Projects

Technical Museum of Slovenia regular cooperates in EU projects.

This year, the Technical Museum of Slovenia participates in several European projects. Those that are intended for the participation of the general public are presented on this website in more details, and you can follow them on the registers that are listed for each individual set.

HECTOR

The HECTOR project (Industrial Heritage as a Key Competence for Tourist OperatoR) project aims to increase employability among young Europeans between the ages of 18 and 30 who have already been educated in tourism and have a background in the field. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the role of Europe’s industrial heritage and the opportunity it offers in job creation. The partners in the project come from countries with different economic positions and status in the field of employability of young people. As part of the project, we will develop a methodology and training modules for tourism operators specializing in industrial heritage that will be delivered through online courses and will result in a summer school at the end of the project. In this way young people will be further educated with basic skills for designing experiential or experiential tourism in this area. Our aim is to educate around 55 tourism workers in a profession that represents an untapped potential in the field of European tourism supply.

The project is supported by the European program ERASMUS +.

Web page: hector-training.eu

Press Release HECTOR training with dates

Project duration: 1. 9. 2019–31. 8. 2022

Participating partners:

– Unione di Comuni Amiata Val d´Orcia, Italy (leading partner);
– Minas de Almaden y Arrayanes S. A., S. M. E, Spain;
– Fondatsiya on Business for the Educated – Bulgaria;
– CUDHg Idrija (Idrija Mercury Heritage Management Center), Slovenia;
– Verein fuer interdisziplinaere Bildung und Beratung, Austria;
– Kultur und Arbeit EV, Germany;
– Consorzio Terre di Toscana, Italy;
– European Federation of the Association of Industrial and Technical Heritage, Belgium;
– Technical museum of Slovenia, Slovenia.

Connecting Stories

Discover the shared stories of Portuguese and Slovenian post and telecommunications

Europe has many museums dedicated to the history of human communications. These museums also have the mission of safeguarding, sharing and disseminating post and telecommunications heritage.

These museums are a space for dialogue and debate about how we communicate and project our future, often based on educational principles and looking forward to what lies ahead.

In 2021, after a meeting between the Portuguese Communications Museum (Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações) team and the Slovenian Post and Telecommunications Museum team, the idea to create a partnership between the two entities was born. It was called “Connecting Stories” – a project that aims to analyse and communicate the similarities and differences between their exhibition discourses and the heritage they have in their care.

This project, now in its initial stages, aims to broaden the knowledge between both countries, including their history and traditions, through their post and telecommunications activities over time. For this to happen, throughout the year, we’ll be sharing some pieces we have in common and are exhibited in both our museums, as well as celebrate dates that unite us.

In the permanent exhibition “Conquering Distance – Five centuries of telecommunications in Portugal”, next to the piece showcased every three months, we’ll have a photograph of its Slovenian “twin”, as well as an explanation of the interpretative and historical discourse it belongs to.

Connecting Stories is an initiative aimed at being long-lasting by opening a window of knowledge and experience sharing between two museums that are geographically apart but share the same purpose of thinking about the history of communications in the past, present and future.

1. object: POST HORN (click on the flag)

2. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS (click on the flag)

Night of the researchers in the project Noč ima svojo moč

European Researchers’ Night 2022

A consortium of partners, the House of Experiments, the Institute ”Jozef Stefan”, the National Institute of Chemistry, the Botanical Garden of the University of Ljubljana, the Technical Museum of Slovenia, co-created the two-year project “Night Has Its Power”.– Noč ima svojo moč.
The goal of the project “Night has its power” is to design a set of activities that will be carried out within the European Researchers’ Night (ERN) in 2022 and 2023.
With this project, we want to achieve that the widest possible circle of people gets to know researchers and their work.

Researchers’ Night – 30th September 2022
Activities will include science festivals in the main squares of the four cities, research days in primary and secondary schools, several public lectures and workshops in libraries, nursing homes, museums… and open doors in research institutions, science centers and cultural institutions.

More information can be found on the website www.nocmoc.eu, where you can also order a research kit.

Where is the post horn?

Where is the post horn?

Where is the post horn? is an European project intended for upgrading the overall image of Museum of Post and Telecommunications and specially making it more appealing for young children. The project was co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and European Social fund. It was carried out by students from University of Ljubljana. The game takes you on a journey through time, introducing different eras of postal service along the way. Imagine travelling to Ancient Greece, visiting the Middle Ages, fighting for your life underwater, going inside the telephone and much more. Different characters that you meet along the way help you to find the missing pieces of the post horn. In order to finish the game, the child must find answers to different riddles by exploring the museum and searching for hidden clues. We managed to make the museum visit more interesting for children and increase their focus when looking at the exhibition.

European project ICYDK

The Technical Museum of Slovenia are pleased to announce the successful application for funding of an EU project which will be implemented with the support of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the participation of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), faculties, schools and other subjects.

The title of the project originates from the abbreviation ICYDK which is a popular acronym for the phrase “IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW”.

In terms of content, the project will be aimed at improving understanding of what intellectual property is, its value and raising awareness of its significance and influence. The principal target group will be young people (6–25 years), with special emphasis on those within the age group 13–18 years. We seek to raise awareness of intellectual property amongst young people and try to influence their perception, appreciation and consequently, their behaviour.

We will start by looking at examples of how intellectual property is used in everyday life and introduce the alarming findings of the analyses performed in the EU countries by the Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (EUIPO) in 2016 and 2017. Amongst other findings, this observes alarming trends in the relation to and the perception of intellectual property within young people. According to the analyses, Slovenian youth is placed on or close to the bottom of the scale.

Through various activities, we will find out how young people interact with intellectual property, and in particular, how they mis-use it in the form of illegal down-loading of films, music and photographs, buying counterfeits, etc., and demonstrate the serious consequences of infringement. On the other hand, we wish also to stress the positive effects of respecting intellectual property. Above all, with the active participation of the target audience we will try to help them understand that respect for copyrights and other similar rights is something that also affects their own lives and that any infringement of these rights has negative consequences. Hence the focus will be on a positive, proactive approach.

The main purpose and goal of the project will be raising awareness among young people about the importance of respecting intellectual property rights and influencing the behaviour and conduct of young people in their appreciation and perception of intellectual property, their respect of copyrights and the identification of infringements, in particularly in the digital environment in which young people operate and increasingly also live, as well as the positive promotion of creativity and innovation within young people whilst recognising and respecting intellectual property rights.

Main activities included in the ICYDK project:

• Two temporary exhibitions will be complemented and enriched with the accompanying programme (When an Idea Becomes Property, Peter Florjančič and Intellectual Property and Knowledge without Frontiers);

• 12 multimedia stories on the subject of intellectual property which will be produced in collaboration with the Slovenian Press Agency;

• Short and entertaining animated films with an educational angle on the use and infringement of intellectual property by young people;

• In collaboration with experts from this field we will produce educative online content;

• We will publish monthly e-news on the subject of intellectual property for young people;

• Promotional campaign in a language close to young people, that of TV, radio, websites and social networks;

• In collaboration with contractors we will prepare lectures, workshops, prize competitions, quizzes and demonstrations.

The activities will take place in The Technical Museum of Slovenia and its sub-units (The Museum of Post & Telecommunications in Polhov Gradec, open storage in Pivka) as well as within elementary and secondary schools across the country. It goes without saying that much of the content will be accessible on the web which is particularly close to the young generation. For a successful promotion and wider accessibility of the project we will in collaboration with the Slovenian Press Agency prepare a quality media campaign aimed at young people.

STATEMENT OF THE SLOVENIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE

The Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) which itself actively performs the promotion and awareness raising on the significance of intellectual property welcomes the success of The Technical Museum of Slovenia on their successful application to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). It should be pointed out that this is the first Slovenian project of this kind to be selected from amongst 63 other projects from the European Union member states. Since the project’s objective is to raise awareness among young people on the significance of intellectual property, SIPO will to the greatest possible extent professionally support this project; indeed, young people are one of the key groups where the need for such awareness is particularly obvious.

More information on the official site of the project ICYDK…

Sounds of changes

Sounds of changes

Sound is an indispensable part of our working and everyday life. It is omnipresent, whether we perceive it or not. Sound represents an important perspective when we want to experience, explore, restore and understand different landscapes, environments and cultural heritage. For this reason we must record and preserve sounds from different parts of Europe in order to be able to explore and deepen our understanding of history, to educate others and help make it possible for younger generations to discover European industrial and social history in new and exciting ways.

In collaboration with museums from Sweden, Germany, Finland and Poland, The Technical Museum of Slovenia is taking part in the European project ‘Sounds of Changes’. The aim of the project is to collect sounds from lost and also contemporary working environments across Europe and create a publicly accessible database of these recordings. Special focus is given to the recording of “endangered” sounds which were once part of our lives, but which are slowly fading into silence.

“In this information age with fast-flowing information, intellectual property within the context of music is a multi-layered concept. The internet is the space where information is now primarily present, and this can either be an arena for illegal expropriation through pirate downloading, or a place of empowerment for individuals and smaller music labels. The internet provides tools and platforms for autonomous operation which bypasses most traditional “doorkeepers” and agents. In many countries, the once omnipresent pirating of music has been replaced by paid, but at the same time affordable, models of operation. These (at least in principal) guarantee fair compensation for the authors and respect their copyrights in the field of music. Despite constant interventions of capital, ever new and fairer models of distribution are being developed which connect artists with their listeners and users.”