The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) Programme 2024/2025 Heritage Place Lab for site managers

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About The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) Programme 2024/2025

The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme is launching a second edition of the Heritage Place Lab (HPL), focused on strengthening networks across research and site management in the context of the World Heritage Convention. 

WHL is looking for six World Heritage sites and their site managers to join the next edition of the Heritage Place Lab. 

WHL invites World Heritage site managers who are seeking collaborations with researchers to improve their management processes and decision-making. The Heritage Place Lab 2024-2025 will consist of a series of online and in-person workshops to be held between September 2024 and April 2025. The expected outcome is to develop tools to facilitate the exchange between site managers and researchers, establishing working methodologies with researchers and research institutions to design research projects and strategies to support World Heritage site management. Through the Heritage Place Lab, site management institutions will be connected with universities and research institutes to work collaboratively in addressing the World Heritage property’s research and management needs.

Program Details:

• Running from September 2024 to April 2025, the Heritage Place Lab promises a dynamic series of online and in-person workshops where participants will collaboratively develop cutting-edge tools to amplify efforts in World Heritage management. 
• By fostering stronger collaborations between site management teams and researchers, the programme aims to address pressing issues such as development pressures, climate change impacts, inadequate legal frameworks, governance, and the integration of local knowledge.

Program Component

The HPL will have three work components to be implemented in a maximum of 9 months duration (September 2024-April 2025): 

1. A 5-day inaugural workshop to be held in-person between 19 and 23 October 2024 in Beijing, China (excluding travel dates); 
2. three 2-hour online mentoring sessions with individual World Heritage sites and two 3-hour online workshops with all World Heritage sites selected; 
3. a 5-day closing workshop to be possibly held in-person or in hybrid modalities in April 2025.

• Sponsor Organisation: International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

Benefits of The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) Programme 2024/2025

• This programme aims to support World Heritage site management.

The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) Programme 2024/2025 Requirements

This programme is for site managers who are seeking collaborations with researchers to improve their management processes and decision-making.

Application Date and Process

Applications should be submitted to the World Heritage Leadership via email at [email protected] by 15 June 2024.

The application process includes the submission of the following documents:

• Complete the application form in English in PDF format
• A brief version of the curriculum vitae of all members of the site management team
• Official endorsements by site management institutions authority(ies).

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. 

Pre-selected World Heritage properties and their site managers will be contacted via email and invited for an online interview with the World Heritage Leadership that will take place in June 2024, dates to be agreed with the site management team.

 

Application Deadline

15 June, 2024

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