By Eng. Paolo Iannelli, Contact Point of the MiBACT Task Force Background Following the disastrous explosion that hit the city of Beirut on 4 August 2020, causing more than 200 deaths and immense destruction in the urban, social and cultural fabric of the city, the Institutes in charge of cultural heritage – CH safeguarding have
From 16 to 18 November Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised, in partnership with UNESCO, the European Union and the Council of Europe, the Conference “Cultural Heritage and Multilateralism: Regional and International Strategies for the Protection of Cultural Heritage”. In the spirit of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
France, among the funders of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Zones (ALIPH), has allocated a first amount of 5 million dollars for financing emergency measures to stabilize, protect, or rehabilitate Beirut’s cultural heritage. For the implementation of this first envelope, ALIPH will carefully apply the principles of urgency, efficiency and
