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The 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee meeting held in June put a strong emphasis on the importance of capacity building. Numerous committee decisions requested and recommended capacity building for conservation of sites, with the Site Managers Forum adding a firm voice to the importance and vital need for better guidance and assistance.

Where do heritage professionals look for when they are in need of advice on preventive conservation? How do they update their knowledge?

The European Cultural Heritage Summit, held in Berlin, Germany from 18 to 24 June 2018, provided a venue to reflect on the present and future of cultural heritage in Europe.

Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators, the handbook published by Gerhard Banik and Irene Brückle in 2011, after a decade of close cooperation with ICCROM, has been republished in a revised and expanded 2nd edition by Anton Siegl in Munich, Germany.

The Egyptian National Organization for Urban Harmony, operating under Egypt’s Ministry of Culture in collaboration with UNESCO, has chosen to honour two prominent architectural heritage specialists from Egypt and the Arab world, for their significant contributions to safeguard cultural heritage.

Recent decades have witnessed a fundamental change in social values throughout the world, and this in turn has affected the ways in which we think about and care for cultural heritage. Increasingly, heritage professionals are challenged to adopt more people-centred approaches within conservation, whereby constructive and critical dialogue between stakeholders is an essential part of the decision...

On 17 April, Stefanie Altman-Winans, Deputy Director in the Office of Public Affairs, Planning, and Coordination, United States Department of State in Washington DC, visited ICCROM together with Heather Eaton and Ann Wise of USUN Rome.

As the 20th International Stone Course (SC17) moves physically from Mexico City to Campeche Province in the south of the country, so it moves from the more theoretical phase towards the hands-on and implementational phase, which will characterize the second part of this training course.

On 11 April, the United Kingdom's Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), HE Michael Ellis, visited the ICCROM-Sharjah Office in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

On 6 April, a group of students from Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, currently studying at the International Academy of Rome, visited ICCROM. They were led by Dr Hicran Topcu, past ICCROM Fellow.