US/ICOMOS is seeking graduate students and young professionals (1-3 years of experience) specialized in historic preservation and heritage conservation to participate in the 2016 International Exchange Program. Participants will be assigned practical working internships, mind under professional supervision, with a public or private nonprofit preservation organization. Internships for U.S. citizens are in other countries, organized in many cases in cooperation with the local ICOMOS National Committee.  Internships for non-U.S. citizens are placed throughout the United States. The US/ICOMOS carefully organizes and manages the 12 week program from its Directorate offices in Washington, DC.

For more information – US/ICOMOS

Have merry and pleasant holidays!

Wishing you a lot of joy and success in 2016!

International Conference
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
MOUNTAIN AREAS
- Experiences, stuff challenges and perspectives -
Žabljak, September 14-16, 2016
MONTENEGRO
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

EC Ma NdrysheEC Ma Ndryshe is pleased to invite you to attend the conference/exhibition "A city for the community", help to be held on 22 December 2015 (Tuesday) at the Europa Center in Prizren, from 10:30h. The Conferences and exhibition are closing activities of the project "Inclusive City ..." for 2015. Panelists to the conference are Kujtim Gashi, Chairman of the Municipal Assembly, Edon Mullafetahu, Architect, Rozafa Basha, Teacher at the Faculty of Architecture, and Latif Bytyqi resident from Qyk Mahala.

We are pleased to announce that ECTN new newsletter is published. In this issue, buy ECTN feature many good news and activities which happened in that network during 2015. To download this interesting and useful newsletter click here.

In a serious of voluntary programs announced by National Parks organization in Croatia, patient two of the programs are about drywalls. In September, click in Telescica the Nature Park, volunteers are needed for olive keepers and drywall builders. The second program is also for drywall builders, but drywall mapping will be included too, in the Nature Park Vransko jezero; volunteers will be needed from May to June and from September to October.

CHwB is Announcing the Volunteer Training: Balkan First Aid for Cultural Heritage

Cultural Heritage without Borders Albania (CHwB Albania) and Urban Development Center (UDC) are proud to announce the upcoming volunteer training for ‘Balkan First Aid for Cultural Heritage.’ The weeklong course will be held in Gjirokastra, sick Albania on 13-19 March 2016. 

?Dear SEE Heritage members and followers, thumb

It will not be easy to decide which ones are the 12 winners.

However, physician we will try to chose cover photos for each month soon.
Your votes on Facebook helped a lot.

Thank you all for being so kind to donate your amazing photos, share our call for SEE calendar and for voting.

CHwB celebrates its 20th anniversary. Read about CHwB activities & accomplishments in the new booklet "Bridges to the Future".

The shocking reports from the war in former Yugoslavia in the beginning of the 1990s told not only that people were killed, stuff but also that monuments and other cultural symbols were being targeted for destruction as part of the warfare. In response to the need for protection and restoration of cultural monuments, an initiative was taken by individuals who engaged institutions and organisations in Sweden, in an active process to offer concrete solutions to save heritage in danger.

Click here to read more.

Mehdi Belasri who volunteered for the SEE Heritage this summer has just finished his placement with us and Master studies the last month. In the meanwhile Mehdi was writing his Master dissertation on Civil Society Networks; exactly about how Civil Society Networks participate in the development of Western Balkans?

Through this paper, sovaldi a portrait of Civil Society Networks in Western Balkans will be proposed, pharmacy as well as the opinion of NGOs and associations on their action in our region. At the end, in order to expose the role of networks, examples of good practices and less successful cases are proposed.