At the start of any project, there are ideas and encounters. It is due to these and the emergence of a shared vision, that this adventure was born: an adventure, to which Mazars has committed itself in partnership with Vocations Patrimoine, to be at the service of the great cultural sites of the world.

We are happy, within this partnership, to support the projects of the first award winners of the "World Heritage Site Managers" programme.


From left to right: Henri de Castries, Chairman of the AXA Group Management Board, Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO, Yves Coppens, President of Vocations Patrimoine, Patrick de Cambourg, Mazars Group President, Michel Clément, Director of Architecture and Heritage at the Ministry of Culture and Communication, parties involved in the "World heritage site managers" project.

This programme combines preservation, transference and innovation.

By studying the specific management strategies implemented on these two sites of different cultural histories, Iryna Kravets is going to allow yet another bridge of reconciliation to be built between two parts of Europe that have been for too long divided.

The mutual recognition of the experiences and skills needed for this project will contribute to a better safeguarding and a greater enhancement of these two jewels of world heritage. Better still, it will allow an exchange of expertise in respect of the history and cultural diversity between each and thereby can encourage the improvement of the sites for the benefit of the greatest number and for their transfer to future generations.

This project is in perfect alignment with the values that Mazars implements daily:

• Because Mazars must respond not only to the demands of its clients and colleagues, but also to the young of the future who join the group each year, skills management is therefore the first priority of management in aiming for excellence. The programme, World Heritage Site Managers, is therefore of equal priority;
  
  
• Because keeping cultural diversity alive within a large organisation is a choice made by Mazars in its international development policy, as is a project aimed at respecting the cultures of the entire world;
  
  
• Because this is the only way for a company to operate. If it recognises the long term vision of ensuring continuity for its staffing levels, then it must consider its immediate surroundings. Therefore, world heritage, whether it be cultural, architectural or natural must be managed in order to be transferred to future generations.

This innovative programme, as much by its content as by the alliance between the private and public sectors, shows that culture and economics are not irreconcilable and that, far from being natural rivals, they are actually at the service of one another for the development of everyone.

Mazars is proud to have committed itself to the development of these programmes which fuse respect for cultural diversity, managerial innovation and passing on to younger generations. These values are as much our own because they are what underpin our Group and its development.