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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
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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
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