Schools

The UNESCO Associated Schools Network in Germany consists of around 300 schools and educational institutions of all types. In their school profiles and their work they commit to promoting UNESCO’S goals and values and actively contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and especially SDG 4. While Education for Sustainable Development is one of the central approaches of the network, World Heritage education is part of their work for some of them, and partnerships and cooperation with non-school actors are vital for ASPnet schools as part of an open and participatory network. The project thus offered the opportunity to introduce them to and connect them with World Heritage sites as places of learning about climate change. 

As the project aims to initiate and promote long-term partnerships between schools and World Heritage sites, schools beyond ASPnet were included that had already been cooperating with World Heritage Sites or that had been interested in a cooperation, but had not found momentum so far.