The Ecole d'Avignon, project leader for VillageTerraneo

The Ecole d'Avignon is a heritage rehabilitation training centre. Its area of intervention is the built heritage – architecture, trades, materials – its conservation and its rehabilitation. It has positioned itself as a resource centre specialised in:

Educational advice
Training for rehabilitation professionals: short term proficiency courses or thematic courses on site in Avignon or elsewhere in France and Europe
Studies and publications such as: Techniques et pratique de la chaux or Traditional Mediterranean architecture
Consulting services for local authorities and other representatives working on the architectural heritage: advice concerning project design and execution
Management of European projects and the building of networks

The Ecole d'Avignon is developing international activities with UNESCO, ICOMOS and the Council of Europe. It has also participated in a number of European programmes:

diaporama

those concerning culture: Raphael, Culture 2000 / Art nouveau network,
those about territory: Interreg II C / Restauro network of regions and towns and Interreg III B “Western Mediterranean” / VillageTerraneo network
those in the EuroMediterranean area: MEDA - Euromed-Heritage / the networks Corpus and Salambo, heritage lessons for the Maghreb

These networks of expertise and exchange result in training courses and the pooling of know-how and methods.

For most of these actions, the Ecole d'Avignon has positioned itself as project leader.