The Culture & Youth Commission
The motor vehicle has liberated the world. It’s vital that we safeguard our automotive heritage for future generations to enjoy, so the historical importance of this great leap in human achievement can be fully understood in decades and centuries to come.
In 2015, FIVA added ‘youth’ to the remit of the Culture Commission – because capturing the interest of the younger generation is essential to the survival of our mobile cultural heritage. The combination of culture and youth has worked well. After all, there’s far more to the historic vehicle world than simply driving an old machine: ownership broadens your outlook, creates a new circle of friends, and above all brings a huge amount of fun.
Aims and Objectives of the Commission
The Culture Commission is constantly looking at ways of protecting mobile cultural heritage as well as ways of spreading the message that it’s important to keep these vehicles in our everyday lives and on the roads. Hence the commission is focused on enhancing the dialogue with other institutions, non-governmental organisations (such as the UNESCO, TICCIH, ICOM, ICOMOS, and others), along with governmental organisations on an international and national level (through FIVA members), automobile manufacturers, designers, engineers, collectors, museums, etc.
Through articles, seminars, forums, symposiums and publications, and the popularisation of the FIVA Turin Charter, the commission is committed to the education of the general public, specifically the younger generations, encouraging them to understand the need to protect historic vehicles – into the future. It also deals with in-depth studies on the history and technology of the vehicles, as well as those who designed and built them and the social backdrop against which they were conceived. This includes the factories, fuel stations, garages, etc. that played a role in the history of automotive transport.
Commission Meetings
The Culture Commission meets at least four times a year and its members are in constant contact through emails. Open discussion and debate among its members make the work of the commission constructive and effective, with immediate results.
Members of the FIVA Culture and Youth Commission
Chairwoman:
NATAŠA G. JERINA (SLOVENIA)
E-mail: here
Members
- Christian Schamburek (A)
- Karlheinz Jungbeck (D)
- Giuseppe Genchi (I)
- Maria Bussolati (I)
- Aleksandar Vidojković (SR)
- Vincent Introvigne (B)
- Libor Vykusa (CZ)
- Rony Karam – UNESCO ambassador
Associated members
- Jochen Thoma (D)
- Mario de Rosa (D)
- Herman Sluiter (NL)
- Eleni Tofaridou (Gr)
Guests
Juergen Book