An educational project by the Institute Heritage Studies and the German Commission for UNESCO for young people
The Youth Summit of “Young Climate Action for World Heritage” presents and honours the youth engagement for World Heritage Sites and climate protection. It will take place at the World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin” in order to strengthen ties between the young participants, teachers and World Heritage Sites and celebrate the efforts and results of the two-year project.
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mines of Rammelsberg, the old town of Goslar and the Upper Harz Water Management System contain traces and monuments from 3,000 years of coal and steel mining, covering an area of more than 200 km². The World Heritage Site in the Harz Mountains is a cultural landscape formed by centuries of interaction between ore and man.
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Creative student projects from Herrnhut. The Moravian settlement of Herrnhut in Saxony is on its way to becoming a World Heritage Site. Together with the Moravian settlement Bethlehem (USA) and Gracehill (Northern Ireland), they have submitted an application to UNESCO to complement and transnationally expand the existing World Heritage Site “Christiansfeld” in Denmark in the future.
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From short films to podcasts, guided tours by and for students, mystery dinners to escape games, artistic works and infographics: during six workshops at the World Heritage sites in autumn 2022, students from UNESCO Associated Schools and other schools developed a variety of ideas to become active on the topic of World Heritage and climate change and to take responsibility themselves.
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15 students from UNESCO Associated Schools and other schools from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland participated in the conference “World.Heritage.Climate – World Heritage Education for Climate-conscious Sustainable Development” on 24.11.2022 as part of the program of the denkmal Leipzig trade fair and presented the project “Young Climate Action for World Heritage”.
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The consequences of climate change for the World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin” are already dramatic and will increase in the future. Thanks to the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten for a truly inspiring workshop.
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On 09.09.2022 we started our project “Young Climate Action for World Heritage” with a successful online kick-off together with over 100 students, teachers and six World Heritage sites. This first meeting was about getting to know each other, introducing the project and developing a common vision. The kick-off impressively showed how lively and diverse the project is due to the many international participants and the diversity of the World Heritage sites, and made us want to get to know each other in person soon.
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“Young Climate Action for World Heritage” is an international educational project of the Institute Heritage Studies in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO. The youth project innovatively combines the topics of UNESCO World Heritage, Education for Sustainable Development and climate change. At six World Heritage Sites, students in international teams from the UNESCO Associated Schools Network and beyond are exploring the following question by using creative and action-oriented methods: How can we take responsibility for the sustainable preservation of World Heritage Sites and for combating climate change locally? The results will be presented at the World Heritage Sites and prepared in a publication for educational actors.
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Participating World Heritage Sites:
