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In recent years, big strides have been made toward protecting bigger shares of the ocean. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 6,97% of the ocean is now covered by marine protected areas. Yet many challenges remain. UNESCO's World Heritage Marine Programme was invited to participate [...]

Rubbish and pollution are a problem at many World Heritage sites. Increased tourism means that more people are leaving trash at the world's most iconic sites, so we need to learn to visit sites without leaving a trace behind. Marine pollution is also a problem at many World Heritage sites, where [...]

Dear Participants, the final programme of the international workshop will be soon available on this website. If you are interested to participate in the event please register at the following link : https://web.beniculturali.it/?p=796 [...]

18 April 2018 is the International Day for Monuments and Sites with the theme: Heritage for Generations. If our heritage is what we leave behind for future generations, we need to prepare young people to protect it—and the best way is through education. The World Heritage Education Programme gives young people around [...]

18 April 2018 is the International Day for Monuments and Sites with the theme: Heritage for Generations. If our heritage is what we leave behind for future generations, we need to prepare young people to protect it—and the best way is through education. The World Heritage Education Programme gives young people around [...]

UNESCO and World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) signed an agreement to cooperate by developing activities in order to raise awareness and mobilize young Scouts to participate in World Heritage conservation and promotion. As a main result of this agreement, WOSM produced the "World Scouting-UNESCO World Heritage Recognition Programme Guidelines” [...]

Specially conceived for young people between the ages of 18 and 28, #MyAfricanheritage is an Instagram contest aiming to promote the exceptional cultural and natural heritage of the African continent. Each participant will post a photo of an African site inscribed on the World Heritage List along with a brief [...]

Specially conceived for young people between the ages of 18 and 28, #MyAfricanheritage is an Instagram contest aiming to promote the exceptional cultural and natural heritage of the African continent. Each participant will post a photo of an African site inscribed on the World Heritage List along with a brief [...]

The Geneva Declaration ‘Human Rights and Culture Heritage: Committed Cities Working Together' was adopted in Geneva, Switzerland on 26 March 2018, marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration aims to clarify cities' obligations in the area of cultural heritage rehabilitation, particularly in relation to intentionally [...]

The Geneva Declaration ‘Human Rights and Culture Heritage: Committed Cities Working Together' was adopted in Geneva, Switzerland on 26 March 2018, marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration aims to clarify cities' obligations in the area of cultural heritage rehabilitation, particularly in relation to intentionally [...]

The Kenyan National Commission for UNESCO organized a three-day workshop from 26 to 28 March 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya in order to increase youth engagement in the conservation and promotion of World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage. As a State Party to three important UNESCO Conventions in the field of Culture, [...]

On 25th April JPICH will organize a Workshop on Alignement. We inform all the concerned that the registration on line is open on the web site: https://event.fecyt.es/jpi-cultural-heritage-workshop-on-alignment More practical information about the venue , the accomodation and the transport will be available clicking on the file below attached: JPICH Workshop [...]

The Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage organizes this event with the aim of exploiting and promoting future perspective for the Projects granted through the JPICH two joint calls. This International Workshop intends to provide fresh impetus to the research applied to Cultural Heritage, by diffusing and foreseeing impact [...]

On the 23th March 2018 PROTHEGO will organize the final event in Paris at UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, Room IV. We invite all the concerned to confirm their presence before 20th March writing Dr Daniele Spizzichino: daniele.spizzichino@isprambiente.it Please click on the link below for further details and save the [...]

The JPICH Digital Heritage Call is the first of a series of four joint transnational calls within the context of the JPI Cultural Heritage. The JPICH Digital Heritage Call for Proposals was formally published on April 24, 2017. At the deadline (June 22, 2017) 34 proposals were submitted. Three... continue [...]

Perceiving Cultural Heritage Through Digital Technologies The aim of this special issue is to solicit interdisciplinary studies about the complex phenomenon that takes place during the aesthetic and synesthetic involvement of a human observer in the perception of Cultural Heritage and art mediated by virtual and augmented reality or other... [...]

On the 12th of April 2018 Pich will organise the final conference in Delft, University of Technology. We invite the participants of the other running JPI Cultural Heritage projects to this conference, and everybody who is interested in the built and intangible Cultural Heritage. Click on [...]

The National Research Council (CNR) is pleased to invite you at the event “Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters” that will take place at the Danube University Krems (Austria) on January 23th, 2018. The event is organized in the framework of the Interreg Central Europe Risk assessment andsustainable [...]

In the framework of the JPI-CH, Spain is coordinating the activity “Methodology development for assessing the cultural and socio-economic value(s) of digital cultural heritage”. This activity is coordinated by Santa María la Real Foundation of Historic Heritage and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, with the collaboration of... [...]

We kindly inform all the applicants interested to participate in the Heritage in Changing Environment Call that the account requests will be accepted not more within November 20th, 2017 18:00 CET but, cause organizational reasons, preferably ( not mandatory) within November 25th 18:00 CET (five days before the [...]