Pilot World Heritage Strategic Investment Fund 2025
A pilot World Heritage Strategic Investment Fund is being trialled in 2025 to provide investment in World Heritage in Ireland.
Funding is being made available to local authorities and private owners for the conservation, maintenance, protection and promotion of World Heritage in Ireland. Total funding available nationally under the pilot in 2025 will be €300,000. This pilot scheme aims to assist owners and custodians in a UNESCO World Heritage Property or in Tentative List Site to enhance, protect and conserve attributes (and potential attributes) of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). OUV means the natural or cultural significance of a site that is so exceptional that it deserves to be recognized as part of the humanity’s common heritage.
Funding may be provided for the following types of structures:
- Monuments: architectural or archaeological nature, which contribute to or are attributes of OUV from the point of view of history, art or science;
- Buildings: separate or connected buildings, which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, contribute to or are attributes of OUV from the point of view of history, art or science;
- Works of humankind or the combined works of nature and humankind, including archaeological sites/designed landscapes, which contribute to or are attributes of OUV from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view.