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‘Difficult job ahead’ as UNESCO lists Odesa as endangered World Heritage Site amid Ukraine conflict

‘Heritage emergency’: Melting glaciers cause race against time for archaeologists

Oldest rune stone ever found has researchers baffled: here’s why

Heritage stakeholders en innovative education: Two new reports published by CHARTER Alliance

Europe’s morbid marshes: the secrets of ‘bog bodies’ unravelled

Council of the European Union

EU: work plan Culture 2023-2026 approved

EDITOR'S PICKS

Why Airbnb takes serious interest in European cultural heritage

COP27: Intangible heritage unprotected from climate change

TRENDING

Utrechtse canal, The Netherlands.

Utrecht restores historic canal made into motorway in 1970s

The Notre Dame Cathedral fire in 2019. Image: Alexander Perrien Canva CC0

“Anachronistic” rebuild of Notre Dame angers environmental group

Explained: How do you become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Cordouan Lighthouse, France. Image: Cloud-Mine-Amsterdam via Canva CC0

These are the new UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe

Industrial heritage disappearing from Europe’s skyline: 2023 Year of the Factory Chimney

BREAKING: ICOM adopts new definition of ‘museum’

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MORE NEWS

15.000 daily visitors less for Louvre: director hopes hard cap solves crowd problem

Lascaux painting

Amateur archaeologist solves Ice Age mystery

Professionals wanted: European Heritage Label is looking for panel members

Polish government’s Cultural Heritage campaign dubbed as ‘propaganda’ by opponents

The Netherlands

Hidden, forbidden and forgotten: but Europe’s Cold War heritage has never been more relevant

BLOGS

European Heritage Youth Ambassadors look back on 2021

ESACH Blog | How to design a risk preparedness plan according to the Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention

Tinos: View of the Cardiani settlement in Tinos island. Locals and heritage experts warn against the planned installation of wind power infrastructure in this small-scale, layered landscape. Image: Marilena Mela

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Heritage and the energy transition: the case of European islands

ESACH Blog | The role of rural communities in heritage preservation in Cumalıkızık, Turkey

Looking for Faro Blog | This is my heritage

ESACH Blog | Promoting diversity and inclusion with digital collections

Image by Thomas McSparron from Pixabay

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | How rewilding and alternative landscape management could increase biodiversity and help communities

Looking for Faro Blog | Archaeology: from licking shards to dig therapy

One of the tapestries of Pastrana

History of hidden cultural heritage: Pastrana’s tapestries

ESACH Blog | Connecting heritage and youth through Minecraft: MI.MOMO.FARO

Looking for Faro Blog | Can heritage serve as a means to combat rural shrinkage?

house of leaves wall

ESACH Blog | Dark Heritage museums in Tirana: reflections on the past and tourist attraction

ESACH Blog | Beyond engagement: community led World Heritage nominations of Indigenous sites in Australia

ESACH Blog | Cultural landscapes: reflecting culture through the lens of photography

Looking for Faro Blog | Football or bobbin lace?

ESACH Blog | Description of the initiative by ESACH Editor-in-Chief Giacomo Martinis

Faro, Portugal. Image: 2427999 via Pixabay CC0

Looking for Faro Blog | Faro, where are we going?

ESACH Blog | The fallacy of revitalization: subversive creativity, consumption, and the contestation of heritage spaces

ESACH Blog | Community engagement through volunteering for heritage: a case study

ESACH Blog | An innovative role of heritage in sustainable development from a community engagement perspective

ESACH Blog | Where Renaissance meets technology

Looking for Faro Blog | What is heritage? Or, what can it be?

ESACH Blog | Heritage and tourism for sustainable solutions: stakeholder involvement in heritage tourism

New series of articles: Future Making in the Anthropocene

Southern Germany around 120.000 years ago. Image: Elke Gröning

Future Making in the Anthropocene Blog | Nature’s reaction to shifting baseline syndrome

EVENTS & CALLS

202303febAll Day09UNESCO Marine World Heritage at the 5th International Marine Protected Area Congress (IMPAC5)

202306feb4:00 pmLive Webinar: One Year After the Ukraine Invasion – How Can Cultural Heritage Professionals Play a Role? Event Organized ByAntiquities Coalition

202308febAll Day10Conference: The Politics of Memory as a Weapon: Perspectives on Russia’s War against Ukraine Event Organized ByENRS

202302mar1:02 pm1:02 pmInternational Event: Community and Digitisation, the new drivers of cultural heritage

202314mar(mar 14)12:56 pm16(mar 16)12:56 pmMasterclass: Empowering Destination Leaders to Deliver Sustainability Event Organized ByNECSTouR

202320marAll Day233rd International Conference: Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural HeritageRecapturing the World in Conflict through Culture promoting mutual understanding and Peace Event Organized ByNational Technical University of Athens

202320apr(apr 20)9:00 am23(apr 23)10:00 pmAnnual Conference EuroClio: The Complexity of History, Unpacking the Past

202320aprAll Day22FRH Conference 2023: European Sustainable Religious Heritage Event Organized ByFuture for Religious Heritage (FRH)

202301febAll DayCall for Applications: PhD programme for the study of cultureInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture Event Organized ByGiessen University’s International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

202301feb11:59 pmCall for Speakers: IAASF Conference 2023 Event Organized ByTrident Manor

202301marAll DayCall for Experts: Football Makes History II Project Event Organized ByEuroClio

202301marAll DayCall for Applications: Digital tools for Cultural Heritage Academic CertificateA one-semester, part-time European Credit (ECTS) Event Organized ByThe Heritage Management Organization

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How to compensate for lost heritage?

Monuments and sustainability: Flanders allows solar panels on nearly all monuments

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Digital citizen engagement with heritage | Future Making in the Anthropocene Podcast

50 years World Heritage Convention: what are the prospects for the next 50?

Rewriting history: exceptional bronze statues show cultural shift between Etruscan and Roman culture

Culture Moves Europe: mobility, also for heritage professionals!

Inside stories from local residents: sustainable heritage in Italy

Making money with reused materials from your museum

How to do adaptive heritage reuse? Check out OpenHeritage’s latest Policy Briefs

€3 million cultural heritage research network ARCHE launched

5 must-visit Halloween heritage spots from around Europe

European Heritage Days 2022: Visit an old women’s prison that now serves as a cultural hotspot for the LGBT+ community in Germany

Publication alert: ‘Heritage for the Future, Science for Heritage’ symposium publishes Proceedings

Threatened urban heritage narratives | Future making in the Anthropocene Podcast

VIDEO

DIGITAL

Travelling exhibition MEMEX kicked off in Lisbon: “People can voice stories about their own heritage now”

Heritage and citizen science projects: three initiatives involving the public in heritage sites

Rome’s wonder bus takes you 2000 years back in time

Ongoing projects

Exploring how to deal with problematic cultural heritage data

How can you generate (more) media attention as a cultural organisation?

Silver skies or foggy foresight? What the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage tells us

Sunken castle resurfaces through virtual archaeology route

Charter interviews Harry Verwayen: general director of the Europeana Foundation

Saint George on a Bike project launches crowdsourcing campaign to generate natural language descriptions automatically

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News

‘Difficult job ahead’ as UNESCO lists Odesa as endangered World Heritage Site amid Ukraine conflict

‘Heritage emergency’: Melting glaciers cause race against time for archaeologists

Oldest rune stone ever found has researchers baffled: here’s why

Heritage stakeholders en innovative education: Two new reports published by CHARTER Alliance