This website serves as a portal to all our project activities and resources.

• In About Us, you will know more about UNESCO in the field of culture, the staff, and internship opportunities.
• Strategy features the strategic objectives for culture, including the main programmes of action.
• The details about our project activities are provided in Our Projects.
• The Asia-Pacific World Heritage Sites present the complete heritage list in the region.
• Under Resources, all the instruments and publications related to culture can be found.

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ICCROM Course on Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia - Pacific Region 2010

Applications are now open for the course on 'Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia - Pacific Region 2010: research, analysis and preservation of archaeological sites and remains', to be held in Nara, Japan, 7 September - 7 October 2010
Application deadline: 20 June 2010. [more...]

ICCROM Course on Saving Mosaics in Museums of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean

Applications are now open for the course on 'Saving Mosaics in Museums of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean', to be held in Syria from 10 - 28 October 2010.
Application deadline: 13 June 2010. [more...]

U.S. Embassy 2010 Small Grants Program for Outreach to Civil Society

The Small Grants Program for Outreach to Civil Society of the U.S.  The U.S. Embassy is accepting applications for grants from Thai non-governmental organization (NGOs), Voluntary Private Organizations (VPOs), and other non-profit organizations.  The purpose of the Small Grants Program for Outreach to Civil Society is to award small grants for no more than USD $20,000 for projects with the purpose of strengthening democracy, increasing respect for civil society and the rule of law, advancing human rights and women's rights, and/or combating extremism in Thailand. Priority will be given to proposals from new organizations and new projects.  The deadline for submitting proposals is 10 June 2010. [more...]

Grant opportunity - Toyota Foundation

The Toyota Foundation is dividing its grant programs into five broad categories. Categories are further subdivided into themes and issues on which research will be conducted. Please be advised that application periods and activation dates differ from program to program. There are no restrictions based on nationality or affiliation. [more…]

Ban Chiang World Heritage Festival, 12-14 February 2010

In the spirit of the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, the festival gathers world heritage sights, 5,000 years of history back to life and the stunning sounds of music.  In its 2^nd year, the festival features International art and musical performances highlighting World Heritage Stage.  For more information on the schedule, click here.

International Seminar on Marine Archaeology

This seminar aims to bring together scholars and professionals to discuss a variety of topics related to maritime archaeology in general and Ancient Ports of Indian Ocean and India’s Maritime Linkages with Indian Ocean Region Littorals in particular.  Topics relevant to modern development and protection of underwater cultural heritage would also be addressed. ISMA-4 will make an important contribution to recent advances in research and up to date studies on maritime history and maritime heritage in Indian Ocean. To download registration form, click here.

Call For Papers - Singing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on a natural human expressive outlet

This issue will focus on the origins and implications of singing, a natural, human expressive outlet.  Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations.  Submissions are invited reflecting multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, education, and other disciplines.  Submissions may relate to one of the three themes around which the issue will, provisionally, be organized although other perspectives are welcome. [more...]

IASTE 2010 Call for Papers

In recent years IASTE scholars have examined traditions and their multitude of built forms in an increasingly interconnected global landscape. To advance this effort, this conference seeks to study how tradition inspires and informs changing concepts of utopia in theory and space. Utopian theories and plans emerge from a complex symbiotic relationship with traditions that are based on notions of the ideal. Indeed, utopias cannot be understood without understanding the traditions from which they develop. [more...]

ICCROM Course on Conservation of Built Heritage 2010 (CBH10)

The training Course on Conservation of Built Heritage will be held in Rome from 5 March - 30 April 2010.  The course aims at serving a wide range of conservation practitioners and decision makers by placing technical issues within the broader conservation context in order to link them to planning and management concerns.  Applications should reach ICCROM by the 31 July 2009 to ensure inclusion in the selection process. (Implementation of the course will be subjected to the approval of the ICCROM General Assembly that will be held in November 2009). [more...]

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