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On 1 April 2011, the Caribbean World Heritage Course came to a successful close in Willemstad, Curaçao, organised by the University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA) at the headquarters of the National Archaeological-Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM).
This capacity-building project, co-sponsored by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, forms part of the Caribbean Capacity Building Programme for World Heritage (CCBP) and dealt with Module 1 (Application of the World Heritage Convention) and Module 5 (Management of Historic Cities). The CCBP is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of the Netherlands.
The professors specially chosen to teach the course included Dr. Gustavo Araoz, Professor and President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS International), as well as Dr. Isabel Rigol, architect and international consultant on cultural heritage, and Dr. José Courrau, international consultant on natural heritage.
The course was attended by 21 experts, 7 of them from five Caribbean territories (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Guyana and Suriname) received scholarships granted by UNESCO. The 14 remaining participants were from (Barbados, Curaçao, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Virgin Islands. Most trainees work in heritage conservation as managers, architects, archaeologists and consultants of cultural and natural sites.
Field trips were organised as part of the course to places of heritage interest. The first was to the Savonet plantation, currently a protected natural reserve and museum. Together with three other plantations in east Curaçao, Savonnet was added to the Tentative World Heritage List for its nomination as Cultural Landscape. The second field trip was made to the historic districts of Pietermaai, Punda and Otrobanda, and included part of the historic centre of Curaçao, a World Heritage site since 1997.
The course concluded with the adoption of the Declaration of Willemstad on World Heritage, where the participants praised and expressed their appreciation to the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture, together with the people and the institutions of Curaçao, for facilitating the course as part of the CCBP, the first of its type in the territory.
The participants received a diploma signed by the Prime Minister of Curaçao, His Excellency Mr Gerrit Schotte, and by the President of ICOMOS International.
Course Website
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This capacity-building project, co-sponsored by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, forms part of the Caribbean Capacity Building Programme for World Heritage (CCBP) and dealt with Module 1 (Application of the World Heritage Convention) and Module 5 (Management of Historic Cities). The CCBP is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of the Netherlands.
The professors specially chosen to teach the course included Dr. Gustavo Araoz, Professor and President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS International), as well as Dr. Isabel Rigol, architect and international consultant on cultural heritage, and Dr. José Courrau, international consultant on natural heritage.
The course was attended by 21 experts, 7 of them from five Caribbean territories (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Guyana and Suriname) received scholarships granted by UNESCO. The 14 remaining participants were from (Barbados, Curaçao, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Virgin Islands. Most trainees work in heritage conservation as managers, architects, archaeologists and consultants of cultural and natural sites.
Field trips were organised as part of the course to places of heritage interest. The first was to the Savonet plantation, currently a protected natural reserve and museum. Together with three other plantations in east Curaçao, Savonnet was added to the Tentative World Heritage List for its nomination as Cultural Landscape. The second field trip was made to the historic districts of Pietermaai, Punda and Otrobanda, and included part of the historic centre of Curaçao, a World Heritage site since 1997.
The course concluded with the adoption of the Declaration of Willemstad on World Heritage, where the participants praised and expressed their appreciation to the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture, together with the people and the institutions of Curaçao, for facilitating the course as part of the CCBP, the first of its type in the territory.
The participants received a diploma signed by the Prime Minister of Curaçao, His Excellency Mr Gerrit Schotte, and by the President of ICOMOS International.
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This capacity-building project, co-sponsored by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, forms part of the Caribbean Capacity Building Programme for World Heritage (CCBP) and dealt with Module 1 (Application of the World Heritage Convention) and Module 5 (Management of Historic Cities). The CCBP is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of the Netherlands.
The professors specially chosen to teach the course included Dr. Gustavo Araoz, Professor and President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS International), as well as Dr. Isabel Rigol, architect and international consultant on cultural heritage, and Dr. José Courrau, international consultant on natural heritage.
The course was attended by 21 experts, 7 of them from five Caribbean territories (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Guyana and Suriname) received scholarships granted by UNESCO. The 14 remaining participants were from (Barbados, Curaçao, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Virgin Islands. Most trainees work in heritage conservation as managers, architects, archaeologists and consultants of cultural and natural sites.
Field trips were organised as part of the course to places of heritage interest. The first was to the Savonet plantation, currently a protected natural reserve and museum. Together with three other plantations in east Curaçao, Savonnet was added to the Tentative World Heritage List for its nomination as Cultural Landscape. The second field trip was made to the historic districts of Pietermaai, Punda and Otrobanda, and included part of the historic centre of Curaçao, a World Heritage site since 1997.
The course concluded with the adoption of the Declaration of Willemstad on World Heritage, where the participants praised and expressed their appreciation to the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture, together with the people and the institutions of Curaçao, for facilitating the course as part of the CCBP, the first of its type in the territory.
The participants received a diploma signed by the Prime Minister of Curaçao, His Excellency Mr Gerrit Schotte, and by the President of ICOMOS International.
Course Website
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The professors specially chosen to teach the course included Dr. Gustavo Araoz, Professor and President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS International), as well as Dr. Isabel Rigol, architect and international consultant on cultural heritage, and Dr. José Courrau, international consultant on natural heritage.
The course was attended by 21 experts, 7 of them from five Caribbean territories (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Guyana and Suriname) received scholarships granted by UNESCO. The 14 remaining participants were from (Barbados, Curaçao, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Virgin Islands. Most trainees work in heritage conservation as managers, architects, archaeologists and consultants of cultural and natural sites.
Field trips were organised as part of the course to places of heritage interest. The first was to the Savonet plantation, currently a protected natural reserve and museum. Together with three other plantations in east Curaçao, Savonnet was added to the Tentative World Heritage List for its nomination as Cultural Landscape. The second field trip was made to the historic districts of Pietermaai, Punda and Otrobanda, and included part of the historic centre of Curaçao, a World Heritage site since 1997.
The course concluded with the adoption of the Declaration of Willemstad on World Heritage, where the participants praised and expressed their appreciation to the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture, together with the people and the institutions of Curaçao, for facilitating the course as part of the CCBP, the first of its type in the territory.
The participants received a diploma signed by the Prime Minister of Curaçao, His Excellency Mr Gerrit Schotte, and by the President of ICOMOS International.
Course Website
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