The 2024 United Nations Ocean Decade Conference - co-organized by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO) - took place in Barcelona 10-12 April, 2024. The event centred around the identification of the future challenges and priorities for ocean knowledge and science. Experts from the ICOMOS International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) represented ICOMOS at the conference ..read more

From 18-22 March 2024, a UNESCO/ICOMOS mission to Chernihiv on Guidance for Developing a Rehabilitation Plan for the Historic Center of Chernihiv and Methodology for Emergency Preparedness Plans was held in Chernihiv, Ukraine. ICOMOS sent 5 international experts onsite to help with the rehabilitation and methodology ..read more

Following the work initiated through a capacity-building workshop in 2022 in Kinshasa and Kongo Central, ICOMOS is implementing the second phase of the national cultural heritage inventory in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ICOMOS President Teresa PATRÍCIO; legal advisor on cultural heritage Bély NIANGAO (ICLAFI/Burkina Faso) and cultural heritage inventory expert Boussad AICHE (Algeria), attended the first mission which took place from 24-30 March 2024 in Kinshasa, DRC ..read more

ICOMOS, ICCROM and Sogang University CGSI (Critical Global Studies Institute) organised the 1.5-day public conference and half-day closed workshop upon the invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, who hosted the event. ICOMOS World Heritage Evaluation Unit Director Gwenaëlle BOURDIN as well as ICOMOS World Heritage experts Laura ROBINSON and Luisa DE MARCO were part of the project team as panelists and moderators ..read more

At the General Assembly 2023 in Sydney, the theme of “Disaster and Conflict Resilient Heritage - Preparedness, Response and Recovery” was chosen as the theme for the Triennial Scientific Plan 2024-2027. As ICOMOS develops a roadmap for capacity building for “disaster and conflict resilient heritage” for its members and the wider heritage community and gets ready to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Venice Charter (31 May 2024), we look back on our shared inheritance from this very charter, and ahead as we ask ourselves what the pragmatic needs of heritage practice are today ..read more

Preserving Legacies: A Future for our Past welcomes a new cohort of heritage sites and custodians across the world to work together to ensure their places of cultural significance are protected from climate change impacts and allowing us to continue to learn from our past and inspire our future. With climate change as their fastest growing threat, not only is their physical integrity at risk of erosion, but so are the values, knowledge and sense of community imbued in these places ..read more

ICOMOS and its Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (SDGWG), the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), the Heritage Commission in Saudi Arabia and ICOMOS Saudi Arabia are organizing a Capacity Building programme for Incorporating Sustainable Development into the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Arab States Region. This programme aims to provide practical explanations on the World Heritage and Sustainable Development Policy, and promote more effective and long-term heritage conservation in the Arab Region.  ..read more

ICOMOS is launching the 2nd edition of the ICOMOS Culture-Nature Prize, which will be awarded to support the most promising Culture-Nature initiatives undertaken by ICOMOS members. The 2024 edition is funded by funded by Giving Tuesday donations received in 2022 ..read more

This year, the ICOMOS Advisory Committee will organise its Scientific Symposium in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from 13 to 15 November 2024 on the theme "Revisiting the Venice Charter: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges." Read the call for abstracts and send your abstract before 15 May 2024!     ..read more

This year, the ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee meetings and Scientific Symposium will take place in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from 10 to 17 November 2024, upon the generous invitation of ICOMOS Brazil.  You can download the preliminary program (v4 22/02/2024) – registration and logistical information will be made available shortly ..read more