Mario Farrugia – chairman & CEO of the Malta Heritage Trust - attended a thematic workshop on the finance and exploitation of forts at Utrecht, the Netherlands. During two days (13th and 14th of June 2007) several representatives of different countries – Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Great Britain, Germany – gathered at Utrecht. The New Dutch Waterline and ASCEND took care of the programme. Expert meetings and visits to different forts in the province of Utrecht as Fort Vechten and Fort Nieuwe Steeg were part of it. The involvement of public and private parties in the re-use of military heritage was a major issue in the debates, but the meeting also concentrated on future international cooperation and opportunities for EU funding.
