techniques. In the long term, the project aims to have well trained experts in the heritage system. In 2018, the RRC will be held in four cities with the following dates and themes:
Kruja: May 20th-31st (Historical arts and crafts, Entrepreneurship)
Shkodra: June 2nd-14th (Dynamic heritage interpretation)
Berat: June 2nd-14th (Building conservation, interpretation)
Gjirokastra: September 8th-23rd (Building conservation, interpretation)
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10.30.2017
Regional Restoration Camp, Gjirokastra
The Regional Restoration Camp Gjirokastra (RRC) was held from 24th of September until the 14th of October 2017. Combining intensive 21-day training with a complete cultural immersion, the Camp was structured around practical training, regional networking and university integration. The RRC Gjirokastra was attended from 27 participants of which 20 Albanian students. Along with all the other camps, RRC Gjirokastra was funded by the Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF) and implemented by the Cultural Heritage without Borders – Albania (CHWB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. -
07.11.2017
Regional Restoration Camp, Shkoder
Starting from 9th of July, the Regional Restoration Camp (RRC) is taking place in Shkodra. The camp theme will be the Dynamic Heritage Interpretation. All lectures and presentations will be held at the Marubi National Photography Museum. The RRC Shkodra will attend 9 Albanian students who study at the Faculty of History-Philology in Tirana and a number of students from the region. Regional Restoration Camp is a Project funded by the Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF) and implemented by the Cultural Heritage without Borders – Albania (CHWB). -
06.13.2017
Regional Restoration Camp in Berat
The Regional Restoration Camp was held in Berat from 15th of May until 27th of May 2017. Along with other camps carried out in Albania, this activity has been undertaken in a full cooperation among Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF), CHWB Albania, the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana (UT). The two-week RRC program combined theoretical modules through engaging lectures, exercises and presentations along with practical hands-on work on historical monuments. Specifically, participants at the RRC gained basic skills in surveying monuments, methods of understanding the pathologies and defining the conservation approach, characteristics of stone, wood and plaster, usage of culture heritage as a platform for economic development and Practical skills in using traditional tools. During two weeks program, 24 students participated at the RRC in Berat of which 12 Albanians.
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11.03.2016
30-th Regional Restoration Camp an inspiring experience
For two weeks, September 18-30 was held in Berat the 30-th Regional Restoration Camp, supported by AADF. 30 students and young professionals of architecture and cultural heritage led by lecturers from Sweden, England, Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania, gathered to share their knowledge, on topics such as Conservation of cultural heritage, Wood and stone in historical structures, Restoration of frescoes, Economic benefits of preserving heritage and Theories of heritage interpretation. The participants, assisted by the fully experienced masters of Berat, were able to put into practice the knowledge they gained. They had the same devotion ever since the first day while working on arched gates, fallen plaster in Gorica-s historic houses and damages frescoes at Saint Trinity Church involving as well local people and tourists in this inspiring experience.
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08.17.2016
New themes and locations for 28-th and 29-th Regional Restoration Camps
The Regional Restoration Camps of CHwB -Albania reached for the first time the cities of Krujë and Shkodër. With the support of the AADFand other partners, 23 young professionals and 9 academics and trainers from the Balkans and Europe, got together in Krujë to study and practice “Arts and traditional crafts” during the 28th RRC and analyzing “Heritage Interpretation & Management” during 29th RRC in Shkodra.
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06.01.2016
The 27th Regional Restoration Camp in Gjirokastra
The 27th RRC, held in Gjirokastra from 15-28 May, 2016 was the first of an enlarged RRC program that features cooperation between and the Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF) and CHwB Albania. It was successfully completed by 29 participants, 21 of which Albanian participants and the rest coming from Croatia, Greece, Kosovo and the US.