
World Heritage Site Managers Forum 2018
21-Jun-2018 - 28-Jun-2018

World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2018
17-Jun-2018 - 26-Jun-2018
Cities Reporting: HUL Approach in Modern Cities
04-Jun-2018 - 05-Jun-2018

International Expert Meeting on Astronomical Heritage and Sacred Places
23-May-2018 - 24-May-2018

Expert meeting: Managing sites of Religious Interest in Eastern Europe
18-Apr-2018 - 22-Apr-2018
Implementation on the HUL Recommendation
26-Mar-2018 - 28-Mar-2018
UNESCO Chair on Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation
Capacity Building Workshop on Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation in Asia and the Pacific: Disasters and Resilience
Dates: September 21 – October 1, 2018
Place: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Organized by the UNESCO Chair on Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation at the University of Tsukuba, in ...
OPEN CALL, extended deadline 21 March: Workshop World Heritage & Educational Institutions in Africa
08-Mar-2018 - 21-Mar-2018
The workshop is aimed at advancing participants’ knowledge and understanding of the Historic Urban Landscape approach (HUL), thereby promoting its implementation. In particular, attention will be paid to the specificities of applying HUL in World Heritage properties with significant presence of historic walls, fortifications and fortified urban areas.
Co-organizers: World Heritage Centre and ...
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2018 29 August - 19 September 2018, Japan
The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan, is organizing the 13th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage in Japan from 29 August to 19 September 2018, under the UNESCO Chair ...
Following the last cross-cutting Lumbini International Steering Committee meeting which took place in Lumbini in February 2017, this year’s meeting will be held from 21 to 23 February 2018 as a continuation of this successful process.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997, the property ‘Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha’ is located in western Nepal. Lumbini’s spiritual ...
The World Heritage Centre and the Ministry of Culture of Algeria will organize from 20 to 24 January 2018 in Algiers an International Expert Meeting on the Conservation and Revitalisation of the Kasbah of Algiers, a World Heritage property, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1992.
The meeting aims to address key issues related to the conservation and management of the site in ...
Please find more information on the conference website.
The United Nations has declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, providing a unique opportunity to explore and highlight tourism’s potential to help transform our world into a place of prosperity and well-being for all.
Culture that encompasses heritage and traditions as well as art, languages, ...
ICOMOS General Assembly meets in New Delhi, India
11-Dec-2017 - 15-Dec-2017
Tourism and Information Technologies at UNESCO World Heritage sites
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Inter-Regional Workshop “World Heritage and Sustainable Development: The Role of Local Communities”
23-Nov-2017 - 24-Nov-2017

UNWTO International Congress on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
22-Nov-2017 - 23-Nov-2017

Workshop on “Heritage/Environmental Impact Assessments for the Pacific Island States”
20-Nov-2017 - 28-Nov-2017

21st session of the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention
14-Nov-2017 - 15-Nov-2017

Seminar on "Impact assessments: enhancing cultural heritage"
Friday, 10 November 2017
The exhibition Shared Holy Places, organized under the patronage of UNESCO by the National Museum of the History of Immigration, will be held in Paris from 24 October 2017 to 21 January 2018, at the Palais de la Porte Dorée.
To highlight and relate what brings together the three monotheistic religions, this exhibition invites visitors on a contemporary journey across the Mediterranean ...

Workshop for Cultural Landscape and Sustaining its Significance – Bhutan 2017
22-Oct-2017 - 27-Oct-2017

XI National meeting of World Heritage Managers in Palma de Mallorca
18-Oct-2017 - 20-Oct-2017

5th Thematic Expert Meeting on Cultural Landscapes of Mediterranean Agropastoralism
17-Oct-2017 - 20-Oct-2017
The International Academy on Sustainable Development is holding a workshop on the Integrated Management of UNESCO Designations that will take place in Turin from 8 to 13 October 2017.
The aim of this year’s workshop, the third in a series, is to advance the professional and institutional capacities of managing authorities, communities and other relevant practitioners in the integrated ...
Communicating World Heritage Conference: Enginuity, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK
07-Oct-2017 - 10-Oct-2017

Workshop on World Heritage site management in Europe
06-Oct-2017 - 07-Oct-2017

Third Meeting of European World Heritage Associations, 5 and 6 October 2017
05-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017

Photo Exhibit: Coral Reefs on UNESCO's World Heritage List
02-Oct-2017 - 06-Dec-2017
ICAHM 2017 Annual Meeting: Archaeological Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa
02-Oct-2017 - 05-Oct-2017

6th Transboundary Platform Meeting for the safeguarding of the Lake Ohrid region
14-Sep-2017 - 15-Sep-2017

Regional Workshop on the World Heritage Nomination Process
11-Sep-2017 - 15-Sep-2017

Call for Applications – UNITAR World Heritage Nominations: Comparative Analysis Workshop
07-Sep-2017 - 15-Sep-2017
High Level Training Course on World Heritage under the framework of Digital Belt and Road
02-Sep-2017 - 17-Sep-2017

Pacific Heritage Workshop
30-Aug-2017 - 01-Sep-2017
CIPA 26th symposium: Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation
28-Aug-2017 - 01-Sep-2017

Playful Architect 2017 exhibition
23-Aug-2017 - 30-Aug-2017
On 23 August 2017, the first meeting for the establishment of the Administrative Council of the Regional World Heritage Institute in Zacatecas, Category 2 Centre created under the auspices of UNESCO in 2010. The meeting will take place in the building "La Casa del Conquistador", where the Institute is located, situated in the historic center of Zacatecas, property inscribed on the World ...
Call for nominations for the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards 2018
22-Aug-2017 - 30-Sep-2017
Call for Entries:The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
21-Aug-2017 - 01-Oct-2017

World Heritage Partners Event Kraków 2017
Friday, 7 July 2017
The side event ‘Culture : Urban Future’ – The Role of Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Local Development will discuss the role of cultural heritage for sustainable urban development, over a working lunch, within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda.
In an effort to address the rising challenges of the increasingly urbanized world, the UNESCO ...

World Heritage Committee side event: Coral bleaching in World Heritage marine sites
Tuesday, 4 July 2017

41st session of the Committee
02-Jul-2017 - 12-Jul-2017

Site Managers Forum
30-Jun-2017 - 06-Jul-2017

World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2017
25-Jun-2017 - 04-Jul-2017

UNESCO Celebrates International #MuseumWeek
19-Jun-2017 - 25-Jun-2017
The call for applications for the new edition of the Masters in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development", offered by the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin (for the English) and, University of Barcelona (for the Spanish edition) and the International Training Centre of the ILO, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ICCROM, is now open.
The ...

#MyOceanPledge
08-Jun-2017 - 09-Jun-2017

UNESCO Expert Meeting for the World Heritage Nomination Process of the Maritime Silk Routes
30-May-2017 - 31-May-2017

Multimedia exhibition "World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean"
29-May-2017 - 02-Jun-2017
The Central Asian Sub-Regional Meeting on Sustainable Tourism and Development Initiatives will focus on three major goals:
the strengthening of coordination and the improvement of collaboration amongst relevant stakeholders in Central Asia;
the challenges and opportunities in tourism development on the Silk Roads; and
solutions and methods for future tourism development.
The ...
An Information and exchange session for States Parties to the World Heritage Convention as well as an Orientation session for Committee members, on the occasion of 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, Poland, 2 - 12 July 2017) will be held on Tuesday 23 May 2017 in Room XI.
Agendas
Information and exchange sessionAgenda
Orientation ...

Conservation and management of the World Heritage properties of religious interest in Asia-Pacific
17-May-2017 - 19-May-2017
First Francophone African Regional Youth Forum on World Heritage
26-Apr-2017 - 05-May-2017
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
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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 ...
Join the Facebook Live conversation "Unite4Heritage Talks" now
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
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.
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Heritage Conservation is an evolving practice, and one of the current debates focuses on identifying and ...
International Workshop “World Heritage Potential of Testimonies to Aviation and Aerospace”
06-Apr-2017 - 08-Apr-2017

Launch of report “Natural Marine World Heritage in the Arctic Ocean”
Tuesday, 4 April 2017

UNESCO at the world’s largest tourism fair - ITB Berlin 2017
08-Mar-2017 - 12-Mar-2017

Call for applications: World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2017
01-Mar-2017 - 03-Apr-2017
Regional conference on "Cultural heritage and identity: an Arab youth perspective"
01-Mar-2017 - 03-Mar-2017

2017 Lumbini International Steering Committee Meeting
17-Feb-2017 - 19-Feb-2017
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 ...

5th Transboundary Platform Meeting for the safeguarding of the Lake Ohrid region
09-Feb-2017 - 10-Feb-2017
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 ...

Walled Cities, open Societies: Managing Historic Walls in urban World Heritage properties
26-Jan-2017 - 27-Jan-2017
Lessons from Gorkha earthquake and issues and challenges of reconstruction: cultural heritage
Thursday, 26 January 2017
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. ...
World Heritage and Tourism: European Perspectives
Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Eternal Sites - From Bamiyan to Palmyra, journey to the heart of World Heritage sites
14-Dec-2016 - 09-Jan-2017
Technical Assistance Workshop to World Heritage Sites in Syria
13-Dec-2016 - 15-Dec-2016

Nature Management Training in the Lake Ohrid region
06-Dec-2016 - 07-Dec-2016
Workshop on managing urban heritage and fostering creativity at UNESCO designated sites
01-Dec-2016 - 06-Dec-2016
The 13th Bamiyan Expert Working Group Meeting to be held in Munich
01-Dec-2016 - 03-Dec-2016
The Agency for the Promotion and Development of the North (APDN) of the Kingdom of Morocco and the World Heritage Centre are organizing an international reflection workshop on the project of nomination of Tangier’s urban heritage for inscription on the World Heritage List. This workshop will bring together national and local institutions responsible for heritage conservation as well as ...
The 5th Annual Coordination Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres will be hosted by UNESCO Category 2 Centre on ‘Natural World Heritage Management and Training for the Asia Pacific Region’ at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India on 22 November 2016.
On this occasion, the Centre is also organizing thematic sessions on a Consultative Dialogue ...
The UNESCO Expert Meeting for Preparation of the Serial Transnational World Heritage Nomination “Silk Roads: Fergana – Syrdarya Corridor” will take place in Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan) on 14 November 2016. This Expert Meeting aims to continue the close consultation and coordination between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for the preparation of the “Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor” ...
The Vilm workshop on World Heritage and Sustainable development – From Policy to Action
14-Nov-2016 - 16-Nov-2016
[in French only] 6ème édition de la formation internationale intensive
"Construire ensemble l'avenir des sites patrimoniaux : Elaborer et mettre en œuvre une gestion durable"
Bourgogne (France), du 3 au 14 avril 2017
Le Réseau Grands Sites de France lance dès à présent l'appel à candidatures pour la 6ème édition de la formation internationale intensive "Construire ensemble l'avenir des ...
UNESCO Designated Sites as a climate change observatory: thematic day at COP22
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
The St. Kitts and Nevis National Commission for UNESCO and the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park Society, with assistance from UNESCO through the World Heritage Centre and the Cluster Office for the Caribbean, will host a two-day capacity-building workshop focused on the conservation and management of military type architecture World Heritage sites in the Caribbean sub-region, from 8 to 9 ...
Third International Roundtable on Mbanza Kongo, Angola
07-Nov-2016 - 08-Nov-2016
International Conference “Cultural Heritage: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery”
03-Nov-2016 - 04-Nov-2016

“World Heritage Sites and Museums” – International Conference
02-Nov-2016 - 03-Nov-2016
Training: Heritage impact assessments at World Heritage Properties
31-Oct-2016 - 09-Nov-2016

4th Transboundary Platform Meeting for the safeguarding of the Lake Ohrid region
27-Oct-2016 - 28-Oct-2016
Presentation of the Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development
Wednesday, 26 October 2016

40th session of the Committee
24-Oct-2016 - 26-Oct-2016

Second Meeting of European World Heritage Associations
20-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016

International Symposium ‘The Conservation of Brick Monuments at World Heritage sites’
19-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016
From 19 to 21 October 2016, the UNESCO Office in Tashkent will organize, in close collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Board of Monuments of Uzbekistan, a consultation meeting in Bukhara (Uzbekistan) to discuss the application of the UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL, 2011) at two historic centres located within the World Heritage properties ...
Sub-regional Workshop: Managing Disaster Risks in UNESCO Designated Sites
10-Oct-2016 - 13-Oct-2016
A Regional Course will take place in the Lake Ohrid region between 4 and 13 October 2016. This Course on Promoting People-Centred Approaches aims at providing heritage practitioners with the necessary tools to engaging communities in the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. The course is organized in the framework of the project “Towards strengthened governance of the shared ...
From the 3 to the 7 October 2016, the Category 2 Centre, Lucio Costa Centre in cooperation with the Latin American and the Caribbean unit of the World Heritage Centre will hold the “Workshop on the fundamental concepts and methodologies for the implementation of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)” towards the elaboration of the Capacity ...

Inauguration of the new accessible infrastructure on the Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná
Wednesday, 14 September 2016

2nd National and 1st International Youth Forum on Heritage - "Accessible World Heritage"
14-Sep-2016 - 16-Sep-2016

The 2nd Huangshan Dialogue on UNESCO Sites and Sustainable Development
12-Sep-2016 - 14-Sep-2016
The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan is organizing the 11th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage in Japan from 10 to 26 September 2016 under the UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management, in cooperation with UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS/ICORP.
Climate change is ...

IUCN World Conservation Congress
01-Sep-2016 - 10-Sep-2016
Building a global network of site managers
27-Aug-2016 - 31-Aug-2016
The ETCAEH program is one of the initiators of the post-graduate education in the field of integrated heritage protection both at national and European level. Since its establishment in 2005, a group of leading international experts from different universities and institutions have been implementing innovative forms of education to respond to various global cultural contexts and provenances ...

BASEhabitat International Summer School
18-Jul-2016 - 01-Aug-2016

Panel discussion: World Heritage Partnerships for sustainable development
Friday, 15 July 2016
Follow-up activities to the Helsinki Action Plan
Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America
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On the occasion of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Europe and North America unit is organizing a side event for Focal Points in the region to exchange on follow-up activities to the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
The Helsinki ...

Cultural Landscape Workshop to be held in Paro and Thimphu, Bhutan
12-Jul-2016 - 03-Aug-2016
Terra 2016: XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures
11-Jul-2016 - 14-Jul-2016

Orientation Session for Committee Members
Sunday, 10 July 2016

40th session of the Committee
10-Jul-2016 - 20-Jul-2016

World Heritage Youth Forum 2016 At the Crossroads of Multi-Layered Heritage
29-Jun-2016 - 12-Jul-2016
I Research Seminar from the Category II Centre, Lucio Costa Centre
28-Jun-2016 - 30-Jun-2016

Final Management Planning Workshop for the Lake Ohrid region
22-Jun-2016 - 23-Jun-2016
Call for Entries:The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
17-Jun-2016 - 01-Oct-2016
The World Heritage Centre is organizing an information and exchange session for the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention on the occasion of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee (Istanbul, Turkey, from 1 to 20 July 2016).
This meeting will take place in Room XI (Fontenoy) from 10 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 14 June 2016. Simultaneous interpretation of the ...
IUCN and Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage
Call for application
TABE’A Programme Training Series: Tentative Lists and Nomination preparation for Natural World Heritage sites.
World Heritage Nominations: application of the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value (SoOUV)
7-10 November 2016| Manama, Bahrain
Background
Tabe’a is partnership regional programme for natural World ...
This year the ICOMOS Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 15-21 October 2016, on the generous invitation of ICOMOS Turkey.
In addition to the Annual General Assembly, there will be an Extraordinary General Assembly that will take place on the same morning on 19 October.
The agenda of the Annual General Assembly will focus on receiving the ...

Safeguarding African World Heritage as a Driver for Sustainable Development
31-May-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Cultural Heritage and Development Initiatives: a Challenge or a Contribution to Sustainability?
25-May-2016 - 27-May-2016

'Development of Risk Mitigation Plans on flood: Models, Challenges and Opportunities' Workshop
24-May-2016 - 25-May-2016
International Course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis
23-May-2016 - 24-Jun-2016
The call for applications for the new edition of the Masters in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development", offered by the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin, (University of Barcelona for the Spanish edition) and the International Training Centre of the ILO, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ICCROM, is now open.
The programme is intended for ...

Exhibition - African World Heritage: a pathway for development
18-May-2016 - 14-Jun-2016

Fourth Management Planning Workshop of the Lake Ohrid region
12-May-2016 - 13-May-2016

Promoting nature, culture and World Heritage in the Lake Ohrid region
10-May-2016 - 11-May-2016
World Heritage Youth Forum (2016) Africa
28-Apr-2016 - 04-May-2016

Cultural Atlas Workshop in Thimphu and the release of the Bhutan Cultural Atlas Brochure
Tuesday, 26 April 2016

2016 Lumbini International Steering Committee Meeting
19-Apr-2016 - 21-Apr-2016
As requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 39th session in 2015 (Bonn, Germany), a joint World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) Reactive Monitoring mission will be undertaken during 19-23 April 2016 to assess the overall state of conservation of the property, including factors that constitute a serious threat to the property, and provide ...

Collaborative and Integrated Management of Protected and Heritage Landscapes Training
31-Mar-2016 - 01-Apr-2016

Strengthening the role of local communities in the management and conservation of World Heritage Sites
27-Mar-2016 - 29-Mar-2016

3rd Transboundary Platform Meeting for the safeguarding of the Lake Ohrid region
Monday, 7 March 2016
The World Heritage Centre will organize on 3 March 2016, in collaboration with the Secretariat of other Conventions in the field of Culture, a special information session for the Students of the Master in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development" of the Turin School of Development, which is part of the International Training Centre (ITC) of the International Labour Organization ...
The World Natural Heritage Management and Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific Region, a Category II Centre at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII, India) will co-organize a workshop under the auspices of UNESCO. The International Training Workshop on “Enhancing Capacity for Effective Management of Coastal and Marine World Heritage Sites of the Asia-Pacific Region,” organized jointly ...

Expert Meeting on Sanganeb Atoll and Dungonab Bay-Mukkawar Island National Parks in Sudan
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Expert Meeting: New potential World Heritage marine sites in the Arctic Region
25-Feb-2016 - 26-Feb-2016
Orientation Session for Members of the World Heritage Committee
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Sustainable management of the World Heritage properties of religious interest
First thematic expert consultation meeting focused on South-Eastern and Mediterranean Europe (2016)
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Thanks to the support of Bulgaria, the first Thematic expert consultation meeting on sustainable management of the World Heritage ...
