23-24 October 2020
On 23-24 October 2020, WHITRAP Shanghai, UNESCO Category 2 Centre, will host an online seminar on the Historic Urban Landscape approach – integrating urban heritage conservation with urban development in planning processes in Asia.
The modernisation of living conditions in fast-growing cities in historic and new districts (including designated World Heritage cities) is a major issue ...
21 October 2020
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage together with experts from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) are pleased to invite you to take part in a ...
19-23 October 2020
The Grands Ateliers, part of the "UNESCO Chair in Earthen Architecture, Constructive Cultures and Sustainable Development", put women at the heart of their action by launching for the first time in 2020 the event "Terre, Femmes et Savoir-faire (Earth, Women and Know-How). This cycle of professional exchanges will take place from 2020 to 2022 and offer a new meeting place for dialogue and ...
13 October 2020
In the summer of 2020, the IPCC Executive Committee endorsed a proposal for a co-sponsored International Expert Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change to be organized by UNESCO and ICOMOS, with IUCN and ICLEI among the key partners to be held in 2021.
One of the specific aims of the Meeting is to take stock of methods and gaps in translating knowledge from and about culture and ...
1-10 October 2020
The International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a non-governmental organization, is an advisory body to the World Heritage Convention.
Dates: 1-10 October 2020
Venue: International Convention Centre (ICC Sydney) right in the heart of Sydney
Audience: Expected 1,500 professionals from across the globe representing heritage, archaeology, historians, urban planning, architects and ...
1-26 October 2020
UNESCO launches the inaugural Sustainable Heritage Management Foundation Course for heritage practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region to upskill and reskill core competences
Pressures on cities such as the current pandemic, climate change, economic slowdown, and conflicts mean that approaches to heritage management need to be reinvented. Beyond conservation-related objectives, heritage ...
30 September 2020
The World Heritage Centre is organizing an Information Meeting regarding the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee.
The meeting will be held online on Wednesday, 30 September for all permanent delegations of UNESCO.The working languages of the meeting will be English and French and simultaneous interpretation will be provided in these two languages.
16 September 2020
ICOMOS Netherlands in cooperation with the Delft University of Technologie, Netherlands and the Water Channel, is organizing a series of 3 open webinars on Water and Culture.
The overall aim of the webinar series is to inform water professionals and heritage experts about the Water and Heritage initiative and its activities that aim at recognition by water managers that water related ...
12 September 2020
LA NOCHE DEL PATRIMONIO
THE NIGHT WHERE ARTS BRING HERITAGE TO LIFE
LA NOCHE DEL PATRIMONIO is an unprecedented world-class cultural and artistic event taking place simultaneously in the 15 Spanish World Heritage Cities. For one special night every September, the best of international contemporary dance, UNESCO World Heritage sites and local culture expressions light up the cityscape of ...
10 September 2020
As Covid-19 has impacted most of the world, the pandemic also caused unprecedented challenges for UNESCO marine World Heritage sites. The dramatic drop in tourism revenues left sites struggling to keep rangers on the payroll, prevent rising illegal activity, continue crucial scientific monitoring or secure food for local communities.
On 10 September, marine World Heritage site managers will ...
3 September 2020
The World Heritage Centre will be hosting an online information session on 3 September 2020 for the UNESCO Field Offices, Category 2 Centres in Asia and the Pacific and the Advisory Bodies, in preparation of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the APA region.
On 3 September 2020, the World Heritage Centre will host an online information session with the UNESCO Field Offices, Category 2 ...
2 September 2020
The Government of Honduras and the UNESCO Cluster Office for Central America will hold a discussion workshop on 2 September on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the inscription of the Mayan Site of Copan on the World Heritage List.This was reported on Monday 17 August by the organizers of the event through a virtual press release, which was attended by, among others, the Director of the ...
20 July 2020
During an online meeting on 20 July 2020, the Chinese authorities and UNESCO invited national and international experts to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UNESCO Silk Roads Project and the Launch Ceremony of the Digital Archive of the Silk Roads Project (DAS).
On 20 July 1990, UNESCO launched the Desert Route Expedition of the Silk Road in Xi'an, China, the first in a series of five ...
17 June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the fragility of our cities sharply into focus. In light of the new challenges that the crisis has presented to cities worldwide, UNESCO introduces its World Heritage City Webinar on ‘Re-thinking Urban Heritage for Resilience and Recovery.’
During the Webinar, to be held online on 17 June 2020 from 1pm to 3:30pm Paris time (UTC+2), an international panel of ...
17 June 2020
Building resilience at the local level is an essential component of the long-term global response to climate change to protect people, livelihoods and ecosystems. Resilience-based management is a management approach that uses knowledge of current and future drivers influencing ecosystem function to prioritize, implement, and adapt management actions that sustain ecosystems and human ...
17-26 June 2020
From 17 to 26 June 2020, UNESCO successfully organised its first World Heritage City Lab, an online innovation laboratory for analysis, assessment, learning, and development of strategies for the protection and management of World Heritage properties in the urban context.
Carried out in collaboration with the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention— the International Council on ...
5 June 2020
On 5 June 2020, UNESCO organised an online meeting with the Japanese authorities and an international expert to discuss the response following the devastating fire of October 2019 at the Shuri-jô site, part of the World Heritage site “Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu”
The large fire, which broke out on 31 October 2019, had a significant impact on the Shuri-jô site ...
2-11 June 2020
UNESCO is pleased to introduce its first online international Expert Workshop on the Culture|2030 Indicators.
The Culture|2030 Indicators were developed in collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, as well as a number international organizations and experts. As a framework of thematic indicators, the Culture|2030 Indicators is intended to support and complement the global ...
18-21 May 2020
International Workshop: Building together the future of Heritage Sites in the Balkans
Subject: Three-and-a-half day exchange workshop about heritage sites sustainable management in the Balkans, based on case studies and shared experiences.
Dates: From Monday 18 to Thursday 21 May 2020. The workshop will officially end on May 21st in Tirana with the participation of Albanian institutions ...
21 April 2020
The UNESCO marine World Heritage sites cover about 8 percent by surface of the globe’s marine protected areas. Many of these iconic places are the last stronghold for endangered species, and are home to an unparalleled biodiversity, most of which is found nowhere else. While some animals may have thrived during the forced closure of marine World Heritage sites due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
