Egypt
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme
Full details can be found in the 6-page FUUH brochure (in PDF format).
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- Unesco World Heritage Sites
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http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...
Egypt
New initiative from UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme
Full details can be found in the 6-page FUUH brochure (in PDF format).
International network of co-operation in the field of higher education aimed at professors, scholars, professionals and postgraduate students. The website universityandheritage.net offers to the members of this network the possibility to publish on the web papers, thesis summaries, workshops, projects, activities, etc.
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme (FUUH) has an international scope: on one hand, to higher education institutions and/or research centers; and on the other hand, to professors and scholars, professionals of the heritage preservation and postgraduate students (masters, doctorate, etc.) interested in thematic areas related to the Natural and Cultural heritage.
This program conforms a co-operation network for the organization of activities that promote the protection and safeguard of Cultural and/or Natural Heritage , as well as the dialog and the exchange of knowledge, based on a spirit of participation and solidarity in accordance with the ideals of the Constitution of the UNESCO.
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Network offers its members the possibility of publishing contents (papers, thesis summaries and publications, workshops, projects and activities, etc.) in the electronic newsletter of Forum UNESCO (ISSN 1887-1658) and in the website universityandheritage.net, created by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) with the collaboration of the Spanish Agency for International co-operation for Development (AECID). The FUUH members receive the newsletter periodically.
The Culture Sector of UNESCO and the World Heritage Centre, as well as the members of the network, shall use the universityandheritage.net website and its databases to identify specialists in Cultural and/or Natural Heritage and to search for sponsoring of programs, projects and activities.
Send the attached individual application form if you are interested in the individual affiliation at Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage. Please, contact directly to UNESCO World Heritage Centre for institutional affiliation.
Yours faithfully,
Team of Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage (FUUH)
- Unesco Backs Plan To Build Underwater Museum In Alexandria
Xinhuanet The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Thursday that it would help Egypt build an underwater museum in the Bay of Alexandria on the Mediterranean. The idea for a museum, located by Cleopatra's Palace...
- Forum: International Cultural Property Society
http://www.culturalproperty.org/forum/index.php A new cultural heritage forum has been formed by to support the International Journal of Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press). The Discussion forums of the International Cultural Property Society...
- World Heritage Map
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=319It's a slow time of year for Egyptology news, so here's a little something just slightly off topic, for those of you who are interested - a complete map of the World Heritage sites, including those in Egypt,...
- Unesco World Heritage Sites
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/16/news/trherit.php?rssOne of the International Herald Tribune's multi page reviews of an international heritage issue. This looks at the role of Unesco, the relative value of adding more sites to the list, and...
- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...