الجمهورية الإيطالية
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
وزارة الخارجية
DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
المديرية العامة للتعاون من أجل التطوير / / / الجمهورية العربية السورية
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
وزارة الثقافة
MINISTRY OF CULTURE
المديرية العامة للآثار والمتاحف
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF ANTIQUITIES AND MUSEUMS
To the Members of the Scientific Committee
Mamoun Abdelkarim,
Ghassan Abed,
Hiba Al Sekhel,
Louda Mahfoud
Ammar Haidar
and to the Head of Project
Bassam Jamous
and to the Representative of Ministry of Culture
Maher Azar
OBSERVATION TO THE REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE NOMINATED FOR
SUPERVISING ON THE RESTORATION TRAINING COURSES AID006935/014/PMULABORATORIES/TD02
I had not the possibility to attend the meetings of the Scientific Committee of 15/10/2009 and 26/10/2009 and following the verbal agreement I have received all the material and asked all necessary information to give my opinion.
At the date of today the theory phase has not been completed according to the initial contract and specifically the Contractor started a request to change (in progress of activity) a part of the lesson and there is no approval for this change. From the scientific point of view the change made is significant and important and can not be accepted.
I am mentioning the replacement of lessons on Computer Systems. In the modern sense of restoration, such as that issued by Italy at present, this deficiency is not acceptable and is in conflict with the whole vision of the cooperation project.
I quite understand that this is only a small part of the course, but not so underrated, especially considering the tenders received under contract.
The Timetable received for the practical phase is not well readable and probably the contract request to provide a detailed schedule of classes with dates, contents and educational tools needed has not been well understood by the Consultant.
In the readable parts (received with the Official Paper and Sign of the Italian Institution CNR, and not signed by the Consultant) there are also following problems:
-Lack of training on Tools for Documentation of Restoration process (Information Technology)
-The distribution of classes does not take into account local needs of the National Museum of Damascus and is too influenced by the general organization of Italian courses
-In all "practical" courses programs are present many lessons of theory, and there is not consideration that: a) students are often older and / or experienced than teachers, b) the theoretical lessons should have been already been completed
So I suggest to ask as soon as possible a revision of this proposed “Timetable” to resolve all above mentioned points.
If we can not get a good Timetable with programsagreed from both side I will not approve the work demanding at the next Steering Committee to take appropriate action.
Regards
Renzo Carlucci
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