Europe is the region with the highest number of World Heritage sites, with 48 reporting countries and 244 sites concerned. The region has thus been divided into 5 sub-regions.
At a regional meeting in Latvia in June 2003, the Baltic States Parties decided to coordinate the Baltic Periodic Reporting with the Nordic States Parties, thus the Nordic and Baltic sub-region (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden) was constituted.
Only sites inscribed up to 1998 were to be reported on. There were 21 World Heritage sites inscribed up to 1998 in the Nordic - Baltic sub-region; 20 cultural sites and one mixed.
Three sub-regional coordination meetings were held:
Riga (Latvia) 2003
Stockholm (Sweden) 2004
Copenhagen (Denmark) 2005
NWHF was the technical coordinator and facilitator of the Periodic Reporting process, and has produced the Sub-regional Synthesis Report Sections I and II.
Projects Archive
- 2011 - 2013
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INTERNSHIP: Call for applications
Two internships are offered by NWHF and the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) with the support of Fredskorpset (FK Norway). -
Nordic-Baltic Workshop: World Heritage, Tourism & Development
How can World Heritage be a resource for sustainable development? - NWHF invites to Nordic-Baltic region Focal Point meeting on Periodic Reporting 2nd Cycle, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 December 2009
- NWHF invites to Nordic-Baltic region Focal Point meeting on Periodic Reporting 2nd Cycle, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 December 2009
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World Heritage Site Manager Workshop, Denmark 21 - 24 April 2009
The purpose of the meeting was to raise awareness among World Heritage Site managers and the use of the IUCN/UNESCO Enhancing Our Heritage (EoH). -
Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism - Millennium Development Goals
The project's objective is to investigate how biodiversity conservation and sustainable tourism can serve to improve the livelihood of resident communities. -
Promoting World Heritage in Madagascar, Phase 2
Under the Madagascar World Heritage programme of UNESCO, this project aims to protect the outstanding biodiversity of Madagascar in cooperation with local communities. -
Natural World Heritage, Africa, Phase 2
Development of new natural World Heritage Sites in Southern and Eastern Africa. -
Nomination of Samarra to the World Heritage List
Provide technical assistance to prepare to nomination dossier for Samarra, Iraq. -
Cultural Survival and Revival in the Buddhist Sangha
The Buddhist Sangha project is implemented at 18 sites in 10 Asian countries, by UNESCO Bangkok in cooperation with the Nordic World Heritage Foundation. -
Film on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
The purpose of the film is to create awareness of how tourism can have positive consequences for local communities in developing countries. The project is a part of NWHFs focus on sustainable tourism and World Heritage. -
Nomination of Suleyman-Too, Kyrgysztan
UNESCO's World Heritage Centre approved in March 2006 the technical quality of the nomination dossier for the Holy Mountain Suleyman-Too, prepared by the Kyrgyz authorities in cooperation with NWHF. -
World Heritage - Pacific 2009
NWHF supports the Pacific 2009 programme through several projects. The objectives of Pacific 2009 is to strengthen the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the region. -
Capacity Building Project in Southern and Eastern Africa Phase I
Capacity-building for professionals responsible for the World Natural Heritage conservation and protection from eastern and southern Africa. -
Periodic Reporting in the Nordic - Baltic Sub-region
Co-ordinate and facilitate Periodic Reporting in the Nordic - Baltic countries and produce a subregional synthesis report on the application of the World Heritage Convention and the State of Conservation of World Heritage in the region. -
Grants for participation in World Heritage processes
NWHF seeks support for representatives from countries underrepresented on the World Heritage List to attend World Heritage meetings and process. -
Cultural Heritage Management and Tourism
This project aimed to create models for co-operation amongst stakeholders at a local level which would maximise the potential for a symbiotic relationship between tourism and cultural heritage.
Periodic Reporting in the Nordic - Baltic Sub-region
Co-ordinate and facilitate Periodic Reporting in the Nordic - Baltic countries and produce a subregional synthesis report on the application of the World Heritage Convention and the State of Conservation of World Heritage in the region.
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Periodic Reporting in the Nordic - Baltic Sub-region
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