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Declaration of Valencia The representatives of universities participating in the international Seminar Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage, aware of the role to be played by universities in the protection of cultural heritage as a whole and in furthering action taken by ICCROM, ICOM, ICOMOS, IFLA and UIA, bearing in mind the immense needs in that field and their responsibility in participating in the protection, safeguard and enhancement of this common heritage, have decided unanimously to adopt the creation of an international network entitled Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage, whose coordination will be assumed by UNESCO and follow-up will be undertaken by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). This international network, whose activities lie perfectly within the scope of UNESCO’s mission, will be the messenger of a code of ethics and will have as its vocation to: - work purposefully for the development of a sense of responsibility in students as well as in the public at large, for active participation in the protection, safeguard and enhancement of cultural heritage, a privileged field for the exercise of a citizen’s duties; - establish and strengthen national and international cooperation between universities on the basis of exchanges and solidarity in the field of cultural heritage. Objectives * to mobilize the universities' human and technological resources, at national and international level, for concerted action with local populations in order to protect and enhance cultural heritage; * to develop a sense of responsibility among youth by creating cooperation between specialists, professors and students at local and national levels for the benefit of cultural heritage in universities and society at large; * to create a movement of solidarity and cooperation, by establishing links between universities at regional and international level; * to reinforce cooperation between universities by transferring knowledge and exchanging know-how in the field of cultural heritage; * to develop training programmes related to cultural heritage; * to complete theoretical training with practical experience; * to promote mutual understanding between students and multicultural exchanges of views for the construction of peace. Strategy for action * to create regional and national networks; Priorities * to organize cooperation in order to meet the needs expressed by the representatives of Rwanda and Cameroon in the framework of UNESCO programme entitled "Priority Africa”; * to prepare the next Seminar, planned for September 1997. Agenda 15 December 1996 15 April 1997 * the creation of teachers and students associations
and or UNESCO UNITWIN Chairs in heritage; 15 May 1997 September 1997
The universities suggest the establishment of scientific committees (or working groups) in the following fields: • Computerization and the setting-up of a database
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