The Project

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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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Ted-Talk “Climate Change and The Youth: A New Point of View”

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At the World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin” students learned that many trees in the historical gardens are endangered by climate change. A Polish group processed the knowledge they had gained during the workshop in TedTalks they then delivered to a local audience in a cinema in their home town.    … Learn more …