FORUM CUENCA2018EUROPEAN WORLD HERITAGE CITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY:CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

CUENCA, 15/16 NOV 2018www.ciudadespatrimonio.org

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International Forum of World Heritage Cities

The UNESCO grants the distinction of “World Heritage” to those places and sites with exceptional value features that make them unique in the world. For Spain, as third country on the World Heritage List with 47 ins-criptions, this Forum plays an important role and highlights the extraor-dinary value of our cultural heritage.

In 2018, coinciding with the celebration of the European Year of Cultu-ral Heritage, the 15 Spanish cities inscribed on the honoured UNESCO List commemorate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Spain’s World Heritage Cities Group, a non-profit association recently declared of “Public Interest”, whose objective is to collaborate for the protection, conservation and promotion of their significant historical and cultural he-ritage, which is recognized worldwide and enriches and reinforces the brand image of Spain. The 15 member cities of the network are Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Baeza, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza / Eivissa, Mérida, Salamanca, San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Santiago de Compostela, Sego-via, Tarragona, Toledo and Úbeda.

One of the most important events within the programme elaborated to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Group, is the organization of a Forum with the title “European World Heritage Cities in the 21st century: cha-llenges and opportunities”, which will take place on 15th and 16th Novem-ber in Cuenca.

The objective of this Forum, facilitated by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports, is to create a space for reflection and debate in which the po-litical and technical actors in charge of the management of the European municipalities, whose historical sites are inscribed on the World Heritage List, can share concerns and good practices, as well as seek solutions to common shared problems.

The format of the Forum has been designed as a series of panels that will deal with different aspects of the management of the Heritage Cities, as a result of the experience that the Spain’s World Heritage Cities Group has been acquired in the last 25 years: i.e. Accessibility, Sustainable Tourism, Smart Cities, Security of people and historical sites, Heritage Manage-ment, Civic Engagement and Management of Public Utilities.

The Forum will be complemented with a panel dedicated to the experien-ces in Latin America and with the interventions of several mayors of Eu-ropean cities, whose conclusions , as a manifesto, will be the contribution of Spain, through its Heritage Cities and the Ministry of Culture and Sport, to the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

THURSDAY 15th NOVEMBER Teatro Auditorio Ciudad de Cuenca

9.00.- Accreditations

9.30.-Opening ceremony: Mr. Angel Mariscal, President of the Spanish World Heritage Cities Group and Mayor of Cuenca; Mr. Román Fernán-dez-Baca, Fine Arts Director General/ Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport; Réka Viragos, Programme Specialist Europe and North America Unit- World Heritage Centre, UNESCO, Paris.

10.15 to 11.00.- Panel: Réka Viragos, Programmes Specialist for Eu-rope and North America Unit- World Heritage Centre, UNESCO, Paris.

11.00 to 11.30.- Coffee break.

11.30 to 12.00. - Presentation: Corrado Bonfanti, Mayor of Noto (Italy) and Vicepresident od the Italian World Heritage Sites Association.

12.00 to 13.00.- Panel: Accessible Cities: Israel Muñoz, Spanish World Heritage Cities Group; Jesús Hernández, Accesibility Director of Fun-dación ONCE; María Orejas-Chancelot, League of Historical and Acces-sible Cities (LHAC) / European Centre of Foundations.

13.00 to 14.00.- Panel: Sustainable Tourism: Miguel Ángel Troitiño, Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Elena Valdés, Cultural Tourism Area, Turespaña/Spanish Ministry of Tourism; Ángel Arenas, Tarrago-na Tourism Director; Elene Negussie, World Heritage Manager Region Gotland/Hanseatic City of Visby (Sweden).

14.00 to 14.30.- Discussions

14.30 to 16.00.- Free time for lunch.

16.00 to 17.00.- Panel: Smart Cities, Ángel Mariscal, President of the Spanish World Heritage Cities Group and Mayor of Cuenca; Enrique Mar-tinez, Managing Director of SEGITTUR/ Secretary of State for Tourism; BerndPaulowski, World Heritage Coordinator of Hamburg City Council (Germany).

17.30 to 18.30. - Workshop: Global cities in a changing world: Juan Luis Manfredi, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, UCLM

17.30 to 18.30.- Panel: Public Services Management in Heritage Cities: Juan José Arteaga and Antonio Valdenebro, World Heritage Cities of Spain Group; Fernando Fernández Lara, Councilor for Municipal Trea-sury of Alcalá de Henares; Joao Lacerda Tavares, Sintra (Portugal).

FRIDAY 16th NOVEMBER Teatro Auditorio Ciudad de Cuenca

9.00 to 10.00.- A look from Europe. Germany, France and the United Kingdom: KerstinManz, Head of World Heritage Division / UNESCO Na-tional Commission of Germany; Chloé Campo-de Montauzon, General Delegate of the Association of World Heritage of France; Chris Bland-ford, World Heritage UK President .

10.00 to 11.00.- Panel: World Heritage Management: Rosa Ruiz Entre-canales, Spanish World Heritage Cities Group; María Agúndez, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport; Bruno Navarro and Andreia Galvao, World Heritage Sites of Portugal Association.

11.00 to 11.30.- Coffee break.

11.30 a.12.30. – Panel: A look from Iberoamerica. Mexico and Brazil: Elisa de Cabo, Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain ; Joel Perea Quiroz, Manager of the World Heriatge Cities of Mexico Association and Heritage Delegate of Santiago de Querétaro (México); Marcelo Brito, Cooperation And Development Director of National Historic and Artistic Heritage In-stitute (IPHAN), Brasil.

12.30 to 13.30.- Panel: Civic Engagement / Cities for all: Claudia de Santos, Councilor for Tourism, Heritage and Urban Planning of Sego-via; Francesco Terranova, Councilor for Culture of Noto (Sicilia, Italia); Celestine Kubelka, Production Manager Wiener Festwochen (Austria).

13.30 to 14.15.- Panel: Security of people and sites: Pablo Muñoz, Spanish World Heritage Cities Group; Angel Luis de Sousa, Emergen-cy Plan Coordinator/Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport; IreneRuiz Mealha, Head of the Fire Safety Department of Angra do Heroismo (Por-tugal); Miguel Ángel Barrado, Secretariat of State for Security/Ministry of the Interior of Spain.

14,15.- Presentation of conclusions for the Declaration and Forum clos-ing session.

ORGANISED BY:Spain’s World Heritage Cities Group, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, in

collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre

ORGANIZING COMMITEE:Spain’s World Heritage Cities Group: Ángel Mariscal, President and Mayor of Cuenca;

Rafael Ruiz, Mayor of Ibiza, Vice-president; Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport: Sub-Directorate General for the Protection of Historical Heritage

ORGANISATION:Technical Secretary: Raquel Lucía

Cuenca City Council organisation: Verónica López and Juan José ArtegaSpain’s World Heritage Cities Group: Ángel Rosado Martínez

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE:Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport: Sub-Directorate General

for the Protection of Historical HeritageSpain’s World Heritage Cities Group Heritage Commission

French World Heritage Sites AssociationItalian World Heritage Sites Association

Head of Division German Commission for UNESCOThe Portuguese World Heritage Network

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Venue: Auditorio Ciudad de Cuenca, SpainForum Official Languages: Spanish and English

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