21-22 December 2022
Online seminar with 6 sessions to promote Heritage Impact Assessment in Southeast Asia.
Session 1: Three Decades of Ayutthaya World Heritage Session 2: Redefining greater Ayutthaya Session 3: Understanding the significance of greater Ayutthaya Session 4: Lessons learned in the sustainable management of Ayutthaya Session 5: Future of Ayutthaya - Approaches towards holistic management Session ...
12-14 December 2022
A sub-regional celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 World Heritage Convention will be held in the United Republic of Tanzania, from 12 - 14 December 2022.
This event is organized jointly by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) of Tanzania, the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention, and selected higher learning ...
1 December 2022 - 31 January 2023
Photo exhibition of the restoration works in the Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Palestine).
24 November 2022
The Warsaw Recommendation on Recovery and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage was developed at the conference entitled “The Challenges of World Heritage Recovery” held in Warsaw in May 2018. The event was attended by more than 200 participants representing all UNESCO regions. For the first time, in the capital of Poland, representatives of UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, UNISDR, the World Bank, and ...
21 November 2022
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, a photo exhibition entitled “50 Years of World Heritage Convention – Protecting the Past for Now and Future” will take place from 21 to 26 November at the Jordan Museum in Amman, Jordan.
The exhibition, curated by Linda Al Khoury, Founder of Darat Al Taswer, is organised under the patronage of Her Royal Highness ...
17-18 November 2022
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre are organizing an international Conference in Delphi (Greece) on 17-18 November 2022, entitled: The Next 50 - The future of World Heritage in challenging times ...
16 November 2022
World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation
15 November 2022
UNESCO, the Asian Academy for Heritage Management Secretariat at Southeast University, and the Beijing Cultural Relics Protection Association invite submissions for an upcoming International Symposium.
This symposium is organized to bring together leading academics and practitioners to reflect on key milestones and opportunities for cultural heritage and sustainable development in the ...
9-10 November 2022
Theme: the next 50 years - World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation
Sub-theme: youth engaged with World Heritage site managers in West Africa for innovative actions
Organisers
UNESCO Regional Office for West Africa-Sahel in close collaboration with the UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Abuja and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.In ...
4 November 2022
As a celebration to 50 years of the World Heritage Convention, the Institute Heritage Studies (IHS) is holding a conference and book presentation “50 Years World Heritage Convention: Times of Peace, Conflict and War”.
This event aims to communicate the importance of World Heritage for our common future, define the resulting requirements, and confirm it as a commitment of the international ...
1-2 November 2022
The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage dedicates its annual symposium in 2022 to the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, looking back at past successes and future challenges, with a critical focus on heritage in conflict. The symposium, titled "Heritage bridges over troubled waters. 50 years of World Heritage and the importance of implementation of ...
17-19 October 2022
A celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Convention will be held in Yaounde, Cameroon in October 2022.
Organisers
Ministry of Arts and Culture in partnership with the UNESCO Central Africa Regional Office
Ministry of External Relations
Ministry of Forests and Wildlife
UNESCO National Commission for Cameroon
African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
International Centre for the ...
10-11 October 2022
Organization of a seminar at the Louvre-Lens with the following objectives:
To draw up an assessment of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in France, in a retrospective vision allowing to valorize the experience feedbacks.
To participate in the reflections on the future of the convention concerning the main challenges of property management in a prospective vision.
To ...
29 September 2022 - 6 October 2022
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.
17-18 September 2022
On the occasion of European Heritage Days, UNESCO will open its doors to the public on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2022, from 10 am to 6 pm.
This year’s edition will be marked by the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and will feature a unique exhibition by contemporary painter Sacha Jafri.
In addition to opening its emblematic Headquarters, Japanese garden by Isamu ...
16-18 September 2022
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Convention by UNESCO’s General Conference on 16 November 1972. With near universal ratification by 194 States Parties, the World Heritage Convention is now one of the most ratified international conventions in history. The 1,154 cultural and natural World Heritage properties located in 167 countries across the globe ...
30 June 2022
The challenges experienced by the World Heritage properties are the symptoms of crises of global magnitude. The solution-oriented discussions around the future of our World Heritage therefore, require expertise well beyond the realm of heritage.
UNESCO launches “50 Minds for The Next 50” to convene fifty leading, innovative, bold, respected thinkers of our times from diverse disciplines for ...
10 June 2022 - 31 December 2022
Short promotional animated film "Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija" was produced on the 10th anniversary of the inscription of "Heritage of mercury. Almadén and Idrija" on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the 50th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The production of the film was financed by the Municipality of Idrija, and the ...
2 June 2022
The World heritage union of five Libyan municipalities (WHU5LM) - A meeting was held on Thursday 2/6/2022 at the municipality of Shahat, which included those Photography professionals and enthusiasts with the representative of the Union of World Heritage Municipalities in the municipality of Shahat with Dr. Ahmad Abdulkariem to discuss of the possibility of participation in the large World ...
