A Night for Virunga
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
High Seas International Conference
27-Jun-2018 - 28-Jun-2018
Call for Applications: Promoting the Progressive: Modernism and its Value as a Historic Urban Landscape
25-Jun-2018 - 29-Jun-2018
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
The World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO, Shanghai Centre (WHITRAP-Shanghai) in collaboration with CNR (National Research Council of Italy), ICVBC (Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage, Rome) is organizing an Advanced Training Activity on "Historic Urban Landscape: Bridging Cultures – ...
International Expert Meeting on Astronomical Heritage and Sacred Places
23-May-2018 - 24-May-2018
The information session for States Parties on the 42nd session of the Committee is scheduled from 10 am to 11.30 am and will be followed by an Orientation Session for members of the Committee from 11.30 am to 1 pm.
The Orientation session has been organized for a couple of years at the request of a number of members of the World Heritage Committee, to allow for better preparation for the ...
This Symposium, held from 13 to 14 November in San Francisco, California, is convened by US/ICOMOS in partnership with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UNESCO World Heritage Centre, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Presidio Trust, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Golden Gate National Recreation ...
International conference on reconstruction: The challenges of World Heritage recovery
06-May-2018 - 08-May-2018
African World Heritage Day
Saturday, 5 May 2018
Call for applications for the Regional Training Course on Emergency Response to Cultural Heritage at Risk, organized by the Regional Centre for Conservation and Restoration of South East Europe, Institute of Cultural Monuments “Gani Strazimiri” in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre UNESCO, in Gjirokastra (Albania) from 4 to 15 July 2018
Cultural heritage sites, including World ...
Academics mobilized for the safeguarding of African World Heritage
26-Apr-2018 - 28-Apr-2018
Call for applications, deadline 30 May: Masters in World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development
26-Apr-2018 - 30-May-2018
Sub-regional meeting on the Action Plan for World Heritage in Mexico and Central America, 2018-2023
23-Apr-2018 - 25-Apr-2018
Expert meeting: Managing sites of Religious Interest in Eastern Europe
18-Apr-2018 - 22-Apr-2018
Training on Heritage Impact Assessments: Application deadline 15 July 2018
13-Apr-2018 - 15-Jul-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.
The CBWNCL
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
© UNESCO / Jérémie Claeys
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)
© © Nicolas Economou Photography - Rila Monastery – Bulgaria
Thanks to the support of Bulgaria, the first Thematic expert consultation meeting on sustainable management of the World Heritage ...
Stakeholders consultation meeting on East Rennell
01-Feb-2016 - 02-Feb-2016
IUCN - Nominate your Heritage Hero!
11-Jan-2016 - 07-Feb-2016
Living Cultural Landscapes and the Challenge of Tourism
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
The city of Pogradec, Albania, is set to host the third Management Planning Workshop and Thematic Training for the Lake Ohrid region from 7 to 10 December 2015. The workshop will bring together a number of stakeholders to advance the work on an integrated management system for the protection and sustainable development of the Lake Ohrid region. The Lake Ohrid stands out as one of the world’s ...
COP21: UNESCO Sites - A Climate Change Observatory, thematic day at UNESCO Pavilion le Bourget
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Culture Heritage is both impacted by Climate Change and a source of Resiliency, but the relationships are not well understood.
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), for example states that “impacts, such as loss of... cultural heritage, and ecosystem services, are difficult to value and monetize, and thus they are poorly reflected in estimates of losses.” We will examine how to improve the ...
The UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) in Kuwait organize a regional conference on the theme of urban conservation and the role of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in safeguarding the heritage of urban and architectural modernities in the Arab World. This conference will take place in Kuwait from 1 to 3 December ...
Regional meeting on the Pacific World Heritage Action Plan 2016-2020
01-Dec-2015 - 04-Dec-2015
From 26 to 27 November 2015, the Centre Lucio Costa for Training and Heritage Management located in Rio de Janeiro (C2C-CLC), a category 2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO created by Agreement between UNESCO and the Government of Brazil in 2010, will hold the 1st Meeting for the establishment of the Administrative Council and the Governing Bodies.
The Centre Lucio Costa, one of the eight ...
The National Heritage Board of Poland is honoured to host a Promotional meeting of the Polish edition of “Managing Cultural World Heritage – World Heritage resource manual”, which will take place on 26 and 27 November 2015 in Katowice (Poland).
The programme of the meeting is divided into three thematic blocks:
The promotion of “Managing Cultural World Heritage – World Heritage resource ...
4th Silk Roads Serial World Heritage Nomination Coordinating Committee Meeting
24-Nov-2015 - 26-Nov-2015
International Conference on Risk Management for World Heritage
19-Nov-2015 - 20-Nov-2015
20th General Assembly of States Parties
18-Nov-2015 - 20-Nov-2015
A workshop - jointly organised by the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), the Section on Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazards Risk Reduction, Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO, and the Maltese National Commission for UNESCO - will bring together heritage professionals, site managers and emergency responders from South-East European and Mediterranean countries ...
Launch of activities for the 10th Anniversary of the African World Heritage Fund
Thursday, 12 November 2015
World Heritage High Seas Expert Meeting
29-Oct-2015 - 30-Oct-2015
IFLA Europe 2015 award granted to UNESCO
16-Oct-2015 - 18-Oct-2015
First meeting of World Heritage Associations in Europe in Strasbourg, France
15-Oct-2015 - 16-Oct-2015
IX National meeting of World Heritage Managers in Vizcaya Bridge (Getxo), Spain
06-Oct-2015 - 08-Oct-2015
The World Heritage Centre is organizing an Information Session for the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention on the occasion of t he 20th session of the General Assembly of States Parties (UNESCO Headquarters, 18-20 November 2015).
The subject of the Information Session will be the new procedure for elections to the World Heritage Committee adopted by the General Assembly during ...
Culture and Heritage in Danger: Education as a force for resistance
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2015
Organized by the Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University In cooperation with UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM, ICOMOS/ICORP Supported by Toyota Foundation “Initiative Program”
Dates and ...
Workshop: The management plan of Casablanca, a city candidate for the World Heritage
03-Sep-2015 - 04-Sep-2015
Hawaiian, Oceanic and Global Cultural Astronomy: Tangible and Intangible Heritage
16-Aug-2015 - 20-Aug-2015
Astronomical Heritage: Progressing the UNESCO–IAU Initiative
11-Aug-2015 - 13-Aug-2015
"Planning for the Conservation and Development of Historic Towns and Urban Areas in Fiji" Workshop
27-Jul-2015 - 07-Aug-2015
Conclusion of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America
Monday, 6 July 2015
UNESCO World Heritage and Aerospace History
Sunday, 5 July 2015
World Heritage Partnerships for Conservation panel discussion
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative — achievements and issues
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
[in French only] Du 29 juin au 10 juillet 2015, 13 gestionnaires de sites patrimoniaux issus de 11 pays (Burkina Faso, Colombie, Comores, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Irak, RDP Lao, Mali, Moldavie, Sénégal, Togo) participeront à la 5ème édition de la formation internationale intensive "Construire ensemble l'avenir des sites patrimoniaux. Élaborer et mettre en œuvre une gestion durable" organisée ...
39th session of the World Heritage Committee
28-Jun-2015 - 08-Jul-2015
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Middle East Context
and in the Old City of Aleppo in particular (18-19 June 2015)
The Old City of Aleppo in 2010 and 2014 © UNITAR-UNOSAT
Due to escalation of the conflicts in the Middle East and to the significant destruction of cultural heritage, a meeting was organized by World Heritage Centre with a group of multidisciplinary experts ...
World Heritage Young Experts Forum: Youth Involvement in Sustainable Management of World Heritage Sites
17-Jun-2015 - 29-Jun-2015
Summer program on World Heritage and New Media in Turkey
15-Jun-2015 - 29-Jun-2015
2nd Management Planning Workshop for transboundary protection of Lake Ohrid region
03-Jun-2015 - 04-Jun-2015
Information Session for States Parties in Paris
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Public call for Research projects from the Category II Centre, Lucio Costa Centre
15-May-2015 - 14-Aug-2015
Second Public call for Submissions from the Category II Centre, Lucio Costa Centre
15-May-2015 - 14-Jul-2015
Cuenca HUL Application Visionary Conference
07-May-2015 - 08-May-2015
World Heritage Volunteer Planning & Networking Meeting: Europe
01-May-2015 - 03-May-2015
19th International Course on Stone Conservation
15-Apr-2015 - 03-Jul-2015
Study Days Programme of l'École de Chaillot: Action for World Heritage
31-Mar-2015 - 01-Apr-2015
1st Management Planning Workshop for transboundary protection of Lake Ohrid region
25-Mar-2015 - 26-Mar-2015
World Heritage Awareness workshop for Tuvalu
10-Mar-2015 - 11-Mar-2015
UNWTO/UNESCO World Conference on Tourism and Culture: Building a New Partnership
04-Feb-2015 - 06-Feb-2015
China World Heritage Media Communication Training Workshop
01-Feb-2015 - 05-Feb-2015
International Conference on Ancient Manuscripts of Mali
28-Jan-2015 - 30-Jan-2015
International Scientific Committee Meeting on the development of Lumbini
23-Jan-2015 - 25-Jan-2015
Orientation session for the members of the World Heritage Committee
Thursday, 22 January 2015
The World Heritage Convention: Thinking Ahead (2015)
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Technical support mission to the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
19-Jan-2015 - 26-Jan-2015
World Heritage Awareness Workshop for Nauru
19-Jan-2015 - 23-Jan-2015
Abstract Deadline 10 Feb 2015 for Terra 2016: XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures
01-Jan-2015 - 10-Feb-2015
5th Seminar of the UNESCO Chair: Tourism and economic diversification in World Heritage sites
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Historic Town of Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, launches tree planting initiative on 6 December
Saturday, 6 December 2014
5th HERITY International Conference
04-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014
Final Periodic Reporting Meeting in Europe
01-Dec-2014 - 02-Dec-2014
Religious heritage and tourism: types, trends and challenges
27-Nov-2014 - 28-Nov-2014
Sub-Regional meeting on the Caribbean Action Plan for World Heritage 2014-2019
26-Nov-2014 - 28-Nov-2014
Promotion, Protection and Preservation of Buddhist Culture and Heritage
15-Nov-2014 - 18-Nov-2014
World Heritage Marine Programme celebrates a decade of conservation success
Friday, 14 November 2014
1st Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly
13-Nov-2014 - 14-Nov-2014
IUCN World Park Congress on Parks, People, Planet – Inspiring Solutions
12-Nov-2014 - 19-Nov-2014
Extended deadline - Call for papers: Heritage and Landscape as Human Values
10-Nov-2014 - 14-Nov-2014
18th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium
09-Nov-2014 - 14-Nov-2014
1st Call for communications: Terra 2016 – XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures
30-Oct-2014 - 10-Jan-2015
UNESCO Chair: 1st International Conference – Heritages and Memories from the Sea
29-Oct-2014 - 01-Nov-2014
Women, Guardians of Heritage: 4th seminar on African Heritage
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Seminar on “Experiences of World Heritage in Africa”
14-Oct-2014 - 16-Oct-2014
Course on Heritage Impact Assessments
13-Oct-2014 - 24-Oct-2014
The Age of Sensing: 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology
13-Oct-2014 - 15-Oct-2014
[in French only] Partout et de tous temps, le talent des hommes a produit d’immenses chefs-d’oeuvre, expressions matérielles ou immatérielles de l’esprit des lieux. Depuis presque deux cents ans, en France, les responsables politiques et les acteurs culturels ont élaboré des doctrines et des corpus de règles patrimoniales pour identifier, préserver et valoriser les édifices, les ensembles ...
World Heritage Media/Communication Training Workshop: Passing the Culture Message (Korea)
09-Oct-2014 - 13-Oct-2014
Master in Conservation Leadership 2014
01-Oct-2014 - 29-Aug-2014
Museum of the World Ocean invites you to take part in the International Theoretical and Practical Conference devoted to issues of study and preservation of maritime heritage and museum’s 25th anniversary. The conferences, organized by Museum of the World Ocean, bring museum and scientific communities closer to the phenomenon of maritime heritage and reveal problematic issues in the study and ...
The oldest tourist destination is the city, whose aim was at the beginning welcome travelers of religious pilgrimage.
Other activities of this type were identified with significant milestones and trade routes, which were the initial basis and created a hosting infrastructure and food -inns, guest houses, taverns- both populations, villas or destination cities, as in the different points ...
1st Regional Conference of the OWHC’s Regional Secretariat for Asia-Pacific
24-Sep-2014 - 26-Sep-2014
Marc de Montalembert Foundation offers a 7000 euros grant, application form request deadline
24-Sep-2014 - 15-Nov-2014
[in French only] Le XIVème congrès international sur la pierre sèche « Maroc carrefour euro-africain de la pierre sèche » se tiendra du 22 au 24 septembre 2014 à El Jadida, au Maroc.
Il est organisé par la Société scientifique internationale pour l’étude pluridisciplinaire de la pierre sèche ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris and the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu in close collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal is organizing a two-day workshop financed under the Korean project “Support for the preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia”, on 23 and 24 September 2014 in ...
1st UNWTO International Congress on Tourism and Pilgrimages
18-Sep-2014 - 20-Sep-2014
EU and UNESCO join forces for the natural and cultural heritage of the transboundary Lake Ohrid region
15-Sep-2014 - 16-Sep-2014
UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2014
Recent disasters in North East of Japan and Christchurch in New Zealand as well as destructive earthquakes that hit Haiti and Chile in 2010 have caused enormous loss of life, property and cultural heritage. This disaster has once again shown ...
International Archaeology Day: Call for Collaborators
04-Sep-2014 - 18-Oct-2014
International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape
06-Aug-2014 - 25-Sep-2014
Associated Event of the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly.
Topics for discussion:
The UNESCO Thematic Initiative “Astronomy and World Heritage” as an opportunity to establish a link between Science and Culture towards recognition and protection of Heritage of Science and Technology
Global Thematic Study on Heritage of Science and Technology, including studies and research on technological ...
New Online Master’s Degree offered in the Management of African World Heritage
28-Jul-2014 - 01-Oct-2014
The Course
According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT, from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.). Another 1.5 billion people are living in countries afflicted with civil strife and violent conflicts, states the World Development Report of 2011. The resultant damage and loss to life ...
The call for applications for the new edition of the Master in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development", offered by the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin and the International Training Centre of ILO, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, is now open.
The programme is intended for professionals involved in the management of World Heritage properties ...
Call for Papers Deadline, 5th HERITY International Conference
Monday, 14 July 2014
International Summer Academy Cottbus: Understanding Heritage (ISAC) 2014
07-Jul-2014 - 19-Mar-2014
Workshop on risk preparedness for Lusophone World Heritage sites in Africa
30-Jun-2014 - 11-Jul-2014
Capacity building for safeguarding heritage, and museum collections, enhancing museum security, preventing illicit trafficking: this is the new approach to awareness raising for Malian heritage.
Organized by the European and International Affairs Department, and the Direction Generale des Patrimoines of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication,under the authority of Mr. Vincent ...
World Heritage Partnerships for Conservation panel discussion
Sunday, 22 June 2014
World Heritage Capacity-Building in Europe
Sunday, 22 June 2014
On the occasion of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Europe and North America Unit organised an information meeting on the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Europe and North America.
The meeting was an opportunity to update the States Parties from Europe and North America on the progress of the implementation of the Second Cycle of the ...
38th session of the World Heritage Committee
15-Jun-2014 - 25-Jun-2014
International Conference on Flood Protection for historic sites
13-Jun-2014 - 14-Jun-2014
A virtual dive to celebrate World Oceans Day
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
HIST (International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage) will co-organize with the World Heritage Centre, MAB Secretariat and Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO "Huangshan Dialogue on UNESCO Designated Places and Sustainable Development --Application of Space Technologies for World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and Potential Category of ...
In the framework of the three-year EU funded project for the Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage launched in March 2014, UNESCO is organizing with the generous support of the Flemish Government an international expert meeting entitled “Rallying the International Community to Safeguard Syria’s Cultural Heritage”.
The Expert Meeting, which will take place ...
The international workshop 'Strengthening south-south collaboration on World Heritage and sustainable tourism' will be held at Hongcun Village, Anhui Province in China.
This international workshop will focus on the power of tourism for local economic development and the conservation of heritage values through international cooperation. It is expected that the outcomes emanating from this ...
4th Annual Coordination Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres
23-May-2014 - 25-Feb-2014
European Heritage Heads Forum - Workshops groups
21-May-2014 - 23-May-2014
Third meeting of Open-Ended Working Group
20-May-2014 - 21-May-2014
Entrepreneurship training at African World Heritage sites (in English)
19-May-2014 - 30-May-2014
Entrepreneurship training at African World Heritage sites (in French)
12-May-2014 - 22-May-2014
Contributing to the 2014 International Year for the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS 2014), UNESCO and the Government of St. Maarten, through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Affairs will host a meeting on Capacity Building on Heritage Conservation in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The main objective of this meeting is to strengthen professional ...
Public call for article submissions from the Category II Centre, Lucio Costa Centre
07-May-2014 - 05-Jul-2014
Preventive and Planned Conservation Conference 2014
05-May-2014 - 09-May-2014
Towards an Action Plan for World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean 2014-2024
23-Apr-2014 - 25-Apr-2014
International Day for Monuments and Sites
Friday, 18 April 2014
Call for nominations for the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards 2015
15-Apr-2014 - 15-Jul-2014
We are pleased to announce that the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in cooperation with the Conservatoire des Espaces Naturels de Nouvelle-Calédonie (CEN) will organize the UNESCO Asia Pacific World Heritage Project on Marine Biodiversity & Climate Change Awareness among Youth from 7 to 13 April 2014 in Touho, New-Caledonia.
Contributing to the 2014 International Year for the Small ...
Using Natural and Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development – Synergy for Development
24-Mar-2014 - 26-Mar-2014
Second meeting of Open-Ended Working Group
20-Mar-2014 - 21-Mar-2014
Call for Applications - International Summer Academy Cottbus: Understanding Heritage (ISAC) 2014
13-Mar-2014 - 31-Mar-2014
Call for Applications: Business Skills for Protected Areas in Africa
12-Mar-2014 - 28-Mar-2014
World Heritage Workshop on Sustainable Tourism Decision-making process
11-Mar-2014 - 13-Mar-2014
Special presenation at the School of Chaillot: Salma Samar Damluji
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Call for contributions – Seminar on “Experiences of World Heritage in Africa”
04-Mar-2014 - 30-Apr-2014
Call for project proposals - the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC)
04-Mar-2014 - 30-May-2014
The International Competition for Best Sustainable Development Practices, a call aimed at identifying and promoting best development practices in food security, was launched in November 2013.
All UN agencies are encouraged to participate in this competition, as an opportunity for the UN system to showcase its excellence and best practices in food security.
The deadline for submissions ...
Call for applications (deadline 28 Feb) : Entrepreneurship training workshop,19-30 May 2014, Ghana
10-Feb-2014 - 28-Feb-2014
Call for applications (deadline 28 Feb) : Entrepreneurship training workshop,12-22 May 2014, Senegal
10-Feb-2014 - 28-Feb-2014
Deadline for reception of nominations
Friday, 31 January 2014
First meeting of Open-Ended Working Group
23-Jan-2014 - 24-Jan-2014
Orientation session for the members of the World Heritage Committee
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 at the Grande Arche de La Défense, (Paris France) the French Association of World Heritage sites is organizing a seminar on "urban planning systems, a regulatory tool for the protection and management of World Heritage sites and cultural landscapes ".
This seminar is organized with the support of the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy ...
Community involvement in valuing and managing monuments and sites
22-Jan-2014 - 24-Jan-2014
Call for Papers: Preventive and Planned Conservation Conference 2014
14-Jan-2014 - 15-Feb-2014
The Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), Republic of Tunisia, the World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb (Rabat) will hold a reflection meeting on the project of nomination of Sfax for potential inscription on the World Heritage List, thanks to the generous support of the Netherlands Funds-in-Trust for World Heritage. This meeting will bring together the national and ...
Val de Loire World Heritage (France) information and one-day workshop on Economy, Heritage and Landscape
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Call for applications: Internships to support World Heritage in Africa (deadline 13 Jan 2014)
12-Dec-2013 - 13-Jan-2014
12th Bamiyan Expert Working Group Meeting
10-Dec-2013 - 11-Dec-2013
The regional meeting on the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in the Arab States will be take place in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, from 9 to 11 December 2013. This meeting, organized by the World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb (RABAT), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Morocco will be held in the framework of the ...
World Heritage Media/Communication Training Workshop: Passing the Culture Message
08-Dec-2013 - 13-Dec-2013
Closing Meeting of the UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust Central Asian Silk Roads Project
04-Dec-2013 - 05-Dec-2013
Forum on Asian Buddhist Heritage: Conserving the Sacred (2013)
04-Dec-2013 - 06-Dec-2013
Conference on the Future of African World Heritage
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Pacific World Heritage Workshop
27-Nov-2013 - 30-Nov-2013
International Symposium "Revisiting Kathmandu, Safeguarding Living Urban Heritage"
25-Nov-2013 - 29-Nov-2013
African World Heritage « Risk Preparedness » workshop
25-Nov-2013 - 06-Dec-2013
Annual regional meeting of the Arab States’ Focal Points for World Heritage
24-Nov-2013 - 26-Nov-2013
Mid-Cycle Review Meeting on Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America
Friday, 22 November 2013
19th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention
19-Nov-2013 - 21-Nov-2013
Conference “Between dream and reality: Debating the impact of World Heritage Listing”
14-Nov-2013 - 15-Nov-2013
Conservation Leadership Programme Awards 2014: call for applications
Monday, 11 November 2013
In the framework of the implementation of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America, the World Heritage National Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe countries met in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 to 31 October 2013.
The workshop included a practical training session on the use of the Periodic Reporting ...
Seminar on "Culture, Tourism and Development”
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
International meeting: UNESCO Conventions – An articulated vision from Ibero-America
22-Oct-2013 - 25-Oct-2013
Second global World Heritage marine site managers meeting
18-Oct-2013 - 20-Oct-2013
2014 Marc de Montalembert Foundation Grant - Application deadline 15 December 2013
15-Oct-2013 - 15-Dec-2013
ICOMOS Annual Scientific Symposium 2013
Thursday, 10 October 2013
3rd edition of the Heritage in Africa seminar on the topic of ‘Heritage in Danger’
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
In the framework of the UNESCO Capacity Building Project for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which aims to reinforce capacities for the conservation of World Heritage and the sustainable development of local communities, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the National Commission of Sao Tome and Principe have organized a national strategic workshop that is taking place from 8 to 12 ...
Silk Roads Heritage Corridors Tourism Strategy Workshop
07-Oct-2013 - 08-Oct-2013
"The World Heritage List: Filling the Gaps." International conference on modern heritage
03-Oct-2013 - 07-Oct-2013
A round-table discussion dedicated to the astronomical heritage was organized by the Permanent Delegation of Chile to UNESCO, in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre, at a Seminar held at UNESCO on 1 October 2013.
The main topics discussed within the framework of the Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative:
Protection of astronomical sites within the framework of the ...
[in French only] Partenaire actif de l’UNESCO pour la valorisation des paysages et du patrimoine, la France a développé des outils originaux pour la promotion des paysages. Il y a 20 ans, la loi du 8 janvier 1993 dite « loi Paysage » qui vise à protéger et à mettre en valeur les paysages, qu’ils soient remarquables ou quotidiens, ...
[in French only] Lituanie dans un colis : Exposition thématique
30-Sep-2013 - 04-Oct-2013
International Seminar "Rediscovering the Landscape from a Local Perspective"
26-Sep-2013 - 27-Sep-2013
Call for applications and scholarship support for the Master in Conservation Leadership 2014
26-Sep-2013 - 03-Dec-2013
"Divided – united!" International Conference with ICOMOS
25-Sep-2013 - 28-Sep-2013
Protecting Deltas: Heritage Helps
23-Sep-2013 - 28-Sep-2013
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Evaluating and managing risks related to climate change
23-Sep-2013 - 04-Oct-2013
Call for applications for the « Risk Preparedness » workshop (deadline 11 Oct 2013)
18-Sep-2013 - 11-Oct-2013
In the framework of the implementation of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America, the National Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from the Mediterranean Europe sub-region met in Florence, Italy from 17 to 18 September 2013.
The workshop included a practical training session on the use of the Periodic Reporting questionnaire, illustrating the online tools to ...
International Meeting of Contemporary Architecture on Historic Settings
17-Sep-2013 - 19-Sep-2013
Pamana: World Heritage in the Philippines
09-Sep-2013 - 13-Sep-2013
8th International Training Programme on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
07-Sep-2013 - 21-Sep-2013
Workshop on Geo Engineering for Conservation of Cultural Heritage
04-Sep-2013 - 06-Sep-2013
International World Heritage Expert Meeting on the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape
03-Sep-2013 - 05-Sep-2013
Poland for World Heritage : Exhibition
03-Sep-2013 - 13-Sep-2013
The First Peopling of the Americas and the World Heritage Convention
02-Sep-2013 - 06-Sep-2013
Within the framework of the World Heritage Committee’s Decision concerning the state of conservation of the World Heritage property Mount Athos (Decision 36COM7B.38, St. Petersburg, 2012) and the Initiative on Heritage of Religious Interest, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, in cooperation with the Mount Athos Holy Community and in coordination with the UNESCO World Heritage ...
This conference organized by the University of Olso, will be held in Oslo, Norway, 14-15 November 2013.
Since the 1990s World Heritage has been portrayed as a marker of transformation, from economic growth, increased tourism, regeneration to more intangible aspects of local pride and global recognition. In the last five years research on the effects of World Heritage inscription has ...
Historic urban landscape - CALL FOR PAPERS for the Spandrel journal, Bhopal, India
15-Jul-2013 - 30-Jul-2013
UNESCO presents its actions for safeguarding Mali’s cultural heritage at the ECOSOC-HAS
15-Jul-2013 - 17-Jul-2013
Master in World Heritage & Cultural Projects for Development
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Call for papers: International Symposium "Revisiting Kathmandu, Safeguarding Living Urban Heritage"
04-Jul-2013 - 25-Aug-2013
African cultural policies: cooperation, models and strategies
26-Jun-2013 - 27-Jun-2013
On the occasion of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee, Phnom Pehn, Cambodia, an information meeting was held on the 2nd Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Europe and North America.
The meeting provided an opportunity to update the State Parties from Europe and North America on the progress of the implementation of the Second cycle of the Periodic ...
An informal meeting of Category 2 Centres related to World Heritage took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 20 June 2013, on the side of the 37th Session of the World Heritage Committee (17-27 June 2013). The meeting, chaired by Mr. Giovanni Boccardi (World Heritage Centre), had an informal character and was aimed to share information on recent developments with a view to strengthen ...
Capacity-Building Strategy Initiative for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Region
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
International World Heritage Youth Forum: Living with Heritage: Temple, Environment and People (T.E.P.)
08-Jun-2013 - 17-Jun-2013
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb (Rabat) and the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco, with the support of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), are organizing a meeting which will focus on the issue of preservation of the commonly called heritage of "architectural and urban modernities" in the Arab world. This meeting will ...
Cities and heritage meeting: “Changing Cities and Heritage Management: New Players? New Practices?”
22-May-2013 - 24-May-2013
Session on "Heritage and Resilience: Issues and Opportunities for Reducing Disaster Risks"
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Seminar took place at two World Heritage properties, the Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent and at the Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad.
Participants discussed ways to achieve a balance between requirements of religious communities and protection and management of the World Heritage properties of religious interest in order not only to maintain the ...
2nd Caribbean Workshop on Disaster Risks Management for World Heritage
13-May-2013 - 17-May-2013
The World Migratory Bird Day 2013
11-May-2013 - 12-May-2013
World Heritage Risk Preparedness workshop for African countries
06-May-2013 - 18-May-2013
UNISCAPE and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette are jointly organizing the international conference "Landscape & Imagination. Towards a new baseline for education in a changing world", which will be held in Paris 2-4 May 2013.
The aim of the conference is to discuss the contribution that education and training in landscape science can make ...
A workshop on the application of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, organized by the World Heritage Centre in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Bahrain and funded by the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), will bring together the stakeholders involved in the development of the city of Muharraq and a group of international experts on the themes which ...
UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2013
Theme of 2013 International Training Course: Reducing Disaster Risks through Mitigation
The year's training programme will focus on policies and planning measures for mitigating risks to cultural heritage from multiple hazards such as ...
Caribbean Training Course in the Preparation of Nomination Dossiers 2012-2013 (Follow-up)
24-Mar-2013 - 28-Mar-2013
2nd Consultation Workshop on the Safeguarding of Nan Madol
21-Mar-2013 - 23-Mar-2013
European Symposium: Heritage and Accessibility
21-Mar-2013 - 22-Mar-2013
Call for applications for World Heritage Risk Preparedness workshop, 6 -18 May 2013
20-Mar-2013 - 02-Apr-2013
[in French only] Le 19 mars 2013, en marge de la 12ème Réunion du Partenariat pour les Forêts du Bassin du Congo (PFBC) à Douala, au Cameroun, l’UNESCO et ses partenaires organisent un événement pour promouvoir l’Initiative pour le Patrimoine Mondial Forestier du Bassin du Congo (CAWHFI) et le programme Conservation de ...
Expert meeting: Identifying potential marine sites of Outstanding Universal Value in the High Seas
18-Mar-2013 - 19-Mar-2013
Capacity-building Workshop for Cook Islands
11-Mar-2013 - 15-Mar-2013
Twenty experts from Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Curacao, Jamaica, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines will attend the 5-day training session “Management of Caribbean cultural resources in a natural environment: Sites of Memory and participation of local communities” in Bridgetown, Barbados from 11 to 15 March 2013.
It is organized by the UNESCO Offices in ...
Two Marine World Heritage sites set the stage for a new twinning arrangement
10-Mar-2013 - 13-Mar-2013
The Conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes & Sustainable Development Conference
07-Mar-2013 - 08-Mar-2013
International World Heritage Expert Meeting on Visual Integrity
06-Mar-2013 - 09-Mar-2013
3rd Annual Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres
05-Mar-2013 - 08-Mar-2013
UN DESA, UNDP and UNESCO are leading the e-discussion on the theme of the ECOSOC session “Building the future we want with science, technology and innovation (STI) and culture”. The part concerning culture will take place between 5 and 19 March 2013, moderated jointly by the Millennium Development Goal Fund (MDG-Fund) and UNESCO as part of the 2013 Annual Ministerial Review ...
Capacity-building Workshop for Niue
04-Mar-2013 - 07-Mar-2013
Meeting “Human Origin Sites in Eurasia and the World Heritage Convention”
25-Feb-2013 - 01-Mar-2013
The National Museum of Cambodia, founded in 1920, possesses one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer artefacts. They include sculpture, ceramics and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian and post-Angkorian periods.
As an active member of the UNESCO/Japanese-Funds-in-Trust project “Revitalising World Heritage Site Museums in Cambodia, Laos and Viet ...
British stage and screen star Clive Owen and French filmmaker and actor Jacques Perrin will lend their support to the safeguarding of marine World Heritage in an event in Paris on 7 February. The event will present a 10 year strategy to protect the Crown Jewels of the Ocean, supported by the Government of Flanders (Belgium), and the achievements of the innovative Tides of Time partnership ...
Orientation Session for Members of the World Heritage Committee
Thursday, 31 January 2013
World Heritage Volunteers 2013 - Call For Proposal
28-Jan-2013 - 30-Jan-2013
World Heritage Internships in Benin, Kenya, South Africa: Application deadline 31 January
15-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2013
UNESCO hosts World Heritage earthen architecture exhibition
04-Jan-2013 - 23-Jan-2013
Dates to be confirmed
Conference: UNESCO's Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape
Monday, 17 December 2012
Exhibition on Hungarian World Heritage sites
17-Dec-2012 - 31-Dec-2012
Colloquium : World Heritage Earthen Architecture
17-Dec-2012 - 18-Dec-2012
[in French only] Dans le cadre des activités du 40ème anniversaire de la Convention du patrimoine mondial, ICOMOS France organise un colloque les 17 et 18 décembre 2012. Organisé en partenariat avec le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication et la ville de Poitiers, il aura pour thème les "Biens en série de la Liste du patrimoine ...
Seminar on Economics and Heritage Conservation
10-Dec-2012 - 14-Dec-2012
Fourth HERITY International Conference: How The Cultural Heritage Is Communicated?
05-Dec-2012 - 07-Dec-2012
Exhibition "Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the Curonian Spit"
03-Dec-2012 - 07-Dec-2012
In the framework of Document WHC-12/36.COM/10C and Decision 36 COM 10C adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session (Saint Petersburg, 2012), the final meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise for Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Santiago de Chile, Chile from 3-5 December 2012.
As the final meeting for the Region, it will involve the ...
Conference "World Heritage for tomorrow” - ICOMOS/UK
Saturday, 1 December 2012
ICAHM's Annual Meeting: "The World Heritage Convention on its 40th anniversary"
27-Nov-2012 - 30-Nov-2012
Conservation Leadership MS Program - Colorado State University
22-Nov-2012 - 15-Feb-2013
Czech Republic exhibition for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
21-Nov-2012 - 30-Nov-2012
Within the framework of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project "Capacity Building to Support the Conservation of World Heritage Sites and Enhance Sustainable Development of Local Communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)", two national workshops for the Atlantic Ocean SIDS are scheduled to discuss the most urgent and relevant issues on World Heritage for the State Party.
In the ...
First Expert/Stakeholder Meeting - Pompei (Italy)
Saturday, 17 November 2012
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, a round table is organized to discuss public/private collaboration to favour local development and economic resources for local communities in World Heritage Sites.
For more information: http://www.fundacionlasmedulas.com
40th anniversary celebration in Hungary
Friday, 16 November 2012
International Symposium: “Cultural Heritage Protection In Times of Risk – Challenges and Opportunities”
15-Nov-2012 - 17-Nov-2012
Workshop for World Heritage National Focal Points from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe within the framework of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
Within the framework of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting exercise, a Workshop for World Heritage National Focal Points from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern ...
World Heritage Convention's 40th anniversary ceremony in Berne, Switzerland
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Symposium “World Heritage for Peace and Sustainability”
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Symposium “World Heritage, conservation and succession to the next generation”
09-Nov-2012 - 11-Nov-2012
World Heritage Convention 40th anniversary celebrations: Closing event
06-Nov-2012 - 08-Nov-2012
Youth Programme “World Heritage: the roles of local communities and youth for the next decade”
03-Nov-2012 - 05-Nov-2012
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan) and Himeji City organize an expert meeting on "Heritage and Societies-toward the 20th anniversary of the Nara Document Authenticity, and beyond".
The objective of this meeting is to contribute to the outcomes of the closing 40th anniversary event in Kyoto, and with ...
Expert meeting “Conservation and Sustainability-from principle to practice”
03-Nov-2012 - 05-Nov-2012
Symposium “The Role of Community for Sustainable Cultural Development”
03-Nov-2012 - 05-Nov-2012
In cooperation with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
Euromed 2012: International Conference on Cultural Heritage
29-Oct-2012 - 03-Nov-2012
Forum on World Heritage Protection and Conservation
Monday, 29 October 2012
Meeting on the Historic Urban Landscape Action Plan for Durham World Heritage site, UK
26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012
Conference “40 years of World Heritage Convention”
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Annual Conference of German World Heritage Sites
24-Oct-2012 - 26-Oct-2012
4th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology (ICRSA4)
24-Oct-2012 - 26-Oct-2012
[in French only] Le Ministère de la Culture français et les Directions générales des patrimoines, organisent dans le cadre de la Convention France-UNESCO, une semaine de rencontres des directeurs du patrimoine de l'espace sub-saharien francophone, en coopération avec l'Institut national du patrimoine, le musée du quai Branly, le Centre des ...
Cultural Landscapes: Preservation Challenges in the 21st Century
12-Oct-2012 - 14-Oct-2012
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will organize a photographic exhibition “The Preservation of the World Heritage Site of the Koguryo Tombs and Mural Paintings of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 2001-2012” from 12 to 26 October 2012 at Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris.
Over the last decade, the UNESCO/Republic of Korea Funds-in-Trust, started in ...
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, a conference will be held on 9 October 2012 in the Park of the Škocjan Caves, in Slovenia, "40th Anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage - The Meaning of the Convention Today".
Dr. Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia, will address the ...
World Heritage and Tourism Destination Management
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
International Workshop on Space Technologies for World Heritage
09-Oct-2012 - 28-Oct-2012
International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv at Sundarbans National Park
08-Oct-2012 - 19-Oct-2012
Finland’s culminating events on the 40th Anniversary of the Convention.
03-Oct-2012 - 06-Oct-2012
The World Heritage Convention: Thinking Ahead (2012)
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Symposium on the World Natural Heritage of Japan
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
International Meeting on the Cultural Landscapes of Agropastoralism
01-Oct-2012 - 05-Oct-2012
Conference on extreme poverty and World Heritage
Monday, 1 October 2012
Forum on World Heritage Protection and Conservation
01-Oct-2012 - 30-Oct-2012
Week-long meeting on the cultural landscape of agro-pastoralism
01-Oct-2012 - 05-Oct-2012
International Conference "Living with World Heritage in Africa"
26-Sep-2012 - 29-Sep-2012
International Seminar: Guarani Jesuit Missions
26-Sep-2012 - 28-Sep-2012
ICCROM Course : First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict
24-Sep-2012 - 26-Oct-2012
Periodic Reporting meeting for Western, Nordic-Baltic and Mediterranean Europe
24-Sep-2012 - 26-Sep-2012
Meeting “Human Origin Sites in Asia and the World Heritage Convention”
24-Sep-2012 - 27-Sep-2012
International Expert Workshop on the World Heritage Convention and Indigenous Peoples
20-Sep-2012 - 21-Sep-2012
The International Protection of Landscapes
19-Sep-2012 - 21-Sep-2012
Third meeting of the Coordinating Committee on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads
17-Sep-2012 - 20-Sep-2012
Agora 2012, Biennal of architecture, urbanism and design “Heritage: Legacy/Heresy”
13-Sep-2012 - 16-Sep-2012
Regional Conference of the OWHC Region of North Western Europe
12-Sep-2012 - 14-Sep-2012
An International Symposium is to be held in Buyeo, the Republic of Korea from 10 to 12 September to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.The symposium will be jointly hosted by the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea (CHA), Chungchungnam-do Province, and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and organized by ICOMOS-Korea with the support of UNESCO/ Republic of ...
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2012
08-Sep-2012 - 22-Sep-2012
IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Republic of Korea
06-Sep-2012 - 15-Sep-2012
IUCN World Conservation Congress
06-Sep-2012 - 15-Sep-2012
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will be holding the 3rd Expert Working Group Meeting for the Old City of Herat and the Archaeological Remains of the Jam World Heritage Site at the Museo d'Arte Orientale in Turin, Italy, from 4 to 6 September 2012. More than 20 world-famous experts, as well as representatives of donor countries, Afghan experts and high-ranking officials from the government of ...
Regional workshop on Tentative Listing for East African countries
03-Sep-2012 - 05-Sep-2012
VSMM 2012: Virtual Systems in the Information Society & Applications to Heritage
02-Sep-2012 - 05-Sep-2012
Organized in cooperation with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), this program will train individuals for lake ecosystem conservation and sustainable use of Xochimilco’s "chinampa" agricultural production system.
Dates to be determined.
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Forum for World Heritage Cities
29-Aug-2012 - 30-Aug-2012
International Experts’ Meeting on Tiwanaku and the Akapana Pyramid
27-Aug-2012 - 29-Aug-2012
Prince Claus Fund call for proposals to rescue cultural heritage
27-Aug-2012 - 01-Oct-2012
1st Asia Regional Forum of Site Managers and Youth NGOs: Linking networks
26-Aug-2012 - 30-Aug-2012
Launch of the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
Friday, 24 August 2012
Symposium on strategic issues for Australian World Heritage
09-Aug-2012 - 10-Aug-2012
International meeting on "Apiculture and Development in the Old Maya City of Calakmul"
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Special Seminar on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
“Portraying Kyoto’s Cultural Heritage” Contest
20-Jul-2012 - 18-Sep-2012
The International Association of World Heritage Professionals e.V. (IAWHP e.V.) is organising a WHS Alumni Symposium and Workshop on “Understanding Each Other’s Heritage –Challenges for Heritage Communication in a Globalized World” to be held in BTU Cottbus from 19th-21th July 2012. This WHS Alumni Conference is the second of a series of events and activities ...
In the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, the National Council for Arts and Culture and the National Institute of Anthropology and History, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Government of the state of Querétaro, are jointly organizing an International meeting on tourism, sustainable ...
The Fourth Herity conference in 2012 will be focused on "How The Cultural Heritage is communicated? Public, Specialists, Managers and Institutions:evaluating the quality of the transmission of the cultural message" will take place in rome 5-7 December 2012.
Call for papers
All interested persons are invited to contribute to the conference. Please, send an abstract for consideration. ...
International Summer Academy: Constructing Heritage in the Light of Sustainable Development
09-Jul-2012 - 21-Jul-2012
Side event at COP11 Ramsar Convention - Culture: contributing to wetland wise use
Saturday, 7 July 2012
As it was announced during the side-event held at the Pulkovo Observatory on 28 June 2012, a round-table discussion was organized on 4th July 2012 in presence of the Academician Mikhail Marov, Head of Department of the Vernadsky Institute, Chairperson of the Committee on Heritage of Ziolkovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, co-initiator of the establishment of the International Space ...
On the occasion of the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre is holding an informal meeting on the 2nd Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercice Europe and North America.
International Youth Model of the World Heritage Committee
01-Jul-2012 - 09-Jul-2012
The World Heritage Game: discover the world's heritage
01-Jul-2012 - 24-Dec-2012
36th Session of World Heritage Committee Youth Forum: Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan)
01-Jul-2012 - 09-Jul-2012
“Celebrating World Heritage in the Pacific”
01-Jul-2012 - 14-Jul-2012
Gold Museum: a look into archaeological heritage
01-Jul-2012 - 01-Dec-2012
Gala event dedicated to the 40th anniversary at the Saint Peter and Paul Fortress
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Side Event: World Heritage Capacity-Building Strategy.
On the occasion of the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ICCROM are holding an informal information meeting to present the capacity-building strategy initiative for the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe region. The meeting will be held on Friday 29 June 2012, 14:00 - ...
Invitation to the side-event on Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Workshop -UNESCO and Heritage: What, How, When and Why should be disseminated?
Thursday, 28 June 2012
The UNESCO 2012 Youth Summit
27-Jun-2012 - 29-Jun-2012
36th session of the World Heritage Committee
24-Jun-2012 - 06-Jul-2012
40th anniversary Exhibition: the Hessian World Heritage sites
24-Jun-2012 - 17-Aug-2012
Category 2 Centres Informal Meeting during the 36th Session of the Committee
24-Jun-2012 - 06-Jul-2012
Conference on Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
Thursday, 21 June 2012
40th anniversary ceremonial event at Stralsund
Thursday, 21 June 2012
40th anniversary events in the Netherlands
15-Jun-2012 - 17-Jun-2012
4th World Heritage Youth Forum
10-Jun-2012 - 20-Jun-2012
Activity oriented towards the youth and the local communities, with the aim to make better use of the resource potential of Gamzigrad as a World Heritage site and to introduce World Heriatage education in school curricula.
In the framework of the 40th Anniversary of the Convention, the UNESCO Venice Office, in cooperation with the national authorities of Montenegro, is organizing on 7 and 8 June in Kotor, Montenegro, a regional meeting to share experiences, good practices and planned activities concerning the management of World Heritage and other UNESCO designated sites (MAB Biosphere Reserves) in ...
Outdoor exhibition on World Heritage
05-Jun-2012 - 19-Jun-2012
Caribbean Training Course in the Preparation of Nomination Dossiers 2012-2013
05-Jun-2012 - 15-Jun-2012
2012 World Heritage Day in Germany (Potsdam)
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Master in World Heritage & Cultural Projects for Development: Call for applications.
03-Jun-2012 - 02-Sep-2012
40th anniversary - 20 activities in Spain
01-Jun-2012 - 30-Jun-2012
International Training Course on Heritage Impact Assessment
15-24 October 2012, Shanghai , China
Application Deadline: 1 June 2012
In recent years the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has examined a considerable number of State of Conservation Reports related to threats from various types of large-scale development activities to the World Heritage properties. These activities include ...
The International Association of World Heritage Professionals e.V. (IAWHP e.V.) is organising a WHS Alumni Symposium and Workshop on "Understanding Each Other's Heritage -Challenges for Heritage Communication in a Globalized World" to be held in BTU Cottbus from 19th-21th July 2012. This WHS Alumni Conference is the second of a series of events and activities being planned by IAWHP e.V. since ...
International colloquium on the conservation and management of World Heritage cities
31-May-2012 - 01-Jun-2012
15th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium
31-May-2012 - 02-Jun-2012
International Youth Forum: Water and World Heritage
30-May-2012 - 20-Jun-2012
Conference: "Tallin Old Town- Our World Heritage"
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Cultural Heritage Day of Chile dedicated to the 40th anniversary
Sunday, 27 May 2012
ICOMOS/Greece
World Heritage and Impacts of Developments in the Africa region
23-May-2012 - 25-May-2012
In the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the UNESCO Office in Moscow, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO and Naysvizh National History and Culture Museum-Reserve are jointly organizing the International capacity-building workshop "World Heritage ...
Conference: The Future Of Protection Management For Archaeological Heritage In times Of Economic Crisis
23-May-2012 - 25-May-2012
iSimangaliso St Lucia Half Marathon to benefit iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Sunday, 20 May 2012
UNESCO Chair on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2012, 7th Cycle: 8-22 September 2012.
The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan is organizing the 7th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 8 ...
The World Heritage Centre is organizing an information meeting to discuss the overall preparation for the forthcoming 36th session of the World Heritage Committee to be held from 24 June to 6 July 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
this meeting will be held in Room XI (Fontenoy) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 May 2012. Simultaneous interpretation of the proceedings will be ...
10th Meeting on Management of Historic Centres: "Economic Sustainability of the Historic Centre, a Shared Responsibility"
The Office of the Historian of Havana, the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Latin American and Caribbean Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre are organizing the 10th Encounter on Management of Historic Centres, from 15 to ...
“Living with World Heritage”, Interregional conference
14-May-2012 - 16-May-2012
World Migratory Bird Day 2012
12-May-2012 - 13-May-2012
The Workshop on management for World Heritage site managers in South-Eastern Europe in the framework of the preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting for Europe and North America took place in Sibiu, Romania from 15 to 17 May 2012. It was a follow-up from the previous sub-regional meeting in Prague 26-27 May 2011 where the need to involve site managers was highlighted.
The ...
Photographic exhibition on World Heritage sites
09-May-2012 - 14-May-2012
Go4BioDiv 2012: Call for participation
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Capacity Building workshop for Indian Ocean SIDS
30-Apr-2012 - 03-May-2012
The ICOMOS Advisory Committee, including the Scientific Council, will meet this year from 27 October to 1 November in Beijing, China.
On this occasion, the Scientific Council is organizing a Symposium on the theme: Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage from Natural and Human-Caused Disasters on 31 October 2012 in Beijing, which will also welcome the general public during its first ...
Call for nominations: Calouste Gulbenkian Prize
Monday, 30 April 2012
Qhapaq Ñan Harmonisation Meeting
26-Apr-2012 - 28-Apr-2012
4th Iberian Meeting of Site Managers
24-Apr-2012 - 26-Apr-2012
Terra 2012: 11th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture Heritage
22-Apr-2012 - 27-Apr-2012
International Workshop on the Monitoring and Management of Cultural Routes
21-Apr-2012 - 24-Apr-2012
Conference celebrating 25 years of Budapest World Heritage
Friday, 20 April 2012
Lecture-discussion “World Heritage Convention at 40: what is it there for Morocco?”
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
18 April, International Day for Monuments and Sites 2012 dedicated to World Heritage
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Presentation of the Management Plan of Choirokitia
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
From World Heritage to Local Heritage: protecting and managing change
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Lecture “World Heritage and Economic Development”
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
This international training course which will take place in Rome, with study visits to other cities in Italy from 24 September- 26 October 2012 (5 weeks), is organised in cooperation with UNESCO, Blue Shield Network and specialized international and national agencies, with the financial support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and ...
“World Heritage: Sustainable Development” Annual Forum
10-Apr-2012 - 12-Apr-2012
1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology
09-Apr-2012 - 13-Apr-2012
40th anniversary U.S. Video Challenge
05-Apr-2012 - 15-Oct-2012
World Heritage Volunteers 2012
01-Apr-2012 - 30-Sep-2012
International World Heritage Expert Meeting on criterion (vi)
28-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012
Expert Meeting on the Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination
22-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012
2012 edition of the program "Tourism, Heritage and School"
22-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012
Capacity Building Workshop on the international cooperation mechanisms in the Culture Sector
19-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012
Round table "Rescuing Latin American cultural heritage"
Monday, 19 March 2012
Urban India 2030: History, Technology and Community for Sustainable Futures
17-Mar-2012 - 18-Mar-2012
20th session of the Congress on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of the Arab World (ALECSO)
13-Mar-2012 - 15-Mar-2012
International World Heritage Expert Meeting on Integrity for Cultural Heritage
12-Mar-2012 - 14-Mar-2012
Within the Framework of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting of Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Heritage Centre/Latin America and the Caribbean Unit with the generous support from Mexico, the Government of Zacatecas and the Zacatecas Regional Centre for World Heritage in Mexico and Central America organizes a Sub-Regional meeting for Central America, from 12 to 14 March ...
Paper Submission Deadline for virtual heritage papers: VSMM 2012
09-Mar-2012 - 20-Mar-2012
[in French only] Les 10èmes rencontres de l'Association des biens français du patrimoine mondial (A.B.F.P.M) et ainsi qu'un colloque auront lieu à les 8 et 9 mars 2012 à Albi, a l’occasion du 40e anniversaire de la Convention du patrimoine mondial.
Les 10èmes rencontres annuelles se dérouleront au Musée Toulouse Lautrec dans le ...
3-month trip to India's 28 World Heritage sites
05-Mar-2012 - 14-Mar-2012
Aztec Ruins National Monument Hosts 25th Anniversary World Heritage Celebration
Friday, 24 February 2012
Capacity Building workshop for Tonga
20-Feb-2012 - 24-Feb-2012
International Workshop on Large-scale Natural Disaster and Protected Areas
Friday, 17 February 2012
Expert Meeting on the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in Tokyo
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Within the Framework of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting of Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Heritage Centre/Latin America and Caribbean Unit, in cooperation with the Government of the Dominican Republic and the UNESCO Office in Havana, is organizing a sub-regional meeting for the Caribbean in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from the 15-17 February 2012.
The main ...
Launching Ceremony for the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in Japan
Monday, 13 February 2012
Within the Framework of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting for Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Heritage Centre/Latin America and Caribbean Unit, in cooperation with the Brazilian Government and in particular, with the Brazilian National Institute of Historic and Artistic Sites (IPHAN), is organizing a Sub-Regional meeting for South America in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from 9 to ...
Eco Picture Diary Global Contest Ceremony
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
International expert meeting on “World Heritage and Sustainable Development”
06-Feb-2012 - 08-Feb-2012
Ceremonial launch of the World Heritage Convention 40th anniversary year
Monday, 30 January 2012
2nd Coordination Meeting of UNESCO Category 2 Centres on World Heritage
22-Jan-2012 - 23-Jan-2012
[in French only] 40e anniversaire : 10 activités en France
01-Jan-2012 - 31-Dec-2012
Philatelic issue of special World Heritage stamps
01-Jan-2012 - 31-Dec-2012
On the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the declaration of the Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán as a World Heritage Site, Monte Albán Archeological Centre hosts the exhibition "Gente de Nubes en Tierra de Encuentros".
10th expert working group and 2 public symposiums on Bamiyan Valley
06-Dec-2011 - 11-Dec-2011
UNESCO Regional Meeting on the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting for Asia
06-Dec-2011 - 10-Dec-2011
Heritage Sites and Sustainable Tourism Workshop
05-Dec-2011 - 09-Dec-2011
Stories and places – Movies and World Heritage Sites in Asia
03-Dec-2011 - 10-Dec-2011
17th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium on the theme “Heritage: Driver of Development”
27-Nov-2011 - 02-Dec-2011
Community Consultation on the Nan Madol Archaeological Site of Pohnpei
23-Nov-2011 - 26-Nov-2011
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11th OWHC-World Congress on "World Heritage Cities and Climate Change", Sintra (Portugal)
22-Nov-2011 - 25-Nov-2011
Training workshop: Disaster Risk Preparedness and Management
19-Nov-2011 - 24-Nov-2011
Revitalising World Heritage Site museums in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam
14-Nov-2011 - 03-Dec-2011
Information Meeting 2nd Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercice Europe and North America
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Information Meeting 2nd Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercice Europe and North America
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
The General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage will hold its 18th session during the 36th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, from 7 to 8 November 2011 all day and 9 November only in the afternoon, at UNESCO Headquarters, Room XII.
The General Assembly will be called upon to replace the outgoing members ...
[in French only] Entretiens du patrimoine de l'océan Indien : la ville patrimoniale
02-Nov-2011 - 04-Nov-2011
International meeting of experts on the cultural heritage of Libya
Friday, 21 October 2011
In the framework of the Preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America Region, the national Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from Western and Nordic-Baltic European Countries met in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 18-21 October 2011, in a meeting hosted by Iceland and organized with the collaboration of the World Heritage Centre.
National Focal Points are ...
Call for Papers for 1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology
01-Oct-2011 - 10-Nov-2011
In the framework of the Preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America Region, the national Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from Mediterranean Europe will meet in Valletta from 21 to 24 September 2011, at a meeting hosted by Malta and organized with the collaboration of the World Heritage Centre.
In the framework of the Preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America Region, the national Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from Mediterranean Europe shall meet in Valletta on 21-24 September 2011, at a meeting hosted by Malta and organized with the collaboration of the World Heritage Centre.
National Focal Points will be expected, after the workshop, ...
Sub-regional Workshop on Documentation Standards and Reactive Expert Members Meeting of the Coordination Committee, Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination
Within the framework of the UNESCO Japanese Funds-in-Trust funded project on 'Support for documentation standards and procedures of the Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination in Central Asia,' ...
[in French only] Colloque « Sauvegarde du patrimoine astronomique »
20-Sep-2011 - 22-Sep-2011
Meeting on Megalithic Sites and the World Heritage Convention
20-Sep-2011 - 24-Sep-2011
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2011
10-Sep-2011 - 24-Sep-2011
Pacific Regional World Heritage Workshop
05-Sep-2011 - 09-Sep-2011
Training for World Heritage Site Museums (2011-2013)
22-Jul-2011 - 25-Jul-2011
Expert Meeting for the Revision of the Haitian Law on the Protection of Built Heritage
11-Jul-2011 - 12-Jul-2011
In celebration of both the International Youth Year (IYY) and Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers (IYV+10), a global youth volunteer exchange on transformational change through non-formal education for life skills, heritage education, and literacy will take place at UNESCO Headquarters from 30 June to 1 July 2011.
This workshop is jointly organized by the United ...
35th Session of the World Heritage Committee
19-Jun-2011 - 29-Jun-2011
World Heritage Marine Programme Side Event
19-Jun-2011 - 29-Jun-2011
3rd World Heritage Ibero American Youth Forum
14-Jun-2011 - 24-Jun-2011
In view of the preparation of the second cycle of Periodic Reporting exercise, a meeting will be hosted by the Czech authorities, namely the Ministry of Culture and the Czech National Commission for UNESCO, in Prague on 26 an 27 May 2011. Organized with the financial support of UNESCO, and with the participation of the Advisory Bodies and international experts, the meeting will bring together ...
Symposium: Redefining Progress: Architecture for a New Humanism
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Marine World Heritage Event at International Marine Conservation Congress
Sunday, 15 May 2011
World Rock Art Archives to meet in Tanum
13-May-2011 - 15-May-2011
"Niger, river and men" exhibition, Bamako, National Museum (Mali)
10-May-2011 - 31-Jul-2011
Second meeting of the Coordinating Committee on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads
03-May-2011 - 06-May-2011
The overall objective of the meeting is to discuss and share experiences on the challenges of heritage management and its relationship with the enactment and effective implementation of regulatory frameworks for World Heritage at national level.The event is organized by the National Commission of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, the Permanent Delegation ...
UNESCO for Haiti
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Expert Meeting 'International Protection of Landscapes'
Monday, 18 April 2011
Expert meeting on the global state of conservation challenges for World Heritage properties
13-Apr-2011 - 15-Apr-2011
Caribbean Sub Regional Meeting for Periodic Reporting Exercise
04-Apr-2011 - 06-Apr-2011
CARICOM, SIDS, UNESCO World Heritage Meeting
04-Apr-2011 - 06-Apr-2011
Call for Applications: Business Skills for World Heritage Programme
01-Apr-2011 - 29-Apr-2011
Stadsherstel organizes international forum on preserving urban heritage
31-Mar-2011 - 02-May-2011
The prevalent problem of illicit archeological excavations and the trafficking of religious objects, the expansion of the international art market, crimes connected with the illicit trade in cultural property and the financing of terrorist activities attract considerable media and political attention. The 1970 Convention gets to the heart of the problem. UNESCO evaluates the issue ...
First steps towards a management plan for Tchitundo-Hulu Rock Art
14-Mar-2011 - 23-Mar-2011
UNESCO is organizing, in close collaboration with the Permanent Delegation of Afghanistan to UNESCO and the Government of Afghanistan, the 9th Expert Working Group Meeting for the Preservation of the Safeguarding of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley World Heritage Property, UNESCO Headquarters (Room VI).
The 45 participants of the Expert Working ...
Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage: Application deadline 15 May
01-Mar-2011 - 15-May-2011
Call for nominations: Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards 2012
28-Feb-2011 - 31-May-2011
Stadsherstel organizes international forum on preserving urban heritage
18-Feb-2011 - 28-Feb-2011
Final meeting of the 2nd Periodic Reporting cycle of the Africa region (restricted access)
14-Feb-2011 - 17-Feb-2011
UNESCO meeting to promote African human origin sites and the World Heritage Convention
08-Feb-2011 - 11-Feb-2011
World Thinking Day (WTD 2011) - Empower and Change the World through World Heritage
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Comparative Regional assessment of potential new Marine World Heritage sites in the Indian Ocean
01-Feb-2011 - 01-Jun-2011
The "Bahrain Report" is the outcome of the First annual meeting of World Heritage related Category 2 Centres and of relevant UNESCO Chairs and Higher Education and Research Institutions, which was held on 19-20 December 2010 in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Bahrain and jointly organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and by the Kingdom of ...
Within the framework of the approaching 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in 2012 and the on-going reflection on the future of the Convention, the World Heritage Committee welcomed, at its 34th session (Brasilia, 2010), the offer of the States Parties of Australia and Bahrain to host an expert meeting in Bahrain, on the decision-making procedures of the statutory organs of the ...
Conference on The Significance of World Heritage: Origins, Management, Consequences.
08-Dec-2010 - 10-Dec-2010
Follow-up Meeting on World Heritage Periodic Reporting for Western Europe Sub-region
08-Dec-2010 - 10-Dec-2010
Periodic Reproting LAC: 2nd Cycle - South America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
07-Dec-2010 - 01-Dec-2010
Third HERITY International Conference - Observing Cultural Heritage
04-Dec-2010 - 06-Dec-2010
World Heritage Nomination Training Course for Arabic-speaking African countries
02-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010
World Heritage Marine Site Managers Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai‘i (United States of America)
01-Dec-2010 - 03-Dec-2010
Int'l Symposium on Heritage Recording & Information Management in the Digital Age (SMARTDoc Heritage)
19-Nov-2010 - 20-Nov-2010
2010 International Tourism Conference on Global Sustainable Tourism
15-Nov-2010 - 19-Nov-2010
[in French only] Le Roi s'en va-t-en guerre, Exposition gratuite aux Palais Royaux d'Abomey
08-Nov-2010 - 14-Nov-2010
This Advanced Course is offered by the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITR-AP), Suzhou Centre, Suzhou, China, and The School of Architecture of Southeast University, China, under the auspices of UNESCO.
The course adopts a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach and is designed for trainees to be familiar with the theories and ...
2nd International Meeting “World Heritage of Portuguese Origin”
23-Oct-2010 - 26-Oct-2010
VSMM 2010: Transdisciplinary Creativity – TransMedia in Art, Science, and Heritage in 21C
20-Oct-2010 - 23-Oct-2010
This workshop was organized as a follow-up to the meetings for Nordic and Baltic sub-region in Helsinki, Finland, 2007, and in Stockholm, Sweden, 2009. The meeting was prepared by the Nordic World Heritage Foundation (NWHF) in Tallinn, Estonia, and hosted by the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with the Tallinn Cultural Heritage Department. The meeting focused on the ...
UNESCO, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Governorate of Luxor, will organize the first Scientific Committee meeting on the safeguarding project of New Gourna Village in Luxor, Egypt. The UNESCO initiative aims to assist the Government of Egypt in its efforts to preserve this precious heritage situated within the World Heritage property of Ancient Thebes. New Gourna ...
2nd Yale - UNITAR Global Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy
17-Sep-2010 - 19-Sep-2010
Caribbean Sub-regional workshop on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention
15-Sep-2010 - 17-Sep-2010
Course Announcement ‘Management Planning for Cultural Heritage’
13-Sep-2010 - 24-Sep-2010
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2010
13-Sep-2010 - 26-Sep-2010
Following the Regional Launch Meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting for Africa (Dakar, Senegal, 20-22 January 2010) and the work which has progressed in the 44 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and 78 World Heritage properties, this sub-regional meeting will be held from 8 to 10 September 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia.
It will bring together the designated national ...
2nd UNESCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Serial Nomination for Rock Art Sites in Central Asia
06-Sep-2010 - 10-Sep-2010
Marine World Heritage Exhibit at Expo 2010, Shanghai (China)
06-Sep-2010 - 08-Sep-2010
Periodic Reproting LAC: 2nd Cycle - Mexico and Central America
06-Sep-2010 - 10-Sep-2010
Sub-Regional Meeting of Southern Africa
01-Sep-2010 - 02-Sep-2010
16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Architects (EAA)
01-Sep-2010 - 05-Sep-2010
Third HERITY International Conference - Call for papers deadline
Saturday, 31 July 2010
34th session of the Committee
25-Jul-2010 - 03-Aug-2010
National Meeting of World Heritage Managers and 3rd Iberian Meeting of World Heritage Management
07-Jul-2010 - 09-Jul-2010
Expert Workshop for marine World Heritage, Vilm (Germany)
30-Jun-2010 - 04-Jul-2010
Registration Open for the World Heritage Youth Forum
27-Jun-2010 - 05-Jul-2010
Information Meeting
Monday, 14 June 2010
9th extraordinary session of the Committee
Monday, 14 June 2010
Europa Nostra Annual Congress
10-Jun-2010 - 12-Jun-2010
Sub-regional training workshop on the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in Asia and the Pacific
02-Jun-2010 - 05-Jun-2010
MEDITERRANEO is an entrepreunerial preparation course which includes both Italian and Mediterranean learners (from countries of Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia). The project is supported through co-operation between administrations, institutes, universities and companies.
Period
The training course is planned to be from June to December 2010.
The course is divided ...
Organized by the UNESCO Chair in Culture, Tourism and Development of the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with the support of the France-UNESCO Agreement and ICOMOS France, this first workshop will take place on 27 May 2010 from 9:30 am until 5:30 pm at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. This first edition will open a cycle of annual meetings on the different connections between ...
Following the Regional Launch Meeting of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting for Africa (Dakar, Senegal, 20-22 January 2010) and the works which have progressed in the 44 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, this sub-regional meeting will be held from 4 to 6 May 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya.
It will bring together the designated national focal points from 11 States Parties to ...
Call for papers: 2010 International Tourism Conference on Global Sustainable Tourism
04-May-2010 - 15-May-2010
Fifth Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, UNESCO Headquarters Paris (France)
03-May-2010 - 07-May-2010
The World Heritage Convention is approaching two important milestones: 40 years since it came into force and the inscription of the 1000th property on the World Heritage List. However, the very success of the World Heritage Convention poses a series of challenges and opportunities not fully envisaged when it was adopted in 1972.
At its 33rd session (Seville, 2009), the World Heritage ...
Call for Papers: 2nd Yale - UNITAR Global Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy
26-Apr-2010 - 15-Jun-2010
Sub-regional Workshop on the second cycle of Periodic Reporting in Asia and the Pacific
19-Apr-2010 - 12-May-2010
7th Session of UNITAR Hiroshima Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage sites
18-Apr-2010 - 23-Apr-2010
VSMM 2010: Paper Submission Deadline 26 May
15-Apr-2010 - 26-May-2010
Moenjodaro 4500 plus: Breathing new life into one of the world’s greatest Bronze Age cities
13-Apr-2010 - 04-May-2010
8th Expert Working Group Meeting for the Preservation of the Bamiyan World Heritage site
25-Mar-2010 - 26-Mar-2010
European Meeting for Improvement of Tourism and Visitor Management Skills
23-Mar-2010 - 26-Mar-2010
Jaeger-LeCoultre auction for India’s Sundarbans National Park
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Periodic Reporting follow-up Meeting for the European Mediterranean Sub-Region
12-Mar-2010 - 18-Mar-2010
Europa Nostra Annual Congress 2010: Call for applications
09-Mar-2010 - 15-Apr-2010
International Meeting on the Comparative Analysis of the Archaeological site Delta of Diquis
08-Mar-2010 - 12-Mar-2010
3rd Course on Conservation of Built Heritage organized by ICCROM
05-Mar-2010 - 30-Apr-2010
International expert meeting on World Heritage and serial properties and nominations
25-Feb-2010 - 27-Feb-2010
The Significance of World Heritage: Origins, Management, Consequences - Call for papers
18-Feb-2010 - 15-Apr-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 ...
Launch Event: Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture
Tuesday, 2 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 ...
UNDP Equator Prize 2010 Call for Nominations
27-Jan-2010 - 28-Feb-2010
Launch Meeting of the Second Cycle of the World Heritage Periodic Reporting for Africa
20-Jan-2010 - 22-Jan-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 ...
Marc de Montalembert grant 2010, application deadline
Thursday, 31 December 2009
'Heritage and development: diversity as an alternative' special session
Friday, 18 December 2009
Periodic Reporting Follow-Up Meeting for Western Europe
14-Dec-2009 - 16-Dec-2009
Periodic Reporting Follow-Up Meeting for Nordic countries
Wednesday, 9 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 ...
Workshop on the Application of the concept of Historic Urban Landscapes in the African context
30-Nov-2009 - 03-Dec-2009
Periodic Reproting LAC: 2nd Cycle
26-Nov-2009 - 28-Nov-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 ...
Aksum Rediscovered
25-Nov-2009 - 04-Dec-2009
2nd International Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage
14-Nov-2009 - 17-Nov-2009
Second thematic meeting of experts on the agro-pastoral cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean
12-Nov-2009 - 14-Nov-2009
On Thursday 12 November, leading personalities working for change will join at UNESCO Headquarters for the release of the Manifesto on the Future of Knowledge Systems: Knowledge Sovereignty for a Healthy Planet, the latest Manifesto of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.
Vandana Shiva, Chair of the International Commission on the Future of Food and ...
First World Conference "Volcanoes, Landscapes and Cultures"
11-Nov-2009 - 14-Nov-2009
Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop 2009
02-Nov-2009 - 07-Nov-2009
World Heritage Nomination Training Course, Kingdom of Lesotho
02-Nov-2009 - 13-Nov-2009
Information Meeting for Committee Members
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Attended by over 100 participants from about 40 countries. Over the six days, 70 papers were presented in eight sessions.
Orientation session for Committee members and all States Parties
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Towards an Action Plan on Prehistory, Advisory Bodies’ meeting
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Regional Meeting of Experts on Heritage, Biodiversity & Community
26-Oct-2009 - 29-Oct-2009
"World Heritage and Cultural Diversity - Challenges for University Education"
23-Oct-2009 - 25-Oct-2009
17th General Assembly of States Parties
23-Oct-2009 - 28-Oct-2009
Towards an Action Plan on Prehistory, Drafting Committee Meeting
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Intensive Course: Cultural Heritage Resources for Local Development and Tourism Strategies
13-Sep-2009 - 19-Sep-2009
Action Plan on Prehistory
12-Sep-2009 - 14-Sep-2009
Climate Change and Development Short Course 2009
02-Sep-2009 - 15-Sep-2009
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards
01-Sep-2009 - 01-Oct-2009
Please fill the application form and send it together with the following documentation (by mail or email) to the contact address below:
A full professional curriculum vitae (in English)
A brief report (3-5 pages) on project(s)concerning cultural heritage or risk management with which you have been or are currently involved. Explain your overall potential for success in applying follow-up ...
Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
30-Aug-2009 - 12-Sep-2009
International conference: Astronomy and World Heritage: Across Time and Continents
19-Aug-2009 - 24-Aug-2009
Application deadline 15 September 2009: The Caribbean Heritage Course in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
31-Jul-2009 - 15-Sep-2009
2009 International Youth Camp on Astronomy and World Heritage
17-Jul-2009 - 26-Jul-2009
On occasion of the 33rd COM all States Parties representatives from Europe and North America were briefed and provided with information regarding the following themes:
Results of sub-regional and national meetings
Future steps and deadlines
Follow-up to the 1st Periodic Reporting cycle and Retrospective Inventory: Management plans, boundary modifications, and buffer zones
Preparation of ...
33rd Session of the World Heritage Committee to meet from 22-30 June in Seville, Spain
22-Jun-2009 - 30-Jun-2009
Orientation Session for Committee Members
Sunday, 21 June 2009
The European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) of the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (CUEBC) is organizing a 5-day Master-Doctorate Course on "Vulnerability of Cultural Heritage to Climate Change" in Strasbourg, France, from 7 to 11 September 2009.
The Course aims to ensure that young European students are ...
World Environment Day 2009
Friday, 5 June 2009
Applications currently accepted for new MA in World Heritage Resource Management
05-Jun-2009 - 31-Aug-2009
This meeting, which is being held in France, will bring together several experts from different countries (Kazakhstan, Norway, Uzbekistan, Germany and France) as well as ICOMOS experts and the UNESCO Central Asia field offices representatives to discuss with the World Heritage Centre the draft Concept Paper of the World Heritage Nomination of the Rock art Sites in Central Asia.
In 2005 an ...
Application deadline for the 3rd Course on Conservation of Built Heritage 2010 (CBH10)
29-May-2009 - 31-Jul-2009
UNESCO UK World Heritage Site Youth Summit 2009
Friday, 22 May 2009
Call for Papers:"World Heritage and Cultural Diversity - Challenges for University Education"
19-May-2009 - 01-Jun-2009
UNESCO Sub-regional Workshop on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads
18-May-2009 - 24-May-2009
Workshop: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage
14-May-2009 - 16-May-2009
Prehistoric Sites and the World Heritage Convention
10-May-2009 - 14-May-2009
World Migratory Bird Day 2009
09-May-2009 - 10-May-2009
Periodic Report follow-up meting for focal points of the Mediterranean sub-region
08-May-2009 - 09-May-2009
Application deadline 14 June: Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
01-May-2009 - 14-Jun-2009
Workshop for managers of Nordic World Heritage sites
21-Apr-2009 - 24-Apr-2009
UNITAR Hiroshima Training Workshop
19-Apr-2009 - 24-Apr-2009
For the past ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore the most pressing issues in heritage studies today.
This year, for its tenth anniversary, coinciding with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Heritage Seminar will focus on cultural heritage, ...
Final Itinerant Workshop on the Conservation and Management of Persian, Timurid and Mogul Architecture
06-Apr-2009 - 12-Apr-2009
12th International Seminar Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage
05-Apr-2009 - 10-Apr-2009
Rock Art and the World Heritage Convention - International Experts Meeting
03-Apr-2009 - 08-Apr-2009
CAWHFI 2009 Steering Committee Annual Meeting
30-Mar-2009 - 02-Apr-2009
Advanced Course in World Heritage Conservation and Management - Application deadline 25 May 2009
26-Mar-2009 - 25-May-2009
"Preparing the future of heritage sites - Building a project and management plan"
22-Mar-2009 - 28-Mar-2009
Human Evolution and the World Heritage Convention
21-Mar-2009 - 25-Mar-2009
5th Annual Ename International Colloquium: Responding to Global Climate Change
18-Mar-2009 - 20-Mar-2009
Mediterra 2009: 1st Mediterranean Conference on Earth Architecture
13-Mar-2009 - 16-Mar-2009
Call for Candidates: The Jean-Paul L'Allier Heritage Prize
10-Mar-2009 - 30-Apr-2009
Climate change is accelerating the transformation of environmental, social and cultural landscapes across the Arctic and sub-Arctic. The implications of these changes, including their global impact, have yet to be comprehensively monitored and evaluated. Upon the request of Professor Jean Malaurie, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in charge of arctic polar issues, and with his active collaboration, ...
Workshop for the Preparation of Statements of OUV in the African Region
02-Mar-2009 - 04-Mar-2009
The Kingdom of Bahrain, in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre and IUCN-WCPA, hosted the workshop on 'building capacity for marine World Heritage'. The workshop had three central objectives:
Building greater capacity within the global IUCN-WCPA marine network in helping deliver World Heritage related technical support;
Carrying out a global thematic review of marine World ...
[in French only] Conférence sur le Centre historique de La Havane
Monday, 23 February 2009
Jaeger-LeCoultre watch to be auctioned for World Heritage preservation.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Symposium: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture
19-Jan-2009 - 23-Jan-2009
Call for Papers: Responding to Global Climate Change
Thursday, 15 January 2009
First Regional meeting on the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in the Arab States
14-Dec-2008 - 17-Dec-2008
Final International Steering Committee of UNESCO/Japanese Fund-in-Trust for Preservation of Ajina Tepa - Buddhist Monastery on the Silk Road, and Presentation of Central Asia Silk Roads World Heritage Serial Nomination process to International Diplomatic Corps in Tajikistan.
The Final International Steering Committee for the Ajina Tepa project is organized by the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office ...
This workshop is the outcome of a collaboration between the Regional and Monitoring Support Unit (RMSU) for the programme Euromed Heritage IV of the European Union (EU) and the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement. It will deal with inventories of cultural heritages in nine Mediterranean Partner countries of the EU (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria ...
European Colloquium: "Heritage focused territorial planning"
04-Dec-2008 - 06-Dec-2008
Second HERITY International Conference - Measuring the Value of Material Cultural Heritage
03-Dec-2008 - 05-Dec-2008
Round Table: "Bridges: from construction to a heritage approach"
26-Nov-2008 - 28-Nov-2008
Training Course: Management Planning for Cultural Heritage
24-Nov-2008 - 06-Dec-2008
International Conference on the Historic Urban Landscape and its management
23-Nov-2008 - 25-Nov-2008
Denkmal, European Professional Event for Monument Maintenance and Restoration, and Urban Renewal
20-Nov-2008 - 22-Nov-2008
Call for Papers: The Future of Historic Cities: Challenges, Contradictions, Continuities
Saturday, 15 November 2008
International Workshop on Disaster Risk Management at World Heritage Properties
06-Nov-2008 - 07-Nov-2008
Prehistory and the World Heritage Convention
03-Nov-2008 - 04-Nov-2008
Deadline for submission of abstracts - 12th International Seminar Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage
Thursday, 30 October 2008
2009 Marc de Montalembert grant for a Cultural Project in the Mediterranean - Deadline for submission
28-Oct-2008 - 31-Dec-2008
Award Ceremony: UNESCO-Association Vocations Patrimoine Fellowships
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
VSMM 2008: Digital Heritage 2.0
20-Oct-2008 - 26-Oct-2008
[in French only] Rencontres des biens français du patrimoine mondial
16-Oct-2008 - 17-Oct-2008
French World Heritage Sites’ annual meeting
16-Oct-2008 - 17-Oct-2008
Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop regarding capacity-building for heritage site management
13-Oct-2008 - 17-Oct-2008
The IUCN World Conservation Congress
05-Oct-2008 - 14-Oct-2008
2nd International Conference of the Alliance of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
30-Sep-2008 - 03-Oct-2008
Call for papers - 12th International Seminar Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Exhibition: Mont-Saint-Michel and sacred mountains of the world
29-Sep-2008 - 16-Oct-2008
ICOMOS 16th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium,
29-Sep-2008 - 04-Oct-2008
Workshop on Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction - Taking an Economic Perspective
22-Sep-2008 - 25-Sep-2008
The City of Regensburg, a German medieval town, which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2006, will host this year's OWHC Northwest European Regional Conference
The selected conference theme ‘Earth, Wind, Water, Fire - Environmental Challenges to Urban World Heritage’ fits perfectly into the concept of the United Nation’s ‘International Year of Planet ...
10th International DoCoMoMo Conference
16-Sep-2008 - 19-Sep-2008
Workshop for the World Heritage property of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Lumbini, Nepal
15-Sep-2008 - 16-Sep-2008
World Heritage Sub-regional Consultative Workshop for Promotion of Transbounday co-operation
02-Sep-2008 - 05-Sep-2008
Seminar: World Heritage and Public Works–Development Cooperation for Poverty Alleviation
Friday, 29 August 2008
Course will take place 3-15 November 2008, Kyoto, Japan
The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto is organizing the 3rd International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 3 to 15 November 2008, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and ICOMOS.
The course aims at preparing the ...
32nd Session of the World Heritage Committee to meet from 2-10 July in Quebec, Canada
02-Jul-2008 - 10-Jul-2008
Call for candidates: International intensive training session for francophone site managers
24-Jun-2008 - 29-Aug-2008
Risk Reduction for Caribbean Heritage Workshop
23-Jun-2008 - 27-Jun-2008
The participants in the Seventh Expert Working Group note the importance of the participation of the Afghan Government representatives and congratulate UNESCO for facilitating their presence at the current Working Group Meeting. The participants would also like to sincerely thank ICOMOS Germany for hosting the participants and providing all the necessary logistical support to realize a ...
Expert Working Group for the Preservation of the Jam and Herat sites
09-Jun-2008 - 10-Jun-2008
UNESCO Sub-regional Workshop on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads
02-Jun-2008 - 05-Jun-2008
2009 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards Call for Entries
30-May-2008 - 01-Oct-2008
11th US/ICOMOS International Symposium
28-May-2008 - 31-May-2008
Information Meeting on the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Korea Hosts International Conference on Heritage Interpretation
11-May-2008 - 15-May-2008
HERITAGE 2008 - World Heritage and Sustainable Development International Conference
07-May-2008 - 09-May-2008
Second Itinerant Workshop on the Conservation and Management of Persian, Timurid and Mogul Architecture
21-Apr-2008 - 02-May-2008
Periodic Reporting Follow-up Meeting for the Mediterranean and South-eastern Europe subregions
18-Apr-2008 - 19-Apr-2008
Exhibition of "The Frozen Tombs of the Altai Mountains"
08-Apr-2008 - 21-Apr-2008
“Encounters with World Heritage: A past rich with prospects for the future”
03-Apr-2008 - 05-Apr-2008
CAA2008: On the Road to Reconstructing the Past
02-Apr-2008 - 06-Apr-2008
2nd Iberian Meeting of Site Managers in Plasencia
02-Apr-2008 - 04-Apr-2008
5th Workshop in the UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation
30-Mar-2008 - 04-Apr-2008
2nd International Mid-Atlantic Ridge Expert Workshop
27-Mar-2008 - 28-Mar-2008
UNWTO/UNESCO Conference on sustainable tourism management at heritage sites
24-Mar-2008 - 28-Mar-2008
International Expert meeting on World Heritage and buffer zones
11-Mar-2008 - 14-Mar-2008
Workshop organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in partnership with IUCN, ICOMOS, ICCROM and the France-UNESCO Convention, in collaboration with the Arc et Senans World Heritage site and with financial support from the French Ministry of Culture. UNESCO's World Heritage Centre is engaged in an ambitious year-and-a-half-long initiative to develop working principles and policies for ...
International Expert Workshop “Implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Caspian Region”
27-Feb-2008 - 01-Mar-2008
French premiere of Pierre Guicheney’s film “Lady from Osogbo” at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Santa Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon’s Heritage Days
14-Feb-2008 - 15-Feb-2008
An international Symposium on "Sharing Our Heritages: New Challenges for Site Conservation and Protection, and for Tourism Management" will be organized by UPV (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) in Valencia, Spain, from 7 to 10 February 2008. The idea is to celebrate the end of the Sharing Our Heritages (SOH) exchange programme (2005-2008) sponsored by the EU and the Australian ...
World Wetlands Day 2008
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Terra 2008: 10th Int'l Conference on Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage
01-Feb-2008 - 05-Feb-2008
During its 16th session (UNESCO 24-25 October 2007), the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention decided to establish an open-ended Working Group to discuss alternative mechanisms to meet the following goals :
Ensuring a balanced geographical and cultural representation in the Committee
Ensuring a less time-consuming and less complicated voting ...
The outcome of this meeting shall contribute to the development of guidelines and criteria for the review of sites of interest for the heritage of science and technology on the World Heritage List.The pursuit and application of knowledge underlie all human achievements, many of which have been recognised on the World Heritage List, as for example agriculture systems, industrialisation and ...
Sixth Expert Working Group for the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site
20-Jan-2008 - 22-Jan-2008
Site Management and Urban Conservation Workshop in Chandigarh, India
18-Dec-2007 - 21-Dec-2007
The second meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999 Second Protocol), the seventh meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the second meeting of the Parties to the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention will take place from ...
Phoenix Islands World Heritage Nomination – Stakeholders workshop
12-Dec-2007 - 14-Dec-2007
International Expert Workshop on Integrity and Authenticity of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
11-Dec-2007 - 12-Dec-2007
Sixth International Encounter on Management of Historic Centres
04-Dec-2007 - 07-Dec-2007
International Expert meeting on World Heritage and the Arctic
30-Nov-2007 - 01-Dec-2007
Val de Loire – World Heritage Interpretation, Training for guides
28-Nov-2007 - 30-Nov-2007
First Itinerant Workshop on the Conservation and Management of Persian, Timurid and Mogul Architecture
26-Nov-2007 - 06-Dec-2007
1st Consultation meeting on The World Heritage Programme on Earthen Architecture (WHEAP)
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Following the 167th session of the Executive Board, the Director-General of UNESCO was authorized to create an International Co-ordination Committee for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Iraq. Its first session was held on 24- 25 May, 2004 and the second on 22 - 23 June, 2005.In addition to Iraqi experts, the Committee is comprised of 20 international experts from the following ...
3rd ad hoc meeting of experts on Babylon
Monday, 12 November 2007
Regional Conference: Historic Urban Landscapes in the Americas
12-Nov-2007 - 14-Nov-2007
Second session of the conference-workshop Journalism and World Heritage
10-Nov-2007 - 17-Nov-2007
UNESCO Chair on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management - International Training Course on Disaster Risk
05-Nov-2007 - 17-Nov-2007
3rd International Conference on Natural World Heritage in the Asia and Pacific Region
05-Nov-2007 - 08-Nov-2007
The award ceremony for the 2007 UNESCO-VOCATIONS PATRIMOINE Fellowships for World Heritage Site Managers will take place at 6pm on Monday 5 November in Room XII at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The event is by invitation only.Five awards will be made to young people and professionals to pursue Masters Degrees in World Heritage Management. As part of their awards, each of them will ...
Tourism Planning and Management for Natural World Heritage Sites in Central and Eastern Europe
31-Oct-2007 - 04-Nov-2007
International Symposium on Application for World Heritage Listing of the Silk Road
30-Oct-2007 - 31-Oct-2007
Award ceremony for the 2007 Melina Mercouri International Prize
04-Oct-2007 - 26-Oct-2007
VSMM 2007 Int'l Conference including Virtual Heritage and Virtual Cultures
23-Sep-2007 - 26-Sep-2007
Thematic meeting of experts on the agro-pastoral cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean
20-Sep-2007 - 22-Sep-2007
Thematic meeting of experts on the agro-pastoral cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean
20-Sep-2007 - 22-Sep-2007
Periodic Reporting Follow-up Meeting for Eastern and Central Europe
14-Sep-2007 - 15-Sep-2007
International Conference on Four Modern Cities: Brasilia - Chandigarh - Le Havre - Tel Aviv
13-Sep-2007 - 14-Sep-2007
7th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific
20-Aug-2007 - 25-Aug-2007
Sub-Regional Meeting on the Nomination of the West Tien-Shan as Transboundary Natural Heritage Site
18-Jul-2007 - 19-Jul-2007
[in French only] Lancé en mars 1998, le Programme AFRICA 2009 a pour objectif principal l'amélioration des capacités nationales en Afrique subsaharienne pour la conservation et la gestion du patrimoine culturel immobilier. AFRICA 2009 bénéficie du soutien financier de ASDI (sous couvert de la Direction du Patrimoine de Suède), du Fonds du Patrimoine Mondial, des Ministères des Affaires ...
31st Session of the World Heritage Committee
23-Jun-2007 - 02-Jul-2007
International Congress on “Maintenance, Repair and Rehabilitation of Property”
21-Jun-2007 - 22-Jun-2007
9th World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities
19-Jun-2007 - 23-Jun-2007
Reducing Risks to Collections 2007
18-Jun-2007 - 06-Jul-2007
Conference: World Heritage Sites in Europe – A Network for Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Tourism
13-Jun-2007 - 14-Jun-2007
The second session of the first meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict will take place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, Fontenoy, Room XI from 9:30 am to 6 pm.The main purpose of this meeting is twofold:update by the Secretariat on the status and implementation of the Second Protocol; andconsideration of the draft Guidelines for the ...
World Heritage Expo to be Held in Northeastern China
09-Jun-2007 - 09-Oct-2007
Planning for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Kaiping and Macao SAR
03-Jun-2007 - 14-Jun-2007
Torch-Run Concert for World Heritage
Thursday, 31 May 2007
4th ICOMOS Regional Asia Pacific Meeting
30-May-2007 - 01-Jun-2007
Europa Nostra Awards 2008 - Call for Entries
Friday, 25 May 2007
Capacity-building Workshop for Youth Leaders in South Africa
21-May-2007 - 25-May-2007
World Heritage Centre Recognizes 2nd World Migratory Bird Day
12-May-2007 - 13-May-2007
World Heritage Partners' Day 2007 at UNESCO Headquarters
Friday, 11 May 2007
Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2007 at Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site
04-May-2007 - 06-May-2007
Meeting for the follow-up on Periodic Reporting for the Nordic and Baltic sub-region
03-May-2007 - 04-May-2007
Meeting for follow-up on Periodic Reporting for Western Europe
02-May-2007 - 03-May-2007
1st Training Workshop on "Conserving World Heritage Natural Sites and Cultural Landscapes in South-Eastern Europe - Managing cultural landscapes"Following the launch of the joint project on World Heritage natural sites and cultural landscapes in South-Eastern Europe at the symposium held from 16-18 October 2006 in Osnabrück, Germany, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Bellagio ...
Training Course on Management Planning for World Heritage Sites
18-Apr-2007 - 19-Apr-2007
Central Asian and China Sub-regional Workshop on Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Road
16-Apr-2007 - 21-Apr-2007
UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites
15-Apr-2007 - 20-Apr-2007
Bam and its Cultural Landscape: Stakeholders' Meeting for Management Plan
14-Apr-2007 - 17-Apr-2007
Exhibition of photographs: Safeguarding of the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan
10-Apr-2007 - 07-May-2007
Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2007: Layers of Perception
02-Apr-2007 - 06-Apr-2007
Expert Meeting on Benchmarks and Chapter IV of the Operational Guidelines
02-Apr-2007 - 03-Apr-2007
First Meeting of the Caribbean Capacity Building Network
26-Mar-2007 - 28-Mar-2007
Colloquium: The Future of Heritage
21-Mar-2007 - 24-Mar-2007
The intention and objectives of the training are to: Understand the issues of heritage in an international contextDialogue and exchangeShare experience with professionals from around the worldThe one-week training course is dedicated to French-speaking heritage site managers, professionals in charge of missions for transnational associations in the field of heritage, institutions, project ...
SKCC Study Visit at Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
International Experts' Meeting for Rehabilitation of Earthquake-affected Sites in Indonesia
05-Mar-2007 - 08-Mar-2007
The objectives of this meeting are as follows:
To review the results of the European Periodic Reports and to discuss the next steps for the implementation of the Action Plan.
To compare and contrast the different processes undertaken in light of the decisions adopted by the 30th Committee on this issue (30 COM 11A.1).
To review the Tentative Lists in view of a possible harmonization.
To ...
First Sub-regional World Heritage Education Training Workshop in Francophone West Africa
19-Feb-2007 - 23-Feb-2007
Pacific Island World Heritage Workshop
18-Feb-2007 - 23-Feb-2007
Leaders from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Palau will visit Tongariro National Park in New Zealand. The intention of the study tour is to demonstrate to traditional and elected leaders the benefits of the World Heritage Convention as well as its application in a real context. As a follow-up to the Periodic Reporting exercise for Asia and the ...
Call for Papers: 22nd IIC Congress, London 2008
08-Feb-2007 - 30-Apr-2007
Working Group Meeting to Develop the Policy Document on World Heritage and Climate Change
05-Feb-2007 - 06-Feb-2007
Regional Seminar on Historic Urban Landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe
29-Jan-2007 - 02-Feb-2007
Our Sea of Islands
29-Jan-2007 - 02-Feb-2007
Advisory Bodies Meeting
25-Jan-2007 - 26-Jan-2007
Reflection year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting, Fourth Meeting
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Second Meeting of the Working Group on the simplification of the periodic reporting questionnaire and the setting up of indicators
Mid Atlantic Ridge expert workshop
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Every year the Marc de Montalembert Foundation offers a grant of 7,000 Euros to enable the implementation of projects furthering the knowledge and understanding of Mediterrean cultures.To apply for the 2007 Marc de Montalembert grant candidates should send a project outline along with a request for an application form to:Fondation Marc de Montalembert,Fondation de France40, Avenue Hoche Paris ...
National meeting for follow-up on Periodic Reporting
Friday, 15 December 2006
5th Expert Working Group for the Preservation of the Bamiyan Valley
14-Dec-2006 - 16-Dec-2006
South East European Focal Point Meeting
10-Dec-2006 - 11-Dec-2006
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC), the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and UNESCO Office in Hanoi, are jointly organizing a High-Level Consultation Workshop on the conservation of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park (Vietnam) and Hin Namon National Conservation Area (Lao PDR) from 7 to 11 December 2006 at Hanoi and Quang Binh Province of Vietnam. With financial support from the Netherlands ...
Theme I "Importance and competitiveness of new development"Theme II "Preservation and continuity of urban landscape"Theme III "Community involvement in city planning process"
Periodic Report follow-up meting for the Canadian World Heritage Network
06-Dec-2006 - 07-Dec-2006
The goal of the Conference is the exchange of experience on internal and external evaluation instruments for the management of Cultural Heritage open to the public (such as monuments, museums, libraries, archives, archaeological sites, etc.) developed in different countries on the basis of defined criteria.
Contributions will be requested directly from participants and through a call for ...
From Space to Place: 2nd Int'l Conf. on Remote Sensing in Archaeology
04-Dec-2006 - 07-Dec-2006
Third Edition of the Euromed Heritage Journalistic Award
01-Dec-2006 - 31-Mar-2007
This conference will take up the current problems in the preservation of national monuments facing UNESCO World Heritage sites in Germany, focusing on preventive conservation.Preventive conservation is more complicated in the domain of conservation of national monuments than in the case of museums. The conservation of national monuments not only investigates and deals with the sources of ...
Third Periodic Reporting reflection meeting
09-Nov-2006 - 10-Nov-2006
Reflection Year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting, Third Meeting
09-Nov-2006 - 10-Nov-2006
At its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006), and within the framework of the Reflection Year on the Periodic Reporting exercise, the World Heritage Committee decided to establish a working group on the simplification of the Periodic Reporting questionnaire and the setting up of indicators (Decision 30 COM 11G).
The World Heritage Centre is organizing the first meeting of this Working group on 6-7 ...
Melina Mercouri International Prize Deadline
Wednesday, 1 November 2006
Call for papers: World Heritage - International and Pacific Perspectives
31-Oct-2006 - 30-Apr-2007
The e-volution of Information Technology in Cultural Heritage, October 30 – November 4, 2006
30-Oct-2006 - 04-Nov-2006
Denkmal, European Professional Event for Monument Maintenance and Restoration, and Urban Renewal
25-Oct-2006 - 28-Oct-2006
West European Focal Points Meeting
23-Oct-2006 - 24-Oct-2006
International Training Course on Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
22-Oct-2006 - 03-Nov-2006
12th Int'l Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2006), Xi'an, China
16-Oct-2006 - 20-Oct-2006
York Spaces: ICOMOS-UK Cultural Tourism Committee Seminar
28-Sep-2006 - 30-Sep-2006
Workshop: ICOMOS Int'l Scientific Committee on Interpretation & Presentation
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Conference “Why Save Historic Timber Structures” and 15th Int’l Wood Conservation Symposium
18-Sep-2006 - 23-Sep-2006
[in French only] Vingt-troisième édition des Journées européennes du Patrimoine
16-Sep-2006 - 17-Sep-2006
11th International Seminar Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage
11-Sep-2006 - 16-Sep-2006
Call for entries 2006 : European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage
01-Sep-2006 - 15-Sep-2006
International Disaster Reduction Conference (IDRC), Special Session
Thursday, 31 August 2006
Heritage and Risk Management Strategies at Int'l Disaster Reduction Conference
Thursday, 31 August 2006
Int'l Committee for the History of Technology's 33rd Symposium
15-Aug-2006 - 20-Aug-2006
UNESCO Stakeholders Consultation Workshop on the Silk Road World Heritage nomination
01-Aug-2006 - 08-Aug-2006
Lunchtime meeting during 30th session of the World Heritage Committee
Agenda
Introduction and Background: Presentation by Ms Mechtild Rössler, World Heritage Centre
Nordic and Baltic European Region:Presentation by Ms Kris Endresen, Nordic World Heritage Foundation
Western European Region: Presentation by Mr Christopher Young, Rapporteur of Working Group
Mediterranean ...
30th Ordinary Session of the World Heritage Committee
08-Jul-2006 - 16-Jul-2006
Int'l Symposium "Heritage Education – Capacity Building in Heritage Management"
14-Jun-2006 - 18-Jun-2006
Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development
31-May-2006 - 02-Jun-2006
Safeguarded Cultural Heritage, Understanding and Viability for the Enlarged Europe
31-May-2006 - 03-Jun-2006
Training Courses on Project Design and EU Financial Resources
29-May-2006 - 08-Jul-2006
Conservation in Changing Societies: Heritage and Development
22-May-2006 - 25-May-2006
Training Workshop on Sustainable Tourism Planning and Management at World Heritage sites in China
15-May-2006 - 19-May-2006
Intangible – Tangible Cultural Heritage : a sustainable dichotomy ?
Saturday, 13 May 2006
Call for Nominations: Young Conservationist Award
11-May-2006 - 02-Jun-2006
Sub-regional Conference on Outstanding Universal Value, Authenticity & Integrity in a Caribbean Context
07-May-2006 - 11-May-2006
First Expert Meeting for Trans-national nomination of Amerindian Rock Art to the World Heritage List
03-May-2006 - 06-May-2006
Indo-Israel workshop on the management of World Heritage sites and Jewish heritage in India
01-May-2006 - 03-May-2006
World Heritage of Portuguese Origin
27-Apr-2006 - 29-Apr-2006
Capacity-Building Workshop for Cultural and Natural Heritage Professionals in the Pacific Region
24-Apr-2006 - 28-Apr-2006
"Treasures of Coiba" Photo Exhibition
20-Apr-2006 - 20-May-2006
The 9th US/ICOMOS Int'l Symposium
19-Apr-2006 - 22-Apr-2006
Heritage at Risk: Preservation of 20th Century Architecture and World Heritage
17-Apr-2006 - 20-Apr-2006
Workshop for the Preparation of the Tentative List of the Solomon Islands
27-Mar-2006 - 31-Mar-2006
Who Owns the Past? Heritage Rights and Responsibilities in a Multicultural World
22-Mar-2006 - 25-Mar-2006
The launch of the partnership between UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, Hewlett Packard and National Geographic Maps will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, at 11h00 in the 7th floor restaurant.
The event will also celebrate the publication of the first World Heritage Map produced by the partnership, featuring the 812 World Heritage sites.
Representatives of the three ...
Within the context of the Action Plan for the implementation of the World Heritage - Pacific 2009 Programme, a World Heritage National Strategy Workshop will be held in Papua New Guinea in March 2006.Foreseen outcomes include:the preparation of a Tentative List of all potential World Heritage natural and cultural sites, serial and transboundary, cultural landscapes and seascapesthe ...
Climate Change and World Heritage: Expert Meeting
16-Mar-2006 - 17-Mar-2006
New Heritage Conference: Cultural Heritage and New Media
13-Mar-2006 - 14-Mar-2006
Regional Meeting for Natural World Heritage Capacity Building in Southern and Eastern Africa
09-Mar-2006 - 10-Mar-2006
Reflection Year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting
02-Mar-2006 - 03-Mar-2006
Reflection Year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting, Second Meeting
02-Mar-2006 - 03-Mar-2006
Caribbean Regional Training Workshop on Marine World Heritage
27-Feb-2006 - 03-Mar-2006
Mexico's World Heritage Sites Photographic Exhibition at UN Headquarters
24-Feb-2006 - 28-Feb-2006
Seminar for Tourism Planning at Major World Heritage Archaeological Sites
19-Feb-2006 - 23-Feb-2006
Mediterranean sub-region informal meeting
10-Feb-2006 - 12-Feb-2006
Call for Papers for ICOHTEC 2006: Deadline 1 March 2006
01-Feb-2006 - 01-Mar-2006
Call For Papers: Deadline For Submission Of Abstracts 15 February 2006
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Meeting on Implementing the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas: Conservation NGOs and WH Sites
30-Jan-2006 - 01-Feb-2006
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex Celebrates Inscription on World Heritage List
Monday, 30 January 2006
[in French only] Séminaire pour la préparation du plan de gestion du site de Ouadi Qadisha, Liban
26-Jan-2006 - 27-Jan-2006
Sharing Our Heritages (SOH) - Paris / Val de Loire Master Class
16-Jan-2006 - 26-Jan-2006
Seeing with Young Eyes – Teacher Training Workshop
16-Jan-2006 - 21-Jan-2006
Management Plan Workshop - Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor World Heritage site
09-Jan-2006 - 15-Jan-2006
Archaeological Institute of America's Annual Meeting
05-Jan-2006 - 08-Jan-2006
The Euromed Heritage Journalistic Award
01-Jan-2006 - 31-Mar-2006
Call for applicants - The 2006 Marc de Montalembert Grant for the Understanding of Mediterranean Cultures
Saturday, 31 December 2005
International Seminar on the Protection of World Cultural Heritage
14-Dec-2005 - 16-Dec-2005
UNESCO Regional Workshop on Periodic Reporting Follow-up for North-East and South-East Asia
12-Dec-2005 - 16-Dec-2005
European Forum "Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe"
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Fourth Expert Working Group on the preservation of the Bamiyan World Heritage site
07-Dec-2005 - 09-Dec-2005
Training Workshop for Strengthening the Protection and Management of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
05-Dec-2005 - 08-Dec-2005
Implementation of the Regional Programme for the Arab States: Regional Consultative Meeting
04-Dec-2005 - 07-Dec-2005
Space experts and experts in conservation representing more than 30 countries will be united at an International Conference on the Use of Space Technologies for the Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage to be held in Campeche, Mexico from 28 November to 2 December 2005.Approximately 100 experts who work in the conservation of UNESCO World Heritage sites will attend the Conference. ...
This conference is organized by UNECSO Moscow Office, Russian Federation Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication, State University – Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russian Federation Agency for Tourism and Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS countries within the framework of international programs and projects of the UNESCO for Heritage Safeguarding ...
Culture Ministers of South-East Europe Meet in Venice
25-Nov-2005 - 26-Nov-2005
UNESCO World Heritage Mentoring Programme for Chinese Experts and World Heritage site managers
22-Nov-2005 - 02-Dec-2005
Modern Architecture and World Heritage
18-Nov-2005 - 19-Nov-2005
UNESCO Round Table “Discovering the Heritage of Humanity”
Thursday, 17 November 2005
The World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the Kenyan National Commission for UNESCO and thanks to the Italian Funds in Trust, is pleased to announce the opening of the anglophone session of the African Regional Programme for Capacity Building and Sustainable Development of Natural World Heritage Sites in Africa in Nanyuki, Mount Kenya. This interdisciplinary seminar will provide site ...
Reflection Year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting, First Meeting
10-Nov-2005 - 11-Nov-2005
World Heritage and Tourism - Strategies and Models
10-Nov-2005 - 11-Nov-2005
Meeting on “World Heritage Periodic Reporting in Europe: Towards an Action Plan”
08-Nov-2005 - 09-Nov-2005
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has the honor to invite you to the inauguration of the exhibition “A plastic view of the Chinchorro Culture’s Mummies 7000 years back” by the artist Paula Rivera del Sol which will be held on Tuesday 8th November 2005 at 18.30 at UNESCO’s headquarters, Room Miró (Ground Floor).The inauguration will count with the presence of His Excellency Mr. Ambassador of ...
10th European Ecological Congress
08-Nov-2005 - 13-Nov-2005
Regional workshop on the World Heritage Convention and the Conservation of African cultural landscapes.
07-Nov-2005 - 11-Nov-2005
[in French only] Exposition de photographies sur le Monastère de Probota
07-Nov-2005 - 14-Nov-2005
Cultural Landscapes in the Caribbean: Identification and Safeguarding Strategies Workshop
07-Nov-2005 - 11-Dec-2005
15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium
17-Oct-2005 - 21-Oct-2005
VSMM 2005: Heritage, Arts, Education, Entertainment
03-Oct-2005 - 07-Oct-2005
Dr Graham Watkins, Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, will give a lecture at UNESCO on Friday, 30 September 2005, Bonvin Building, Room XIV, at 15h00. The full title of the lecture is: "The Charles Darwin Research Station in Galapagos: Analysis of the Situation and Perception on Recent Changes in Galapagos, New Directions for the Charles ...
Seminar “Networking for Sustainable Spatial Development of the European Continent”
Monday, 26 September 2005
EUROPARC is the umbrella organization of Europe’s protected areas. It unites national and regional parks, nature parks and biosphere reserves in 38 countries, with the common aim of protecting Europe’s unique variety of wildlife, habitats and landscapes.This year’s conference is part of the European Nature Conference 2005, and is jointly organized with Eurosite, the European Centre for ...
“Heritage Led Regeneration Delivering Good Practice” European Symposium
15-Sep-2005 - 16-Sep-2005
Conference on “Ecological Restoration – a Global Challenge”
12-Sep-2005 - 18-Sep-2005
2005 Melina Mercouri International Prize
Wednesday, 7 September 2005
HERMES Project Symposium II “Practical Aspects of Heritage”
06-Sep-2005 - 08-Sep-2005
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the UNESCO Apia Cluster Office in Samoa, Department of Conservation in New Zealand, and Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Vanuatu, and with financial support from the Nordic World Heritage Foundation, will organize a regional workshop on potential themes for serial and transboundary cultural World Heritage sites in the Pacific at Port Vila, ...
The regional workshop has been proposed within the framework of the Action Plan for the implementation of the World Heritage – Pacific 2009 Programme. Furthermore, the proposed workshop in Vanuatu is in line with the World Heritage Global Strategy for a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List. This workshop has been organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in ...
Conference on ‘Conservation of the Historic Gardens of Eastern Europe'
02-Sep-2005 - 04-Sep-2005
3D-ARCH'2005
22-Aug-2005 - 24-Aug-2005
Awareness Raising Workshop for the application of the World Heritage Convention
18-Aug-2005 - 20-Aug-2005
This workshop will gather teachers and students from ASPnet schools in countries participating in the Great Volga River Route Intersectoral Project with the aim to develop their awareness and knowledge about World Heritage, Sustainable Development and preservation of the Environment; enable teachers to develop and implement an approach to teaching World Heritage and Sustainable Development; ...
Partners for Africa
Saturday, 16 July 2005
Lunchtime meeting during 29th session of the World Heritage Committee
Thursday, 14 July 2005
Conference on The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
Monday, 11 July 2005
Heritage Impact 2005
07-Jul-2005 - 08-Jul-2005
The first of four HERMES symposiums will be held in the newly restored Wieland estate in Ossmanstedt near Weimar. The event will bring together 20-25 experts from various countries and professional backgrounds.
Within the HERMES Project, sixteen partners from eight countries join forces in order to promote processes of regional development. This is to be achieved by means of innovative ...
42nd IFLA World Congress on “Landscape Leading the Way”
26-Jun-2005 - 29-Jun-2005
Launching of the proceedings of the Seventh DOCOMOMO Conference
Thursday, 23 June 2005
This Meeting is the follow-up of the First Session which took place on 24 and 25 May 2004.
The aim of the Meeting will be (i) to review the implementation of the recommendations of the First Session; (ii) to share information among participants on bilateral actions by countries, international non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental agencies; (iii) to assess the implementation of ...
Passages to India, Yesterday and Today
17-Jun-2005 - 11-Sep-2005
Colleagues Honoured for 25 and 30 years at UNESCO
Tuesday, 14 June 2005
Seminar on Forestry and our Cultural Heritage
13-Jun-2005 - 15-Jun-2005
Youth Forum on Sustainable Development and World Heritage: Cultural Implications
09-Jun-2005 - 12-Jun-2005
2nd Baltic Sea Region Cultural Heritage Forum, "Urban Heritage – Collective Privilege"
09-Jun-2005 - 12-Jun-2005
English Historic Towns Forum (EHTF) Conference “Using heritage & cultural assets in regeneration”
08-Jun-2005 - 09-Jun-2005
International Heritage Development Conference ‘Creating Economic Futures: One Story at a Time’
04-Jun-2005 - 08-Jun-2005
This International Symposium is an activity of the World EXPO 2005 to take place from 25 March-25 September in Aichi, Japan. It aims to highlight the interrelationship between the natural and cultural diversity of our planet. Bringing culture and nature closer together in a comprehensive approach, the symposium will present case studies on sacred natural sites and associative cultural ...
Training Workshop for the Preparation of Nominations of Cultural Properties to the World Heritage List
30-May-2005 - 03-Jun-2005
Intensive Training Workshop on World Heritage for French-speaking Journalists
23-May-2005 - 31-May-2005
Regional Forum 'Cultural Corridors in South-East Europe'
20-May-2005 - 21-May-2005
International Conference : World Heritage and Contemporary Architecture
12-May-2005 - 14-May-2005
Conference of the Network of Austrian World Heritage Properties, Rust, Austria
10-May-2005 - 11-May-2005
‘Heritage Interpretation: Expressing Heritage Sites’ Values to Foster Conservation, Promote Community Development, and Educate the Public’
Members of ICOMOS have been asked to review and comment on the Ename Charter, a draft doctrinal document being proposed for approval by the ICOMOS membership at the next General Assembly in China.
Discussions will include a complex reflection of cultural ...
International Conference ‘Heritage of Technology - Gdansk Outlook 4’, Gdansk, Poland
04-May-2005 - 07-May-2005
Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites: Value-Based World Heritage Management
18-Apr-2005 - 21-Apr-2005
Periodic Reporting Training Workshop for the States Parties of Central and Eastern Europe
14-Apr-2005 - 17-Apr-2005
10th International Seminar of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage
11-Apr-2005 - 16-Apr-2005
Follow-up to the Asia-Pacific Periodic Reporting for World Heritage Cultural Properties in South Asia
11-Apr-2005 - 17-Apr-2005
Tripartite Convention ‘UNESCO – Government of Islamic Republic of Mauritania – World Bank’
11-Apr-2005 - 15-Apr-2005
The World Heritage Convention: The Concept of Outstanding Universal Value
06-Apr-2005 - 09-Apr-2005
World Heritage Education Forum
06-Apr-2005 - 11-Apr-2005
The focal points from the Nordic countries met to go over the process of completing Section II of the Questionnaire and agreed to call a meeting to establish an effective strategy to involve site managers at the local level and a technical workshop to provide training and guidance to fill in the questions contained in Section II.
5th Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage: Mediterranean Basin
29-Mar-2005 - 31-Mar-2005
International Workshop on multimedia material for World Heritage Education
21-Mar-2005 - 23-Mar-2005
Towards an African world heritage fund/foundation
16-Mar-2005 - 17-Mar-2005
African world heritage experts meeting
15-Mar-2005 - 18-Mar-2005
The meeting will take place at the French National Forestry College, Nancy campus within a broader "International Forestry Week". Participation in this event is limited to 40 people representing key national and international forest conservation and sustainable development organizations. As was the case for the meeting in Berastagi in 1998, this experts workshop is expected to ...
Mr Bandarin warmly welcomed the participants of the Coordination meeting. He highlighted important points to be taken into account by the Committee for the Reflection Year in 2007, for which funds were allocated. The discussion focused on the links between the Berlin meeting to discuss the European Action Plan and Regional Programme (7-11 November 2005) and the Reflection Meeting Mr Bandarin ...
An International Workshop on UNESCO’s World Heritage Education Project
28-Jan-2005 - 30-Jan-2005
Information meeting on Periodic Reporting, 7th Extraordinary Session
Tuesday, 7 December 2004
7th extraordinary session of the World Heritage Committee
UNESCO Headquarters
06-Dec-2004 - 11-Dec-2004
This regional workshop is part of UNESCO’s regional awareness-raising strategy for providing adequate and appropriate information and tools to acquaint those attending from the Latin America and Caribbean countries with this Convention. The meeting will not only enable the participants, most of whom are attached to the Ministries of Culture, Justice or Foreign Affairs in their respective ...
Training course in "The Object-ID Standard and Additional Information for Inventorying"
29-Nov-2004 - 02-Dec-2004
Workshop and Training of Focal Points from Central Asian countries
26-Nov-2004 - 27-Nov-2004
Maghrebin Workshop on « Heritage and National and Regional Development: Preventive Archaeology
26-Nov-2004 - 30-Nov-2004
Workshop for writers, illustrators and publishers of children’s books for Arab States.
23-Nov-2004 - 03-Dec-2004
In order to promote the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO’s General Conference in October 2003, the Organization is planning to invite policy makers in relevant fields in respective governments to attend eight meetings in different regions of the world. It is hoped that these meetings will not only encourage Member States to ratify the ...
Round Table “Women Migrants and HIV/AIDS in the World: An Anthropological Approach”
Saturday, 20 November 2004
Presentation of the work « Histoire de l’autre »
Friday, 19 November 2004
VSMM 2004 featuring 7th Special Session on Virtual Heritage
17-Nov-2004 - 19-Nov-2004
World Conservation Congress (WCC)
17-Nov-2004 - 25-Nov-2004
Within the framework of Africa 2009 Programme, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG and African cultural heritage organizations are organizing a Directors Seminar on Conservation and management of African immovable cultural heritage sites associated with the slave trade in Sub-Saharan Africa. The seminar has been set up to celebrate the 2004 International year to commemorate the ...
4th Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage: North America
10-Nov-2004 - 13-Nov-2004
Tribute to Vittorio De Sica
Friday, 5 November 2004
The Fourth European Summer School – Val de Loire World Heritage
02-Nov-2004 - 05-Nov-2004
International meeting on the Harmonization of the Tentative List in the Mesoamerican sub-region
01-Nov-2004 - 04-Nov-2004
Third Session of UNESCO DigiArts E-learning SEMINARS - MEDIA ARTS PROSPECT
Monday, 1 November 2004
African Regional Conference on “Education for Cultural Heritage Development”
01-Nov-2004 - 06-Nov-2004
Service of Remembrance Dr. Hisao Arahi 1967-2004
Friday, 29 October 2004
Roundtable meeting to develop and launch the World Heritage Programme for the Pacific
17-Oct-2004 - 22-Oct-2004
The World Heritage Central Pacific project - National workshop in Kiribati
05-Oct-2004 - 09-Oct-2004
The UNESCO/World Heritage Centre and the Regional Council of the Martinique with the financial support of the Spanish Funds-in-Trust, Italian Funds-and the Convention France/UNESCO, decided to organize the next experts and governmental representative’s meeting, who will be held the 19-23 of September 2004 in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
A more in-depth evaluation of the archaeological ...
Congo - Heritage in Danger - Protecting the wonders of the Democratic Republic
of Congo
10-Sep-2004 - 26-Sep-2004
Congo: Heritage in Danger
10-Sep-2004 - 26-Sep-2004
[in French only] Le 23 juin 2004, les Ministères français de la Culture et de l’Environnement ont mis en place un Comité de pilotage avec des représentants des Ministères, des Départements régionaux pour les Affaires culturelles et l’environnement, et de l’ICOMOS France. Lors de cette première réunion nationale, ...
Earth Heritage-World Heritage Conference at the Dorset- and Devon Coast
Tuesday, 7 September 2004
Nordic World Heritage Foundation Meeting
30-Aug-2004 - 31-Aug-2004
5th International Symposium on Fauna and Flora of Atlantic Islands
24-Aug-2004 - 27-Aug-2004
Alpbach Architecture Symposium
19-Aug-2004 - 21-Aug-2004
International conference of the Association of German World Heritage Sites
18-Aug-2004 - 20-Aug-2004
30th Congress of the International Geographical Union "One Earth - Many Worlds"
15-Aug-2004 - 20-Aug-2004
Dialogue on tourism, cultural diversity and sustainable development
14-Jul-2004 - 16-Jul-2004
Conservation 2004: Working with the Project Culture - The UKIC Annual Conference
08-Jul-2004 - 09-Jul-2004
International Conference on Sustainable Tourism 2004
07-Jul-2004 - 09-Jul-2004
Information meeting during the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee
Monday, 5 July 2004
2nd Sub-Regional meeting on periodic Reporting for Nordic and Baltic countries
Monday, 5 July 2004
Conference on Silk Road Grotto Sites
28-Jun-2004 - 03-Jul-2004
Lasting Mediterranean Impressions and Colours
28-Jun-2004 - 24-Sep-2004
28th Session of the World Heritage Committee
28-Jun-2004 - 07-Jul-2004
Deadline for Submissions: Heritage Management - Centre & Periphery
Sunday, 30 May 2004
Periodic Reporting of the Iberian Peninsula
14-May-2004 - 15-May-2004
Future Landscapes
07-May-2004 - 09-May-2004
Periodic Reporting Workshop for Central Europe
06-May-2004 - 08-May-2004
[in French only] Première phase du Programme Régional Afrique 2004-2007
30-Apr-2004 - 30-May-2004
Follow-up meeting Russia and CIS countries
29-Apr-2004 - 02-May-2004
Periodic Report meeting for site managers from German speaking countries
Friday, 23 April 2004
Tri-National Workshop on conservation and management of the Jebel Ouenat, Libya
Thursday, 8 April 2004
UNESCO-WHC & Conservation International planning workshop
29-Mar-2004 - 30-Mar-2004
International Conference on the Restoration and Revitalization of Olinda
21-Mar-2004 - 27-Mar-2004
In collaboration with UNESCO-ROSTE
Sub-regional Workshop at Itchan Kala, World Heritage site (Central Asian Earth 2002-2012 Programme)
15-Mar-2004 - 19-Mar-2004
Sub-regional Workshop on the Conservation and Management of Modern Cities: the Case of La Plata
14-Mar-2004 - 17-Mar-2004
The International Tourism Exchange (ITB Berlin)
12-Mar-2004 - 16-Mar-2004
World Heritage Information Meetings, 28th Session
Thursday, 11 March 2004
Europe Periodic Reporting information meeting
Thursday, 11 March 2004
3rd Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage, for Sub-Saharan Africa
04-Mar-2004 - 07-Mar-2004
South Eastern Europe Periodic Reporting Meeting
03-Mar-2004 - 07-Mar-2004
Meeting of the Second International Working Group on the safeguarding of Hué
29-Feb-2004 - 04-Mar-2004
Expert meeting on intervention in American Fortifications (Caribbean and Pacific)
28-Feb-2004 - 03-Mar-2004
Sub-regional conference
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Flemish Goverment, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Egypt's Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Sub-regional Workshop on the joint nomination for the site of Jebel Ouenat
15-Feb-2004 - 29-Feb-2004
Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
09-Feb-2004 - 20-Feb-2004
Organizer: The organization "Capuli" in collaboration with the Permanent Delegation of Peru to UNESCO
Plain of Jars World Heritage Nomination Review Workshop
26-Jan-2004 - 30-Jan-2004
Second North American Periodic Reporting Meeting
21-Jan-2004 - 23-Jan-2004
Special session on "African Cities and Heritage", Africities Summit
Thursday, 4 December 2003
Australia ICOMOS Annual Conference and Workshop 2003
21-Nov-2003 - 23-Nov-2003
Periodic Reporting meeting for cultural heritage for Russia and Eastern European CIS countries
22-Sep-2003 - 26-Sep-2003
Periodic Reporting meeting for the Baltic Region and Nordic countries
18-Sep-2003 - 19-Sep-2003
Periodic Reporting for Russian Natural World Heritage Managers
11-Aug-2003 - 16-Aug-2003
Management of Natural World Heritage Sites in the Russian Federation
11-Aug-2003 - 17-Aug-2003
Periodic Reporting meeting for site managers from German speaking countries
09-Jul-2003 - 10-Jul-2003
Meeting on Periodic Reporting for Europe and North America
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Information Meeting for States Parties
Thursday, 12 June 2003
Linking Universal and Local Values: Managing a Sustainable Future for World Heritage
22-May-2003 - 24-May-2003
First Joint European and World Heritage network meeting
07-May-2003 - 10-May-2003
2nd Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage, for Asia and the Pacific
27-Feb-2003 - 28-Feb-2003
Information Meeting for States Parties
Wednesday, 22 January 2003
Joint USA-Canada World Heritage Site Manager’s Meeting regarding Periodic Reporting
13-Jan-2003 - 16-Jan-2003
1st Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage, for Latin America
11-Dec-2002 - 13-Dec-2002
ICOMOS 13th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium
01-Dec-2002 - 05-Dec-2002
World Heritage International Congress of Experts
14-Nov-2002 - 16-Nov-2002
Space Applications for Heritage Conservation
05-Nov-2002 - 08-Nov-2002
Bishkek Global Mountain Summit
29-Oct-2002 - 01-Nov-2002
30th Anniversary Virtual Congress: World Heritage in the Digital Age
15-Oct-2002 - 17-Oct-2002
The 7th International Symposium of the Organization of World Heritage Cities
23-Sep-2002 - 26-Sep-2002
"Fire between Air and Water, Volcanic Islands in Science and Myth, Preservation and Valorization"
23-Sep-2002 - 02-Oct-2002
[in French only] « Patrimoine Mondial - Patrimoines industriels »
Friday, 20 September 2002
The Seventh International DOCOMOMO Conference
16-Sep-2002 - 21-Sep-2002
"Heritage, New Technologies, and Local Development"
11-Sep-2002 - 13-Sep-2002
"The Politics of World Heritage"
02-Sep-2002 - 04-Sep-2002
World Heritage Inscription Ceremony for the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
Saturday, 31 August 2002
Adopted on the occasion of the meeting of African experts on heritage managementheld in Johannesburg from 19th to 23rd August 2002, as a parallel event to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, under the auspices of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
Information meeting during the 26th Session of the WH Committee
Tuesday, 25 June 2002
Workshop participants gathered to assess the marine biodiversity of the tropical realm and identify opportunities to expand World Heritage coverage of areas of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). The primary objectives of the workshop were to:
Reach expert consensus on tropical coastal, marine, and small island ecosystems for potential nomination as World Heritage sites.
Identify ...
Regional Experts Meeting on Plantation systems in the Carribean
17-Jul-2001 - 19-Jul-2001
Regional Experts Meeting on Plantation systems in the Carribean, Paramaribo, Suriname, 17-19 July, 2001
17-Jul-2001 - 19-Jul-2001
States Parties Meeting towards a joint nomination of areas of the Alpine Arc for the World Heritage List (Turin, Italy 5-8 July 2001)
Information Meeting for States Parties
Friday, 16 February 2001
Regional Experts Meeting on Cultural Landscapes in Central America, San José, Costa Rica, September 27-29, 2000
World Heritage Fossil Sites Workshop
22-Sep-2000 - 01-Oct-2000
Meeting on Authenticity and Integrity in an African Context
26-May-2000 - 29-May-2000
International Expert Meeting on the Revision of the Operational Guidelines
10-Apr-2000 - 14-Apr-2000
Regional Experts Meeting on Cultural Landscapes in Eastern Europe, Bialystok, Poland, 29 September - 3 October, 1999
Second World Heritage Global Strategy Meeting for the Pacific Islands region
24-Aug-1999 - 27-Aug-1999
Expert Meeting on African Cultural Landscapes, Tiwi, Kenya, March 9-14, 1999
09-Mar-1999 - 14-Mar-1999
Expert Meeting - The World heritage Convention and Cultural Landscapes in Africa
09-Mar-1999 - 12-Mar-1999
International Conference on Architecture and Cities for the 21st Century
02-Jul-1998 - 04-Jul-1998
International Conference on Architecture and Cities for the 21st Century
02-Jul-1998 - 04-Jul-1998
Regional Thematic Meeting on Cultural Landscapes in the Andes, Arequipa / Chivay, Peru, May 17-22, 1998
17-May-1998 - 22-May-1998
Asia & West Pacific Network For Urban Conservation (AWPNUC) Announces 6th Symposium
21-Nov-1997 - 25-Nov-1997
Asia-Pacific Heritage Site Managers' Workshop
19-Nov-1997 - 24-Nov-1997
Universities and Heritage: Towards a New Convergence
05-Oct-1997 - 10-Oct-1997
Bikeabout To Launch Circum-Mediterranean Tour Of World Heritage Sites
24-Sep-1997 - 30-Jun-1998
Rountable On Internet And Heritage Promotion In Central Asia
23-Sep-1997 - 24-Sep-1997
Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum
15-Sep-1997 - 21-Sep-1997
In an effort to encourage coordinated disaster planning, mitigation and relief, the United Nations General Assembly established 1990-2000 as the international Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).As disaster management strategies evolve at local, national and international levels, it is essential to assure inclusion of the cultural heritage - sites, structures and monuments, as well ...
Preservation Seminar in Brazil
27-Jul-1997 - 30-Jul-1997
Fourth International Conferences of Gaudinist Studies
13-Jul-1997 - 15-Jul-1997
Seminar in Joya de Ceren
07-Jul-1997 - 11-Jul-1997
The Treasures of Mount Athos
21-Jun-1997 - 31-Dec-1997
Aim 20th anniversary conference: 'Spirit of Time and Place'
16-May-1997 - 18-May-1997
Africa Revisited
02-Dec-1996 - 07-Dec-1996
Expert Meeting on European Cultural Landscapes of Outstanding Universal Value, Vienna, Austria, 21 April 1996
Expert Meeting on 'Evaluation of general Principles and Criteria for Nomination of natural World Heritage Sites', Parc national de la Vanoise, France, March 22-24, 1996
The expert meeting on "Evaluation of general principles and criteria for nominations of natural World Heritage sites" was held from 22 to 24 March 1996 at the Parc National de la Vanoise (France) at the kind invitation of the French Ministry for the Environment. Twenty experts representing natural and cultural heritage disciplines participated in their individual capacity (see List of ...
African Cultural heritage and the World Heritage Convention - First Global Strategy Meeting
11-Oct-1995 - 13-Oct-1995
The Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Associative Cultural Landscapes, New South Wales, Australie April 27-29, 1995
Regional Thematic Study Meeting 'Asian Rice Culture and its Terraced Landscape', Manila, Philippines, 28 March - 4 April, 1995
Expert Meeting on Heritage Canals, Chaffey Lock, Canada, September 15-19,1994
15-Sep-1994 - 19-Sep-1994
A double objective motivated the meeting organized by ICOMOS within the framework of the studies requested by the world Heritage Committee :
the analysis of the various indicative lists prepared by the European countries, which have been convoked on this occasion, to avoid propositions which muld be of a repetition nature,
to elaborate , in so far as it would be possible, a doctment which ...