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1416 Events
5 March 2010 - 30 April 2010
3rd Course on Conservation of Built Heritage organized by ICCROM and which will take place from 5  March to 30 April 2010 in Rome, Italy. ICCROM is pleased to announce the third training course on Conservation of Built Heritage in Rome.  ICCROM has been a pioneer in organizing courses in heritage conservation since 1965 including the Architectural Conservation Course ...
25-27 February 2010
The meeting was attended by 29 participants and experts from 17 countries, as well as by representatives of IUCN, ICOMOS, ICCROM, and the UNESCO World HeritageCentre. The terms of reference of the expert meeting were defined by the Decisions of the World Heritage Committee at its 32nd (Quebec City, 2008, 32 COM 10B) and 33rd (Seville, 2009, 33 COM 10A) ...
18 February 2010 - 15 April 2010
The Significance of World Heritage: Origins, Management, Consequences is to be the first international conference arranged by The World Heritages: Global Discourses and Local Implementations WHILD. Founded in 2003 and situated at Dalarna University, Sweden, "The World Heritage: Global Discourse and Local Implementation", WHILD, started as a research environment, above all in the humanities ...
17 February 2010 - 30 April 2010
UNESCO Chair on Cultural Heritage and Risk ManagementInternational Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 20105th Cycle: 13-26 September 2010 The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan is organizing the 5th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 13 to ...
2 February 2010
This event will bring together high-level personalities from cultural organisations, the European Union, national and international institutions, think tanks, academia, NGOs and the media, to celebrate Istanbul's cultural vitality and kick off what will be a momentous year for the city. Throughout 2010 the city will host an array of cultural events, celebrating Istanbul as a vibrant European ...
1-19 February 2010
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites, with a deadline of 19 February, for the session that will take place from 18-23 April 2010 in Hiroshima, Japan. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World Heritage Conservation ...
27 January 2010 - 28 February 2010
Awarded biennially, the Equator Prize recognizes community-based initiatives that demonstrate extraordinary achievement in reducing poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the equatorial belt. Prize winners receive worldwide recognition for their work as well as an opportunity to help shape national and global policy and practice in the field. The fact that the ...
20-22 January 2010
This meeting, organized in partnership with the Government of Senegal, and with financial support from the African World Heritage Fund, Government of Switzerland and France-UNESCO Convention, will take place from 20 to 22 January 2010. It aims to bring together 44 African States Parties to the World Heritage Convention in order to review the implementation status of the Convention in Africa, ...
11 January 2010
The first one-day consultation meeting on the implementation of the World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP) in the Arab States was held on 11 January 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. It was organized within the framework of Phase 2 of the WHEAP focusing on Africa and the Arab states. About 25 experts gathered to exchange on the challenges and opportunities for World Heritage ...
31 December 2009
The Marc de Montalembert grant - 7000 Euros - helps young people from countries bordering the Mediterranean sea, and below 30 years of age, to implement projects dedicated to the knowledge of the cultures of his Region. Since 1995 nineteen projects have been implemented by winners of the grant from 7 Mediterranean countries. Application to the 2010 grant are to be submitted by 31 December ...
18 December 2009
The Special Session "Heritage and development: diversity as an alternative" will take place on the 18th of December 2009 in Marrakesh within the framework of Africities V, the local African communities Summit (16-20 December.) This Session is organised by the World Heritage Centre, with the encouragement of the France-UNESCO Convention, and in collaboration with the Association of Francophone ...
14-16 December 2009
This follow-up meeting is jointly organised with and is hosted by Irish authorities. Representatives of West European countries and heritage experts will meet in Dublin to discuss the following issues: Next cycle of World Heritage Periodic Reporting Retrospective Statements of Significance and boundary changes Training and capacity building Tentative Lists in Western Europe sub-region ...
9 December 2009
Representatives of the Nordic countries and heritage experts met in Stockholm in the framework of the follow-up to the world heritage periodic report process. The meeting - organized by the Nordic World Heritage Foundation and generously hosted by Sweden - focused on the following issues: Next cycle of World Heritage Periodic Reporting Retrospective Statements of Significance and boundary ...
6-12 December 2009
A regional capacity-building Workshop on "Assessment of Vulnerability of Cultural and Natural World Heritage Properties to Disasters and Climate Change" was held at the Peking University of China from 6 to 12 December 2009, organised jointly by the World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and the World Heritage Training and Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific (WHITR-AP). The Workshop, funded ...
30 November 2009 - 3 December 2009
More than half of the Earth's population now lives in an urban area, and over the past three decades, due to the sharp increase in the world's urban population, historic cities have become subject to new threats.   In order to address conservation and planning issues of historic cities, the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes is being prepared for possible adoption at the 36th ...
26-28 November 2009
The Buenos Aires meeting was the first meeting organized and 46 representatives from 24 countries in the Region took part, in addition to the Advisory Bodies. For three days, focal points of the LAC regions were informed of the process leading to the preparation of the Retrospective Inventory, the Retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value and the Periodic Reporting process. The ...
25-26 November 2009
Following the establishment of the Alliance of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes and its international conferences in 2007 and 2008, this 3rd International Conference is designed to discuss the concrete challenges of water management in World Heritage Cultural Landscapes while also aiming at promoting and further extending the network of partner sites of the Alliance. Aiming ...
25 November 2009 - 4 December 2009
The exhibition illustrates the re-installation of the 152-ton and 24-metre high Obelisk, as well as the town of Aksum and its people, through the work of several artists who followed the process. The opening ceremony of the exhibition at the FAO Headquarters will be held in the presence of Francesco Bandarin, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and Mounir Bouchenaki, Director ...
14-17 November 2009
A second International Workshop on "Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage" was held at Acre, Israel, from 14 to 17 November 2009, and organised jointly by the Israel National Commission for UNESCO, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the World Heritage Centre, gathering experts and managers of World Heritage cultural properties from all regions, as well as representatives of ICOMOS, ...
12-14 November 2009
The second thematic meeting of expert on the agro-pastoral cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean will gather 40 participants, representing different European and Mediterranean countries and representatives from ICOMOS and IUCN. This meeting is organized within the framework of the France-UNESCO cooperation agreement by the Tirana European University, the Mountain Areas Development Agency ...