With Leonardo fundings of the EU 9 countries worked together over 6 years to develop a European training STEP (Straw bale building Training for European Professionals).
The results and many documents have been published on the website http://www.strawleonardo.eu
All together following countries have been involved in the development of this training project:
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kindom
Herbert is author of the book "Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa" (New Building with Straw in Europe), head of the austrian strawbale network ASBN and partner in the Leonardo-project "STEP" (Strawbale Training for European Professionals) and the Erasmus project "BuildStraw Pro" (a project to get formal national recognition of the training) and "Make your City Smart". As a collector he documents European straw bale buildings since 1999 on his website (database, german), in lectures, workshops and books.
