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ICCROM's flagship programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) has been awarded a €1.5 million grant from the EU's Creative Europe Programme to support a critical mission: building resilience in cultural heritage across Europe and beyond. The grant will fund the READY – Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Disasters, Extreme Weather Events, and Complex...

ICCROM, through its flagship programme First Aid and Resilience of Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) is pleased to present the results of an innovative implementation research from five climate hot spots worldwide, developed under a 30-month capacity development initiative, Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action. This study, field tested in Brazil, Egypt, India, Sudan and Uganda shows how...

ICCROM, through its flagship programme Youth.Heritage.Africa, invites passionate African youth heritage experts aged 18-35 to apply to be part of its growing roster of young leaders and changemakers. The African Youth Heritage Expert Roster is an innovative initiative aimed at establishing a robust, inclusive database and interactive platform that connects young heritage experts across Africa with...

ICCROM and Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali (FSBAC), the School of Cultural Heritage founded by the Ministry of Culture of Italy, are seeking 30 participants from African countries and Italy to join their new capacity-building initiative: World Heritage in Africa – Fostering practitioners for nomination processes and strategies (WHAPS) project.

The International Training Course on Post-Crisis Recovery of Cultural Heritage has successfully completed its second phase with an engaging in-person workshop held in Rome. Following six thematic online sessionsparticipants came together for an intensive week-long workshop at ICCROM headquarters.

From 27 September to 11 October 2024, the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme successfully conducted the "Managing World Heritage: People Nature Culture" (PNC) course, which brought together 35 site managers, national focal points, and heritage professionals from 26 countries offering them the chance to discuss World Heritage management.

Today, we welcome officials from the Ministries of Culture of various African Union Member States, who are participants in the 4th African Union Commission Course, organized by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, with support from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

n the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2024, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing ICCROM as the first partner of the FAO's Global Food and Agriculture Museum and Network.

The International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper (JPC), organized by ICCROM and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (TOBUNKEN), took place from 26 August to 13 September 2024. Ten participants engaged in an immersive exploration of Japanese paper conservation, a field recognized for bridging traditional Japanese practices with international conservation...

From September 22 to 30, 2024, ICCROM's First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) programme organized a blended course on flood risk mitigation in Trogir, Croatia.