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7 December

• Heritage and Creation Workshops
  The aim of FONTEVRAUD Workshops is to make the meaning and nature of this major site available to a young public. The monument is an ideal tool to get familiar with built heritage, acquire keys to architectural and iconographic reading. Putting this cultural learning process into practice takes its full sense during creation workshops. In Heritage Workshops the use of an active pedagogy moving around a twofold educational challenge is privileged: Cultivating the eye and educating tof aesthetics, occupies a prominent place. Students acquire knowledge by means of creative practices. They experiment at the workshops, manipulate and get into direct contact with matters, materials, they put into practice different artistic techniques (modelling, painting, sculpture, engraving…)
  More information in French: http://www.abbaye-fontevraud.com/v3/home/atelier_patrimoine.php

• UNESCO World Heritage listed sites: a challenge for regional development in Europe
  The Centre region and Saxony-Anhalt Land organised a conference on this subject on 4th November 2009 in Brussels, based on their own experiences. Saxony-Anhalt is the Land with the most architectural sites listed as UNESCO World Heritages in Germany. The Loire Valley, for its part, is the largest listed site in France. Dominique Tremblay, Director of Val de Loire Mission, presented the challenges arising from the Loire Valley’s inclusion and the initiatives taken by the Val de Loire Mission.
  More information: http://www.valdeloire.org/front.aspx?SectionId=51&publiid=5958

4 December

• Natural Science courses open at the new Jurassic Studies Centre in Lyme Regis
  On the occasion of the launch of the new Jurassic Studies Centre, situated at the centre of the natural World Heritage Site of Dorset and Devon's Jurassic Coast, in Lyme Regis, United Kingdom, a range of natural science courses will take place in February and March 2010 and 2011, in partnership with the Natural History Museum and the Field Studies Council. This pilot project will offer a unique and innovative programme of field based learning with a choice of fourteen different courses led by renowned specialists in geology, entomology, botany, mineralogy and paleontology, and based on the exceptional universal value of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Courses are intended for beginners, collectors, science teachers or students wishing to expand their knowledge of natural sciences.
  More information: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/569

3 December

• Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites
  Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the World Heritage List – the historic centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example – can now be explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google. The agreement makes it possible for internet users to visit 18 of the 890 World Heritage properties via Google’s Street View interface. All the other sites on the List will be shown on the Google Earth and Google Maps interfaces.
  More information: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47015&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

1 December

• 16th Plenary Session of the International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor (ICC) 15 December 2009. Siem Reap-Angkor, Cambodia
  The protection of the historic site’s natural heritage is one of the items on the agenda of the Committee’s forthcoming session. The CIC is the international organ which coordinates the assistance provided by different countries and organizations for the safeguarding and development of historic Angkor. In order to do so, the CIC keeps up with all scientific projects and development work underway on the site and within the Siem Reap-Angkor region. It makes sure the various projects are coherent and, whenever necessary, sets technical and financial standards and alerts the concerned parties. It convenes twice yearly in a technical session and in a plenary session. The Committee works in close collaboration with APSARA, the national Department for management of water resources, monuments and preventive archaeology.
  More information: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2175&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html