UPDATE: New call for applications to host the 27th ICOM General Conference in 2025
Deep crises of the kind provoked by Covid-19, change paradigms, invert perspectives and accelerate processes that were already underway. Cultural institutions had to cope with the sudden need to rethink the physical experience of culture, the viability of funding models and the role of culture in empowering the community.
For this reason, ICOM has entirely rethought the format and the application procedures of its flagship event, the triennial General Conference. The new conference format, which is therefore the subject of this extraordinary call for applications to host the 27th ICOM General Conference in 2025, aims to:
Define a sustainable event, with particular concern for environmental, economic and social issues;
Include a digital dimension to the traditional in-person event, organising a hybrid event, ensuring ICOM members equal opportunities to attend the event;
Ensure to ICOM Members an inclusive event in which everyone can participate, virtually or in person, depending on the budget they can invest.
To achieve these objectives, the questionnaire and the manual in support of the application published on March 5th 2020, have been fully updated. The active ICOM National Committees wishing to submit their application for hosting the 27th ICOM General Conference in 2025 are required to submit the new questionnaire by email to the ICOM Secretariat at Conference@icom.museum, before the extended submissions deadline of 30 April 2021 (00:00 Paris time: GMT+1).