World Heritage Education Programme Launched
Making Sense of Our Sites is a new, innovative project led by the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team in partnership with the UK National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO Associated Schools in the UK.
What makes your World Heritage Site important to you?
Making Sense of Our Sites will help all of the UK World Heritage Sites including overseas territories to communicate messages of World Heritage effectively to formal education audiences. A major part of this project is to use the UNESCO Associated Schools Network in the UK to establish meaningful and sustainable relationships between World Heritage Sites and local schools to ensure that children and young people have more engagement with the internationally important heritage on their doorstep. The project will run over three years and will culminate in a series of resources for World Heritage Sites to use with schools with a supporting structure using the UNESCO Associated Schools Network.
As part of the project, a World Heritage Education Conference and Youth Summit is taking place in Lyme Regis 20-22 May 2009. Each UK World Heritage site has been invited to send a delegation of young people to the Youth Summit. Delegations will be selected through a creative competition titled ‘What makes your World Heritage Site special to you?’ Each group of young people will be asked to submit a competition entry to their local World Heritage Site representative.
Written: 02/02/2009 , last modified: 02/02/2009
