A course design meeting was held at ICCROM from 3 to 7 April with the participation of CCI, ICN and ICCROM staff, as well as a colleague from the Canadian Museum of Nature and a former participant from the Netherlands.

Following the success of the 'ICCROM-CCI International Course on Reducing Risks of Collections' held in Rome in 2005, ICCROM and CCI decided to offer it again in October 2006, in Ottawa, Canada. The purpose of this course is to focus on the risk management approach to conservation of collections. Risk management can be understood not only as the management of rare catastrophes, but also as the management of slow continuous hazards, and everything between. It becomes an integrated view of all expected damages and losses to collections.

The main objective of this meeting was to plan the structure and delivery of this second course on 'Reducing Risks to Collections'. It was also an opportunity to consider the course in the wider context of activities and studies that are taking place in the area of risk assessment.

Participants

• Bart ANKERSMIT, Conservation Scientist, ICN, Netherlands
• Catherine ANTOMARCHI, Collections Unit Director, ICCROM
• Agnes BROKERHOF, Senior Scientist, ICN, Netherlands
• Frank LIGTERINK, Conservation Scientist, ICN, Netherlands
• Veerle MEUL, Inspector, Inspectorate of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences, Netherlands
• Stefan MICHALSKI, Senior Conservation Scientist, CCI, Canada
• Julie MURTAGH, Learning and Development Officer, CCI, Canada
• José Luiz PEDERSOLI Júnior, Research Scientist, ICCROM
• Jean TETREAULT, Senior Conservation Scientist, CCI, Canada
• Isabelle VERGER, Project Assistant, ICCROM
• Rob WALLER, Chief Conservation, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada

Member States represented: Canada, Netherlands

updated on: 24 November, 2007