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Inauguration UNESCO Chair |
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First Announcement: Inauguration UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites The Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is pleased to announce the inauguration of the UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites on 24-25 March 2009 in Leuven.
The importance of regular maintenance and preventive interventions on built heritage was stressed already in the Venice Charter (1964) and promoted worldwide by the World Heritage Convention (1972). According to these texts preventive attitude implies adequate technical improvement, proper management and social involvement.
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Policy document on the impacts of Climate change on world heritage |
 | The Policy document on the impacts of Climate change on world heritage, published by UNESCO's World Heirtage Centre closely observed several PRECOMOS issues and pinpointed the research objectives. Please read here to download this document (Especially see Annex 1). |
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The Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC) at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen vzw (Belgium) are setting up a network of experts and practitioners in view of the application for a UNESCO chair on “preventive conservation, monitoring, maintenance of the architectural heritage”. The network aims at providing the diverse audience’s reflection on the framework of preventive conservation, so to support the activities of the establishing chair. Furthermore, its goal consists in establishing a forum for an active and updated exchange of the latest research results as well as on the needs and the feedback from the practice in fields related to preventive conservation. |
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