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A congress in Cracow

   A great surprise at the end of December 2023 

 In December 2023 we received the news of being  chosen as one of the finalists  in the Innovator of the Year Award  organised by the institution Future for Religious Heritage.

It made us so proud due to the fact that Patrimonio para Jovenes is a small association and we competed  against large entities and projects. About the winner and the finalists  you can read here

And the congress was held in Cracow, which was  another surprise and joy. Patrimonio para Jovenes is 12 years old and during this time whenever we had a chance to participate in an international congress, it was always in Madrid.

Being shortlisted as finalists  brought us a kind of obligation to travel to Poland although it  meant a big effort in terms of time and money.

Llegada de Berta y Pilar al aeropuerto de Cracovia

After considering it carefully, we thought it was worth travelling. It was an opportunity to meet people from all walks of life working on religious heritage. During the congress we had to explain that Patrimonio para Jovenes does not dedicate itself exclusively to religious buildings.

Cracow  has also a special sentimental value  to us. It is a city that has a lot to do with the life of the pope Saint John Paul II, who is one of the patrons of Patrimonio para Jovenes.

Another decision was about who to send to the congress. We were thinking of some of the young people that have been working on the project about monasteries over these years, among whom are: the architect Lucia Ruiz Ullate, Jose Luis Martínez Arce, Pablo Ramos Aguado or Pablo Beorlegui and Miguel Arguibide.

Pablo y Miguel en un momento del rodaje

Pablo and Miguel are now working very hard on the edition of “ETERNO – the documentary about what we were never taught”. A preview can be seen here

An article about this is also available on the FRH web here

All the aforementioned people  have worked hard, with creativity and professionalism, although all of them are very young (in their twenties) and the oldest one is 33 years old.

Unfortunately, not everybody has a good level of English, and the ones with high level did not have free days to travel to Cracow. Nevertheless, all of them are the  true protagonists of this award and you can see them in many entries of this blog.

We would like to give special thanks to the volunteers  of summer 2023 and  June 2024. You can read more about these activities here.

The pleasure of meeting new people

Not only is the city amazing, but the people we met there. Special thanks to Rocio Sanchez and Jordi Mallarach

Chiara Curti, Pilar Gómez Bahamonde, Melanie Kay Smith, Maria Arno, among many other people.

Lilian Grootswagers was the person in charge of presenting the winner’s and finalists’ projects.

Lillian Grootswagers explica nuestro proyecto

And here we are with Jordi and Rocio and the rest of the  awardees.

 

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