Corsi di Leadership del Patrimonio Mondiale (WHL)

We are seeking 20 participants to take part in this international course to be held in the Republic of Korea from 1 to 12 August 2022. A flagship foundational course of the World Heritage Leadership programme, it is open to site coordinators, members of management teams and institutions, and heritage practitioners working with World Heritage properties and other heritage places around the world.

5-day course on risk management for the Arab region will introduce participants to the challenges and opportunities for building resilience of heritage places, including their people and local communities, through managing risks from various factors, including disasters and climate change. The course will serve as a platform for participants to share their knowledge and experiences on risk management in heritage places and to understand how risk...

In recent years, it has been noted that increasing numbers of World Heritage properties are facing pressure from various forms of development - including for examples housing projects, commercial buildings and infrastructures - and other significant changes that affect their Outstanding Universal Value. The World Heritage Committee has seen the impacts of these factors in considerable numbers of State of Conservation Reports and have been...

The course on People-Centred Approaches to the Conservation of Nature and Culture – also called the People, Nature, Culture course and hereafter abbreviated to PNC - is a flagship capacity building activity of the World Heritage Leadership Programme. This course is dedicated to World Heritage site managers/coordinators and heritage practitioners working in the LAC region. The course will be held online in February 2022 and will be delivered in...

The People, Nature, Culture course aims at providing an overview of how the management and conservation of heritage places can give them a dynamic and mutually beneficial role in society today and long into the future. This stems from an increasing recognition that heritage places are cared for, used and enjoyed by a wide array of people. Contributions to management, conservation and use of a heritage place come from a variety of sources...

The Southeast Asian region is home to invaluable and significant forms of cultural heritage, ranging from the tangible, such as collections of antiques and objects, ancient monuments, archaeological sites, historic buildings, towns, cities and cultural landscapes, to the intangible, such as customs, relics, music, craftsmanship and traditional lifestyles. In recent years, unpredictable disasters caused by natural hazards, such as flooding...

This ground-breaking course is a key component of the new World Heritage Leadership programme developed by ICCROM, IUCN and the Norwegian Ministry of Environment. The World Heritage Leadership programme aims to take a new approach to implementing the long-standing partnership of IUCN and ICCROM in capacity development to support the World Heritage Convention.