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Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessment in the Context of World Heritage now available in Korean and Polish
The 2022 Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessment in the Context of World Heritage is continuing to spread around the world, becoming a fundamental resource for those managing and working with World Heritage. As its dissemination continues, the need for the Guidebook and Toolkit in various languages increases.
Coming up next year: ICCROM-FAR's comprehensive tool on climate risk management for heritage
For the last two and a half years, ICCROM’s flagship programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR), has been working to understand how climate change impacts cultural heritage and the role heritage can play in combatting the climate crisis, through knowledge-building and capacity-development initiatives, such as Climate.Culture.Peace and Net Zero: Heritage for...
Visit from Foreign Press Association in Italy
On 20 November 2023, we were delighted to welcome a group of 13 international media professionals at ICCROM headquarters. The group was composed of members of the Foreign Press Association in Italy (L’Associazione della Stampa Estera in Italia), which has around 500 members from over 75 countries.
In memory of Prof. Dr. Jukka Ilmari Jokilehto (1938–2023)
The ICCROM community is devastated at the news of the death of Jukka Jokilehto, one of our most prolific former staff members and a great friend of the organization. Jukka retired in 1998 as Assistant to the Director General of ICCROM and was responsible for the training and conservation education of many generations of conservation professionals around the world. His depth of knowledge in the...
New Tool to assess the effectiveness of World Heritage management
UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee – ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property), ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) and IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) - have released a newly revised toolkit for assessing the effectiveness of management systems of World Heritage...
A successful 33rd General Assembly, marking the beginning of a promising new chapter for ICCROM
The 33rd session of the ICCROM General Assembly has concluded in Rome. National delegations from our 137 Member States - as well as observers from non-Member States, intergovernmental organizations and other partnering institutions - attended the biennial two-day event hosted at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to assess our progress, set...
European Commission DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture supports ICCROM-FAR’s efforts to preserve Ukrainian heritage
The last nearly two years of the war in Ukraine have devastated the country’s cultural heritage. To address this crisis, ICCROM's flagship programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR), has closely collaborated with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine (MoCIP) and its network to develop a strategy for building local capacities and restoring...
ICCROM’s first course on Sustainable Digital Heritage kicks off successfully
This new course was conceived within the framework of the Sustaining Digital Heritage (SDH) programme, ICCROM’s newest initiative developed through a human-centred design process with an international scope. The nine-month Sustainable Digital Heritage course involves multidisciplinary teams from four diverse cultural institutions, the “learning partners” of this initiative, coming from four ICCROM...