ECOLE D’AVIGNON:Centre of formation for the rehabilitation of the architectural heritage

National Network
France
Address

6, rue Grivolas – 84 000 AVIGNON - FR
France

Telephone
+33 (0)4 90 85 59 82
Telephone (other)
+33 (0)4 32 76 04 38
Fax
+33 (0)4 90 27 05 18
E-Mail
nourissier@ecole-avignon.com
E-Mail (2)
cgraz@ecole-avignon.com
Mobile Phone
+33 (0)6 18 42 16 06
Website
http://www.ecole-avignon.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1983
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
  2. Heritage
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Research
General Information
1. The Avignon School has ten permanents and a vast network of professional trainers or associated consultants , that intervene in projects , the missions and the trainings. Three sub-directions correspond to the axes of central work : training , the technical studies and international programs . 2 and 3 annual budgets about 1 200 000 Euros, the essential comes from the actions realized on the regional, national, international plan. 4. The Avignon School intervenes by council missions and thematic and fundamental trainings in France and abroad. 5. National and international partnerships so developed (visit our website)
Mission and Objectives

Intervention field of the Avignon School, it is to rehabilitate the old built.
Its action concerns the conservation and the rehabilitation of this heritage:
architecture , materials , crafts, techniques , resources.
The Avignon School is created in 1983 with the ambition of characterizing its skills to intervene in the architectural built.
Since 20 years, it has acted in the rehabilitation , passing from a centre of training in a centre of international radiation It gathers in the same unit all specialized skills.

Main Projects / Activities

. The Avignon school has several missions :
To teach:
- Thematic and fundamental training.
- technical perfection .
To advise : Consultation and Technical studies .
Audits of the heritage
• Assistance to the projects and the execution.
. Pedagogic Engineering. International actions • Expertise • Exchange of technicality • Training • Assembly and piloting of European and International projects • Missions of expertise on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, of the PACA region and for a series of international organizations: The Council of Europe, European Union, the World Bank, UNESCO, ICOMOS (International Council for Monuments and Sites).

Contact (1) Full Name
Gilles NOURISSIER, Directeur
Head of the organisation
Jean-Louis JOSEPH
Contact (2) Full Name
Christophe GRAZ, Architecte, Projets internationaux