EAA and CIfA – From Concurrency to Cooperation in Times of Brexit

Abstract

The European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) as an International Non-Governmental Organisation and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) as a professional association, each want to be in their field the leading representative body for archaeologists in Europe. Both organisations recruit their members from a very similar target group, but instead of competing with each other they work together to further develop complementary roles. For archaeologists, it will be necessary to be a member in both organisations to enjoy the full range of possibilities and services, which reach from free scientific exchange on the one hand to professional accreditation on the other hand. While Brexit is dividing Britain and the European Union, EAA and CIfA unite to lobby more effectively for archaeology and archaeologists in and beyond Europe.

Keywords:

• Archaeology
• cultural heritage
• interest group
• INGO
• professional association
• Europe
• Brexit

Notes

1. EAA website: https://www.e-a-a.org/; Hüglin and Criado-Boado Die “European Association of Archaeologists”.

2. Novaković, “The EAA is up and running.”

3. EAA Strategic Plan 2016–2021: https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/EAA/Navigation_News/Strategic_plan.aspx.

4. Accessed July 3, 2017. https://www.archaeologists.net/about.

5. CIfA website: https://www.archaeologists.net/; Wait, Das “Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.”

6. “German Archaeologists seeking to create a professional association” CIfA website (June 1, 2017): https://www.archaeologists.net/news/german-archaeologists-seeking-create-professional-association-1496321403 Information (in German) about the foundation act and the progress of the project CIfA Deutschland in the Newsletter of the German Society for Pre- and Protohistory (July 6, 2017): https://www.dguf.de/249.html

7. Criado-Boado, “Letter from the EAA president”; Criado-Boado, “Some Reflections from the EAA on Archaeology”.