Dear Friends and Colleagues,

YOCOCU on line can not be the spirit of YOCOCU community.

YOCOCU conference is not just a moment to exchange professional and research experiences but also a chance to increase personal contacts, to develop together new ways to contribute the conservation of cultural heritage and to embrace new views and cultures. We have been awaiting encouraging news about the evolution of COVID pandemic until the last minute in order to take the best decision. Unfortunately, the today news in the world are not comfortable.

For this reason, YOCOCU 2020 will be realize using the following innovative formula:

1) All those who are interested in participating must send the abstract by 30th September2020. Those who have already sent their abstract or video by the before deadlines do not have to do anything. Those to whom the abstract will be accepted (notification after 30th September2020) must submit their contribution in the form of a video presentation of a maximum duration of 5 minutes (deadline: 14 October 2020), in which they will present the title, themselves, the affiliation and the research carried out. All the videos will be available in the conference website, subdivided by topic.

2) The conference will be developed over two days organized in this way: lectures followed by a "walk the talk" space on a specific conference topic. Those who have submitted abstracts will be asked to participate in the discussion but not to present their work.

3) the participants have the opportunity to publish on the YOCOCU 2020, if the contribute will fulfill the requirements and the high standards of the YOCOCU 2020 Journals (link).

Thank you for patience and collaboration,

The Chairs and the Organizing and Scientific Committees

The  abstract/video submission deadline is September 30, 2020

For further details about the conference (Scientific and Organizing Committees, Venues, Deadlines…) please visit the webpage: www.yococu2020.com.
If you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us: info@yococu2020.com

Remember that you can take part in the conference by submission the traditional abstract (following the abstract form) and/or by sending us directlythe video (max 5 min.) in English where you describe your contribution (case study, research) as shown in YOCOCU Youtube:
English language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkwT2at5QXQ
Georgian language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7gw96bsKs
Italian language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e02LzwJC4kI

About YOCOCU 2020

The YOCOCU 2020 conference in Tbilisi, "HANDS ON HERITAGE: EXPERIENCING CONSERVATION, MASTERING MANAGEMENT" will be devoted to experiences in learning and working on real-life scenarios in the realm of the conservation and management of cultural heritage. YOCOCU meetings are aimed at transmitting and disseminating knowledge and experiences in this broad and complex realm. In Tbilisi Georgian, Caucasian and International professionals, researchers and students will be able to realize and to attend sessions set as "short-workshops", where all attendees will update their knowledge in the conservation of cultural heritage or the management of site museums, world heritage sites, archaeological research in monumental heritage. They will be short but intensive sessions where the objective will be to demonstrate the options available in each field of cultural heritage: tangible and intangible. All this by using cases drawn from all the world and in particular from the Georgian heritage institutions, guided by Georgian researchers, to realize a real exchange with their foreign counterparts. YOCOCU 2020 is the seventh edition of conference. The last edition in Matera has collected the voice of 27 countries and of 303 among researchers, professionals and students.
Enjoy your role in the cultural heritage conservation, YOCOCU 2020 waits you!