3 November 2017. Tirana, Albania. Final Conference of the Airborne Remote Sensing Campaign to contrast the cannabis in Albania. Convention Guardia di Finanza (Italian Financial Policy) and Benecon UNESCO Chair. Participants: Marco Minniti, Interior Minister of Italy; Haki Cako, Head of the Police in Albania; Fatmir Xhafaj, Interior Minister of Albania;  Giorgio Toschi, General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza; Stefano Screpanti, General of the Guardia di Finanza; Paolo D’Ambola, Director of the Police Service of International Cooperation SCIP; Ambassadors representing the foreign countries in Albania. The Italian Minister Minniti, the General Toschi, the General D’Ambola, the Generale Screpanti, the Minister Xhafaj and the Head of the Police in Albania Cako, during their speeches, highlighted the importance of the research contribution in the Campaign of the BENECON Center of Competence, headquarter of the UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance.

24 October / 1 November 2017. Benecon – UNESCO Chair mission in China for scientific and research activities: Shanghai (Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Financial District, Oriental Art Center, Science and Technology Museum); and World Heritage properties of Hangzhou and Mont Wuyi. International Summit on Village Protection in Yuyan village. Lecture ‘Representation, preservation and restoration of two UNESCO properties in Italy: Pompeii and Cilento’ by Prof. Carmine Gambardella, President of the Benecon UNESCO Chair, Ph.D. Arch. Rosaria Parente and Ph.D. Arch. Alessandro Ciambrone. Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Academy of Fine Arts: joint organization of the XVI International Forum of Studies ‘Le Vie dei Mercanti’ WORLD HERITAGE and RESILIENCE, Naples and Capri, June 2018.