Onsdag 13. januar vart årets fyrste styremøte for Nærøyfjorden Verdsarvpark arrangert på Flåmsbrygga i Aurland kommune.

In addition to the election of a new chairman, there were also a number of new faces who attended the meeting for the first time from both the world heritage municipalities and the county council following the elections in autumn 2015. 

The deadline for applying for funding for UNESCO purposes from the Norwegian UNESCO Commission is 1 February 2016.

These can apply: Voluntary organisations, institutions within research or education, other non-commercial actors. Applicants must also be registered in the Brønnøysund register. 

You can apply for funding for work that promotes UNESCO-related issues.  

The investment area for 2016:

• Freedom of speech/Freedom of speech
• Sustainable development
• Intangible cultural heritage
• The World Heritage
• Democracy development

See the Norwegian UNESCO Commission's website for more information on the various investment areas for 2016. There you will also find an electronic application form. 

Sogn og Fjordane County Council has just pledged NOK 121,000 to the World Heritage Park and planned measures related to the improvement and renovation of the Brekkestien Trail in Flåm. The World Heritage Park has thus raised a total of NOK 521,000 for this collaborative project between the landowners, the Park, Aurland municipality and protected area management.  

The planned project aims to improve the path from Grindahølen to Brekkefossen, a much-used hiking destination for both visitors and residents of the area.

Start-up is expected to take place in spring 2016.

New leader and deputy leader of the World Heritage Council for the West Norwegian fjord landscape.

The World Heritage Council for the West Norwegian Fjord Landscape has, as it were, the primary task of working to safeguard and promote the world heritage status awarded to the Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord areas jointly.

Mayor of Voss municipality, Hans Erik Ringkjøb, was elected on 1 December 2015 as the new leader of the World Heritage Council for the West Norwegian Fjord Landscape for the period 2016 - 2017. Mayor of Stranda municipality, Jan Ove Tryggestad, was elected deputy leader at the same time.

The main secretariat follows the leader and will be hosted by the foundation Nærøyfjorden World Heritage Park for the next two years.

Ingeborg Breisnes Lunde does something that not nearly everyone can do, some would say that it is a dying art. She has the ability to weave the most beautiful motifs and convey a story through these pictures. She has customers in all corners of the world and carpets made in her living room now hang on walls or lie nicely on tables in all 38 states in the USA, she has a goal of selling to the other 14 states as well.  

Leiar av Verdsarvrådet, Jan Ove Tryggestad seier at "Mundigheitene må stilla strengare krav til fartøya som får trafikkera på verdsarvfjordane. Ved neste anbodsrunde  bør samferdsleutvala stille krav om nullutsleppferjer."

The World Heritage Park's annual action and initiative plan is the result of a process involving partners/founders, the park's working committee and board, and employees in the park organization.

We would like to welcome Lærdal Musikklag as a new partner in the park! 

Riksantikvaren og Miljødirektoratet har utarbeida ein rettleier som informera om korleis kulturminne i verna områder skal forvaltast. Dokumentet skal avklara korleis kulturminna er beskytta i verneområda, og kva ansvar forvaltningsmyndigheita har for å ivareta kulturminne i forvaltninga av verneområda.

Nærøyfjorden The World Heritage Park has created an overview of some of the events in the World Heritage municipalities in the spring of 2016. See what happened in the World Heritage Park in 2015.

Den 14. juli 2015 er det 10 år sidan at Vestnorskfjordlandskap med delområda Geirangerfjorden og Nærøyfjorden vart innskrive på UNESCO si verdsarvliste for natur- og kulturarv av universell verdi. Dette ynskjer me å markere med film-, foto-, og litteraturkonkurransar under temaet «Å leva med... 

2015 markerar 10 år sidan Vestnorsk Fjordlandskap  med delområda Nærøyfjorden og Geirangerfjorden vart innskrive på UNESCO si liste over kultur- og naturarv av eineståande og universell verdi.     Nærøyfjorden Verdsarvområdet inkluderar områder i Aurland, Lærdal, Vik og Voss