Mila Ernst

Mila Ernst is working as an independent heritage professional, specialising in projects that intersect research, heritage and education/participation. As project leader, she is well versed in collaboratory projects that span across multiple institutes and in the diversification of the discourse of migrational histories/heritage. Between 2008-2011 she was the project leader of the national Dutch website www.vijfeeuwenmigratie.nl (five centuries of migration), a project initiated by the International Institute for Social History, the National Minorities Organisation and several heritage institutes. Mila Ernst is connected to the Centre for the History of Migrants (CGM) as heritage consultant. At the moment she coordinates, together with ICLON (Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching) a network of history teachers on the development of a methodology for involving students in migration history.