Professional Trainings and Conservation Workshops (2006–2008)

Record of eight completed professional seminars, site visits, and workshops for local architects, conservators, and archaeologists nominated by the Belgrade and Pristina Institutes for the Protection of Monuments between November 2006 and July 2008. Highlights the five-day workshop at the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (EKBMM) in Thessaloniki (11–15 November 2007, covering conservation methodology, wall paintings, stone and wood conservation, plaster infusions, and visits to monuments in Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki), lectures by International Expert Board (IEB) specialists Pedro Ponce de Leon on conservation philosophy (18 September 2007), Demetrios Athanasoulis on archaeological standards (20 September 2007), and Michael Eatherley on structural conservation (17 October 2007), archaeological training led by Ruben Thorpe (15–23 August 2007), and the discussion forum led by Dr John Bold and Martin Cherry of the Council of Europe (10 July 2008).