The Balkan Museum Network welcomes proposals from individuals affiliated with museums, civil society organisations, or academia in the Balkans. Selected facilitators will have their travel and accommodation covered. The conference will be held in English, with no translation provided.
Explore the three speaking opportunities below and find more details on the Balkan Museum Network’s website. Don't miss your chance to apply—submit your proposal by 28 February 2025!
1. Workshop: Classroom
Interactive presentations that provide a hands-on experience that involves the conference participants in in-depth active learning.
Presenters demonstrate tools and resources to help participants perform their jobs more effectively. Workshop sessions are highly interactive and collaborative tutorials and demonstrate specific applications and outcomes. Advance work is required by participants. These are not traditional lectures.
Timing: 60 minutes.
2. Workshop: Storytelling – Lessons
More traditional presentations, lecture type, with content that focuses on actual situations, programs and projects using the art of storytelling.
Stories should be personalized and descriptive and 1. Define the situation; 2. Describe environmental challenges and opposing forces; 3. Outline what tactics were used to overcome; 4. Present the end result. Session may be structured as a story presentation followed by participant discussion or completely participatory.
Timing: 60 minutes in total, 45 minutes per presenter max, 15 minutes Q&A.
3. Debate
Moderated debate between two or more presenters with opposing positions. Moderator may pose pointed questions to the debaters, whereby they each share their conflicting views of the issue under consideration. Each debater will make opening remarks; the moderator poses questions to each debater and engages the audience in polling and Q&A. PowerPoint presentations are discouraged.
Presenters: 2 presenters (3 max), 1 moderator.
Timing: 60 minutes total, 30 – 45 minutes for debate, 15–30 minutes for Q&A and audience polling (depends on moderator and presenters).
What the Balkan Museum Network is looking for:
- Dynamic facilitators, preferably from Balkan museums, civil society, or academia.
- Case studies or practical examples to share.
- Interactive, participatory sessions involving attendees.
- Introduction to a larger training programme (teaser).
Themes for workshop proposals include following topics:
- Heritage interpretation,
- Design of permanent exhibitions
- New ways of studying and displaying archaeological exhibitions
- Independence of museums
- Promotion of gender equality in museums
- Emotional museum
- Digital storytelling
- Using new digital technologies in museums
- New museum professions and skills
- Ensuring the safety of collections during disasters and trends in dealing with disasters and emergencies (war, natural disaster and similar)
- Ways of fighting illicit trafficking
The Meet, See, Do conference is organised by the Balkan Museum Network in partnership with Zagreb City Museum and NEMO – the Network of European Museum Organisations.
