of Timbuktu
Meeting of the German institutions with SAVAMA-DCI in Berlin
16 November 2015, by Webmaster
On 16 November 2015, after their ten-days research visit to CSMC in Hamburg, Dr. Haïdara and Dr Traoré of SAVAMA-DCI attended a meeting in Berlin. The meeting organized by CSMC brought together the SaMaT project team, representatives of the German Federal Foreign Office, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Jutta Vogel Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) to discuss progress and future plans of the CSMC project “Safeguarding the Manuscripts of Timbuktu”. SAVAMA-DCI and CSMC presented reports on the major activities, and set up the year 2018 as deadline for all major preservation works to pave the way for larger research and restoration projects. The participants positively received the reports and welcomed the future plans of bringing the preservation components of the project to completion by 2018.