International cooperation
The IMH within its scope of competence intensively focuses on the development of international cooperation. In line with a long-term plan of the international activates it successfully develops the cooperation with some partner organizations:
- In Czech Republic (The Institute of Military History Prague, The Central Military Archive);
- In Germany (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam);
- In Hungary (Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum);
- In Poland (Wojskowe Biuro Badań Historycznych Warszawa, Centralne archiwum wojskowe, Muzeum Wojska Polskiego);
- In Austria(Landesverteidigungsakademie Wien, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum – Militärwissenschaftliches Institut, Wien);
- In the USA (U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington D.C.);
- In Russia (Institut vojennoj istorii MO RF Moskva);
- In Romania (The Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History);
- In France (Service Historique de la Defense Paris);
- In Netherlands (Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie).
- In Serbia (Institute for strategic research Belgrade).
- In Hellenic Republic / Greece (The Army History Directorate).
On a multilateral basis the IMH is engaged in cooperation within the Military History Working Group – MHWG) working under the Consortium of Defense Academies and institutes of the security studies of Partnership for peace. Since 2001 the IMH took active participation in series of international scientific conferences of the MHWG. (Bucharest – 2001, Prague – 2003, Budapest – 2004, Vienna – 2005, Kingston – 2007, Ljubljana – 2008, Bucharest – 2009, Warsaw – 2010, Belgrade – 2011, Vienna – 2012, Sofia – 2013, Bratislava – 2014, Athens – 2015, Ljubljana – 2016, Bucharest – 2017, Belgrade – 2018, Budapest – 2019, Košice - 2021, Gdyňa - 2022, Sibiu 2023, Vienna - 2024).
In 2006, the IMH organized (in cooperation with French Service Historique de la Defense) in Bratislava 6th International scientific conference that turned out to be the biggest in its previous 11 years long history, with regard to the number of the participating countries /18/, the number of the participants /67/, as well as the number of the works presented /30/.
In 2014, IMH organized (in cooperation with with the Center for Military History of the Royal Danish Defence College) 14th international scientific conference of the Euroatlantic Conflict Studies Working Group. International conference under title Change of Doctrines – Using the Past to fight the Present was held under auspices of minister of defence of Slovak Republic Martin Glváč. 40 historians and military experts out of 14 countries participated at the conference and 21 papers within 8 blocs were presented.
After above-mentioned and successful international Conferences of Euro-Atlantic Conflict Studies Working Group and Partnership for Peace Consortium organized by IMH in cooperation with foreign partners in 2006 and 2014 came our turn again, for the third time in 2021. The twentieth Conference of CSWG and PfP Consortium was held in Eastern Slovakian city of Košice and in its organisation took part IMH, Centre for Military History Researches and Social Sciences of the German Army in Potsdam and University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice. In this event took part historians and military specialists from 17 countries who presented 22 scientific papers divided into 7 topical blocks.
In 2021 IMH – Military History Museum became a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) which is a non-governmental organisation founded in 1946 to protect world cultural heritage. With more than 32 000 members from more than 136 countries, ICOM is a unique professional network of national committees, international committees and museum professionals. IMH – Military History Museum works within the Slovak Committee of ICOM and has its representatives in the international committees as well, i. e. in the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) and in the International Committee of ICOM for Arms and Collections of Military History (ICOMAM). (https://icom.museum/en/)
Slovak Committee for Military History which works within the IMH became a member of the International Commission for Military History - Commission Internationale d´ Histoire Militaire (ICMH – CIHM) in 1994. Since that year (1994) the Slovak Committee has been participating in Summit-Conferences held in Europe. (http://www.icmh-cihm.org/en/).
