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A section to enhance world heritage events around the world!
Do you work in the field of cultural heritage, or are you simply passionate about the field? Do you have events or projects to promote or resources and events to share? ICCROM's classifieds section is the right place for you!

Modern technology isn’t enough to reduce the risk of disaster: We need traditional & Indigenous knowledge
This blog post, authored by Rohit Jigyasu, ICCROM Project Manager, Urban Heritage, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management, explains the importance of integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge into Diaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plans.

Apply to take part in workshops and field projects with Our Collections Matter
Do you work with collections or in a collections-based institution such as a museum, archive or library? Would you like to unlock the full potential of these collections to make concrete contributions to sustainable development? Let us help you turn your aspirations into reality using the Our Collections Matter Toolkit!

Apply now for our online course! Impact Assessment in a World Heritage context
This online course will explore how impact assessment and multidisciplinary cooperation can be useful in identifying solutions for both protecting World Heritage sites and supporting high-quality, appropriate development.

Giovanni Carbonara (1942-2023)
The Director-General and staff of ICCROM express their condolences to Prof. Carbonara’s family, and join the Italian and international conservation communities in mourning the loss of this important figure in the field of heritage conservation.

New publication presents heritage management practices in 13 countries
What started as a workshop in 2008 in Ercolano, the Bay of Naples, Italy, has come full circle 15 years later as a thought-provoking ICCROM publication. Heritage Management Practices: Voices from the Field, available for the first time in 2023, presents not only the workshop’s results but also heritage management experiences from 13 countries scattered across the world.

The Digital Story Circle – ICCROM’s first workshop on telling and preserving heritage stories in the digital realm
From 9-11 January 2023, ICCROM’s newest programme, Sustaining Digital Heritage (SDH), conducted its first workshop on digital storytelling – The Digital Story Circle: Telling and Preserving Heritage Stories in the Digital Realm. This three-day virtual workshop provided participants with tools and resources to digitally bring heritage communities’ and cultural bearers’ stories to life.

Important news about Member States contributions
We have launched a digital Member State Contributions invoicing portal on the ICCROM website. Now, it’s quicker and easier than ever to contribute to ICCROM.

Bridging language gaps in conservation information: Search BCIN in French and Spanish
The Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) – one of the most important tools for retrieving bibliographic information on cultural heritage conservation – is now available in French and Spanish.

Cohort of interns and fellows close out 2022
In the fourth quarter of 2022, in addition to those interns and fellows who continued their work, we welcomed two new interns and one visiting researcher at ICCROM headquarters.