Collegium Artium is an independent,

non-profit organisation A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

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, Religion, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definitio ...

) promoting

open science Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. Open science is transparent and accessib ...

and open culture. Projects conducted by Collegium Artium are related to

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by socie ...

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 aesthetics ...

. 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 P ...

, it participates in the

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 Heidelberg University Library (, International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations, ISIL DE-16) is the central library of the Heidelberg University. Together with the 83 decentralized libraries of the faculties and ins ...

. 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 () 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 Science. The Minister of Science and Higher Educa ...

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

Council

*prof. Małgorzata Dąbrowska (

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (, ) is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute (192 ...

) *prof. Jerzy Miziołek (

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

)

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 exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly Waiver, waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds ...

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

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

*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.

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