Heikki Häyhä, EVTEK, Vantaa, Finland and Prof. Dr - DAAD

EthCon
Ethics and Ethnographic Objects Conservation
An Erasmus Intensive Programme
held at Amsterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands
24.09.2007 - 05.10.2007
Presented by: Heikki Hayha and Cord Brune

PARTNERS
Instituut Collectie Nederland (NL)
University of Amsterdam (NL)
University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Hildesheim / Holzminden / Goettingen (D)
COORDINATOR
EVTEK University of applied sciences (FIN)
IN CO-OPERATION WITH:
Tropenmuseum , Amsterdam (NL)
National Museum of Antiquities , Leiden (NL)
National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (NL)
Hornemann Institut, Hildesheim (D)

TIMETABLE:
• Preliminary meeting in October 2006
• Handing in the application March 2007
• Official acceptance July 2007
• IP course date 24.9 – 5.10. 2007
• Evaluation meeting in january 2008 (planned)
• Handing in the final report february 2008 (planned)

PARTICIPANTS:
Finland 7 students
3 staff
Germany 7 students
2 staff
The Netherlands 13 students
3 staff
External experts 8
BUDGET 28306 Eur 20780 Eur
Project organisation 14239 Eur 7899 Eur
Travel costs 4520 Eur 3390 Eur
Accomondation and Subsistence 9547 Eur 9491 Eur

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
• To develop an interdisciplinary methodological approach for the conservation of
ethnographic objects.
• To develop the teaching methods and the curriculum.
• Learn to assess the risks and ethical dilemmas for ethnographic collections.
• Learn to work with the didactic concept of “Communities of Inquiry”.
TOOLS:
• Lectures
• Groupworking
• Internet-Forum (as preparation and ‘aftercare’)

The EthCon-Forum website: www.hornemann-institut.de/ethcon
• Information and communication platform

DILEMMAS:
• Provenance: archaeology or treasure hunt ?
• Looted art
• Icons
• Part of a larger whole
• Deaccessioning
• Science versus management
• Knowledge and expertise
• Restoration/Conservation
• Genuine and fake
• Collecting and exhibiting human remains
• Restitution of artefacts and human remains

ACADEMIC RECOGNITION / INTEGRATION INTO THE CURRICULUM:
• All Universities will recognise the IP as part of the study.
• Students will be granted 4-6 ECTS credits for the participation of the IP and
the respective workload.
EVALUATION:
• Evaluation meeting in the last day of the IP
• Learning diaries (and presentations to home students)
• Evaluation form
• Evaluation meeting with the partners
VALORISATION
• EthCon-Forum
• Contacts with well known museums in the field
• Educational material

Mind map as develloped during last days meeting

7899
120
500
500
500
270
215,6
182
134,4
7,6
134,4
238
210
13,6
40,2
300
215,6
182
134,4
7,6
134,4
34
40,8
9,6
40,8
6,8
68
7899
120
500
500
500
270
215,6
182
134,4
7,6
134,4
238
210
13,6 56,95
52,6
Flights HEL-AMS-HEL (7students+3 staff)
40,2
40,8
21,87
17,2
34 56,95
59,09
9,6
21,87
40,8 27,7
Train Hildesheim - Amsterdam 6,8return
68
Train Schiphol-Amsterdam return
59,09
42
27,7
15,6
Lockers Amsterdam 1000
9,95
42
Bus Amsterdam
45 15,6
14,8
Taxi Helsinki
500
9,95
71
225,5
200
247,5
25,04
60
34,99
9,65
1835,5
15,05
55,25
15,05
15,05
55,25
21,95
15,05
21,9
21,95
7,38
21,9
52,6
7,38
17,2
14,8
71
9496,71
9496,71
3858,45
518,75
82
52
34,8
78,6

THANK YOU!
Heikki Hayha
- teacher at EVTEK University of applied sciences (FINLAND)
Cord Brue
- external expert and forum admin at Hornemann Institut, Hildesheim
(GERMANY)

EthCon-Forum: Topic in the DOWNLOAD AREA

EthCon-Forum: downloadable learning diaries

EthCon-Forum: personal communication