CIE - Centre for International Heritage Activities
Centrum voor Internationale Erfgoedactiviteiten
CIE is an internationally orientated organization which strives to inspire and foster co-creative heritage activities and research across the globe. Our work is focused on creating platforms for discussing the multi-layered nature of heritage, and on practical and academic approaches towards community involvement in their heritage. Our Mission is to facilitate multidisciplinary cultural heritage projects, to encourage and develop skills and capacities, and to move beyond the Eurocentric origins of the heritage industry. We aim to serve as a catalyst for cultural heritage development worldwide.
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The HeritageLab platform was one of 10 recipients of the 2024 Award for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases given by the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (WHITRAP under the auspices of UNESCO. The award was announced on July 23 at the 46th Session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee, held in New Delhi year. Alia Yunis and Salama Al Faheem accepted the award on behalf of HeritageLab.
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Summer 2024
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Alia Yunis presented at 23 July the HeritageLab platform at the 2024 Awards for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases, by the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (WHITRAP). A side event at the UNESCO 46th session of the World Heritage Committee, New Delhi, India.
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CIE launched the HeritageLab platform in collaboration with international partners and heritage communities. The HeritageLab for academics, artists and heritage professionals who seek to give voice to forgotten and neglected narratives, connect heritage landscapes across oceans and seas, and share with marginalized communities the skills that empower them to unlock, document and celebrate their heritage and collective memory.
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Spring 2024
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Conference One Ocean | One Heritage, 29 April-1May, Abu Dhabi
Heritage and the ocean are deeply intwined in coastal communities across the globe. The way our ancestors were affected and adapted to changes in climate is documented in both the cultural memory and the material traces of the past. Looking to the past for guidance and reflecting on the outcomes of COP 28, the Ocean Decade Conference, and the passing of the High Seas Treaty last March, brings together ocean heritage scholars, policymakers, artists, and practitioners with the goal of fostering interdisciplinary “heritage future” projects that support and empower local communities.
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Winter 2023
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"he COP roundtable centered on leveraging insights from underwater cultural heritage to understand past environmental conditions and devising ways to shield humanity's treasures from the perils of climate change. This event was a collaborative effort between UNESCO Paris and Cairo, Scripps Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi, the Center for International Heritage Activities (CIE), and the Ocean Decade Heritage Network (ODHN), aligning with COP 28 goals and Sustainable Development Goals 6, 11.4, 13, and 14.
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