Players

International

Organisation, Location and Profile

Keywords

Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore

exchange

ASEF, established in February 1997, is a not-for-profit foundation based in Singapore and seeks to promote better mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges.

www.asef.org

Arts for Global Development, virtual

art networking education

 

The 'Arts for Global Development' Network's mission is to create opportunities for arts advocates and stakeholders of development to help find new and complementary ways together to improve communities all around the world. This network and its interdisciplinary approach has become an important source to support the third sector and hence human development.

www.art4development.net

Council of Europe, Cultural Policy and Action Department, Cultural Policies Research and Development Unit, France

heritage networking agenda setting

The Council of Europe's co-operation programme entails devising common policies and standards, developing transnational co-operation networks, providing technical support for member states and organising schemes to increase awareness of heritage values.

www.coe.int/culture

Development and Art, virtual

art networking

Development and Art is an online resource devoted to promoting the ways visual artists can advance the Millennium Development Goals. DevArts was created with the belief that a 'better world is possible' and that artists play a central role in pointing the way. DevArts makes available a range of tools for artists and development professionals to share their work and find ways to collaborate online and in the field.

www.tagstudio.net/devarts

Heritage Watch, Cambodia

heritage education networking

Heritage Watch, a non-profit organization seated in Phnom Penh, is dedicated to saving Cambodia's cultural legacy. Heritage Watch has been working since 2003 to raise awareness of looting and its consequences and to research the trade of illicit Cambodian antiquities. Heritage Watch has already initiated a number of important projects, and numerous others are planned for the future.

www.heritagewatch.org

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), France

heritage networking

ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites.

www.icomos.org

International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD), Canada

art crafts networking

INCD is a world wide network of artists and cultural groups. The INCD represents individual artists and cultural activists, cultural organizations and creative industries. INCD is amongst others committed to advocating for appropriate tools, policies and programs that will ensure the development of cultural capacity. The INCD works to put this on the agenda of development agencies.

www.incd.net

Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE), USA

heritage networking exchange

SAFE is an non-profit organization dedicated to preserving cultural heritage worldwide. Their mission is to raise public awareness about the irreversible damage that results from looting, smuggling and trading illicit antiquities.

http//:www.savingantiquities.org

The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), USA, Croatia, UK et al.

art education exchange

InSEA was founded in 1954. The mission of InSEA remains to be a commitment to the belief that education through art is a means of individual learning that fosters the values and disciplines essential to living. InSEA seeks, on a worldwide basis, to share experiences, improve practices and strengthen the position of art in relation to education and the cultural life of communities.

www.insea.org