It is an association that was formed in order to protect cultural heritage all over the world, both in times of peace, during and aftermath of conflict with the collaboration of national and international universities,-NGOs-public-local-civic and private institutions in 2006 İstanbul/TURKEY.
It is the volunteer, non-profit making and non-governmental Association.
FOCUH became new “Member Organization” of Pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage (EUROPA NOSTRA), The Hague, The Netherlands since May, 18, 2006. http://www.europanostra.org
It was elected as one of the members of the Scientific Committee of “11th, 12.nd, 13.rd and 14.th international Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies-Workshop Archeology and Computer“ organized on 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 in Vienna, Austria http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/