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Objectives
Key Objectives of Forum UNESCO
At a time when universities worldwide are developing a more marked
interest in heritage, Forum UNESCO has taken upon itself the mission
of encouraging exchange and dialogue between the various universities
on an international scale.
The Key Objectives of this international network are to:
• Mobilise the human and technical resources of the universities
to cooperate nationally and internationally in protecting and enhancing
the cultural heritage
• Create a national and international network for solidarity,
mutual assistance and the exchange of knowledge and skills between
universities on issues of the cultural heritage
• Encourage the development of heritage studies in universities,
emphasising both theory and practical experience
• Strengthen inter-university cooperation by transferring
knowledge and exchanging know-how in the field of heritage
• Encourage student participation in heritage projects and
so to ensure that universities are able directly to impress upon
the next generation the importance of protecting the cultural inheritance
• Promote mutual understanding and a multicultural dialogue
for peace
The Forum UNESCO's Strategies for Action are to:
• Create regional and national components of the global Forum
network
• Develop a nucleus of students and teachers in each university
participating in Forum meetings
• Establish links with other universities working in the heritage
field
• Implement jointly the appropriate machinery for efficient
co-ordination
• Reinforce co-operation between global, regional, national
and local cultural heritage officials and the universities
• Create a UNESCO Forum data bank
• Encourage the teaching of cultural heritage across many
university faculties, including by the creation of UNESCO cultural
heritage chairs
• Identify concrete operational projects involving inter-university
cooperation
Priority Projects in 1998
• The creation of a Communication Platform between participating
universities involving the continuous updating of the Forum's Website,
the publication of the Quebec Seminar Report and the publication
and dissemination of a regular Newsletter
• An international competition to design a logo for the UNESCO
Convention 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit
Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Properties
• The restoration of a unique house made of wood in Borsa,
Turkey
• The conversion of an ancient prison in Jacqmal, Haiti, into
a House of Culture.
• International Youth Camps in Mexico and Cuba.
• The preparation, with the collaboration of University Quisqueya,
Haiti, of an inventory of cultural heritage that takes into account
priorities in the wider social and economic context.
• The implementation of the Network Forum UNESCO - University
and Heritage, on a national and sub-regional level in Saudi Arabia.
• Training workshop for cultural heritage, an establishment
of a national heritage inventory, and the cooperation with Quebec
for an enhancement of cultural property values in the field of pottery
– Central Africa and Togo.
• The development of a cooperative link between Forum UNESCO
- University and Heritage and the Organisation of InterAmerican
Universities, working within the projects, The College of America
implemented by Laval University Quebec, the University of Bahia,
Brazil, and the University Guana Juato, Mexico.
• The listing, cataloguing and protection of modern architectural
works in Buenos Aires led by the University of Buenos Aires and
l’École d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and
other universities.
• The creation of two new UNESCO Chairs:
(i) Urbanisation and Protection of the Cultural Heritage, Deakin
University,
Australia
(ii) Protection of Humanity's Heritage, Laval University, Quebec,
Canada.
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