The Cultural Tourism Accelerator Program is a $5 million targeted measure announced by the Australian Government as part of the Regional Arts Tourism package, which will enable arts organisations to promote and develop cultural events for tourists across regional Australia.
Information sessions: 23rd and 25th November 2021.
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The first online edition of "Discourse: The Heritage Magazine", an initiative of BTU World Heritage PHD students Lianne Oonwalla and Ekta Chauhan, was launched on 1 October.
You can download it for free here.
Smriti Pant, Alumni of World Heritage Studies M.A. She talked with BTU about her time at our University, her experience as a student, what she learned in the Master's degree and her current work in Baden-Baden in the UNESCO World Heritage nomination project "Great Spa Towns of Europe". She also gave some tips for all newcomers and students ;).
Australia ICOMOS was set to host the ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GA) on 2020, but due #Covid19, plans changed. Instead, Australia will now host the GA in 2023 in Sydney.
Find here September's events, calls and opportunities in the field of heritage. If you know about events, workshops, initiatives and opportunities, and want to share them with our community, you can also do it here! You will find the link at the end.
From today until 31 July, the Extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee will be taking place. Here we tell you how to follow it online.
In April 2021, the government of Australia submitted to the UNESCO tentative list “Flinders Ranges”, under criteria viii to be considerer as Natural Heritage of the World. Read more
On 18 May we celebrate Museum Day, and we continue to highlight the initiatives and events that museums and different institutions around the world are organising to celebrate this special date.
Today we bring you a map made by the Network of European Museum Organization #NEMO showing an overview of the reopening of museums in Europe.
Today is May the fourth, and for all Star Wars fans, that means it's the day of the force. If you are a World Heritage lover and also a fan of the Star Wars films, you will have noticed that their locations are so incredible that they can't be anything other than World Heritage listed places. That's why today we take the opportunity to remember these films that have been set in several places included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Discover these 10 WHS that have been the location of Star Wars.
Happy #internationalWorkersDay and also happy #MayDay. Here are five different traditions that are celebrated on 1st May.
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The #HeritageDualDegree has new channels to keep in contact with Alumni, Students and all Heritage Practitioners. Through our social channels, you can find:
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Are you a native or heritage speaker or user of an Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous, minority, or low-resourced language from Oceania?
Do you have an idea for a project or campaign that uses the internet or digital media to promote your language in digital spaces?
Are you interested in developing a plan to further advance that idea to make an impact for your language community?
If you answered “yes” to all these three questions, then we would like to invite you to apply to take part in a two-week online workshop “Strengthening your language on the internet through digital activism” organized by Rising Voices in partnership with UNESCO and through a special collaboration with First Languages Australia.
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The Estonian Maritime Museum and The Tallinn University are pleased to invite everyone interested to the workshop
“Digital Data in the Service of Cultural Heritage”,
which will take place on the 24th and 25th of November 2021 online via Zoom.
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Presented by the Practitioners’ Network and co-hosted by the British Council and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, the webinar moves from the Declaration “Cooperation in Culture for Development: Towards a Sustainable Transformation”, and it feeds into the debate on the role of culture in sustainable development.
When? 24th November
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The 10th edition of Exponatec Cologne, Europe’s leading communication platform for the museum, conservation and restoration sectors, will take place from 17 to 19 November 2021 in Cologne. EXPONATEC COLOGNE links the classic core segments of the museum, conservation, restoration and cultural heritage with future-oriented trends like virtual reality, 3D staging and new digital developments in the fields of restoration and scenography.
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World Space Week will be celebrated from October 4 to 10, and what better way to join the celebration than by remembering our space and astronomical heritage.
This virtual conference will discuss the findings of the CHIEF project’s international research on youth cultural identities, practices and participation across Europe and Beyond.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
This workshop aims to discuss the contribution of cultural heritage to fostering societal well-being and local development, drawing on the rich experience of the HERIWELL Consortium and ESPON EGTC, URBASOFIA, Europa Nostra, Eurocities, KEA European Affairs SPRL and the European Regions Research and Innovation Network.
Hosted virtually on 27 and 29 October 2021. The Taking Control of our Heritage Indigenous Cultural Heritage Conference 2021 provides the first opportunity for Traditional Owners and their allies to meet, discuss, and develop programs, strategies and ideas to take control of their Cultural Heritage in Australia.
Save the date: November 25-26, 2021
The aim of the Festival is to involve groups of young university students around the world in the promotion, interpretation, presentation and enhancement of the local cultural expressions of a specific heritage site in their country (in times of pandemic), implementing the Life Beyond Tourism methodology. It is an exercise in narrating the territories in which students of universities and higher education institutions are involved to instill in the younger generations the curiosity to discover and protect the identities of their territories.
Find here the events, calls and opportunities in the field of heritage for this week from June 14 to 20, 2021. If you know of events and opportunities and want to share them with our community, you can also do it here! You will find the link at the end.
In this collaborative space you can find our database with events and important dates of the week, deadlines nearby, internships and more opportunities that we detect for you. Read more!
Find here events and important dates between 31st May and 7th June, deadlines nearby, internships and more opportunities that we detect for you. Click Read More
In this collaborative space you can find our database with events and important dates of the week, deadlines nearby, internships and more opportunities that we detect for you.
BTU Alumni Office, Startup Revier EAST and IAWHP e.V. prepare this conversation for Heritage BTU community, to talk about Entrepreneurship in the field of Heritage.
Next 6 June, Germany celebrates their UNESCO World Heritage places, and we can be part of it in the photo-contest #WelterbeVerbindet. We explain you here [in English] how to participate!
In this collaborative space you can find our database with events and important dates of the week, deadlines nearby, internships and more opportunities that we detect for you. Click in "Read More" to see what is going on this week.
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May 17 - 24: Find here this week events, deadlines, opportunities and more.
This week:
In this collaborative space you can find our database with events and important dates of the week, deadlines nearby, internships and more opportunities that we detect for you. Click in "Read More" to see what is going on this week.
Do you want to contribute? Do it here:
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Are you working in the music/cultural heritage sectors? Do you want to participate in an international mobility to promote your project?
i-Portunus have open the callings for music and cultural heritage till 15th April.
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Call for Papers – Museum International: Empty Museums.
ICOM is preparing an issue of Museum International entitled ‘Empty Museums’ (Vol. 73, Nº 291 – 292). Therefore, it is inviting authors to send in proposals that reflect on the variety of challenges brought about by the latest crisis to impact the museum field: COVID-19.
Applications open to @UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercourie International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes.
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