World Heritage Leadership (WHL) News

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.

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.

The new publication “Heritage Place Lab. A Model for Research-Practice Collaboration in the Context of World Heritage. Report of the Pilot Phase 2021-2022” presents the testing of a methodology for collaborative work between academics and site managers and showcases the resulting research agendas prepared by research-practice teams from Argentina, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Norway and Zimbabwe.

We invite researchers interested in establishing collaborations with World Heritage management institutions to contribute to improving their management processes and decision-making. The Heritage Place Lab 2024-2025 will consist of a series of online and in-person workshops to be held between September 2024 and April 2025.

We're thrilled to announce that our World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme, an ICCROM-IUCN joint initiative, is part of a consortium that has been awarded funding by the Belmont Forum for a research project on establishing a methodology to systematically assess climate change-related risks to heritage.

On 30 June, the first phase of the “Capacity Building Programme on Improving Management Effectiveness of World Heritage Properties in the Arab States Region” kicked off.

This gathering provided an opportunity to introduce Member State representatives to ICCROM's ongoing work, focusing on ICCROM's impact and stories of change from around the world. These efforts lay the groundwork for a brighter future for ICCROM and the heritage conservation sector as a whole, as we are preparing for our new Strategic Framework 2026-2031.

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.

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, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Korean delegation of the Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee of the Gyeonggido Assembly to ICCROM headquarters. The group heard from Eugene Jo, World Heritage Leadership Programme Manager, about ICCROM's area of work and expertise, as well as its activities.