Encouraging the international cultural exchange trough an educational offer in the field of the cultural heritage’s preservation.
ITP is a public project financed thanks to ALES S.p.a. (DM 07.08.2015) aimed to promote the international exchange among cultural heritage’s stakeholders..
It’s an opportunity for foreigners to have access to the Italian experts’ know how trough a fellowship held in Rome.
Seven different MiC’s Institutes are called to cooperate, in accordance with their specific competence. In case of ICCD, the competence are in cataloguing of cultural heritage and historical photography.

ICCD offers four courses:

• Methodologies for cataloguing cultural heritage
• Computerised cataloguing and multimedia documentation
• Historical Photographic Techniques
• Photography: Archival Management and Preventive Conservation

Thanks to the scholarship, the participants will have the chance to stay in Rome for one or two weeks in order to attend the daily lessons at ICCD according to the scientific program selected. Furthermore, they will visit some of the most interesting museum collections of the city, guided to discover the back stage and the details of the different contexts.

In 2021, due to the health emergency that involved all countries, the courses were held online. The remote learning methodology allowed to carry on with the project, maintaining the quality and level of training. The scholarship was used to purchase technological tools necessary for carrying out the courses online (for example personal computer, camera, headphones, microphone and internet network).

During the period 2016-2021, ICCD organized eight courses about cataloguing and photography, directed at art historians, architects, archaeologists, museums conservators, restorers from different Countries (Argentina, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Ukraine)..