VEV projects of the Walloon Ministry of Equipment and Transport (MET), with the "Centre d'Animation en Langues.
   
 
   

   Action contributing to networking of the VEV canals: Web site (canalhistory.net)
  
   
  
                               
   


Project started 08/2000

Budget 113 820 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 15

Responsible partner: MET/Centre d'Animation en Langues

The objective was to develop a dynamic web site as a means of promoting and developing the international integration of historic canals in Europe.

 

One of the four hydraulic lifts on the historic Canal du Centre Cover of the first volume of Actuapress Plus devoted to the Caledonian Canal and the Adda/Martesana waterway system
 
 
   
   Action contributing to networking of VEV canals : multilingual glossary
  
   
  
                               
   


Project started 10/98

Budget 45 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 16

Responsible partner: MET/Centre d'Animation en Langues

Research and production of a multilingual glossary on historic waterways, designed both for field personnel (lock-keepers, managers, maintenance technicians, operating staff) and for users of the waterways (barge skippers, tourists, boaters, walkers, cyclists...). The glossary could subsequently be fed into the network's various applications.

   
 
 
   
   Staff training on VEV canals (with the Caledonian Canal)
  
   
  
                               
   


Project started 10/98

Budget 75 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 17/43/72

Responsible partner: MET/Centre d'Animation en Langues

As well as promoting knowledge of the VEV canals as such, this project consists in organising the exchange of know-how through meetings between the operating staff of the various canals taking part in VEV. During mini-training courses, the personnel of the Canal du Centre will discover and practise the trades of their colleagues on the other canals, and then host the same staff in return at their work-place in Wallonia. This is essentially hands-on training, which will be supplemented by "consolidation" meetings for the benefit of the members of the personnel who will not have taken part.

 

Sketch showing operation of the system for irrigation of the Lombardy plain from the Martesana Canal
 
   
   Interpretative signage along the "Route des Ascenseurs" visitor circuit
  
   
  
                               
   


Project started 10/98

Budget 41 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 19

Responsible partner: MET

Taking as a starting point the work involved in preparing the multilingual guide, installation of a "VEV visitor circuit" allowing the general public to experience the reality of the Canal du Centre by relating it to the other VEV canals. The objective will be to raise public awareness on the vital role of canals in history and today, as well as on the similarities between the canals taking part in the VEV programme.

   
 
 
      
 In the context of the "Route des Ascenseurs" visitor circuit, model of the other canals of the VEV network
  
   
  
                               
   

Project started

Budget 107 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 20

Responsible partner: Centre d'Animation en Langues

This action, complementary to the "VEV lifts route" (fiche 19), is designed to allow the general public to appreciate the reality of the Canal du Centre by attaching it to the other VEV canals. This is done by designing and erecting panels representing a model of the 5 VEV canal systems.

   
 
 
   
   Permanent exhibition on the VEV canals (incorporated in the visitor circuit)
  
   
  
                               
   


Project started

Budget project 9 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 58 (ex 18)

Responsible partner: Centre d'Animation en Langues

Preparation of a permanent exhibition designed to present the canals taking part in VEV to the many visitors to the Canal du Centre, recognised since December 1998 as a UNESCO "World Heritage" site, like the Canal du Midi. The exhibition will be erected in one of the 8 maisonnettes of a former Italian immigration camp located on the banks of the canal 400 m from hydraulic lift n¡ 1 at La Louvière. Access to the exhibition will be free. All the visitors to the Canal du Centre pass through the "Italian canteen"and will thus be able to discover the canals of the VEV network through documents supplied by the partners.

 

Hydraulic lift No 4 at Thieu, and the giant funicular lift at Strépy-Thieu, built to serve European inland shipping in the 21st century
 
 
   
   VEV Committees, Brussels, 03/99
 
   
  
                               
   


Project started 1/99

Budget 16 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 51

Responsible partner: MET/Canal du Centre

VEV technical and programming Committees in Brussels, associated with internal training of the committee members on the Community's financial legislation to be respected in the context of TERRA.

   
 
 
   
   VEV Committees, Seneffe, 6/99, associated with the World Canals Conference
 
   
  
                               
   


Project started 3/99

Budget 24 000 euros

Reference - "fiche" action 56

Responsible partner: MET/Canal du Centre

The meeting of the programming and monitoring committees held in Seneffe on June 17, 1999 was associated with the World Canals Conference at Lille/La Louvière (also called "Canaux 99"), from June 14 to 16. Opening up the VEV partnership in the context of this international event considerably reinforced the exchange of know-how and experience of development of the cultural and technical heritage of the canals, thanks to the presence of almost 200 delegates from Europe, North America and Asia.

 

Boat lift