Collegium Artium is an independent,

non-profit organisation A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

registered in Poland with a charitable status (according to Polish law: a

public benefit organization A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a cha ...

) promoting open science and open culture. Projects conducted by Collegium Artium are related to cultural heritage in the broadest sense, with particular emphasis on the

history of art The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic vis ...

. The organisation carries out research projects, publishes a book series and awards fellowships and prizes. As a signatory of, among others, the

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is an international statement on open access and access to knowledge. It emerged from a conference on open access hosted in the Harnack House in Berlin by the Max Pla ...

, it participates in the open science and culture movement and contributes to the creation of the world’s greatest open-access repository of art-historical texts operated by the

Heidelberg University Library The University Library Heidelberg (german: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg) is the central library of the University of Heidelberg. It constitutes together with the 83 decentralized libraries of the faculties and institutes the University Lib ...

. Collegium Artium is a member of Polish National Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations (OFOP) and the Coalition for Open Education (KOED). Supervision:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland The Ministry of Science and Higher Education ( pl, Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego) in Poland was opened on 5 May 2006 by the Minister of Science and Higher Education, in replacement of several parts of the Ministry of Education and Sc ...

. The activity of Collegium Artium is managed by the Board, the Council is its controlling body.

Council

*prof.

Małgorzata Dąbrowska Małgorzata Dąbrowska (born 11 January 1956 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish historian, Byzantinist, dean of the History Department at the University of Łódź. She specializes in Byzantine studies, specifically the topics of Byzantium and the We ...

(

University of Łódź The University of Łódź ( Polish: ''Uniwersytet Łódzki'', Latin: ''Universitas Lodziensis'') is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź i ...

) *prof. Jerzy Miziołek (

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

)

Board

*Director - Jacek Maj

Documents

Collegium Artium is a signatory of the following documents: * Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration *

Public Domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...

Manifesto *Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest *

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) intends to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions. Also according to this statement, this practice creates bia ...

*Zurich Declaration on Digital Art History *Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development *Mainz Declaration on Digital Art History in Teaching *London Manifesto for Fair Copyright Reform for Libraries and Archives in Europe *Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age *Initiative Open Access 2020Initiative Open Access 2020
Retrieved 28 September 2016.

References

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