The World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund, is calling for papers to be included in its forthcoming publication entitled: Community Involvement in the Management of World Heritage in Africa. The main objective of this publication is to publicize endogenous site management practices and share successful experiences with a view to contributing to the ...

Call For Applications International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 201728 August to 16 September 2017, Japan © copyright / author / description The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, 19 April 2017. The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan, is organizing ...

TODAY at 11AM CET, participate in the first “Unite4Heritage Talks”!On this International Day for Monuments and Sites, a panel of experts will tell more on UNESCO’s work for the protection and promotion of World Heritage. Join the Facebook Live conversation! ...

Dates: 15 – 26 September 2017 Place: University of Tsukuba, Japan Organized by the World Heritage Studies and the Certificate Programme on Nature Conservation (CPNC) at the University of Tsukuba, in cooperation with UNESCO World Heritage Centre, IUCN, ICCROM and ICOMOS.   The CBWNCL  Heritage Conservation is an evolving practice, and one of the current debates focuses on identifying and ...

ICOMOS Germany and the German Commission for UNESCO supported by the German Aerospace Center, will organize an international expert meeting in Berlin, 6-8 April 2017, which is in line with the implementation of the Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative, as well as the World Heritage Committee’s decision regarding studies and research on technological heritage connected with space ...

During a special event at the Monaco Yacht Club on 4 April 2017, UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme, IUCN’s Global Marine and Polar Programme and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will launch the results of the project “Identifying possible World Heritage marine sites in the Arctic Region”. The project identified seven areas that best represent the Arctic Oceans’ most unique ...

UNESCO at the world’s largest tourism fair ITB Berlin 2017 © Hubert Farke / Wadden Sea (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands) From 8 to 12 March 2017, the Wadden Sea World Heritage site is organizing a stand on sustainable tourism at the world’s largest tourism fair ITB Berlin. Partnering with the UNESCO World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme, the Wadden Sea offers a ...

Call for applications World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2017“Memory: Lost and Recovered Heritage” 25 June- 4 July 2017, Poland ©  Deadline for submitting applications is 3 April 2017 Prior to the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee and in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, the Polish National Commission for UNESCO and ...

A UNESCO regional conference on “Cultural heritage and identity: an Arab youth perspective” will take place in Carthage (Tunisia) from 1 to 3 March 2017. This event will foster discussion of endangered heritage with Arab youth through the themes of peacebuilding, social cohesion, rights and dialogue. It aims to support youth’s effective participation in heritage protection and peacebuilding, ...

The 2017 Lumbini International Steering Committee (ISC) Meeting will be taken place from 17 to 19 February 2017 in Lumbini, Nepal. In January 2015, a very first cross-cutting Lumbini ISC Meeting was jointly organized in Lumbini by the Nepali authorities and UNESCO, bringing together high-level officials of the Nepali Government, representatives of the local authorities, international ...

The first Francophone African World Heritage Youth Forum will take place from 26 April to 5 May 2017 in Burkina Faso at the Ruins of Loropéni World Heritage site. The principal objectives are to increase awareness among French-speaking African youth on issues related to the protection and preservation of World Heritage and to create a sustainable platform that will enhance the participation ...

The Fifth Transboundary Platform Meeting on the project “Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid region” will take place on the 9th and 10th of February 2017. This fifth meeting is part of a joint European Union and UNESCO initiative in close cooperation with the Albanian and Macedonian authorities to strengthen ...

This course on Linking Nature and Culture in World Heritage Site Management, to be held at Røros, is the first major activity of the World Heritage Leadership Programme, and the start of a process to set a new standard to link nature and culture practice in World Heritage Sites.  The course curriculum has been developed through a series of activities.  Among them was the curriculum developed ...

The workshop is hosted by the City of Siena and organized by the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe (Venice, Italy), in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The workshop will be structured over 2 days along the following thematic panels: Integrating historic walls within management systems; Sustainable use and conservation of historic walls; and, ...

This third thematic session is a part of the national symposium on learnings from Gorkha earthquake: reconstruction, risk reduction and preparedness. it will present a detailed and comprehensive view of lessons from the Gorkha earthquake and issues and challenges for reconstruction of cultural heritage.The session will include presentations and discussions and ...

CIPA is the Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation for the International Committee on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). CIPA2017, the 26th biennial symposium, will be held from August 28 to September 1, 2017, in Ottawa, Canada. CIPA2017 will focus on Digital Workflows for Conservation.The rapid rise in new digital technologies has revolutionized the practice of recording heritage places. ...

The 7th seminar of the UNESCO Chair and UNITWIN-UNESCO network on “Culture, Tourism and Development” organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / IREST – EIREST, Association of French World Heritage Properties and ICOMOS France will be held on 14 December 2016. The Seminar will focus on the development of UNESCO World Heritage sites in ...

Grand Palais, South-East Gallery - 3, avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris 8thFree admission| Every day (except Tuesdays) from 10 am to 8 pm and on Wednesdays until 10 pm. With exceptional digital techonologies, the Eternal Sites exhibition offers an unprecedented immersive experience at the heart of four major archaeological sites of the universal heritage: the ancient capital of King Sargon ...

From 13 to 15 December 2016, the World Heritage Centre organized a First-Aid Technical Assistance Workshop for three World Heritage sites on Syria, at the UNESCO Office in Beirut. As the joint WHC/ICOMOS/ICCROM reactive monitoring mission planned in Syria in December 2016 could not take place due to security reasons, a technical workshop has been organized swiftly to examine, with cultural ...

The training course “Nature Management for the Proposed Extension of the World Heritage Property: Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region” will take place in Tushemisht, Albania, on 6 and 7 December 2016. The training course aims to build capacities for implementing nature management actions based on cross-sectoral cooperation for the proposed extension to the Albanian part of the ...