International network · 2008–2025
Partnership is the method.
How to read this overview
A living network, documented across eighteen reporting years.
This overview brings together organisation names recorded in all available CIE annual reports from 2008 through 2025. It covers institutional partners, local organisations, universities, public bodies, funders, commissioners and in-kind supporters.
“Previous” refers to organisations recorded before 2020. “Current and recent” refers to relationships or project collaborations recorded from 2020 onward. Some long-term organisations appear in both sections. Inclusion records a relationship in the reports; it does not mean that every project-based collaboration remains active today.
Individual speakers, consultants and community contributors are not listed here. They remain visible within the relevant project, event and team pages.
Recorded before 2020
Previous partners and funding organisations
The earlier network grew through Culture and Development, Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage, shared-heritage programmes, field schools, museums, archives and country-based cooperation.
Governments and international bodies
- UNESCO Headquarters and the UNESCO offices in Dar es Salaam and Maputo
- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO
- Embassies and consulates of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Argentina, Vietnam and the United States
- Afghanistan Ministry of Information and Culture and Ministry of Education
- Sri Lanka Ministry of Cultural Affairs and National Heritage, Department of Archaeology and Department of National Museums
- South Africa Department of Arts and Culture
- Tanzania Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries, and Zanzibar heritage and harbour authorities
- Mozambique Ministry of Culture
- Directorate of Culture, Suriname
- Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Recorded across reports 2008–2019.
Museums, archives and heritage organisations
- African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
- AFIR / NewAfir Architects
- Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Bandung Heritage Society
- Central Cultural Fund, Sri Lanka
- Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE; formerly RACM)
- Galle Heritage Foundation
- Ghana Museums and Monuments Board
- Guam Preservation Trust
- Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group
- Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
- Indonesia Heritage Cities Network
- Indonesian Heritage Trust (BPPI)
- Iziko Museums of South Africa
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale and Muziris Heritage Project
- Maritime Archaeology Unit, Sri Lanka
- Mozambique Island Association
- Museum Volkenkunde and the Research Centre of the National Museum of World Cultures
- National Archives of the Netherlands
- National Library of Australia
- National Maritime Museum Amsterdam, Maritime Museum Rotterdam and MuZEEum Vlissingen
- National Museum of Afghanistan
- National Museum of Tanzania
- Netherlands Institute for Heritage
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Robben Island Museum
- South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)
- Stadsherstel Amsterdam
- Tourism Development Authority Sri Lanka
- Western Australian Museum
Compiled from the cumulative partner lists in reports 2011–2019 and the project records in 2008–2010.
Universities and research organisations
- Leiden University
- Utrecht University
- University of Amsterdam
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- University of Cape Town
- University of Dar es Salaam
- University of Guam
- University of Western Australia
- Federal University of Pernambuco
- University of São Paulo
- New York University Abu Dhabi
- Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Sri Lanka
- University of Peradeniya
- Vietnam National University, Hanoi
- Hanyang University
- CNRS – French National Centre for Scientific Research
- SOAS University of London
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
- National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
- Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at ISEAS
- KITLV – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
- Asia-Europe Foundation
Recorded through teaching, research, inventories, field schools and international workshops.
Funders, donors and commissioners
- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the International Cultural Policy Programme
- Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Netherlands Cultural Fund
- Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE / RACM)
- Prince Claus Fund and Cultural Emergency Response
- African World Heritage Fund
- UNESCO
- Embassies and consulates of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Ministry of Cultural Affairs and National Heritage, Sri Lanka
- National Restoration Fund
- Guam Preservation Trust
- Lord Wilson Heritage Trust
- Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fund
- Mondriaan Foundation
- Hivos
- NCDO
- KITLV
- Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology
- Vietnam National University and the Royal Netherlands Consulate in Hanoi
- SenterNovem / Agentschap NL
- Bandung Heritage Society and Indonesian National Railway Company
The reports use several terms—funder, donor, sponsor, commissioner and project supporter—which are retained here as one historical support category.
Recorded since 2020
Current and recent partners
This section reflects the shift toward HeritageLab, heritage justice, ocean heritage, education, community Co-Labs, creative practice and international policy exchange.
Programme and institutional relationships
- UNESCO, including the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi and the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- Nautical Archaeology Society
- African World Heritage Fund
- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- Ocean Decade Heritage Network
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- International Association of World Heritage Professionals
- Prince Claus Fund Cultural Emergency Response
Reports 2020–2025; several relationships continue earlier work.
Universities and knowledge partners
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- University of Bologna
- Kadir Has University
- Mohammed V University in Rabat
- University of São Paulo
- Sol Plaatje University
- Nişantaşı University
- Zayed University
- FH Münster University of Applied Sciences
- International Institute of Social History
- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- New York University Abu Dhabi
Recorded through World Heritage research, digital heritage, ocean heritage, teaching and publication programmes.
Community, cultural and public-programme partners
- Associação Ilha de Moçambique
- (Re)Claim Women’s Space in Heritage, Zanzibar
- Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
- Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
- European Union Delegation to Kuwait and the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, Kuwait
- Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities
- EU Outreach Facility for the GCC and the EU Delegation to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman
- Arab Gulf States Institute
Includes community projects, public events, institutional advice and commissioned work recorded through 2025.
Funders, commissioners and in-kind supporters since 2020
- Prince Claus Fund Cultural Emergency Response
- Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism
- Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi
- Pax Christi
- Leonhard-Woltjer Foundation
- Foundation Groot Midden Oosten Platform
- Creative Industries Fund NL
- Netherlands Film Fund
- EU Outreach Facility for the GCC and Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities
- Arab Gulf States Institute
The 2025 report distinguishes grants from commissioned consultancies; both are shown here, but not presented as the same type of support.
Primary sources
Annual-report record
Open the reports used for this overview. Organisation names have been normalised where an institution changed its English name or abbreviation.
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