ICOMOS is participating as Advisory Board member in the 3-year European Horizon 2020 funded Project "ILUCIDARE - International network for Leveraging sUccessful Cultural heritage Innovations and Diplomacy, cApacity building and awaREness raising".

On 6 February, ICOMOS attended the Kick-off meeting of the project at the University of Leuven, who is consortium coordinator, which included an evening public networking event.

Created in March 2017 as a response to the destruction of cultural heritage during recent conflicts, either intentional or collateral, in sites like Timbuktu, Mosul, Nimrud, Palmyra, or Aleppo, the ALIPH Foundation (International Alliance for the protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas) now brings together several countries: France, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Morocco, China, and Switzerland, along with key civil society figures and institutions to finance preventive measures, emergency interventions and concrete post-conflict rehabilitation projects, all around the world.

This year, the ICOMOS Advisory Committee meetings, Scientific Symposium and Annual General Assembly will take place in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 14 to 18 October 2019, on the generous invitation of ICOMOS Morocco.