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ICCROM, together with ICOMOS and IUCN – the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee – and UNESCO, have launched the French translation of the Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 (EoH 2.0), making this key resource for World Heritage management accessible to an even wider francophone community.
Twenty-five heritage professionals from around the World came together in Ayutthaya, Thailand, for the 2nd Training Workshop on Heritage Impact Assessment in Southeast Asia. The course focused on strengthening the capacity to use impact assessment as a practical tool for protecting heritage while supporting sustainable development locally.
Valparaíso, Chile, hosted a five-day international workshop on Enhancing the Effectiveness of World Heritage Management, convening heritage professionals for in-depth exchange and practical learning aimed at strengthening the management of World Heritage properties and other heritage places.
The World Heritage in Africa: Fostering Practitioners for Nomination Processes and Strategies (WHAPS) project concluded with a three-day closing event in Rome from 3 to 5 November 2025, celebrating participants’ achievements and consolidating a growing network of heritage professionals across Africa and Italy. This nine-month initiative was led by ICCROM and the Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e...
ICCROM and the Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali (Scuola), with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, are pleased to announce the closing event of World Heritage in Africa – Fostering Practitioners for Nomination Processes and Strategies (WHAPS), taking place in Rome, Italy from 3 to 5 November 2025.
The Integrated Territorial and Urban Conservation (ITUC) course has successfully concluded in Urbino, marking the revival of this landmark ICCROM capacity-building programme after 22 years.
From 7 to 9 July, the 7th edition of the World Heritage Site Managers' Forum took place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, alongside the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee.
In a milestone gathering, Indigenous leaders joined forces with heritage experts and international organizations to chart a new path for protecting heritage – one rooted in partnership, respect, and shared stewardship. Jointly coordinated by ICCROM alongside the International Indigenous Peoples Forum for World Heritage (IIPFWH), UNESCO, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)...
The second edition of HPL drew on the lessons learned from the 2021-2022 pilot edition and focused on supporting the development of practice-led Research Agendas that address key priorities in heritage management.
ICCROM, through its ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme and the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (WHITR-AP Shanghai), successfully delivered the International Course on Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context in a hybrid format that took participants from theory to practice.