In order to strengthen world heritage management and monitoring concepts and improve methods for the promotion of China’s cultural heritage, and enable the development of management and monitoring capabilities, while also encouraging the exchange and cooperation between professionals from China and from other parts of the world who connected to the area of cultural heritage protection, the “2018 World Heritage Monitoring and Management Training Course” will be held between 8 and 19 October at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT).

The “2018 World Heritage Monitoring and Management Training Course” is organized by the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the Office of the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government, with the coordination by the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), and co-organized by the Chinese National Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites and IFT. The 12-day training course mainly includes case-studies, site visits and field work at Macao’s world heritage sites, as well as the study of basic concepts, analysis of practical cases, management and technical application related to the monitoring of world heritage. The course will be conducted by academics and experts from ICCROM and professionals from the field of world heritage protection from China.

Through this course, IC hopes to enable the exchange of views about the status of protection and management of world heritage, implementation of technical procedures and the development of management and monitoring experiences, with the assistance of specialists from China and from foreign countries, in order to promote the sustainable development of monitoring works and to enhance the management standards for the protection of the world heritage.  At the same time, this course offers the opportunity to obtain a valuable experience aimed at further raising the professional and technical standards of Macao’s cultural heritage protection and management works, effectively enabling more effective developments in the field of heritage conservation. A total of 24 specialists from Mainland China, from Macao and from abroad are involved in this training course, most of whom are directly connected to the field  of world cultural heritage protection management.

The announcement ceremony of this training course was held on 8 October, in an event that was attended by the Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, Leong Wai Man, the Deputy Director of the Office of the National Cultural Heritage Administration (Foreign Affairs Division), Zhu Ye, the Director of the Department of Heritage Sites of ICCROM, Joseph King; the Director of the Education and Training Division of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, Zhou Junsheng, the Vice President of Academic Affairs of the School of Education and Training of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, Zhang Xiaotong, the Deputy Director of the Centre of China’s World Cultural Heritage of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and Head of the Secretariat of the Chinese National Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites, Yan Haiming, among other participants.