Turning theory into practice with Civil Military Cooperation for the protection of cultural heritage
Introductory training in Georgia Imagine a group of sixteen participants from the Min. of Culture, Min. of Interiors, Min. of Defence, the Civil Protection, Regional and Municipal authorities, the Fire Brigade of Mtskheta, the National Committee of the Blue Shield, the Patriarchate of Georgia, civil society organisations who were joined by a couple of platoons [...]
Continue Reading →Training Courses in Structural Analysis of Existing Buildings, Monuments and Historical Constructions
University of Minho – Dept. Civil Engineering – Campus de Azurém – Guimarães – Portugal The University of Minho – Portugal – is organizing the seventh edition of the advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions to be held in Padova (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). For the first time the courses taught [...]
Continue Reading →International Meeting of Contemporary Architecture on Historic Settings
International Meeting of Contemporary Architecture on Historic Settings Seville, 17 to 19 September 2013 An international meeting, organized by the Municipality of Seville together with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, World Heritage Center of UNESCO, ICOMOS and the Organization of World Heritage Cities, will bring in Seville a number of international experts from [...]
Continue Reading →LESSONS LEARNED DUE TO BE PUBLISHED
Memory of the project and instrument for the dissemination of the 1999HP, a publication is under preparation within the War Free World Heritage Listed Cities framework. Aimed to transfer a concrete experience made hands-on for the implementation of the Second Protocol into world heritage sites, this publication will also provide several hints that could reveal [...]
Continue Reading →The role of NGOs within the 1954 Hague Convention
Alert: Issue no.7 of the Newsletter soon online!!! An article by Prof. Massimo Carcione on the role played by NGOs and Civil Society Organizations at large is one of the features among other pertinent topics found in this Newsletter.
Continue Reading →International Workshop in Rome
Rome, 16-17 May 2013 Follow ups of an international workshop are ongoing within the framework of the of the War Free World Heritage Listed Cities project which is implemented under the EU ENPI CIUDAD regional programme. The international workshop took place in Rome (16-17 May 2013)and was hosted at the University La Sapienza in Rome [...]
Continue Reading →Civil military cooperation training for the protection of cultural heritage to be held in Georgia
An introductory training on civil military cooperation within the framework of the 1999 Second Protocol of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict will be implemented in Georgia during the coming months. This activity is part of several initiatives promoted within the framework of War Free World [...]
Continue Reading →Welcome to the Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield
The Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield (GNCBS) was founded and it was recognized by the International Committee of the Blue Shield. Founders and members of the GNCBS are the National Committees of ICOM, ICOMOS and representatives of IFLA (Georgian Library Organisation) and ICA (National Archive of Georgia). The main goals of Blue Shield [...]
Continue Reading →Partners in action to stimulate development of inter-institutional cooperation
Another round of intense consultations and institutional meetings engaged War Free World Heritage Listed Cities project partners’ in Lebanon from 8 through 12 April. Those meetings followed a similar exercise made in Georgia earlier in February, and counted on the presence of high ranking officers and institutional referents in Beirut at UNESCO Regional Bureau, [...]
Continue Reading →