UNESCO World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025 (Fully-funded to Paris, France) – YOA

Deadline: April 22, 2025

Applications are open for the UNESCO World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025. As an integral part of the forty seventh session of the World Heritage Committee, within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, and with the help of the Republic of Bulgaria, the World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025 will happen from 1 to 8 July 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, beneath the theme of World Heritage in an interconnected world: Leveraging digital applied sciences and progressive approaches.

The Forum will improve the experience and capacities of younger professionals in defending, preserving, and selling our pure and cultural World Heritage. Participants will focus on and acquire a complete understanding of worldwide ideas associated to World Heritage in a quickly altering and more and more related world. They will discover how rising applied sciences akin to synthetic intelligence (AI), immersive instruments (AR and VR), digital mapping, drones, and 3D modeling can revolutionize the preservation of World Heritage and improve public consciousness. Additionally, they’ll study progressive approaches to World Heritage geared toward fostering sustainable heritage administration for future generations. At the tip of the Forum, the younger professionals will current their Declaration to the forty seventh session of the World Heritage Committee.

Benefits

• The contributors are anticipated to arrive on 30 June 2025 and depart on 8 July 2025. All associated bills (economic system class flights, lodging, native transportation, meals and visa charges) will probably be lined the length of the Forum. The organizers may even help within the journey preparations and can present help to the contributors who want a visa.

Eligibility

Participants of the World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2025 are anticipated to be:

• Aged between 23 and 32 years (born between 30 June 1993 and 30 June 2002 together with)
• Experienced in considered one of these fields: structure, archaeology, conservation, restoration, city planning, artwork historical past, heritage associated research;
• Involved in World Heritage safety, preservation and promotion;
• Familiar with/skilled in digital applied sciences in relation to World Heritage;
• Motivated and dedicated to implementing the outcomes of the Forum of their respective nations;
• Committed to enhancing group engagement within the administration of World Heritage properties;
• Available for all the length of the Forum;
• Proficient in English and/or French, because the Forum will probably be carried out in English and French.

Selection Criteria

• Balanced geographical illustration
• Gender equality
• Diversity {of professional} backgrounds
• Ability to disseminate gained expertise within the nation or establishment of origin
• Knowledge and expertise within the administration practices for World Heritage websites

Application

Note that the next data will probably be requested as part of the registration course of:

• All solutions should be introduced in English or French solely. Applications submitted in languages aside from English or French is not going to be thought-about.
• An expert Curriculum vitae in PDF format (max. two pages, 10 MB).
• A scan of your passport picture in jpg, jpeg, gif or png format (max, 10 MB).

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For extra data, go to World Heritage Young Professionals Forum.