(offre en anglais)UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) calls for World Heritage Volunteers projects عودة إلى الفرص

Overview

Over the past nine years, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Initiative has grown tremendously with increasing interest and appreciation for World Heritage protection, preservation and promotion of World Heritage sites. 2017 will celebrate the 10 years of WHV. In this context, we are pleased to launch the World Heritage Volunteers 2017 campaign and welcome the participation of all interested organisations and institutions. The World Heritage Volunteers Initiative is led by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, in collaboration with the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS), European Heritage Volunteers (as a branch of Open Houses) and Better World.

The World Heritage Volunteers 2017 campaign shall aim to:

1. Raise awareness among young people, volunteers, local communities, and concerned authorities of the need to protect and promote World Heritage;
2. Involve young people in World Heritage preservation through concrete projects at sites;
3. Empower young people allowing them to learn skills, basic preservation and conservation techniques and raise their capacity as future decision-makers and global active citizens;
4. Strengthen sustainable cooperation between non-profit organisations, site management, communities and authorities;
5. Identify best practices and develop non-formal education tools to facilitate stakeholders’ participation in the World Heritage education;
6. Mainstream gender equality in all stages of the projects and geographical diversity among the World Heritage properties where the action camps take place.

Selection criteria:

Following the selection of the projects a confirmation letter will be sent to the participating organisations. The organisations will receive a list of online educational materials as a resource to support their awareness-raising activities. The World Heritage centre will send an official information letter, accompanied by the project profile and the complete list of the selected projects to relevant National Commissions, permanent Delegations, UNESCO field offices, and site management authorities.