Tenth Youth Forum on World Heritage

From May 8 to 10 in Cordoba, Casa Árabe is hosting this forum organized by the Sub-directorate General of Historical Heritage Protection of Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, as part of the events to celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018.

The forum, at which various activities will be held along with actions related to the topics of heritage education intended for the youth population, with the support of the UNESCO World Heritage Center, will be convening in Cordoba at the headquarters of Casa Árabe, where youths from “Places declared to be World Heritage Sites around the World” will be taking part in an educational work meeting, the common thread of which will always be heritage, its preservation and how to increase awareness about it.

The goal is to develop the necessary skills during youth so that these individuals can identify, accept and live up to their individual and societal responsibility in terms of the preservation of heritage and increased awareness about heritage sites, while also acknowledging heritage as a foundation for identity and a motor for development.

Further information here and here