The Declaration of Quebec (1997)

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Preface:  The Declaration of Québec (1997) or Declaration of Quebec (1997) was adopted by the Second International Seminar Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 5-10 Oct., 1997.

Université Laval (Laval University) is the oldest centre of education in Canada (2nd oldest in North America), and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French. Its main campus is located on the outskirts of the historic city in Québec City, the capital of the province of Québec. The university is ranked among the top ten Canadian universities in terms of research funding. As the first French-language university in the Americas, since its founding, Université Laval has been training, equipping, and guiding the decision makers who’ve grappled with the major issues of society. Through the advancement and sharing of knowledge, its culture of excellence, and its global outlook, academic community contributes to the development and international profile of the province. Still today, with the world at a crossroads, Université Laval plays a bigger role than ever in Québec City and on the national and international scene, both as a catalyst for change and a visionary institution where knowledge, curiosity, and innovation are part of everyday life.

The Declaration of Valencia (1996) was adopted by the First International Seminar Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH), Valencia, Spain, October, 1996. The Declaration of Québec was the result of the Second International Seminar Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage, 5-10 October 1997, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada. It reaffirms the participants’ readiness to implement the principles of the international University and Heritage network; requests that the University of Laval in Quebec establish a UNESCO Chair in Heritage; and asks that the UNESCO General Director support the development and coordination of the network.

What’s Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) ?

International Network Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage. Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage (FUUH) has created the UNESCO Chair ‘Forum University and Heritage’, by the agreement signed between UNESCO and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain) in 2013.
International Network Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage. Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) has created the UNESCO Chair ‘Forum University and Heritage’, by the agreement signed between UNESCO and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain) in 2013.

Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) is a UNESCO project for undertaking activities to protect and safeguard the cultural and natural heritage, through an international network of higher education. FUUH is under the joint responsibility of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Spain.

Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage aims to be informed or to disseminate information widely about disaster and risk mitigation and management news and activities implemented by universities through the use of the network database freely accessible online.

Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) is created by UNESCO in 1995, it is jointly managed by UNESCO (World Heritage Centre) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain). Currently the network counts over 400 universities worldwide.

To this date, International Seminars have been organized, in Valencia, Spain (1996 & 2001); Quebec, Canada (1997); Melbourne, Australia (1998); AI Akhawayn, Morocco (1999); Byblos and Beirut, Lebanon (2000); Amman, Petra and Irbid, Jordan (2002); San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain (2003); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004); Newcastle, United Kingdom (2005) and Florence, Italy (2006).  Most important resulting documents have been brought out:

What’s UNESCO Chair Forum University and Heritage?

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The UNESCO Chair Forum University and Heritage, established in July 2013, brings the experience in the management of the international network in the field of higher education “Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage” (FUUH) created in 1995 through an agreement between UNESCO and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) with the aim of involving professors, researchers, students and professionals around the world in activities in favour of protection and safeguard of the cultural and natural heritage respecting UNESCO’s ideals.

With this goal and throughout this time, the FUUH network has carried out numerous workshops, exhibitions, publications, training courses and projects, especially highlighting their International Seminars. These activities have counted with the participation of worldwide heritage specialists and commitment of universities through institutional agreements.

The UNESCO Chair Forum University and Heritage expresses the commitment of the UPV to continue contributing to the preservation and enhancement of heritage through the cooperation between universities and promoting the growth and exchange of knowledge in the FUUH network, nowadays coordinated in collaboration with the World Heritage Centre (WHC) of UNESCO and has currently more than 3,000 individual members from 130 countries worldwide.

Moreover, all 5 key functions of UNESCO are represented in this Chair through its activities:

  • Capacity-building
  • Clearing House
  • Laboratory of Ideas
  • Standard-setting
  • International cooperation

In this context, the work area and objectives of the UNESCO Chair contribute to:

  • Encourage cooperation in higher education, the sciences, culture, communication and information, being common to the UNESCO Medium-term Strategy 2014-2021, in particular with the following strategic objectives:
    • Promoting international scientific cooperation on critical challenges to sustainable development.
    • Supporting inclusive social development, fostering intercultural dialogue for the rapprochement of cultures and promoting ethical principles.
    • Protecting, promoting and transmitting heritage.
    • Fostering creativity and the diversity of cultural expressions.
    • Promoting freedom of expression, media development and access to information and knowledge using the ICTs.
  • The protection of heritage, considering its diversity (natural and cultural, movable and immovable, tangible and intangible), taking into account its diverse forms and its triple function: identity, vector of development and instrument of reconciliation.
  • The dissemination and the implementation of international conventions related to the protection of cultural heritage (1954, 1970, 1972 and 2001), natural heritage (1972) and intangible heritage (2003), notably reinforcing the strategic objective of UNESCO to “Sustainable Protection  and enhancement of  cultural heritage”.
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Declaration

Date

1997

Promulgation

The Second International Seminar Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 5-10 Oct., 1997.

Descriptions

  •  The Declaration of Quebec was the result of the Second International Seminar of Forum UNESCO.
  • It reaffirms the participants’ readiness to implement the principles of the international University and Heritage network; requests that the University of Laval in Quebec establish a UNESCO Chair in Heritage.
  • It asks that the UNESCO General Director support the development and coordination of the network.

Source

http://www.unesco.org/culture/forum/html_eng/canada.shtml

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Declaration of Quebec

International Seminar Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 5-10 Oct., 1997

Upon the strength of the support expressed in Quebec, Canada, by its federal, provincial, municipal authorities as well as its universities, and following the workshops discussions, the participating universities, along with the national and international representatives of the cultural heritage, and the members of ICOMOS, ICOM, IAU, IAOHE, WHTO, participating to the 2nd Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage Seminar, organized in Quebec, jointly by UNESCO and Université Laval, decide unanimously to consolidate the Forum UNESCO international network created in Valencia, in 1996. This network composed of universities with programs related to the cultural heritage has for main objective to mobilize human and technical resources on the national, regional and international levels in order to act in convergence for the protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage and for the benefit of the people.

The participants to the Seminar confirm their determination to implement the international Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage international network’s leading principles by:

  • an ethical and benevolent engagement in favour of the cultural heritage, on the national as well as the international level;
  • an efficiency and respect concerning the historical, scientific and technical criteria and demands linked to the cultural heritage;
  • a solidarity based on the sharing of knowledge, expertise and resources in a spirit of mutual understanding;

Consequently, the participants of the IInd international Seminar of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage:

  • invite the universities interested by the heritage of different countries to mobilize their competencies and to join Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage at the next international Seminar to be held in Australia in 1998;
  • ask the Rector of Université Laval to maintain the dynamics created at the Quebec international Seminar and set up a UNESCO Chair on cultural heritage in that university;
  • encourage Forum UNESCO’s President, the Rector of Universidad politécnica de Valencia, to reinforce actions of the headquarters, located in his university;
  • ask UNESCO’s Director-General to strengthen the implementation, development, and co-ordination of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage International network.

Adopted in Quebec on 9th October, 1997 in the presence of Ms Ndeye Fall
UNESCO Representative to Canada in Quebec

The Honourable Gilbert Normand
Secretary of State
For Agriculture and Agri-Food Government of Canada		 Mr. Sylvain Simard
Ministre des relations internationales Gouvernement du Québec
Mr. François Tavenas
Rector of Université Laval		 Mr. Jean-Paul L’Allier
Mayor, Ville de Québec

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