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1996 << 1th International Seminar Forum UNESCO >> Valencia

  
   
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Thematic areas
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Thematic areas

1) UNESCO's action in the field of the heritage by Mr Mounir Bouchenaki. Director of the Division the Physical Heritage.

- The fields of action of the cultural heritage programme and its interrelationship with other programmes of the Organization.
- International conventions regarding protection of the cultural heritage.
- Operational action.
- Relations with universities and research centres.
- Forum-UNESCO, a mobilizing project.


2) The action of ICCROM, ICOMOS, ICOM, and IFLA in regard of the heritage

- Nature and diversity
- Co-operation with UNESCO
- Relations with the academic world.

3) UNESCO, higher education, major academic networks, UNlTWlN and UNESCO Chairs (Mr Dias, Director of the Higher Education Division of UNESCO and Mr Abdalla Bubtana, Chief of the Higher Education Section , UNlTWlN and UNESCO Chairs).

- The role of the Higher Education Division in the general policy of the Organization.
- International university co-operation.
- The UNlTWlN programme for networks of chairs.
- The UNESCO Chairs, an instrument for public awareness and training.
- The importance of the UNESCO Chairs for training, particularly in the developing countries.
- The UNESCO Heritage Chairs (e.g. Cuba).
- The heritage, a field of international and pluridisciplinary university action.

4) The role of universities in international programmes.

- The various types of universities.
- Regional and international programmes for university co- operation.
- Higher education and the fields of restoration and conservation of the heritage.
- Inter-university exchanges in the field of the heritage (advantages / drawbacks).
- International recognition of training courses and practices. Forum-UNESCO, specialized university action.

5) The multidisciplinary and international nature of university action in the interests of the heritage.

- International co-operation, a future approach.
- Types of action conducted by universities, students and teachers in the field of the heritage in various geographical regions. Successes and failures.
- Management of international university action, means and resources; technical, human and financial obstacles and limitations.
- Forum-UNESCO, multidisciplinary and specialization, modus operandi for implementation.

6) The creation of Forum-UNESCO - University and Heritage, an international university network with a view to mobilizing human and technical resources.

- Forum-UNESCO, the philosophical basis of the project.
- Forum-UNESCO, the operational basis of the project.
- Forum-UNESCO, an instrument for international co-operation in complementarity with the Bergen Schools Forum and the heritage NGOs.
- Forum-UNESCO, a key to better co-ordination of university action in regard to the promotion and safeguarding of the heritage.
- Forum-UNESCO, a worldwide network of universities based on national and regional networks.


   
   

1996 - SPAIN / 1997 - CANADA / 1998 - AUSTRALIA / 1999 - MAROCCO / 2000 - LEBANON / 2001 - SPAIN

   
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