Prof. Dr. Marie-Theres Albert
This project celebrates the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and reflects on its future, considering the values of “responsibility”, “reconciliation” and “sustainability”. The project consists in three steps: 6 think tanks, a conference and a book.
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In order to sustainably preserve the Ore Mountains / Krušnohoří mining region as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for all of humanity and future generations, its importance must be conveyed to young people in particular. Together with the traditional associations and teachers from the mining region, the IHS has developed formats and methods with which young people are taught the international significance of their heritage and they are motivated and qualified to take responsibility for it. more …
European transboundary UNESCO World Heritage sites uniquely portray how the peoples of Europe have shaped their cultures and societies together. This project aims to familiarise students and teachers with the topic of the Transboundary World Heritage sites: the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge / Krušnohoří, the German-Polish Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski and the German Hedeby and the Danevirke. Using these three heritage sites as examples, the students and teachers explore their joint European history, discover what themes link them together, and those which set them apart. In binational workshops they produced videos of the site that are published on the digital learning platform: https://worldheritage-education.eu/en more …
Proceedings of the Summer School: “African Heritage and the Pillars of Sustainability” conducted in July 2016 by the Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies BTU Cottbus, Prof. Dr. Marie-Theres Albert, the team of the fahari yetu project and the University of Iringa. more …
The Institute for Heritage Studies/ UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies within the research framework of the “International Graduate School: Heritage Studies (IGS)” at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg and in cooperation with the “fahari yetu” project under the University of Iringa/ Tanzania is offering a joint Summer School on the topic “African Heritage and the Pillars of Sustainability” in July 2016. more …
The International Academy was the fourth of five consecutive interdisciplinary Summer Academies (ISAC) at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. It took place from 30.11.2015 until 12.12.2015 within the framework of the Heritage Studies PhD programme at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.
The Pillars of Sustainability for the Implementation of the UNESCO Conventions and Programmes The Chair Intercultural Studies / UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies, together with the German Commission for UNESCO and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and financial support from the more …
The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung der Länder, the German Commission for UNESCO, the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies of more …
Workshop series of the ‘Institute Heritage Studies‘: World Heritage and cultural diversity in theory and pedagogical practice The ‘Institute Heritage Studies‘ of the INA at the Free University more …
The Chair Intercultural Studies / UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies and the Chair of Architectural Conservation of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland) have conducted the international research project “Exploration, Evaluation and Preservation of the Church of Peace in Jawor as a more …
The project “Cultural Capital Counts” (CCC) The EU-funded project, “Cultural Capital Counts” (CCC) aimed to research the various understandings of intangible heritage as well as its value.