GoUNESCO Global Internship Program - Overview

GoUNESCO Internship ProgramAn overview

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Inspires travel to UNESCO WHS Founded in 2012 UNESCO Approved Country-level Challenges Global Challenges World-renowned bloggers,

photographers and travelers have participated

Heritage run series Fun runs, not races! Founded in 2014 8 Runs at heritage sites across India Over 3000 runners Growing network of partners and non-

profit heritage associations. 2015 Manthan Award winner

Global Student Outreach Program

Founded in 2014 Over 550 students over 5

intakes Students from over 30

countries Discovery of local heritage

and emphasis on intangible heritage

Previously called the GoUNESCO Campus Ambassador Program

Co-ordinated online campaign Partnerships with heritage

organizations and non-profits globally

Trigger and amplify conversations around heritage using #makeheritagefun

Jun 2015, Sep 2015, Dec 2015, Mar 2016

We Make Heritage Fun! – through travel challenges, heritage runs, a global student outreach program and a series of distributed social media campaigns …

#makeheritagefun

Initiated in 2014, the GoUNESCO Internship Program is our student outreach initiative

The GoUNESCO Internship Program

The GoUNESCO Travel Challenges encourage heritage enthusiasts to visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world. However, to make heritage accessible to students who might not have the resources (time, money) to participate in the GoUNESCO Travel Challenges, we founded the GoUNESCO Internship Program in 2014.

Engage students in conversations on heritage and culture

Why?

Make heritage more accessible, interesting and fun.

STATS

550 students across 30 countries across 5 intakes

Each intake: 6 month program with 6-9 heritage-focused tasks

Students from all around the world have participated on the GoUNESCO Internship program

GCA Profiles

CANELLE FRIIS CARLOS ORTIZ JACQUELINE JORDAAN EVELYN KANDUR KATHERINE BROWNELL

BS GeographyUniversity of Philippines

Philippines

Masters (Archaeology) University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

Psych., Lit. and JournalismMount Carmel College

Bangalore, india

Masters (Archaeology) University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

World Heritage StudiesBrandenburg Technical

University - Cottbus

More info: http://www.gounesco.com/gounesco-internship-program/2016-jan/

There have been 5 intakes so far. The 5th intake commenced in Jan 2016.

GCA INTAKES

GCA Pilot Program

GCA II

GCA III

GCA IV

80 students /15 countries

340 students / 30 countries

50 students / 3 countries

15 students /2 countries

Jan – Jun 2014

Jun – Dec 2014

Jan – Jun 2015

Jun – Dec 2015

Focus on drawing attention to local heritage Experimental phase Simple Tasks and goals

Formalized and expanded the program Set in place a leaderboard to track performance More tasks with the overall focus on local heritage

Reduced the student intake Increased the offline component of tasks Designated past GCAs to co-ordinate the program

Smaller size intake but quite collaborative Team tasks introduced Designated past GCAs to co-ordinate the program

More info: http://www.gounesco.com/gounesco-internship-program

GoUNESCO Internship Program – 5th Edition

56 students /30 countries

Jan – Jun 2016 Renamed the program to the GoUNESCO Internship Program Focus on encouraging collaboration between interns

Here’s a sample of tasks the 4th edition of the GoUNESCO Internship Program had

GoUNESCO Internship Program - Tasks

#heritageinteract

#heritagetales

#capturingculture

#deliciousheritage

All the GCA and coordinators to meet at any one of the heritage sites in their city, interact with fellow GCAs and visiting tourists. Discuss about the place, its history and relevance. Interview tourists on what attracted them there, how was their exploration and why they think it is important for them to visit such sites. The GCA to try and make the interview as interesting and engaging as possible.

This task takes GCAs on a journey to explore these tales and myths. GCAs in each city were grouped into a team – each team choseany heritage site in their city, interacted with people there and unearthed stories associated with the site.

GCAs to talk to the artistes or practitioners of intangible culture (oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature), talk to them about the legacy, the importance of the culture in history of civilisation and its current state. GCAs need to include the interview with the artist in an article and their suggestions and ideas on preserving the ICH.

Celebrating the festive season, GCAs were to describe traditional food items prepared at their homes for festivals. GCAs to share photos, recipes and even videos and submit the task as an individual or team up with friends or GCAs in their city. In addition to exploring the heritage of food, getting families involved was also an objective of this task.

More info: http://www.gounesco.com/gounesco-internship-program

Here is a selection of articles the current set of student interns have written

GoUNESCO Internship Program - Articles

More info: http://www.gounesco.com/gounesco-internship-program

Hungary is an agricultural country and one of its most important products is wine (maybe you have heard about Tokaji Aszú). If you go across the country, you can see vineyards everywhere – on the Great Plain, on the hills and also on the lower parts of the mountains. Thanks for it, many folk customs are connected to grape harvest in autumn. Probably, the Grape Harvest Festival is the most amazing among them. The festival is different in each regions, I would like to introduce you the traditions in my native village. Here, as generally, the Festival is an all day activity, which starts at down, finishes at night and its peak is the dance of the Csősz. But who are the Csősz?

Read more: www.gounesco.com/grape-ripens-dance-begins

There is one thing I like so much in Paris ; the Metropolitan. Despite the fact that it’s a smelly and dark place, noisy and crowded, the Paris Metro is fascinating, full of interesting details, scenes, happenings, stories and people. With 5 millions users a day dispatched over 300 stations, you can observe every single groups of populations. The stressed ones – late for their work – the lazy ones and sleepy ones – coming back from parties – the families, the lovers, the eccentrics and so on. The subway is trully the best sample to study Parisians behaviours, ways of life and habits ; a city under the city!

Read more: www.gounesco.com/one-day-paris-metropolitan-musicians/

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GoUNESCO Travel Challenges inspire travel to UNESCO World Heritage Sites globally

Country Challenges

THE INDIA CHALLENGE

WHS: 32

Years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

2014 Challengers: 200 +

THE GERMANY CHALLENGE

WHS: 38

Years: 2014

2014 Challengers: 100 +

THE USA CHALLENGE

WHS: 22

Years: 2015

2015 Challengers: Ongoing

THE EPIC CHALLENGE

WHS: 1007

Years: Ongoing

Challengers: 2500 +

THE CULTURE CHALLENGE

ICH Elements: 316

Years: 2014. 2015

Challengers: 500 +

THE SOUTH AFRICA CHALLENGE

WHS: 8

Years: 2014

2014 Challengers: 100 +

Global Challenges

See also: www.gounesco.com

Go Heritage Runs encourages travellers, runners, adventure-seekers and heritage-lovers alike to actively explore World Heritage Sites on foot.

Go Heritage Runs

Founded in 2014 – Fun Runs, not races!

Focus on heritage, fitness and travel

Runs conducted at 8 heritage sites

Winners of South Asia’s Manthan award

See also: www.goheritagerun.com

See also: http://www.gounesco.com/gounesco-internship-program

Our Student Program promotes awareness of heritage and culture via fun tasks.

Campus Ambassador Program

A 6 month program with participation from over 550 students and 30 countries.

Currently in its 5th edition. Next intake is in June 2016

Recent tasks: #whatisheritage #myunescotrip #whsmovies #gounescoselfie

The #makeheritagefun series of events is a distributed social media campaign occurring simultaneously at cities around the world to draw attention to heritage.

#makeheritagefun

Trigger and amplify conversations around local heritage

Participation from many geographies – and growing!

Co-ordinated exercise – emphasis on local planning and execution through partner organizations

Focus on documenting and sharing experiences online – photographs, audio, video.

June 2015, September 2015. December 2015. March 2016.

See also: www.makeheritagefun.com

Participants from 6 continents in March 2016!