Summer Courses

The unique flair and medieval architecture with the Hanseatic-style touches in the old part of Wismar attract thousands of tourists each year. Europe's most modern dockyards, the Seehafen, and an extensive lumber logistics centre, give testimony to dynamically growing city, supported by the local university. 
6th Summer Academy in Wismar 
The 6th Summer Academy takes place between the 17 July and 4 August 2000 in Wismar. 
Supported by the Kunstverein Wismar e.V. art association, this year's summer school will be organized by and held at the Architecture Department of the Hochschule Wismar under the direction of Prof. Valentin Rothmaler. International and local artists will be teaching in each of five courses. 
Besides the regular curriculum and under expert guidance, the participants will sharpen their senses, develop and probe their individual potential for expression, or make experiments. The spectrum of artistic possibilities encompasses drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, performance, videos, culinary arts and architecture. The Summer Academy has enjoyed increasing popularity and interest also among foreign participants. 
Talented amateurs, university art students or anyone intending to study art are welcome.

Can technology continue to do without women? Our live is no longer possible to imagine without technology. Both sexes are equally affected by technology but technician professions are over-whelmingly dominated by men. This is particularly true in the classic engineering disciplines. We should not allow that great resource of technical talent that slumbers in the female youth lie being wasted for decades. Women must be also brought into the engineering profession so they can unfold their feminine problem-solving capabilities there. 
To meet such a challenge, the Hochschule Wismar University of Technology, Business and Design holds the Summer College Engineering Sciences 2000 for Women and Girls between 19 - 23 June 2000. There the female participants will become acquainted with the faculty departments of Electro-Engineering and Computer Sciences, Mechanical Engineering/Process and Environmental Engineering, as well as Building Engineering.

The school faculty departments will open up their laboratories to enable the female students to gain an interesting overview. The students will be divided into small groups and supervised by female tutors. The participants will be given a hands-on introduction to engineering, as well as the high technology. Short exploratory lectures and extensive discussions designed to help awaken an interest in engineering studies are to be offered for participants without advanced technical knowledge. 
The number of participants is limited. The Summer College will contribute to improve competitiveness of the national economy and reduce female discrimination. 
"A country that lives primarily from innovations that are generated in the mind cannot afford to do without half of its technical talent. It must promote the hidden potential of technical creativity in young women willing to study in order to also survive in the global competition of the future," emphasized the Rector, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burckhard Simmen, to justify this unusual measure.

Public Waterworks

In 1911, Viljandi became one of the first Estonian towns to own waterworks. Development of the system started in May, 1911 with excavation of a deep well. At the same time, a water tower was raised and pipes were laid. Most homeowners had already obtained rights to join waterworks. The tower with its 100 m3 water tank, was completed and on 20th November 1911, the systems were started and water gushed along the pipes. The waterworks of Viljandi were born! 
The 30m high red brick water tower with wooden octagon tank room has always been the symbol of Viljandi waterworks. It is one of the tallest buildings of the whole town. Together with the churches of St. Paul and St. John and the towers of

old fire station and the town hall it forms the famous skyline of Viljandi.
Since the completion of the new water tower in 1962, the old one has lost its importance as a part of town‘ s waterworks. Unfortunately, there is a rule for buildings: what is

not in use - is to be damaged. Threatened with collapse, the wooden helmet of the tower was demolished at the end of 1996 and the useless water tank was lifted down. 
On the initiative of Viljandi Rotary Club and with the support of Viljandi Town Government the project of restoring the old water tower in the town skyline as a sight-seeing tower was compiled. Charity actions were carried out to finance the project. The biggest donation of 100,000 Estonian kroons was made by Mr Roman Toi, conductor and composer living in Canada. In November 1999 the helmet of the old water tower was raised back again renovated at its place in the town‘ s skyline.