Regional Alliance of ICOM for South East Europe will organize the Regional Scientific Conference with the topic Proposals for recovery and revitalization of heritage in the region of South East Europe - „Risk assessment of cultural and natural heritage in the region of South East Europe”.

Conference will be held in the period between 23th and 27th April 2012, in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The Second General Meeting RA ICOM SEE will be held from 27. to 28. January 2012, in the premises of the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade – CIK, for the members of the ICOM SEE Board and the presidents of the ICOM National committees from the region.

In the period from 26 September — 28 October 2011, ICCROM organizes Course First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict.

Organizers of this Course are: ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in cooperation with UNESCO and Blue Shield Network, with financial support of Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - MiBAC.

The Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade is organizing the annual meeting of ICOM (International Council of Museums) Costume Committee, which will take place in Belgrade from September 25^th-30^th 2011.

The theme of the meeting In Between – Culture of dress between the East and the West is all-encompassing, so that the papers, exhibitions, poster presentations and workshops will discuss how many centuries of cultural exchange between East and West have influenced the culture of dress. 

ICOM SEE Meeting will be held in January 21-22, 2011, in the premises of the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade – CIK, for the members of the ICOM SEE Board and the presidents of the ICOM National committees from the region.

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – ICCROM, National Archives of Latvia and The Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council - BAAC, are organizing the course SOIMA 2011: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, from 11 – 29 July 2010 in Riga, Latvia. Partners of the projects are University of Latvia, Lithuanian Central State Archive, Latvian National Library and Estonian Film Archives.

Application deadline: 31 January, 2011.

ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property), CCI (Canadian Conservation Institute) и ICN (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage) organize the Course Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage - 2011 in the period May - November 2011.

Programme includes online participation in Course in two periods (23 May to 9 September 2011, and 17 October to 28 November 2011), as well as face-to-face participation from 3 October to 14 October 2011. (venue will be determined at a later date). Deadline for application is 28 January 2011.

Appeal to Members of the Board of Regional Alliance ICOM SEE; Presidents of National Committees of ICOM Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,

Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Serbia; Institutions responsible for culture and heritage protection in the countries of the region

In cooperation with the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, and with the support of the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, the ICOM Regional Alliance for South-East Europe, and the UNESCO Chair in intercultural policy (Thessaloniki), the UNESCO Venice Office is organizing an international conference entitled “National History Museums in South-East Europe: Learning History, building shared memories”, to be held on 18-19 October 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mila Popovic-Zivancevic Phd, Chairperson of the Regional Alliance ICOM SEE, was elected as a Member and National Correspondent for Serbia for European Museum Forum – EMF.

The main role of the National Correspondents is to support and promote the work of the European Museum Forum by: looking for new developments in the museum field on the national level; identifying candidates for European Museum of the Year Award – EMYA and helping them with the process of application; as well as assisting the Chair of the Judging Committee in organizing the visits to applicants in Serbia.