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EC call for apps Ukraine

Enhancing Capacities in Ukraine for Cultural Heritage First Aid and Recovery Planning

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS. The European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture is supporting ICCROM and its flagship Programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis, to establish Ukraine’s first national, ready-to-deploy team of 20-25 cultural first aiders.

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Join a special session of the upcoming Heritage-Based Climate Action Conference

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.

ICCROM holiday card 2023

Best wishes from Webber Ndoro, ICCROM Director-General

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.

ICCROM-FAR is Developing a Comprehensive Tool on Climate Risk Management for Heritage

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...

ICCROM-FAR helps build capacities to safeguard Libya’s cultural heritage 

ICCROM-FAR helps build capacities to safeguard Libya’s cultural heritage

In the wake of the destructive flooding that struck Libya on 13 September 2023, which caused extensive damage, loss of lives and displacement, a significant step towards recovery was taken. On 8 November 2023, ICCROM’s flagship programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) and the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation (EHRF) co-led a workshop on conducting post...

A successful 33rd General Assembly, marking the beginning of a promising new chapter for ICCROM

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

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-FAR strategic planning meeting: Strengthening partnerships for disaster resilient heritage  

ICCROM-FAR strategic planning meeting: Strengthening partnerships for disaster resilient heritage

On 17 October, ICCROM's flagship programme, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR), convened its partners in a productive strategic planning meeting. The objective of the meeting was to identify ways to amplify our efforts in meeting new and unknown risks to heritage stemming from climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, widening economic inequalities...

iccrom interns q3 2023

Five new interns on board at ICCROM

Since the creation of our Internship and Fellows Programme in 2002, more than 200 people have benefited from the experience of undertaking a period of personal development with ICCROM. During the third quarter of 2023, in addition to those fellows and volunteers who continued their work, we welcomed five new interns.

A heritage-based Net Zero Journey in Kasese, Uganda

A heritage-based Net Zero Journey in Kasese, Uganda

This blog was authored by the team from the Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda: Ms Barbra Babweteera, CCFU Executive Director; Mr Fredrick Nsibambi, CCFU Deputy Executive Director; and Mr Aliguma Ahabyona Akiiki, CCFU Programme/Communications Coordinator.