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Heritage Management research in Mongolia

Dean Prof. Willem J.H. Willems will be travelling to Mongolia this summer, as participant of the Mongolian International Heritage Team (MIHT). Prof. Willems is co-president and expert member of ICAHM, the ICOMOS International Committee of Archaeological Heritage Management and will serve as evaluator for the Oyu Tolgoi cultural heritage plan (CHP).


Tell Balata Archaeological Park

This week a Joint Palestinian-Dutch expedition in cooperation with UNESCO started (2010-2012). Funded by the Government of The Netherlands. The major activities of the project include scientific research and the formulation and implementation of a Management Plan. For this the three involved institutions MOTA-DACH, the University of Leiden (Faculty of Archaeology), and UNESCO, work closely together with local stakeholders to implement the project.