29th October

• 09.30: Participants welcome and documentation delivery
• 10.00: Opening session

PANEL 1: Moderator: Isabel Victor, Director of the Work Museum Michel Giacommetti

• 10.30: The Workers Museum, Peter Ludvigsen, Director of the Workers’ Museum Copenhagen/Denmark
• 11.00: Portimão, Territory and Identity, José Gameiro, Director of the Museum of Portimão/Portugal
• 11.30: Coffee break
• 11.45: Hat Industry Museum – Identity and Memory, Suzana Menezes, Director of the Hat Industry Museum, S. João da Madeira/Portugal
• 12.30: The new People’s History Museum, Manchester/UK 1988-2010, Nick Mansfield, Director of The People’s History Museum, Manchester/England
• 13.00: Debate
• 13.15: Lunch

PANEL 2: Moderator: Alvaro Garrido, Director of the Ilhavo Maritim Museum/Portugal

• 15.00: 14 yeas of life experiences in the Coffee Museum. Cultural and economical contribution in the Region. Cristina Gameiro, Director of the Coffee Museum, Campo Maior/Portugal
• 15.30: The preservation fo the industrial heritage in Sweden – Professionals and volonteers, Torsten Nilsson, Curator, Museum of Work, Norrköping/Sweden
• 16.00: Interculturality and social change, Isabel Victor, Director of the Museum of Work, Michel Giacommetti, Setúbal/Portugal
• 16.30: Debate
• 17.00: Coffee break
• 17.15: Visit to the Museum of Portimão

30th October
PANEL 3: Moderator: Elisa Caldao Pinheiro, Director of the Woolen Fabric Museum

• 09.30: The Englishman Mill’s Cork Museum: industrial cork heritage rehabilitation, Manuel Castelo Ramos, Director of the Englishman Mill’s Cork Museum, Silves/Portugal
• 10.00: Creating better understanding through dialogue: the industrial worker of the 1950s meet the high tech-worker of 2008, Jan-Anders Dam-Nielsen, Director of the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Rjukan/Norway
• 10.30: Mining – The coexistence possibility between industry and museological space, Alexandre Andrade, Engineer/Director of the Rock Salt Mine, Loulé/Portugal
• 11.00: Debate
• 11.30: Coffee break
• 11.45: The interpretation of the technical environment and the preservation of the urban landscape in the musealization processes of the industrial sites byt the EMS, Graca Filipe, Director fo the Seixal Ecomuseum – EMS, Seixal/Portugal
• 12.15: The new museum of Liverpool: representing employment, unemployment and the changing world of work, Jon Murden, Curator, Social History Exhibitions, National Museums Liverpool/England
• 12.45: Debate
• 13.15: Lunch

PANEL 4: Moderator José Gameiro, Director Museum of Portimão

• 15.00: Globalisation in museum: working_world.net – an exhibition in Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Udo B. Wiesinger, Director of the Arbeitswelt Museum, Steyr/Austria
• 15.30: Investigation and development – New challenges for the Woollen Fabric Museum of the Beira Interio University, Elisa Calado Pinheiro, Director of the woollen Fabric Museum, Covilhã/Portugal
• 16.00: Coffee break
• 16.15: Social outcomes of labour museums, Kalle Kallio, Director of The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere/Finland
• 16.45: Virtual preservation of the Carlsberg brewery, Jacob Bjerring-Hansen, Curator, The Workers’ Museum, Copenhagen/Denmark
• 17.15 Debate
• 18.00 Conclusions