Great news comes with the International Day for Monuments and Sites this year as the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the Global Heritage Fund (GHF) celebrated with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 18 April 2021.

Discover below the events planned for the 2021 edition of the International Day for Monuments and Sites. 
This year, the theme is entitled "Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures". You can have further information clicking this link.

The University of Cape Town in South-Africa and the properties adjacent to the main campus are currently under the flames of a fire from Table Mountain which has already destroyed a large part of the cultural landscape of the Rhodes Estate, the historic Tea Room next to the Rhodes Memorial, several buildings on the main campus including the Jagger Library with its internationally significant collection of historic archival documents and books and the Fuller Hall residence.

ICOMOS is pleased to introduce you to its new National and International Scientific Committee Presidents. The latter were elected between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

Discover their rich professional experience and academic background in the short presentations below!

ICOMOS and Europa Nostra are launching the European Cultural Heritage Green Paper, "Putting Europe's shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal". The Paper focuses on the role of cultural heritage in achieving the ambitions of the European Green Deal.

“Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Policy Guidance for Heritage and Development Actors” — the new policy document produced by the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (Priority Action 1 Task Team) — was released worldwide on Wednesday, 17 March 2021, during the fifth ICOMOS SDGs Working Group Webinar, Policy + Partnerships: Coming Together to Mobilize Heritage for Sustainable Development (SDG 1-17).