Young Climate Action for World Heritage
An educational project by the Institute Heritage Studies and the German Commission for UNESCO for young people
The publication presents and honours the impressive engagement of students who committed themselves to World Heritage and climate protection. It showcases the project’s results, provides guidance on student-centred, transformative and action-oriented World Heritage education, and offers a practical toolkit for exploring World Heritage.
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“Young Climate Action for World Heritage” is featured as a model project in UNESCO’s brand new publication “UNESCO Sites as Partners for Education for Sustainable Development”. We are proud to be part of this publication among many great initiatives linking heritage and education around the world.
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How young people can become active in World Heritage and climate protection was shown at the final conference of “Young Climate Action for World Heritage” from 01.-03.11.2023 at the World Heritage Site “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin”.
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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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