The final celebration of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention will be hosted by Japan at a 3-day event in Kyoto on 6-8 November 2012, where the outcomes of the different workshops and studies will be presented that will feed the reflection on the future of the Convention.

An expert meeting organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan) to contribute to the outcome of the final event of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in Kyoto, Japan, to be held November 6 to 8, 2012.

An expert meeting organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan) to contribute to the outcome of the final event of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in Kyoto, Japan, to be held November 6 to 8, 2012.

Forum on World Heritage Protection and Conservation; Award for architectural conservation of World Heritage sites in  Asia-Pacific region; Forum on World Heritage education; 9th session of Youth camp on World Heritage conservation; Award for World Heritage education. October 2012.

Themes: WH and sustainable development; WH capacity building. Dates to be confirmed.

The German Commission for UNESCO will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention with a ceremonial event taking place on 21 June 2012 at the Art Nouveau Theatre of the World Heritage city of Stralsund. About 450 World Heritage experts, comprising the members of the German Commission for UNESCO, politicians, preservationists and tourist experts from Germany, will participate in the ceremony. Furthermore, two personalities from each of the Baltic Sea States, ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Day in Germany takes place yearly, on the first Sunday in June. Every year, a different World Heritage site hosts the main event. In 2012, the event will be hosted by the World Heritage site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin”. Across Germany, the World Heritage sites invite the public to participate in special cultural activities. Designed as a forum for communication and personal encounters, the event aims at raising awareness ...

    

Youth Forum on World Heritage Convention; World Heritage site managers Iberian meeting on World Heritage and development; Site managers national meeting on World Heritage and development; “World Heritage cities prize” on development; Working group on 40th anniversary activities.

International colloquium on the challenges and opportunities for the conservation and management of World Heritage cities.

dates to be confirmed   

More information about this event, including confirmed dates, will be provided in coming weeks.

Dates and details to be confirmed

The 11th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture Heritage, Terra 2012 will be held in Lima, Peru, from 22 to 27 April 2012. Terra 2012 will focus on Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage in particular in regards to Risk Preparedness for Natural Disasters and Climate Change. More than 500 specialists in the fields of earthen architecture are expected to attend. The conference is organized by the International Scientific Committee on Earthen ...

The Universidad Complutense de Madrid, together with the Consell Insular deMenorca are organizing this international conference to generate a meeting point on Archaeology management and treatment of World Heritage sites. The main aim of the Conference is to draw up and publish a "Guide of Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology". To this end, sessions about the following topics will be organized:   1) Social action and Archaeology in World Heritage   2) ...

At its 35th session (Paris, 2011), and within the wider framework of the Revisions to the Operational Guidelines, the World Heritage Committee welcomed “the offer of the Government of Poland to host an expert meeting on criterion (vi) in the first quarter of 2012 and requests the World Heritage Centre to report on the results of this meeting to the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2012” (Extract of Decision 35 COM 13). The State Party of Poland, in close ...

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The event will bring together national and international experts to exchange views on roles of Protected Areas, including World Heritage natural properties, for prevention of and recovery from the damage caused by large-scale natural disasters, such as the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the tsunami they triggered. The workshop will be organized by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the Environment (the government of Japan), with ...

This event will bring together national and international experts to exchange views toward final outcomes for the closing event of the 40th anniversary year, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 2012. It is organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.