New ITP Conference Grant 2025 awarded!!

Written by Claire Messenger, Manager, International Training Programme

We are delighted to award an ITP Conference Grant 2025 to Dina Ramadan Gohar Mekhemer, Curator at the Alexandria National Museum (Egypt, ITP 2023).

You can read more about the Alexandria National Museum here http://www.alexandria.gov.eg/alex/english/National%20Museum%20of%20Alexandria.htmlb

Dina will use her grant to attend the ICOM UK Conference 2025 which will be held in Liverpool, UK on 1 & 2 May.  Regenerative Museums for Sustainable Futures will focus on how museums can address climate and social emergencies. Museum colleagues from around the world will share practical examples of regenerative development in museums. The event emphasizes moving beyond sustainability and net-zero goals toward restoring ecosystems, rebalancing value systems, and using cultural heritage to foster climate action.

You can read more about the conference here https://uk.icom.museum/events/international-events/icom-conference-2025-regenerative-museums-for-sustainable-futures/

Dina is a museum curator in the Egyptian section of the Alexandria National Museum and part of her role is the responsibility for the sustainable development and green museums file in regional museums. In her role she develops programmes to apply sustainability standards in museums and delivers activities for museums related to sustainability and preservation of cultural heritage. She also works to create and grow partnerships with government ministries and civil society organizations to help implement sustainability standards in museums.

Dina says attending the conference will help her understand the most current developments taking place in museums, worldwide, in the field of sustainable development.  This new knowledge will support her role and help her apply relevant practices to museums across Egypt. Sustainability is relatively new in many museums and is evolving rapidly, and her conference experience will be essential to increasing awareness and enabling her to learn from case studies across the sector. Additionally, the conference will support Dina in completing her master’s thesis, as her research topic focuses on sustainability in museums and community engagement.

We are delighted to be able to support Dina this year and look forward to hearing more about her conference experience and sharing her final report with our ITP global network.