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(2012), "News", Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 2 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd.2012.52102baa.001

News

News

Article Type: News From: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Volume 2, Issue 2.

Academia

Projects/URBACT II – discover the main thematics of the new URBACT research projects

A total of 19 new URBACT projects – on the creation of URBACT Thematic Networks – started last May on the theme of sustainable urban development. Almost half of the projects focus on sustainable development as part of the priority themes of urban planning and urban renewal. They explore sustainable alternatives for urban development in relation to monitoring, planning, and financial tools as well as building type, participation, prioritizing processes and food. The other projects address the key issues facing European cities today, such as economic development and employment, health policy and city branding and marketing, and citizen innovation to improve public services.

Source: http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/urbact-news/

Education/new MA in heritage management

This new 18-month postgraduate programme aims to combine the two fields of archaeology and business. It is an international cooperation between the University of Kent, in the UK, and the Athens University of Economics and Business, in Greece. It focuses on the management of cultural heritage sites across the world, including multidisciplinary cooperation with experts and stakeholders, fundraising and supervising specific projects. A major outcome of the programme is the ability to conceive, plan, fundraise and supervise a specific project. Fees are €7,500, and at least one scholarship will be available each year.

Source: www.heritage.aueb.gr

Awards/Professor May Cassar receives the 2012 Plowden Medal Conservation Award

Professor May Cassar, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, and Director of the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme, received the 2012 Plowden Medal Conservation Award. The Royal Warrant Holders Association awards the Plowden Medal annually to an individual who has recently made a significant contribution to the advancement of the conservation profession. Professor Cassar was honoured for her enduring commitment to improving the professional standing of heritage conservation practice. Her work has raised the profile of heritage science research and practice, training and policy; by combining practical, scientific and academic experience.

Source: www.royalwarrant.org

Praxis

The Forum on Global Heritage in a Developing World: Focus on Asia 3 May 2012 New York, USA

The Global Heritage Fund (GHF) hosted The Forum on Global Heritage in a Developing World: Focus on Asia, a discussion of development challenges facing Asia's most important and endangered heritage sites. The event featured a diverse programme of speakers and panellists, and was attended by leading experts in conservation, development, venture philanthropy, technology, travel, academia and media. During the event, the importance of designing integrated projects – conservation and development – with communities and government partners from beginning of interventions was stressed, as was the contribution of cultural heritage sites to economic development acknowledged. The GHF announced the launch of a heritage economic study to measure such impacts.

Source: http://globalheritagefund.org/forum/ny_2012 and http://globalheritagefund.org/our_approach/

Europa Nostra Awards – The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage1 June 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

This year's ceremony took place in Lisbon (Portugal), celebrating Europa Nostra's tenth anniversary. A total of 28 out of the 226 projects, submitted by 31 countries, were awarded on four categories. Among 15 winners the Averof building – School of Architecture (Athens, Greece) was awarded in the category conservation. Next, the innovative protocol for the conservation of paintings on canvas (Paris, France) was one of the three winners in research. For the category dedicated to service also three winners were selected, Paraschiva Kovacs (Satu Mare, Harghita county, Romania) being one, and lastly education, training and awareness raising had five winners, including The Seaweed Bank (Laesoe, Denmark).

Source: www.europanostra.org/laureates-2012

Rio+20 – culture in sustainable development

The role of culture in sustainable development has once more been confirmed and underlined by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio+20 key-partner UNESCO has expanded the information available on their thematic window Culture and Development with a section on sustainable development.

In addition, during the Rio+20 a set of recommendations was put forward to help establish co-designed research, technology and policy agendas. The new ten-year initiative Future Earth: Research for Global Sustainability aims to coordinate scientific research designed and produced in partnership with governments, business and society.

Source: www.icsu.org/future-earth/ and www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/culture-and-development/the-future-we-want-the-role-of-culture/

Upcoming events

1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and ResilienceNovember 2012, London, UK

UCL Centre in Urban Sustainability & Resilience

Source: www.usar-conference-2012.org/

17th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT 2012) – “To Reach and Unveil the Hidden Spirit of the Town: Urban Archaeology and Excavations”5-7 November 2012, Vienna, Austria

The Urban Archaeology of Vienna

Source: www.stadtarchaeologie.at/

40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention (1972-2012): The Invention of the “Outstanding Universal Value” 14-16 November 2012, Dijon, France

The University of Burgundy's CIMEOS Laboratory, Georges Chevrier Centre and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Source: http://colloque-patrimoinemondial.u-bourgogne.fr/

Reducing Risks to Heritage – International Meeting 2012 28-30 November 2012, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE); International Centre for the study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI-ICC)

Source: www.incca.org/files/pdf/news/reducing_risks_to_heritage.pdf

URBACT Annual Conference “Cities of Tomorrow: Action Today” 3-4 December 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark

URBACT

Source: http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/news/?entryId=5167

Fourth HERITY International Conference5-7 December 2012, Rome, Italy

HERITY Italia

Source: www.herity.it/

3rd International Architectural Conservation: Building a Future by Preserving the Past17-19 December 2012, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Turret Media

Source: www.architecturalconservation.info/

114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America3-6 January, Seattle, USA

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)

Source: http://aia.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10096

Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures5-9, April 2013, Taipei, Taiwan

Ironbridge Institute and National Taiwan University in association with UNESCO UNITWIN Network – Tourism, Culture, Development (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, UK

Source: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/iaa/departments/ironbridge/news/2012/cfp-conference-2013.aspx

IFLA World Congress IFLA5010-12 April 2013, Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand and Australian Institutes of Landscape Architects (NZILA and AILA)

Source: www.ifla2013.com/

2013 National Main Streets Conference14-16 April 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Source: www.mainstreet.org

APT NYC 2013 Preserving the Metropolis12-15 October 2013, New York City, USA

Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)

Source: www.apti.org