International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, or League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, was an advisory organisation for the League of Nations that promoted international exchange between scientists, researchers, teachers, artists and intellectuals. Established in 1922, it counted such figures as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Nitobe Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members.

In its first years, the committee worked on the protection of intellectual propertycopyright, library information science (LIS), educational management, education, youth, the future of culture, international cooperation in arts and literature, protection of historical monuments, cooperation between galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) etc. It later gave rise to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).