Every year the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation welcomes a number of foreign students who are on work placement in the center.  They are trainees from the US/ICOMOS program and students on a grant from the European CHIRON program.

US/ICOMOS

The U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) is one of the many national committees studying the preservation of historical buildings, landscapes and sites world-wide.  The committee is the most important body for the exchange of international cultural support in the United States.

Via this program young professionals can take a training course and gain experience on a professional as well as on a social, political and personal level.  For this project  US/ICOMOS selects students who want to do their job, the preservation of buildings and sites, in an international context.

From 17 June till 25 August 2008 we welcomed  Caitlin Smith, an American student. Caitlin is specialised in the preservation of historical buildings and collaborated in the Ename Center on the research and the inventory of the industrial heritage.

If you want to know more about ICOMOS, surf to www.icomos.org

CHIRON: Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network

CHIRON is a Marie Curie training project for researchers within the 6th framework program of the European Commission.  It gives graduates the opportunity to acquire further skills in computer applications for the research, the preservation and the presentation of heritage.  The students get a training program and can afterwards carry out an individual research project  under supervision with one of the heritage partners. In 2008 the Ename Center welcomed Tamara Brizard and Stefanos Keramidas as CHIRON fellows.

Tamara studied Electronic Engineering and Computer Sciences at the Rutgers  University (USA).  She also got a degree in Evolutionary Anthropology.  
Stefanos took a BA in Archaeology and Art History at the University of Athens.  Afterwards he further specialised in European and Greek art history. Together they worked as researchers on a project concerning the use of GIS in archaeology.