SIRA [Società Italiana per il Restauro dell’Architettura] pursues the following objectives:

• stimulating scientific and cultural exchanges among scholars in other disciplines;
• safeguarding and stimulating pluralism in research;
• organising national and international meetings, seminars, conferences, congresses;
• any other initiative for communicating studies in the field of conservation and restoration;
• building a point of reference and information centre about the activities of individual scholars and groups operating in the field of architectural and landscape conservation and restoration;
• supporting the teaching of architectural restoration, at all levels of Italian education, by promoting the social and educational value of an awareness and conservation of architectural heritage;

• communicating and promoting an awareness of themes and questions in the field of architectural restoration and, for these purposes, promoting opportune scientific and communications tools, including the tools of mass communication;
• serving as an interlocutor with various institutions operating in different educational structures and ministries dealing with the conservation and restoration of architectural and landscape heritage, in particular, the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in all matters of education and research;
• promoting relations with local, national and international bodies and institutions;
• promoting the awareness and conservation of architectural heritage and its relative instruments and methods at various scales and at local, state, European and international levels.

(art. 2 of the SIRA Statute)