Mitigating Conflict and Climate Change Risks Through Digital Heritage, Capacity Building, and Consolidation: New 3-year Cultural Projection Fund Grant

Mitigating Conflict and Climate Change Risks Through Digital Heritage, Capacity Building, and Consolidation: New 3-year Cultural Projection Fund Grant for EAMENA  

We are pleased to announce that the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Project, a partnership between the universities of Oxford, Durham, and Leicester, has been awarded a £1 million grant from the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, to continue working with our MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region partners in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Palestine and Syria to protect cultural heritage.   

The three-year project will involve collaborations with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, ICOMOS Jordan, University of Algiers 2, Heritage for Peace Syria, the General Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and the Department of Antiquities of Libya.  The project builds on work undertaken by EAMENA in collaboration with government agencies and NGOs across the MENA region to establish national cultural heritage databases and empower cultural heritage managers through skill-building in cultural protection methodologies. The new project will fund research and training in the application of new methodologies for rapid documentation of heritage threatened by climate change and conflict, as well as support the further development and establishment of national digital heritage resources.