More than 230 abstracts were submitted until end of November.

However several authors requested for a deadline extension for abstracts submission, and the Organising Committee extended the deadline for abstracts submission until 31st December 2009.

Despite this deadline extension, the notice of abstracts acceptance for those who submitted during the first period will be kept.

Green Lines Institute is publishing a new journal on heritage and sustainable development during 2010. An official presentation is planned for the conference.

Sérgio Lira was designated as Editor-in-Chief.

Members of the Editorial Board:

- Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, University of Leuveen - Belgium
- Brian Osborne, Queen's University / Carleton University - Canada
- Susan Pearce, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
- Roy Jones, Curtin University - Australia
- Franscisco Queiroga, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
- Cláudia Ramos, University Fernando Pessoa - Portugal
- Pamela Sezgin, Gainesville State College - United States of America
- Andrew Hall, ICOMOS - South Africa

The editors will invite the authors of the 10 best papers to submit their papers for a special issue of the IJHSD.

The conference proceedings will be submitted to be indexed by ISTP.

This process will start as soon as the published book becomes available, according to ISTP rules.

On behalf of the City of Évora, Mayor José Ernesto Leão d' Oliveira declared Evoras's patronage of the International Conference Heritage 2010 - International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development.

The City of Évora will support and help the Organising Committee on the organisation of technical visits and part of the social programme.