Events

The Partners Forum of the Slovak Commission for UNESCO is a yearly event that brings together the representatives of all UNESCO designations in Slovakia, including the relevant governmental offices, academia, NGOs, media and other cooperating partners. The Forum discusses proposals for cooperation, proposes projects and serves as a platform for presentation of all activities carried out by ...

The Partners Forum of the Slovak Commission for UNESCO is a yearly event that brings together the representatives of all UNESCO designations in Slovakia, including the relevant governmental offices, academia, NGOs, media and other cooperating partners. The Forum discusses proposals for cooperation, proposes projects and serves as a platform for presentation of all activities carried out by ...

1st International Meeting on Urban Cultural Landscapes and World Heritage. Cityscapes: Places of Memory, Opportunities for the FutureThe inscription of El Paseo del Prado and El Buen Retiro. A Landscape of Arts and Sciences as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 25 July 2020 fostered this International Meeting on Urban Cultural Landscapes with the aim of exploring the concept of green historic ...

This event will be held in Albreda, Kunta Kinteh Island, with community, schools and tour guides. The goal is to elicit from them ideas on how the World Heritage sites can further empower communities, especially young people.

During the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2022, held in Mexico City, a side event “Data collection & measurement of culture towards evidence-based policies for sustainable development” was organized on 29 September 2022 to illustrate how data on culture can inform policies and make visible the contribution of culture to sustainable ...

Annual meeting for managers of all assets declared World Heritage in Spain. This year the theme will be: “50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.”The meeting will take place at Merida (Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida).

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), and in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, ARC-WH is delighted to announce the week-long event, World Heritage Days. Each activity is catered towards highlighting the importance of celebrating and preserving World Heritage and the impact it ...

On 22 July 2022, the final restitution workshop for the pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) was organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Mayor Office of the City of Baguio in close collaboration with UNESCO. The workshop was held online, gathering 80 participants, including ...

A high-level World Heritage Leadership Forum will be convened to take stock of the results produced by the World Heritage Leadership Programme in its first six-years (2016-2022), and how these results can be more widely applied and utilized to different realities and contexts, to strengthen the capacity of heritage professionals of the next generation, who will work beyond the 50th ...

In the context of the 2022 UNESCO Member States Survey on the implementation of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), the Secretariat for the HUL Recommendation organised a capacity-building programme to support designated focal points in responding to the survey.  2,950 Web views 21 Support ...

The World Heritage Convention aims to protect the unique natural and cultural sites of outstanding universal value. Valuable experiences have been made by introducing changes and new activities with respect for the unique and often sensitive values of the sites. The ongoing learning processes between different World Heritage Sites around the world can be of use in the Swedish context, not ...