OIMAP Academy

The Academy's mission is to spread the skills needed for the protection and lawful circulation of cultural property. Its values are excellence, independence, openness and ethics. It refuses any training that would promote a particular operator.

A code of conduct applies to trainers and trainees: confidentiality of the cases studied, respect for communities, refusal of any conflict of interest.

A teaching committee of twelve members approves the programmes, evaluates trainers and proposes changes. Each session is evaluated by the trainees, and the results are published in an annual report. The Academy follows a certified continuous-improvement approach.

The certification programmes are accredited by partner universities, which makes it possible to award transferable teaching credits.

The Academy works with INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization, UNESCO, museums and universities. These partners provide speakers, practical cases and placements. They help adapt content to local realities.

Each year it hosts researchers in residence who develop new teaching tools and publish their work in the teaching library.

The Academy is also a community: alumni forums, annual meetings, thematic working groups. These spaces allow professionals to continue exchanges after their training.

Each year it organises a conference open to all, devoted to a topical theme: digital technology, restitutions, climate and conservation.

The Academy measures its impact over the long term: three years after training, a survey assesses the use of the skills acquired, career developments and concrete achievements — seizures, certificates issued, restitutions obtained.

These results guide the creation of new programmes and changes to content.

The Academy's reception service answers practical questions Monday to Friday, in French, English and Spanish, and can direct each visitor to the programme, scholarship or free resource that fits their situation. A guidance counsellor also offers a thirty-minute individual meeting, by appointment, to build a realistic training pathway.

Trainees' feedback is valuable: each session gives rise to a questionnaire, and the most useful suggestions are examined each quarter by the teaching committee. Do not hesitate to write to report a difficulty, propose a subject or tell us what the training has changed in your practice.