Current World Heritage Education Projects
World Heritage Volunteers
You are interested in culture, history or archaeology? Do you want to get involved on a regular basis and meet new people? You've always wanted to know what's behind the closed doors of a museum?
Then join the World Heritage Volunteers!
We meet regularly on the last Thursday of the month from 4-6 pm in the "Kulturwerkstatt" of the City Museum or discover different places along the World Heritage Site. Our meetings focus on fun, varied activities and volunteer work. Whether it's archery at the Danevirke, helping out at the World Heritage Day or repairing the reconstructed Viking houses - it never gets boring with us.
The offer is aimed at adults and young adults between 14 and 19 years old.
"Young Climate Action for World Heritage" at the World Heritage Site Haithabu and Danevirke
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to the conservation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Protecting World Heritage sites from climate change while at the same time harnessing their potential for sustainable development is therefore a key task for current and future generations. The project "Young Climate Action for World Heritage" of the Institute Heritage Studies and the German Commission for UNESCO links World Heritage education with the 2030 Agenda and Education for Sustainable Development (BNE).
Together with five other World Heritage sites, Haithabu and the Danevirke are part of the cross-border school project, in which pupils deal with the topic of climate change and World Heritage. In the case of Haithabu and the Danevirke, not only the direct effects of climate change on the monument, such as soil erosion and changes to nature conservation areas, are considered. Construction projects such as wind turbines, which are intended to counteract climate change, also have a negative impact on the World Heritage Site. In the course of the coming school year, pupils from the Domschule Schleswig, the A.P. Møller Skolen and the Klaus-Harms-School in Kappeln, together with Danish partner schools, will therefore be creatively dealing with the exciting question: How can Haithabu and the Danevirke be protected in the future and contribute to a sustainable and climate-friendly region? The results of all participating World Heritage sites will be published next year in a handout "Practical impulses for World Heritage education and climate change".
Further training courses and keynote presentations
What does World Heritage mean? Why are we a World Heritage Site? What makes Hedeby and the Danevirke one of a kind in the world? As part of further training courses, keynote presentations and other formats, we address these questions, creating an awareness of the World Heritage Site Hedeby and the Danevirke and the idea behind the World Heritage Convention in an illustrative way.
Transboundary European World Heritage - A topic for UNESCO project schools
In the project ‘Cross-border European World Heritage - A topic for UNESCO project schools’ organised by the Institute Heritage Studies, pupils and teachers worked on their shared history using various World Heritage sites as examples. Bi-national workshops were organised in Haithabu and the Danevirke as well as in Muskauer Park and the Ore Mountains in Saxony in collaboration with media educators.
With this knowledge, the participating pupils from various UNESCO project schools have created videos to inspire and inform others of the same age about the topic of world heritage. The videos are intended to convey the value and special features of the respective site. The project also contributed to the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and was funded by the Schleswig-Holstein State Archaeological Office. The resulting videos can be viewed on the worldheritage-education platform. Further information for schoolchildren and anyone interested in Haithabu and Danewerk as well as on the subject of World Heritage can also be found there or via handout.
World Heritage encourages commitment
In 2020-2021, the UNESCO scouts are sponsored as a DenkmalAktiv project of the German Foundation for Monument Protection as the only project in Schleswig-Holstein. Learn more about the project here: DenkmalAktiv and KHS Kappeln.