Teaching staff

Trainers are recruited on file and by audition: they give a test class before a panel. They then take training in adult pedagogy, active methods and ethics. An experienced trainer accompanies them during their first sessions.

The teaching committee ensures a balance of profiles: practice and theory, countries of the North and South, men and women.

Each course is evaluated by the trainees on five criteria: clarity, relevance, interactivity, availability, respect. The results are analysed each quarter. A trainer whose average score is below 3.5 receives support and may be suspended.

Peer observation allows good practices to be shared. An annual seminar brings all the trainers together to exchange on their methods.

In addition, the Academy invites some forty outside speakers each year: judges, police commissioners, museum directors, historians, protagonists of restitution operations. They bring precise testimony and an outside perspective.

Speakers sign the code of conduct and declare their interests. No market operator may speak in order to promote its services.

Trainers publish manuals, case studies and articles, available in the teaching library. The Academy supports their research by funding field missions and conferences.

Their work also feeds OIMAP's Protection, Market and Regulation sections.

Trainers can be reached for the duration of sessions and receive trainees by appointment. For certification programmes, each trainee is followed by a tutor who helps with preparing the dissertation and with professional guidance.

After the training, trainers remain available to answer practical questions via the alumni network: advice given in time is often worth more than a long course.

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.