ICOMOS
Information on the purpose of your organization
ICOMOS
A unique non-governmental, democratic not-for-profit international organisation committed to furthering the conservation, protection, use and enhancement of the world?s cultural heritage.
ICOMOS was created in 1965 in Warsaw following the adoption the year before of the International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, also known as the Venice Charter.
ICOMOS is dedicated to the development of common doctrines, the evolution and circulation of knowledge, the creation of improved conservation techniques, and the promotion of cultural heritage significance.
ICOMOS has built a solid philosophical, doctrinal and managerial framework for the sustainable conservation of heritage around the world.
As an official advisory body to the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, ICOMOS evaluates nominations and advises on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Members: 10 793 members
National Committees: 110
Overall presence: members in144 countries
New National Committees: 15 since 2012
International Scientific Committees: 28
Information on your programmes and activities in areas relevant to the subject of the Summit and in which country or counties they are carried out.
ICOMOS has 110 National Committees and members in over 144 countries
Recent activities in the field :
Campaign to include culture in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
In 2014, ICOMOS joined the core group of international networks driving the campaign to include culture in the Sustainable Development Goals, supporting UNESCO?s efforts for integrating culture explicitly ?as an enabler and a driver of sustainable development? into the Post-2015 Development Agenda. ICOMOS has been represented in the campaign group by Hervé Barré (ICOMOS France) and subsequently Andrew Potts (US ICOMOS).
The campaign group issued a Declaration, signed by more than 2000 organizations and individuals, which on 10 June 2014 was addressed to the Co-chairs of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals in charge of preparing the Outcome Document of Goals and Targets to be submitted to the UN General Assembly. Further information on: www.culture2015goal.net
ICOMOS? commitment to this objective was confirmed by a resolution of the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence, November 2014 ? Resolution 18GA 2014/37? ?Ensuring that culture and cultural heritage are acknowledged in the proposed Goals and Targets on Sustainable Development for the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda?.
Resolution 18GA 2014/37 ? Ensuring that culture and cultural heritage are acknowledged in the proposed Goals and Targets on Sustainable Development for the Post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda
The resolution can be downloaded at (see number 37) http://www.icomos.org/images/DOCUMENTS/Secretariat/2015/GA_2014_results/GA_2014_Resolutions_EN_20150109_finalcirc.pdf
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ICOMOS is also Associate partner of the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign
During the 6th World Urban Forum, held September 2012 in Naples, three ICOMOS ISCs: ISCEC (Economics of Conservation), CIVVIH (Historic Towns and Villages) and ICLAFI (Legal issues) conducted a joint meeting on "The Role of Integrated Conservation of Cultural Heritage for a Creative, Resilient and Sustainable City". They also participated at a special side-event ?ICOMOS at the World Urban Forum?, moderated by Luigi Fusco Girard President of ISCEC.
These events identified the need to include the protection of urban heritage, and the role of culture, among the objectives of the new HABITAT agenda and to reinforce cooperation between ICOMOS and UN-Habitat for this purpose. In 2014, ICOMOS therefore joined the World Urban Campaign as Associate Partner - http://www.worldurbancampaign.org/.
Through this partnership, ICOMOS wishes to stimulate creative approaches and innovation in policy making for the preservation and revitalisation of historic cities, towns and urban areas.
Information on activities at the national or international levels
Already since the 1970s ICOMOS has focused its attention of the role of cultural heritage in the development process - and in particular its contribution to sustainable development for local communities.
This can be witnessed for example by the title of successive General Assembly Symposia :
5th General Assembly ?The Protection of Historical Cities and Historical Quarters in the Framework of Urban Development?: Moscow, USSR, 1978
11th General Assembly ?Heritage and Social Changes?: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1996
12th General Assembly ?The Wise Use of Heritage - Heritage and Development?: Mexico City, Mexico, 1999
13th General Assembly ?Strategies for the World?s Cultural Heritage - Preservation in a Globalised World - Principles, Practices, Perspectives?: Madrid, Spain, 2002
15th General Assembly ?Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes?: Xi'an, China, 2005
17th General Assembly "Heritage, driver of development": Paris, France, 2011 and most recently
18th General Assembly "Heritage and Landscape as Human Values": 9 - 14 November 2014, Florence, Italy
The next triennial General Assembly of ICOMOS will take place 2017 in New Delhi, India - and it will focus specifically on Heritage & Democracy - with special attention to development issues.
The outcomes of these Symposia have always been relayed by our National Committees through activities they organise in their own countries.
ICOMOS' International Scientific Committees also focus on the issue - below, for example, two activities carried out by ICOMOS International Scientific Committees in 2014
? ISCES (Energy and Sustainability): ?Living with the Past? International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings, 9-11 April 2014, Dublin, Ireland
? ISCEC (Economics of Conservation): Committee meeting and Conference on ?Integrated Conservation and the three dimensions of Sustainable Development?, 21-23 May 2014, Visby, Sweden
Organization have an annual report? (YES/NO) (should contain financial statements and a list of financial sources and contributions, including governmental contributions)?
Yes -
ICOMOS_AR2014_EN_issuu_201506195.pdf
List of members of the governing body of your organization, and their countries of nationality
Executive Committee (2015-2017)
President: Mr Gustavo Araoz, United States of America
Secretary General: Ms Kirsti Kovanen, Finland
Treasurer General: Ms Laura Robinson, South Africa
Vice Presidents:
Mr Alfredo Conti, Argentina
Mr Toshiyuki Kono, Japan
Mr Gideon Koren, Israel
Mr Peter Phillips, Australia
Mr Grellan Rourke, Ireland
Members of the Executive Committee:
Mr Nils Ahlberg, Sweden
Ms Sofia Avgerinou-Kolonias, Greece
Mr Stefan Belishki, Bulgaria
Ms Amel Chabbi, United Arab Emirates
Mr Victor Fernandez Salinas, Spain
Mr Pierre-Antoine Gatier, France
Ms Pamela Jerome, United States of America
Mr Rohit Jigyasu, India
Ms Lu Qiong, China
Mr Christoph Machat, Germany
Ms Olga Orive, Mexico
Mr Mario Santana Quintero
Ex-officio:
Honorary Presidents:
Mr Michael Petzet, Germany
Mr Roland Silva, Sri Lanka
President of the Advisory Committee: Mr John Hurd, United Kingdom
Officer of the Scientific Council: Mr James Reap, United States of America
Copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization (WORD or PDF only), or a weblink to it
05-BTEXTS_EN_Statuts_20150123_A41.pdf
