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League of Nations. International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation


  • [The Committee on Intellectual Co-opertation (Commission de coopération intellectuelle) was established on January 14, 1922, by the League of Nations and held its first session in August of the same year. As National Committees began to form over the next few years, the Committee began referring to itself as the International Committee on Intellectual Co-opertation (Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle, or CICI) with increasing frequency, until the name was fully embraced in the mid-1920s. On January 16, 1926, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Institut international de coopération intellectuelle, or IICI) began operation in Paris and served as the executive body for and was administered by the Committee. The CICI served as the principal and advisory organ of the League's Intellectual Cooperation Organisation (Organisation de coopération intellectuelle, or OCI), which was officially created in 1931 and included the IICI and the International Educational Cinematographic Institute (Institut international du cinématographe éducatif, or IICE). The final session of the CICI was held in 1939 and was then suspended for the duration of the Second World War. In 1946, the CICI was officially dissolved and the OCI was replaced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which also inherited IICI's archives.]

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    • C.I.C.I. (Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle)
    • CICI (Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle)
    • Comité Internacional de Cooperación Intelectual
    • I.C.I.C. (International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation)
    • ICIC (International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation)
    • Intellectual Co-operation Organisation. Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle
    • Intellectual Co-operation Organisation. International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation
    • Intellectual Co-operation Organisation. International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
    • International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation
    • International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
    • Internationale Kommission für Geistige Zusammenarbeit
    • League of Nations. Comité Internacional de Cooperación Intelectual
    • League of Nations. Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle
    • League of Nations. International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
    • League of Nations. Internationale Kommission für Geistige Zusammenarbeit

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        Geneva (Switzerland)

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    • Sources

      • found: Report on scientific property, 1928:t.p. (League of Nations. International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation)
      • found: Minutes of the first session, 1922:title page (League of Nations, Committee on Intellectual Co-operation; Geneva, August 1st-5th, 1922)
      • found: Minutes of the sixth session, August 20th, 1925, viewed 29 November, 2022:page [1] (League of Nations, Committee on Intellectual Co-operation) page 7 (International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation; Committee on Intellectual Co-operation) - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000124294632?urlappend=%3Bseq=345%3Bownerid=13510798900723596-363
      • found: Minutes of the seventh session, February 27th, 1926, viewed 29 November, 2022:page [1] (C.I.C.I.; League of Nations, International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation) page 5 (International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation; Committee on Intellectual Co-operation) - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000124294632?urlappend=%3Bseq=393%3Bownerid=13510798900723596-411
      • found: League of Nations. Official journal, 3rd year, no. 2 (February 1922), viewed 29 November, 2022:page 174 (Appointment of a committee for the consideration of [international] questions of intellectual co-opteration; resolution adopted by the Council on January 14th, 1922) - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uga1.32108058402960?urlappend=%3Bseq=180%3Bownerid=117847284-194
      • found: Musée Curie (website), viewed 29 November, 2022:Marie Curie et la coopération intellectuelle internationale ([from memo:] C.I.C.I.; Société des Nations, Commission de coopération intellectuelle; 16 juin 1926) - https://musee.curie.fr/decouvrir/documentation/marie-curie-cici
      • found: Wikipedia (English), viewed 29 November, 2022:International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, sometimes League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation; Established in 1922; The committee was the predecessor to UNESCO, and all of its properties were transferred to that organisation in 1946; Geneva; International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was formally established in August 1922; last session took place in 1939, but the CICI was only formally dissolved in 1946, like the League of Nations; To support the work of the commission in Geneva, the organization was offered assistance from France to establish an executive branch, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), in Paris in 1926; As a result of the Second World War, the institute was closed from 1940 to 1944. It re-opened briefly from 1945 to 1946. When it closed for good in 1946, UNESCO inherited its archives and some parts of its mission) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Intellectual_Cooperation
      • found: Wikipedia (English), viewed 29 November, 2022:UNESCO (UNESCO was founded in 1945 [constitution not ratified until 4 November, 1946,] as the successor to the League of Nations's International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO
      • found: Wikipedia (French), viewed 29 November, 2022:Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle (La Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle (CICI) est, entre 1922 et 1946, un organe de la Société des Nations (SDN); Elle est l'ancêtre de l'Unesco, créée en 1946, qui la remplacera; fondation Janvier 1922; La première session a lieu en août 1922; L'Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle (IICI); Il est juridiquement l'organe exécutif de la CICI et est administré par elle; Il est officiellement inauguré le 16 janvier 1926) - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_internationale_de_coop%C3%A9ration_intellectuelle
      • found: United Nations Library & Archives (website), viewed 29 November, 2022:[authority record for: Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux Section] (in 1920 the Assembly was considering the possible setting-up of a technical organization attached to the League of Nations: the Intellectual Cooperation Organisation; it was composed of: the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation set up in 1922, which was the advisory organ of the Assembly and the Council ... the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, set up in Paris in 1924 ... began work in 1926. As the executive organ of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, it carried out the Committee's decisions and recommendations; the International Educational Cinematographic Institute ... created in Rome in 1928 ... worked in close collaboration with the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Paris; The Intellectual Cooperation Organisation, whose principal organ was the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, operated from 1922 to 1946. Its work has been carried on by UNESCO) - https://archives.ungeneva.org/wha5-pt2q-s9t6;isaar?sf_culture=en
      • found: Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle, 2018 (archived 12 September, 2018), viewed 29 November, 2022:page 7 (OCI, Organisation de coopération intellectuelle (CICI+IICI); CICI, Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle (Genève); IICI, Institut international de coopération intellectuelle (Paris); IICE, Institut international du cinématographe éducatif (Rome)) pages 480-481 (Organisation de coopération intellectuelle; les personnes concernées de rédiger une résolution à ce sujet, celle-ci est adoptée sans débat avant la clôture de la session, le 25 juillet; texte de la résolution est révélateur de la confiance retrouvée: émettant le vœu "que l'Assemblée reconnaisse expressément l'existence de l'Organisation de coopération intellectuelle", constituée de la CICI, de l'IICI, de l'IICE et des commissions nationales; l'existence de la nouvelle Organisation de coopération intellectuelle, est adopté le 4 septembre 1931 et transmis à l'Assemblée qui fait de même le 24 septembre) - https://web.archive.org/web/20180912022034/https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01853903/document
      • found: VIAF, viewed 29 November, 2022:League of Nations. International committee on Intellectual Co-operation ([Spanish] Comité Internacional de Cooperación Intelectual; [German] Internationale Kommission für Geistige Zusammenarbeit) - http://viaf.org/viaf/134258090

    • General Notes

      • [The Committee on Intellectual Co-opertation (Commission de coopération intellectuelle) was established on January 14, 1922, by the League of Nations and held its first session in August of the same year. As National Committees began to form over the next few years, the Committee began referring to itself as the International Committee on Intellectual Co-opertation (Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle, or CICI) with increasing frequency, until the name was fully embraced in the mid-1920s. On January 16, 1926, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (Institut international de coopération intellectuelle, or IICI) began operation in Paris and served as the executive body for and was administered by the Committee. The CICI served as the principal and advisory organ of the League's Intellectual Cooperation Organisation (Organisation de coopération intellectuelle, or OCI), which was officially created in 1931 and included the IICI and the International Educational Cinematographic Institute (Institut international du cinématographe éducatif, or IICE). The final session of the CICI was held in 1939 and was then suspended for the duration of the Second World War. In 1946, the CICI was officially dissolved and the OCI was replaced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which also inherited IICI's archives.]

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      • 2012-09-11: new
      • 2022-12-23: revised

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