UNESCO UK World Heritage Site Youth Summit 2009
22 May 2009
Venue: Lyme Regis, Dorset
What do your World Heritage Sites mean to you?
Posed to the young people involved in Youth Summit
Speakers
- Prof. Walter Erdelen: Assistant Director-General of Natural Sciences, UNESCO
On the 22nd May 2009, over 60 young people from across the UK will be meeting in Lyme Regis for the first UK UNESCO Youth Summit to discuss and debate World Heritage in the 21st century. The young people will be representing 11 different World Heritage Sites from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and one overseas territory, Bermuda.
UNESCO’s Asst Director General, Professor Walter Erdelen, will be opening the Youth Summit at 9.30am on Friday 22 May and the event will run until 3:30 pm.
The young people have been selected to participate through a nationwide competition, organised by the UK National Commission for UNESCO in partnership with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site Groups of young people were invited to submit entries that expressed how they felt about their local World Heritage Site. The competition’s aim was find the most enthusiastic and creative young people to represent their nominated World Heritage Site. Winning entries included poems, short films and posters, all communicating how the young people felt about the nation’s internationally outstanding heritage. Each Youth Delegation will present their winning entry to the other attendees at the Summit.
