UNESCO's Underwater Cultural Heritage Training in Chanthaburi, Thailand

UNESCO’s Third Foundation Course on Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) was successfully conducted last February 14 to March 26, 2011 in its Regional Training Center in Chanthaburi, Thailand.


Within the context of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, the Foundation Course specifically aimed to:
-build regional capacity in the protection and management of UCH through professional training;
-provide an effective networking and regional cooperation among partner Member States;
-and prepare Member States in the ratification and implementation of the 2001 Convention and its Annex.

Regional trainees for the Third Foundation Course on UCH consisted of representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.