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On 3 February 2025, ICCROM’s Director-General, Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral, welcomed H.E. Mrs. Lina Annab, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan, to discuss strengthening the long-standing partnership between ICCROM and Jordan. As a Member State since 1958, Jordan has worked closely with ICCROM since its inception on cultural heritage management and capacity-building initiatives.

The ICCROM’s Heritage Education Library has launched an innovative online platform and is set to digitize its entire collection, making it accessible everywhere. The Heritage Education Library was created following the participation of the ICCROM Library in the EUROPE CHALLENGE, an annual programme that connects libraries and communities across Europe.

A group of Cultural Diplomacy Master’s students from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore recently visited ICCROM to gain deeper insight into our work, resources, and opportunities for young professionals in heritage conservation.

This year, we connected with Member States, partners, and communities, turning every interaction into an opportunity for shared learning and growth. As we close 2024, we thank all of you for walking this journey with us. We’ve connected, advanced, responded, and empowered. This is not the end of the story—we're only getting started. Here’s to 2025 and all we’ll achieve together!

On 11 December 2024, ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) programme organized the virtual launch event for READY – Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Disasters, Extreme Weather Events, and Complex Emergencies. Funded by the EU’s Creative Europe Programme, and with the support of the European Commission’s Directorate general for Education, Youth, Sport...

The ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme concluded 2024 with significant strides in capacity building on impact assessment in the context of World Heritage. Collaborating with Ireland, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Association of French World Heritage Sites, the programme delivered workshops, courses and webinars on impact assessment for site managers, World Heritage...

The publication of this guide follows a two-year capacity-building program in Mosul, Iraq, aimed at developing local expertise for heritage recovery. This initiative targeted 49 young graduates from local universities in the fields of engineering and architecture, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to become heritage recovery experts.

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Frank Matero, a leading figure in heritage conservation, to discuss his long-standing relationship with ICCROM and the evolving challenges of preserving cultural heritage. Frank’s journey spans decades of teaching — notably in the Department of Historic Preservation at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania — in addition...

The newly-released report compiles the presentations and discussions from the event speakers, representing over 20 disciplines. It takes a significant step forward in integrating concerns for heritage safeguarding into climate adaptation and disaster risk management policies at both national and subnational levels.