Collegium Artium

Collegium Artium is an independent, non-profit organisation registered in Poland with a charitable status (according to Polish law: a public benefit organization) promoting open science and open culture.^[1]

Projects conducted by Collegium Artium are related to cultural heritage in the broadest sense, with particular emphasis on the history of art. The organisation carries out research projects, publishes a book series and awards fellowships and prizes. As a signatory of, among others, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities,^[2] it participates in the open science^[3] and culture movement and contributes to the creation of the world’s greatest open-access repository of art-historical texts operated by the Heidelberg University Library.^[4]

Collegium Artium is a member of Polish National Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations (OFOP) and the Coalition for Open Education (KOED).^[5] Supervision: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.^[6] The activity of Collegium Artium is managed by the Board, the Council is its controlling body.

Council

• prof. Małgorzata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź)
• prof. Jerzy Miziołek (University of Warsaw)

Board

• Director - Jacek Maj

Documents

Collegium Artium is a signatory of the following documents:

• Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration^[7]
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities^[8]
• Public Domain Manifesto^[9]
• Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest^[10]
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment^[11]
• Zurich Declaration on Digital Art History^[12]
• Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development^[13]
• Mainz Declaration on Digital Art History in Teaching^[14]
• London Manifesto for Fair Copyright Reform for Libraries and Archives in Europe^[15]
• Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age^[16]
• Initiative Open Access 2020^[17]