From 19-20 December, the Director-General, Mounir Bouchenaki participated in the 1st annual meeting of World Heritage related Category 2 Centres and concerned UNESCO Chairs and Higher Education and Research Centres, which took place in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.

The meeting aimed at defining the role that Category 2 centres play in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in general and the World Heritage Capacity Building Strategy in particular.

See also

• Ministry of Culture and Information, Bahrain, press release
• media article, 27 December 2010

From 11-15 December, the Director-General, Mounir Bouchenaki traveled to Algiers, Algeria. He visted the National Museum of Antiquities and Bardo Museum in Algiers, and met with Mr Mourad Bouteflika, Director of Cultural Heritage for the Ministry of Culture, Prof Andrea Bruno, Politecnico di Torino, Ms Houria Cherid, Director of the National Museum of Antiquities, and Ms Habbache, Deputy Director of Museums, among many others.

During his visit, the Director-General attended the international Euromed Heritage workshop, "Strengthening education and training for careers in the Mediterranean heritage: a priority step for human and economic development of the region".

On 4 December, the Director-General, Mounir Bouchenaki, participated on behalf of ICCROM in the HERITY 2010 international conference on, "Observing Cultural Heritage: Evaluating the State of Conservation and communicating it to the Public". Also present at the meeting were:

• F. Bandarin, Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO
• L. Campanella, President of the Italian Chemical Society
• L. Godart, Counsellor of the President of the Republic of Italy for the conservation of cultural heritage
• V. Lomonaco, Vice Director-General of DGPCC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• M.C. Misiti, Director of ICRCPAL, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities
• P. Muggeo, General, Italian Carabinieri cultural heritage protection unit
• A. Pasqua Recchia, Director-General of Lanscapes, Fine Arts, and Architecture
• M. Quagliolo, Secretary-General of HERITY Italia
• Mons. G. Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
• Senator T. Carettoni Romagnoli, President of HERITY Italia
• Senator V. Vita, Vice President of the Italian Senate Cultural Commission