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ICCROM and Ireland's National Monuments Service (NMS) have signed a landmark cooperation agreement to establish the Ireland National Monuments Service Scholarship Fund. This initiative will span from 2024 to 2026, aimed at enhancing the participation of heritage professionals from Africa and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in ICCROM's capacity-building activities with a particular focus on...

On 19 June, the Second Council Meeting of the Alliance for Cultural Heritage in Asia (ACHA) took place in Qingdao, China. The event gathered experts from across Asia and beyond to discuss and promote the preservation of cultural heritage.

The Kenya Heritage Hub was officially launched on 12 June in Nairobi, marking an occasion for cultural heritage and youth empowerment in Kenya. The event brought together an esteemed assembly of diplomats from various countries.

This week marks the start of DOCU 24: Documenting Layered Heritage, a workshop running from 17 to 26 June, 2024. The workshop aims to deepen our understanding of heritage documentation by blending digital and traditional methods.

The School of Landscape Architecture of the Beijing Forestry University (BFU) and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership programme announce the “Heritage & Landscape Conservation Conference” that will take place at BFU campus in Beijing, China from 19 to 21 October 2024.

One of the world’s best-known, highly respected and influential heritage professionals from Africa has left us. His professional brilliance inspired many young professionals throughout the world. He championed and ensured that the heritage of Africa and its voice was heard and respected in the face of the many international conventions largely biased towards Western heritage practice.

On 24 May, students from the Master's degree in Restoration of Cultural Property and Preventive Conservation of Heritage from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne visited ICCROM with their professors, Claire Betelu and Florence Laruelle.

On 21 May 2024, ICCROM Director-General Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral hosted HE Jeffrey Prescott, Ambassador of the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, at ICCROM headquarters. Ambassador Prescott, accompanied by Dionandrea Shorts, Alternate Permanent Representative to USUN, presented his credentials and engaged in fruitful discussions on the longstanding partnership between ICCROM and the...

The workshop aimed to enhance the skills of professionals in understanding impact assessment for World Heritage, designing and delivering different types of capacity-building activities on impact assessment, and contributing to the implementation of the World Heritage Convention at the local, national, and international levels.

On 17 May, the Director-General of ICCROM, Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral, and ICCROM staff had the pleasure of meeting with Guillermo Escribano Manzano, Director General of Spanish in the World, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation; Pablo Rupérez Pascualena, Advisor to the Directorate General for Spanish in the World; and Moisés Morera Martín, Alternate Permanent Representative of Spain...