Awards, competitions, and prizes

23 June. Daimler and UNESCO
Mondialogo Engineering Award
Deadline for application: 31 October 2008

4 June. Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra Awards 2009
Deadline for application: 1 October 2008

28 May. Instituto Estatal de la Cultura, Guanajuato, Mexico
Prizes: Built cultural heritage conservation in Guanajuato, 2008
Deadline for application: see website

25 May. Cité de l´Architecture et du Patrimoine, France
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2008
Deadline for application: see website

9 April. Romualdo del Bianco Foundation
International competition: Best degree projects
Deadline for application: 30 September 2008

25 January. Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Direzione Generale per i BeniArchitettonici e Paesaggistici
Prize for architectural thesis: moving in the immovable (pdf)
Deadline for application: 31 July 2008

Call for projects

22 January. Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Les musées au service du développement (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 July

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

19 June. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Asociación Conservando, Peru
Interdisciplinary Ibero-American Seminar on Art history and science applied movable cultural heritage in conservation, 9 - 11 July 2008, Lima, Peru

26 May. Italian Association of Conservation Scientists (AICS) and the “Younger Chemists”  Group of Italian Chemical Society (SCI-Young Group)
Conference on Youth in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage - YOCOCU, 24 – 25  November 2008, Rome, Italy
Abstract proposal submission deadline: 5 July 2008

19 May. Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali and U.O. Monumenti Medioevali e Moderni, Rome, Italy
Conference on L’Acqua le pietre i bronzi, le fontane monumentali. Gestione e conservazione. Esperienze a confronto, 23 - 25 October 2008, Rome, Italy
Abstract proposal submission deadline: see website

16 March. Danish Branch of the Nordic Association of Conservators
Preserving the Evidence of Industrial Society, 24 - 27 May 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
Application deadline: 31 September 2008

26 February. Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation - Association of Friends of the Costume Gallery of Florence
Costume Colloquium: A tribute to Janet Arnold, 6 - 9 November 2008, Florence, Italy
Early bird registration : 30 June 2008

14 January. Uludag University Mosaic Research Center, Faculty of Science-Literature, Archaeology Department and Association Internationale pour l'Etude de la Mosaique Antique (AIEMA)
11th International AIEMA Mosaic Symposium, Bursa, Turkey, 16-20 October 2009
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 30 August 2008

Grants, scholarships, internships

26 June. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Guest Scholar Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science
Application deadline: 1 November 2008
Graduate Internships at the Conservation Institute
Application deadline: 15 December 2008

17 June. Conservation and Restoration Department of the Brazilian Studies Institute (IEB) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Stipends for South American conservators to attend workshop on iron-gall ink on paper, 20 - 24 October 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
Application deadline: 15 July

17 June. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Scholarships for Doctorate applicants from Latin America
Application deadline: 10 July

February. Smithsonian, United States
Conservation fellowships and internships
Application deadline: see website

February. The Getty, United States
Getty Conservation Grants
Application deadline: see website

Jobs

30 June. Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom
Finance Director
Application deadline: 14 July

10 June. African World Heritage Fund, Midrand, South Africa
Programme Specialist (pdf)
Application deadline: 30 June

28 May. Preservation Maryland, United States
Preservation Services Director
Application deadline: see website

13 May. World Heritage Centre, Paris, France
Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre in charge of Management Culture Sector (pdf)
Application deadline: 30 June 2008

Publications

5 June. Mitigating Disaster: A Strategic Guide to Risk Management in Heritage Collections, UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean
UNESCO launches a publication about heritage material preservation in times of natural disaster

Training and development

23 juin. REMPART, France
Workcamps: training workshops, heritage, restoration and archaeology, 2008 (in France and abroad)
Date limite d'envoi des candidatures : visiter le site Internet

10 June. Fundación ILAM (Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos)
Talleres ILAM 2008
- Registro y Catalogación de Colecciones, 4 July – 8 august 2008
Application deadline: see website

10 June. Fundación José Ortega y Gasset Argentina
International course on Gestión de las políticas culturales públicas en países de América y Europa, 25 - 29 August 2008
Application deadline: 16 August 2008

10 June. Delhi Institute of Heritage Research & Management (DIHRM), India
Masters in Archaeology and Heritage Management and
Conservation, Preservation and Heritage Management
Application deadline: 4 July 2008

20 May. Cornell University, United States
Short courses on Preservation: Sustainability, New York, United States, 2 - 5 June 2008
Application deadline: see website

16 May. Instituto Valenciano de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales, Spain
Short course on illuminated manuscripts conservation (pdf), Valencia, Spain, 24 - 27 September 2008
Application deadline: 10 September 2008

6 May. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), India
Short courses on library and information science (pdf), New Delhi, India, April 2008 - March 2009.
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Dr. Narendra Kumar < narendrakumar [at] niscair . res . in >

28 April. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Interactive training workshop on Assessing and Managing Risks to Your Collections, Ottawa, Canada, 15 - 17 October 2008
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Laura Smyk < lsmyk [at] mus-nature . ca >

21 April. Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia
Summer course on Urban conservation, Colombia, 14 July - 2 August 2008
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Diego Londoño < diego.londono [at] unibague . edu . co >

1 April. University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
MSc in Forensic Conservation (Heritage Science) programme, United Kingdom
Application deadline: 1 August 2008
Contact: bcolston [at] lincoln . ac . uk

4 March. University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom
Distance training: MA in Preventive Conservation, October 2008
Application deadline: September 2008

8 February. The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc. (AICCM), Australia
New methods of cleaning paintings, 28 July - 1 August
New methods of cleaning painted surfaces of 3D objects, 4 - 8 August
Scholarship application deadline: see website

24 January. Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in partnership with the Academy of Fine Art and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava and the Slovak National Library (SNL) in Martin, Slovak Republic
Course: Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs, phase 1, summer course: 21 July - 15 August, 2008; phase 2, distance learning: 1 September - 30 April, 2009
Application deadline: see website

4 January. AIC online courses
- Mitigating Risk: Contracts and Insurance for Conservation, 10 July – 6 Aug
- Professional Responsibility in Conservation, 11 Sept – 8 Oct
- Records and Information Management for Conservation, 16 Oct – 12 Nov
Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

4 January. AIC workshops
- Conservation of Tracing Paper, two sessions: 4-5 Aug or 7-8 Aug, Williamstown, MA
- Adhesives for Conservation, 6-10 Oct, Omaha, NE
Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

5 December. Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria, Canada
Courses and workshops: 2008
Application deadline: see website

Websites, e-journals, e-publications

24 June. Conclusions of the First HERITY International Conference, 5-9 December 2006, Rome, Italy
The conclusions were reached thanks to contributions from ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, UN-WTO, HERITY INTERNATIONAL.

23 June. Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Newly re-designed site of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD).

23 June. TRAINMONHER
TRAINMONHER (TRAINing in MONumental HERitage) is a Specific Support Action (SSA) project, financed by the European Union. It is an international co-operation and sustainable development project.

17 June. Portal iberoamericano de gestión cultural
An Ibero-American website on cultural management.

16 June. Scientific journals online
Persée is a program created for the digital publication of scientific journals in the field of the humanities. The entire printed collection of journals is digitized and published online through a portal which offers access to the collections as well as advanced functionalities which facilitate and enhance use of the portal’s resources. The journals are selected by an editorial board, thereby guaranteeing the collection’s scientific coherence.

11 June. ICOMOS ICLAFI e-Journal, nº 5
Call for papers for the first issue: ICOMOS-ICLAFI, the ICOMOS international scientific committee for legal, administrative and financial issues is planning to publish the first issue of the journal on 1 September 2008.
Deadline for submission of papers: 30 June

9 June. Revista Documentación, nº 6
Free electronic journal in Spanish published by the Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación aimed at public and private institutions to better manage information.

4 June. World Heritage Tour
The <WHTour.org> is a non-profit organization documenting the UNESCO World Heritage List in 360-degree imaging. The project has been slowly growing since July 2001.

updated on: 24 May, 2010