European Heritage Days 2015 –
Industrial and Technical Heritage
Cultural Heritage-makers competition
TELL THE STORY OF A PRODUCT!
Are you a Cultural Heritage-maker? Tell the story of an interesting product, share it across Europe and
win 500 euros for your group!
Kitchen paper, mobile phones, shoes, elevators, chocolate, bicycles, games, books, a piece of jewellery,
duvet covers, paper clips?
Industry and technology enter our lives through a vast array of articles and commodities. But where do
they all come from? Lots of brainstorming, designing, materials and production methods goes on behind
the products. Do you know who has designed the most important everyday item in your life? Where was it
made?
The Cultural Heritage-makers competition seeks to motivate children and young people to explore their
industrial heritage. All children and young people born in or after 1997 who live in Finland may enter the
competition. Contestants enter as a group that has at least two members. The competition is targeted at
day care centres, schools and educational institutes, associations, parishes, communities, clubs, cultural
institutions, children’s culture centres and other parties that organise children’s and youth activities.
Groups of friends and siblings are also welcome to participate. The Cultural Heritage-makers competition is
part of the Finnish programme of the European Heritage Days.
How to enter
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CHOOSE A PRODUCT
Find out which products are or have been manufactured near you. Don’t just limit yourself to your
hometown – search the rest of Finland, Europe and the world. A product that is important and familiar to
you could have been manufactured anywhere. Analyse the articles and commodities you use regularly and
try to determine which of them are the most important for you. Investigate the stories behind the products
to discover any surprising moments or phases in their history. Choose an industrially manufactured article,
commodity or product that you would like to know more about.
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FIND OUT THE PAST AND PRESENT MEANING OF THE PRODUCT
You can discuss, for example, the following:
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Where, when and how was the product made?
What was the product developed for?
Who was involved in the design and manufacturing process?
What kinds of materials, skills, machinery, etc. were needed in the production?
Do you know any old or existing products that are similar?
How does the product differ from other similar products?
How and where can the product be used?
How and where do you use the product?
What does the product mean to you and what would your life be like without the product?
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What happens to the product when you no longer need it?
Could the product be used after you no longer need it?
TELL THE STORY OF YOUR PRODUCT
Tell the story of your product in your presentation, describing its life cycle from creation to how it became
part of your life. You can use, for example, photographs, text, drawings, paintings, video, animation or a
website you have designed to tell the story. You can combine different means of expression freely to
illustrate your story and convey it to others. If you want, you can familiarise yourselves with the local
industrial environments, professions and working methods as part of your entry. Document your
presentation in a format that can be uploaded onto the website.
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UPLOAD YOUR PRESENTATION ON THE EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS WEBSITE
Enter the competition by uploading your presentation on the open, pan-European
www.europeanheritagedays.com website. Each presentation uploaded on the page will appear as a star on
the map of Europe, marking the spot where the presentation was made. Because the competition is
international, the header and the first sentence of the introduction must be in English. The language used
in the rest of the material can be Finnish, Swedish or English.
The website is easy to use. Request your username by e-mail at [email protected]. If you need any
advice, send an e-mail to the abovementioned address.
Structure of the presentation:
• Header
• Main image and caption
• Introduction
• Tell the story of a product! presentation material
• Names and contact information of participants
Header
The header of each presentation must state “Cultural Heritage-makers 2015”, your location and the name
of the presentation. You can choose the name of your presentation yourself. You can use the name of your
group as the name of your work. However, the name must be unique. Please make sure no presentation
with the same title has been uploaded onto the www.europeanheritagedays.com website before uploading
your work.
For example, the header of a work by a 4-H club from Aitola could be:
a) Cultural Heritage-makers 2015, Aitola, ”Story of my shoes”
b) Cultural Heritage-makers 2015, Aitola, ”4-H club”
Main image and caption
Upload one image onto the website and write a caption for it. If you wish, you can use the header or name
of your work as the caption.
Introduction
Start the introduction with the sentence “This documentation is our contribution to Cultural Heritagemakers 2015 competition in Finland”. Continue the introduction in Finnish, Swedish or English by describing
briefly:
• how you ended up choosing this particular product
• how you worked as a group
• what you learnt while exploring and telling the story of your product.
Other presentation material
You can upload material onto the website as text, image or video files. The presentation can also include
external links.
Contact information
Please upload your presentation with the names of your group members and the contact details where the
results should be sent to. You can also submit this information to [email protected].
Instructions on how to upload the work on the website are available at
http://www.rakennusperinto.fi/kulttuuriymparistopaivat/tapahtumat/fi_FI/kansainvalinen_ohje/.
We recommend reading the www.europeanheritagedays.com website when thinking about ways to carry
out and publish your presentation.
If you are unable to upload the material on the website for any reason, you can submit your work by
sending it via e-mail to [email protected].
Prize
The European Heritage Days working group acts as the panel and selects the group to win the 500 euro
prize. The prize is awarded to the group leader or representative, who must be at least 18 years of age
(guardian, teacher).
The prize is given to a group whose work:
 tells the story of the product in a multidimensional, vivid and interesting way,
 describes the history of the product, as well as its current status and different meanings, and
 is created with a method that is appropriate for the work.
+ Extra points are awarded to groups who share the story of the product outside their group, such as
through advertising, presentations, exhibitions or the media.
Schedule
The competition will be launched at the opening of the European Heritage Days on 5 February 2015. The
period for submitting the entries is from 5 February 2015 to 15 October 2015. The winning group will be
announced in early December 2015. The prize will be awarded in January 2016, at the opening of next
year’s European Heritage Days.
Terms and conditions for the use of presentations submitted to the Cultural Heritage-makers 2015
competition:
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The presentations submitted to the competition will not be returned.
The participants give the organisers the right to display, manufacture and publish their
presentations or copies thereof in advertising, releases and exhibitions and other communications.
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The organisers may, without separate charge, submit copies of the presentation to the media, in
connection to advertising and bulletins related to the competition.
The authors and manufacturers hold all the copyrights to the presentation material and the ideas
and concepts presented in it.
The producer of the material is responsible for the copyrights.
The party submitting/publishing the work must obtain the necessary permissions related to the
images and the participation and publishing of works created by children and young people.
Organisers
The competition is organised by the European Heritage Days working group. The working group includes
representatives from the Minister of the Environment, the Finnish National Board of Education, the Finnish
Local Heritage Federation, and the Association of Cultural Heritage Education in Finland.
The Council of Europe has announced 2015’s theme to be industrial and technical heritage, and the theme
is also featured in the programme of the European Heritage Days in 50 countries. The aim of European
Heritage Days is to engage people across Europe in their cultural environment and heritage.
More information
More information is available from
Hanna Lämsä, Association of Cultural Heritage Education in Finland
[email protected], tel. +358 (0)40 128 0818
Jonina Vaahtolammi, Finnish Local Heritage Federation
[email protected], tel. +358 (0)9 612 63226
The Cultural Heritage-makers competition for children and young people
The aim of the Cultural Heritage-makerscompetition is to motivate children and young people to take an
active role in their cultural environment now and in the future. The competition encourages children and
young people to observe, explore and analyse their immediate surroundings. Furthermore, it encourages
them to participate in and influence the development and cultural renewal of their immediate
surroundings. The Cultural Heritage-makers competition for children and young people is part of the
Finnish programme of European Heritage Days.
Purpose of the Cultural Heritage-makers competition
The purpose of the competition is to:
- support the formation of the cultural identities of children and young people and help them build a
relationship with their environment,
- help children and young people understand, appreciate and assess their local cultural environment,
- support the participation, influencing and active citizenship of children and young people in their
immediate surroundings and society at large,
- promote the cultural, environmental and sustainability education provided by day care centres, schools,
educational institutes, associations and other parties.