UNESCO UK World Heritage Site Youth Summit 2010
01 October 2010
Venue: New Lanark World Heritage Site (WHS), South Lanarkshire
The aim of the 2010 World Heritage Youth Summit is to explore what World Heritage means to young people in Scotland and how they can help to preserve and protect the internationally important cultural and natural heritage on their doorstep.
Youth delegations representing all five World Heritage Sites in Scotland; Antonine Wall, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, New Lanark, Old and New Towns of Edinburgh and St Kilda, will be joined by a delegation representing the Historic Town of St George World Heritage Site in Bermuda, a British overseas territory.
Part of the UNESCO World Heritage in Young Hands Programme, the UK World Heritage Youth Summit will be a unique opportunity for the youth participants to put forward their views and visions on the protection of World Heritage Sites and how World Heritage Sites in Scotland can engage with young people that live on their boundaries.
The young people will work in groups to explore global challenges to World Heritage Sites, question World Heritage experts through ‘speed interviews’ and take part in a Dragon’s Den style exercise to find the top three recommendations for how World Heritage Sites in Scotland can better engage young people through education and outreach.
The outputs from the event will then be sent to all Scottish World Heritage Sites, Historic Scotland and Fiona Hyslop MSP, Minister for Culture and External Affairs in Scotland.
