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 ...