Call for nominations--IIC Keck Award

Every two years an award is offered to the individual or group who,
in the opinion of IIC Council, has done most to further the public
appreciation of the work of the conservation profession.  The award
consists of a certificate and a cash prize of UKP1000, presented at
the biennial IIC Congress.

Previous Award winners include:

    2012 - The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, in collaboration
    with the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser at the
    Foundation for Research and Technology in Crete (IESL-FORTH) and
    to Anglo-Saxon CSI: Sittingbourne in Kent, UK

    2010 - The 'Painting Techniques of Impressionism and
    Postimpressionism' project organised by the Wallraf-Richartz
    Museum and Foundation Corboud in collaboration with the Cologne
    Institute for Conservation Science at the University of Applied
    Sciences in Cologne

    2008 - The Lunder Conservation Centre Visible conservation labs
    at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait
    Gallery

    2006 - The Mariners' Museum for the USS Monitor conservation
    project

More details may be found on the IIC website

    <URL:https://www.iiconservation.org/about/awards-grants>

We are now seeking nominations for the 2014 award.  If you would
like to propose yourself, or a colleague or institution, or project,
please send your nomination to the IIC office (preferably by email)
to arrive by 14 March 2014.  Please send the following:

    A statement of between 500 and 1000 words describing the
    nominee's public outreach activities

    Two or three photographs in support of this statement

    An outline of what supporting material, such as publications,
    websites, videos, or evidence of media coverage, is available
    (you may be asked to supply these at a later date).

The nomination should include the name, job title and professional
address of the individual (or of all the partners in a group
project).

Send your proposal to iic<-a t->iiconservation< . >org with the words 'Keck
Award' in the subject line, or by post to

    IIC
    3 Birdcage Walk
    London SW1H 9JJ, UK

The IIC 2014 Congress is being held in Hong Kong on the topic of An
Unbroken History: Conserving East Asian Works of Art and Heritage.
More details may be found at

    <URL:https://www.iiconservation.org/congress/2014hongkong>

Deadline:  Friday, 14 March, 2014

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
    Works
3, Birdcage Walk
London SW1H 9JJ UK
+44 20 7799 5500
Fax: +44 20 7799 4961


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