'Lost Zwin Harbours'-project wins Enlight Impact Award 2025
(14-04-2025) Leading historical archaeologists from Ghent University's Pirenne Consortium win 2025 Enlight Impact Award at EIC in Groningen
At the ENLIGHT Impact Conference 2025, hosted by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the leading team of historical archaeologists of the Middle Ages that runs the cutting-edge multidisciplinary research project 'High Tide Low Tide - The late medieval harbour of Bruges as a maritime-cultural landscape' won an ENLIGHT Impact Award for the innovative, diversified and high quality valorisation initiatives they undertook to communicate the research to diverse non-specialist audiences. These included the Lost Zwin Harbours immersive expo, a bicycle tour along VR-AR viewers that offer top notch reconstructions of lost medieval land- and cityscapes, a book for the general public, a medieval gastronomy initiative developed with the hospitality sector at the Belgian coast, and so much more. Needless to say the ENGLIGHT impact award is very well deserved!
The laureates are archaeologists Prof. dr. Wim De Clercq (PI), Dr. Jan Trachet and Dr. Maxime Poulain. Jan Trachet pitched the Zwin Harbours before an international jury and had the honour of receiving the award.