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UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education 2024

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UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education (WCCAE24)

13-15 February 2024

Side event on “Re-shaping Education for and through Cultural Heritage: Setting global networks and disseminating good practices for urban sustainable development”

14 February 2024

From 13 to 15 February 2024, UNESCO organized the “World Conference on Culture and Arts Education (WCCAE 2024)”, hosted by the Government of the United Arab Emirates, Ministry of Culture and the Department of Tourism and Culture of Abu Dhabi.

UNESCO WCCAE 2024’ purpose was to adopt the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education which provides a new roadmap to address the fast-evolving changes of the past decades and further broadens the understanding of culture and its role – from heritage to the cultural and creative industries to digital transformation and needs for a “new contract for education”.

The intergovernmental conference, convened nearly 1000 participants from 125 countries, including 90 Ministers and Vice Ministers of Culture and Education as well as observers from the Academic world, including UNESCO Chairs, artists, teachers, learners, youth, cultural and educational institutions, and organisations, such as UNESCO Category 2 Centres or ICOMOS, who discussed how to integrate culture and arts into education.

The Framework was adopted by acclamation on Thursday 15 February 2024.

图源：©UNESCO/Abu Dhabi, UAE

Marie-Noël Tournoux Project Director, Prof. Plácido González Martínez, Professor, CAUP Tongji University / Distinguished Researcher University of Seville & WHITRAP Project Advisor, both attended the WCCAE 2024 to jointly co-organize with ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Education and Training (ICOMOS-CIF) and the Ibero-American Network of UNESCO Chairs, a side event on “Re-shaping Education for and through Cultural Heritage: Setting global networks and disseminating good practices for urban sustainable development” held on 14 February from 13h30-15h30. Furthermore the WCCAE provided a platform to present the WHITRAP Shanghai and Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) International Network for Urban Heritage Conservation in Higher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI) in the Observers’ allotted time in two of the 7 Thematic Sessions of the WCCAE, in Session 3 on “Skills to Shape Resilient, Just and Sustainable Futures” and in Session 6 on “Partnerships and Financing in Support of Culture and Arts Education”, with a common aim to contribute to the new UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education.

图源：©UNESCO/Abu Dhabi, UAE

Side event

on “Re-shaping Education for and through Cultural Heritage: Setting global networks and disseminating good practices for urban sustainable development”.

There were 18 offline side events and 17 online events. This side event was one of the side event federated, on the incitation of UNESCO, WHITRAP Shanghai and CAUP Tongji University, with ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Education and Training (ICOMOS-CIF) and the Ibero-American Network of UNESCO Chairs.

In the form of a panel discussion the side event focused on education for the protection and conservation cultural heritage in particular urban rural heritage and its influence in sustainable development. It presented the activities, guidelines, and research of the organizers as well as education principles and urban heritage conservation projects in Asia, the Gulf, and South America. It was followed by a lively discussion with an international audience.

Overall, the event reflected on traditional and emerging educational models concerning cultural heritage. It stressed the need to build up global collaborative networks to face shared challenges and exchange experiences involving teaching, learning, research and action.

The panel discussion was organized as a follow up activity of several recent related activities:

• The contribution of ICOMOS-CIF to the UNESCO Multi stakeholder Dialogue in May 2023 and the outcomes of the ICOMOS-CIF 2023 Symposium in Athens:” Design and Delivery of Education and Training for the Conservation of Built Heritage”;

• The setting up of the International Network for Urban Heritage Conservation in Higher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI) initiated by WHITRAP Shanghai and the College of Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University, Shanghai PR China in September 2023;

• The online side event ‘Cultural Heritage as a development tool: Cultural heritage and Education’, organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in January 2024.

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