The Alhambra hosting the national presentation of the CICOP Foundation

The Monumental Complex of the Alhambra and the Generalife hosted this morning the national presentation of the International Centre for Heritage Conservation (CICOP) Foundation. The ceremony was celebrated in the Palace of Carlos V and chaired by the board of the institution comprising the president of the CICOP Foundation, the vice-chancellors of the universities of Granada, la Laguna, Alicante, Oviedo and the UVP University of Valencia, the Council of Tenerife, the minister of Education and Culture of the Canary Islands Government and the mayor of San Cristobal de la Laguna. The ceremony was also presided over by the officials of the Granada Regional Council, the Autonomous Government of Andalusia and the Granada City Council and attended by other Vice-Chancellors, members of the CICOP Spain, as well as government organizations and NGOs which are usual collaborators with the CICOP.
The Foundation, whose board includes five Spanish universities (the University of Granada being one of them), is under the Protectorate of the Ministry of Culture, where it is officially registered. It is a private, cultural and non-profit foundation based on the international development cooperation and solidarity. Its aim is the protection, conservation, restoration, management, promotion and increase of movable, immovable and intangible cultural heritage of the society, as well as the study, research, exchange, training and promotion of methods, techniques, means, procedures, materials and protocols used in restoration, renovation, management and consolidation of the cultural heritage, as well as its use and enjoyment.
In the last decade, the CICOP has laid the foundations of the institution with the same name.