This WORKLAB Newsletter No. 6 is dedicated to the conference held in Terrassa, Barcelona, October 2003 which marked the termination of the Culture 2000 project, Migration, Work and Identity. The articles in this issue are some of the papers presented at the conference, the reports of the partners of the project and the minutes of the WORKLAB meetings.

The topic of migration in the 20th century has yet not been on the agenda in Spanish museums and universities. The Catalonian partner of the Migration, Work and Identity project, Museu de la Ciécia i de la Técnica de Catalunya, has contributed to the project by arranging and hosting the last conference. The aim was to make it an event which would give rise to interest in the media and in museum and university circles. This aim was reached to an degree beyond every expectation: the participants of the conference came from museums, university institutes, Catalonian authority institutions and both television channels and newspapers reported the discussions. In addition the opening of the travelling exhibition ‘Crossing Borders’ was indeed an event which the media covered. Hopefully the interest will continue. The conclusion of the project so far is – with Michael John’s word at the opening of the travelling exhibition – that immigration, mobility and pluralism are part of a shared European culture.

Peter Ludvigsen: The Migration, Work and Identity project
Rita Klages: Report on the “Migration, Work and Identity”-project, 2002-2003, the final year
Catharine Rew: Report on the “Migration, Work and Identity”-project, 2002-2003, the final year
Torsten Nilsson: Report on the “Migration, Work and Identity”-project, 2002-2003, the final year
Udo Wiesinger: Report on the “Migration, Work and Identity”-project, 2002-2003, the final year
Jürgen Ellermeyer: Report on a project of the Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, 2000-2003
Anne-Lise Walsted: Report on the “Migration, Work and Identity”-project
Michael John: The Touring Exhibition ‘Crossing Border’
Cath Birchall: Minues of meeting of Migration, Work and Identity (MWI) partners
Myna Trustram: Minues of meeting of Migration, Work and Identity (MWI) partners
Elisabeth Tietmeyer: Cultural Contacts
Elka Tschernokoshewa: Dreams about Belonging, Purity and Hybridity
Marija Juric Pahor: Triest – Trieste – Trst
Finn E. Krogh: Norwegian Petroleum Museum
Caspar Jørgensen: The Industrial Heritage in Denmark – Status 2003

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