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We are pleased to share an update on the Our Collections Matter (OCM) initiative, a programme dedicated to empowering collections-based institutions to contribute to sustainable development. This update highlights inspiring success stories, the launch of valuable new resources, and the new call for applications to participate in the 2024 OCM Field Projects.

ICCROM, through our Regional Centre in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, has joined forces with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) to release two critical new resources covering cultural heritage recovery and international policymaking.

On 20 February 2024, Professor Lyette Fortin, an alumna of ICCROM's ARC course in 1986, returned to ICCROM along with her students from the Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Program at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Do you work with collections or in a collections-based organization, 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!

The Heritage-Based Climate Action International Virtual Conference presents three opportunities to take your participation to the next level. All of these are transformative exchanges of ideas about the intersection of heritage conservation, climate action, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding.

Our Collections Matter (OCM) Field Projects 2023 participants gathered online to share project results and personal reflections on this experience with ICCROM. From May 2023 to January 2024, 25 professionals working in museums, libraries, and archives in 21 countries around the world - including archivists, conservators, curators, librarians, registrars and collections officers - participated in...

At the end of 2023, in addition to the fellows and interns who continued their assignments, we welcomed to ICCROM headquarters a new intern, Ms Euiyeon Lee from the Republic of Korea, who joined the World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme.

We are delighted to announce the beginning of Ms Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral’s term as Director-General of ICCROM. Ms Gujral officially commenced her mandate in January 2024, following her nomination by the ICCROM Council and election by the Member States at the 33rd session of the ICCROM General Assembly in November 2023.

I would like to thank all of you for the outstanding support I received during my six-year term as Director-General. Some moments have proved challenging but always very stimulating, and through the continuous and valuable support of our Member States and partners, the Organization has successfully achieved many goals for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage.