Partners

UNESCO - www.unesco.org

UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. This specialized United Nations agency, aims at building peace in the minds of men through Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication.

 

Only non governmental organisation of the United Nations which has a mandate on the cultural field, the UNESCO works to increase the awareness of public authorities, private companies and the civil society in general around the Heritage as a tool for peace and development. 
There are numerous examples where a new management of the cultural and natural heritage enhanced the economic growth by creating jobs for the local population, though artcrafts, cultural tourism or the meregence of new jobs.
The UNESCO accepted to support these two day of reflexion co-organised by the UATI, the AVEC, the city council of Arles and the Institute of urbanism of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne because the theme of the seminar is totally corresponding to its principles.
       

 

French Agency for the development  - www.afd.fr

French financial institution, the French Agency for Development (AFD) is at the heart of the French system of public aids towards poor countries. Its mission : participate to the financing of the development.

Thanks to the large scale of financial tools it developed and enriched, the AFD supports the public authorities, privat sector and local associations to set up diverse economic and social projects. It is supporting projects around 5 continants.


Nation agency for the housing - www.anah.fr 

The national Agency for the Housing is a public company, financed by state budget incomes and taxes.Its mission is to promote the development of the Quality of the private housing (article L 321-1 du code de la construction et de l’habitation)
Information and communication
Its action towards a sustainable private housing is based on the information and the communication that it develops: improvement of the information on the existing private housing, studies, enquiries, dissemination of technical documents and tools for the decision making.
Support to social housing
Thanks to a budget of more than 500 millions euros, it contributes each year to the improvement of around 130 000 private houses older than 15 years.


Alliance of European Cultural Cities (AVEC) - http://avecnews.over-blog.com 

The Alliance of European Cultural cities is a French association with its headquarters in the City council of Tours. This association gathers local authorities (City councils, county, provinces, regions...) aiming at optimising their political and administrative actions in order to reach a high level of quality and professionalism in the managment of their heritage.


French commission for the l'UNESCO- http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
One of the main missions of the national Commission is to contribute, in contact with the permanent delegation, to the intellectual influence of France in the UNESCO. It constitutes a reservoir of expertise of high level, as well as a place of exchange of ideas and elaboration of propositions aiming at enriching and renewing the programs of the international organisation.
It is first of all a force of proposal, corresponding to priorities as the building of societies of knowledge, bioethics or lasting development, education for all or development of higher education, cultural diversity or maintenance of heritage.
In an inverse movement, and in a symmetrical way, the national Commission tries to promote the influence of the UNESCO and of its values to the French society. It implicates actions of information and sensitization on the UNESCO and on big debates which take place there.It is also translated by the development of numerous collaboration, particularly with the actors of associations and private sector. The coordination and animation, on national plan, of the networks set up by the UNESCO also allow to increase awareness around the programs. For example, associated school realise concretely activities linked to the human right, the sustainable development, the world heritage and the intercultural dialogue.
The UNESCO chairs constitute a tool for university exchanges in relation with the main themes of sustainable development and cultural diversity. 


Caisse des dépôts et consignations - www.caissedesdepots.fr

The Caisse des Dépôts  is a public financial establishment with unique statutes in France: it is put under guarantee and control of the Parliament. For its creation, in 1816, the legislator intended to assure its self-government regarding the executive power, so that it can exercise its mission: manage private fund that are given to it by the law, in total security. For 190 years, it fulfils this first mission of protection and management of private funds.

 

The Caisse des Dépôts has four other main missions of general interest:
- on the saving funds, which it manages, it finances the social housing thanks to form of loans at a very long-term; it dedicates every year a third of its result to investments of general interest, in domains insufficiently taken into account by the market, 
- historical partner of local authorities, it invests in partnership with public and private actors founding plans for the development of the territories, for urban renovation and real estate (of activity, trade, accommodation, health and social equipment, tourism and leisure) local equipment for telecommunication at a very high speed connexion and the environment,
-  major actor of the capital-investment to the benefits of SMES (stockholder of 230 funds, which even finance in capitals 2 500 SMES), it is, across its subsidiary CDC Cies, the spindle of the new public Investment, where it plans to invest 2 Md€ over 6 years
- it invests today in new innovating activities : carbon finance, fight against climate heating, administration on the Internet (e-administration, personel medical files...)

 


Conseil régional Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur - www.regionpaca.fr

 

ICOMOS - www.international.icomos.org 

 

The International Council on Monuments and Sites is an association of professionals throughout the world that currently bring together over 7500 members. 
ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. It is the only global non-government organisation of this kind, which is dedicated to promoting the application of theory, methodology, and scientific techniques to the conservation of the architectural and archaeological heritage. Its work is based on the principles enshrined in the 1964 International Charter on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (the Venice Charter).
ICOMOS is a network of experts that benefits from the interdisciplinary exchange of its members, among which are architects, historians, archaeologists, art historians, geographers, anthropologists, engineers and town planners.
The members of ICOMOS contribute to improving the preservation of heritage, the standards and the techniques for each type of cultural heritage property : buildings, historic cities, cultural landscapes and archaeological sites.


Institute of Urbanism - University of Paris IV- Sorbonne - www.univ-paris4.fr

The institute of urbanism of the University of Paris IV - La sorbonne establishes strong bounds between the university and professional organisations.

City council of Arles - www.ville-arles.fr 

Arles is well known for the wealth of its antique heritage e  (monuments romains) et roman, ses monuments inscrits au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco en 1981 dont l’Amphithéâtre romain (les arènes), le Théâtre antique, les Cryptoportiques, les Thermes romains de Constantin, les vestiges ducirque romain, le cloître Saint-Trophime, le portail de Saint-Trophime et les Alyscamps, qui sont le départ du chemin d'Arles, l’une des trois voies menant à St Jacques de Compostelle. A côté de cette architecture remarquable, Arles conserve aussi de belles constructions des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Depuis 1986, la ville est classée «Ville d’art et d’histoire». 


French Minsitry for Foreign  and European Affairs  - www.diplomatie.gouv.fr



French Ministry for Ecology, energy, sustainable development and territory planning 
www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr

International Union of Technical  Associations and Organisations - Web site under construction

The UATI (International Union of Technical Associations and Organizations): NGO created around 50 years ago at the initiative of the UNESCO to set up a technical activity complementary to the basic activities of Culture and Education.

The members of the UATI are international associations or organizations specialized in various areas.  

 
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