Join us at the prestigious ‘Meet, See, Do 2025 – International Museum Conference that Makes the Difference’ in Zagreb, Croatia, on 28-29 May 2025.
Apply as a workshop facilitator or session organizer
Are you affiliated with a museum, a civil society organization, or academia in the Balkans? Do you have practical examples and case studies to share? Are you passionate about sharing your experience in an engaging way?
We invite YOU to facilitate a workshop or organize a session at the Meet, See, Do 2025 conference.
Workshops are a key component of the conference, offering practical experience across various themes. You can choose to organize a hands-on activity, group work, present a case study or engage participants in a debate
SESSION FORMATS
- Workshop: Classroom
Interactive presentations that provide a hands-on experience that involves the conference participants in in-depth active learning.
Presenters demonstrate tools and resources to help participants perform their jobs more effectively. Workshop sessions are highly interactive and collaborative tutorials, and demonstrate specific applications and outcomes. Advance work is required by participants. These are not traditional lectures.
Timing: 60 minutes
- Workshop: Storytelling – Lessons
More traditional presentations, lecture type, with content that focuses on actual situations, programs and projects using the art of storytelling.
Stories should be personalized and descriptive and 1. Define the situation; 2. Describe environmental challenges and opposing forces; 3. Outline what tactics were used to overcome; 4. Present the end result. Session may be structured as a story presentation followed by participant discussion or completely participatory.
Timing: 60 minutes in total, 45 minutes per presenter max, 15 minutes Q&A
- Debate
Moderated debate between two or more presenters with opposing positions. Moderator may pose pointed questions to the debaters, whereby they each share their conflicting views of the issue under consideration. Each debater will make opening remarks; the moderator poses questions to each debater and engages the audience in polling and Q&A. PowerPoint presentations are discouraged.
Presenters: 2 presenters (3 max), 1 moderator
Timing: 60 minutes total, 30 – 45 minutes for debate, 15–30 minutes for Q&A and audience polling (depends on moderator and presenters)
Workshops will complement keynote lectures, panel discussions, and short presentations.
Themes for workshop proposals include following topics:
- Heritage interpretation,
- Design of permanent exhibitions
- New ways of studying and displaying archaeological exhibitions
- Independence of museums
- Promotion of gender equality in museums
- Emotional museum
- Digital storytelling
- Using new digital technologies in museums
- New museum professions and skills
- Insuring the safety of collections during disasters and trends in dealing with disasters and emergencies (war, natural disaster and similar)
- Ways of fighting illicit trafficking
What We’re Looking For:
- Dynamic facilitators, preferably from Balkan museums, civil society, or academia.
- Case studies or practical examples to share.
- Interactive, participatory sessions involving attendees.
- Introduction to a larger training programme (teaser).
Workshops are running in parallel, allowing participants to choose which workshop to attend. A maximum number per workshop is 25 people. Facilitators are expected to prepare an introductory theme, design group activities, and manage hands-on tasks for debate and participation. Co-presenters are welcome if they enhance the workshop’s quality that needs to be sufficiently justified in the workshop proposal.
Selected facilitators will have their travel and accommodation costs covered. Please submit your session description, a short bio, your CV, and a motivation letter. Proposals will be evaluated, and the best selected as the part of the conference’s programme.
Language of the conference is English and translation is not provided.
Submit your proposal by 28th February 2025
Meet, See, Do conference is organised in partnership with Zagreb City Museum and NEMO – Network of European Museum Organisations.