Conservation-restoration as an academic discipline

ENCoRE’ was founded in 1998 to promote research and education in the field of cultural heritage and to improve and encourage cooperation among academic programmes and institutions for the conservation-restoration of cultural heritage. The need for clarification of university level programmes and recognised equivalents in conservation-restoration education has been achieved in the form of the ENCoRE document ‘Clarification of Conservation-Restoration Education at the University Level or Recognised Equivalent’. In its criteria, the document takes into consideration the Bologna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area. ENCoRE has from the start actively promoted EC framework programme research among its member institutions and partners, and offers its active cooperation and support to ensure the best possible dissemination of research, as well as its cooperation in helping with the integration of education and research within the area of cultural heritage. This includes the implementation of the Bologna system of higher education in the area of conservation-restoration. An important tool in supporting these efforts is the new ENCoRE website: www.encore-edu.org.