International Relations

Erasmus-Leonardo

The ICMCH deals with applications, academic and practical advising, transcripts and housing for most students, and is the connecting point for contact with the other units within the Institute’s academic and administrative departments.

The ICMCH staff has considerable experience of dealing with exchange and visiting students.

The Institute’s Executive acts as the ERASMUS coordinator and visiting students’ officer to advise on academic matters. ERASMUS coordinators liaise directly with their counterparts at other overseas European partner universities.

The Study Abroad Unit administers the following programmes:

  • Incoming exchange students from our exchange partner universities
  • Incoming visiting students from all over the world
  • Socrates-ERASMUS students from across Europe


Membership with ENCoRE

 
On the 23rd and 24th November 2006, ENCoRE (The European Network for Conservation Restoration Education) held its 6th General Assembly at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, the Netherlands. Heritage Malta was represented by Dr Martina Caruana (Head Academic and Vocational Studies and Director of Heritage Malta's Institute of Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage) who provided the participants with a presentation focusing on the Institute and its conservation education programmes.

During the General Assembly, Heritage Malta was accepted as full member of ENCoRE. The Institute of Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage now benefits from an increase in collaboration, dialogue and exchange of information and ideas between partners. Moreover, Heritage Malta’s academic conservation courses and research activities are well promoted at the European level. The institute is looking forward to increased cooperation with foremost academic institutions of conservation-restoration education.

The European Network for Conservation Restoration Education (ENCoRE) was founded in 1997 with the aim of convening higher educational institutions operating in the field of conservation - restoration. The organization promotes research and education in the field of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, according to the directions and recommendations given in the Professional Guidelines of the European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers Organisation E.C.C.O. and the Document of Pavia of October 1997.

Over the years good contacts were established between leading academic institutions and consequently the founding of ENCoRE provided the forum for a network representing these institutions and actively promoting the exchange of ideas, teaching and research.

With this in mind, ENCoRE issued the "Clarification of Conservation-Restoration Education at University level or recognised equivalent" document, which declares that conservation-restoration, as an academic discipline, must be based on the highest level of research. This aims to ensure that conservation-restoration education in Europe fulfills the Bologna Declaration for European higher education. The clarification document affirms that the basis of conservation-restoration education embraces "an appropriate balance between integrated theoretical and practical teaching as defined in the Document of Pavia" (ENCoRE website accessed on the 30/11/06).