The World Heritage Network publishes its 2022 calendar

During the 12 months of the year, the 2022 calendar succinctly explains World Heritage concepts:

From January to December, you can discover:

1. What is World Heritage?

2. How many types of World Heritage does UNESCO distinguish?

3. What is cultural heritage?

4. What is natural heritage?

5. What is mixed heritage?

6. What is cross-border heritage?

7. What is World Heritage in Danger?

8. What is Excluded World Heritage?

9. How many properties are on the World Heritage list?

10. What is the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage?

11. How many countries have signed the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage?

12. What are the five countries in the world with the most World Heritage?

The Calendar presents images that make us travel the World

The Calendar also includes some of the international celebrations and days commemorated by the UN in order to promote in schools and institutions the development of projects on the dissemination, appreciation and preservation of World Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: Shaping Future Leaders

By Vivian Feher F. Cardellach, Co-founder of the World Heritage Network

29th of December 2021

It is no secret that the basis of all progress is education, teaching and motivation to study. Starting from this base, many of us have asked ourselves on countless occasions what we are teaching our children and future generations. What is failing in schools, in families, in society? Or rather, what is lacking so that there is still such a lack of environmental awareness and such indifference among young people for global problems and injustices?

In 2015, the United Nations created the 2030 Agenda with the purpose of achieving 17 incredible and inspiring sustainable development goals globally, we know them as the SDGs. Today, practically entering 2022, we are a long way from achieving them, unless things change radically. Many efforts have been made from different organizations, institutions, government and business level, but necessarily much more needs to be done.

The participation of all is essential and especially support for the work of organizations dedicated to the environment and culture, children and women, poverty and social inequality, hunger in the world, respect, peace, etc.

Like most organizations, the World Heritage Network Association supports and disseminates the SDGs. It develops this labor through its work with schools, companies and institutions committed to respecting and valuing the cultural, natural and immaterial diversity of humanity. One of the main goals of the World Heritage Network is to involve as many young people and children as possible in projects to generate impact in their schools and share it with the entire community internationally. These are projects that promote intercultural exchange between students of different origins and conditions, which makes it easier for schools to contribute to promoting respect and appreciation of diversity and the development of socio-emotional skills.

The outcome of the project work in schools, webinars, talks and activities available to members of the World Heritage Network is expected to be monumental. From the Network we dream of contributing to the education of global citizenship among the new generation of young people and children inspired by the conservation of cultural and natural diversity, in order to be able to lead in the immediate future in a responsible way, and inspire, in turn, to the current leaders of companies and institutions to promote positive change.

For more information about the project enter: www.patrominiomundial.org

The seven wonders of the ancient world

By Lourdes Ballesteros, Co-founder of the World Heritage Network

Many years ago men drew up the first list of the wonders of the world. There were seven of them and they were located between present-day Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq. Of those seven wonders only one remains: the great pyramid of Giza, in Egypt, built around 2500 BC. C. The other six have almost completely disappeared, but we have records and writings about their existence. Thanks to those records, we can imagine:

• Phidias working the ivory and gold from which he would shape the statue of Zeus, the god of the gods and protector of the city of Olympia;

• We recreate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, mysterious and unique and that have nurtured the imagination of countless architects and artists;

• We worshiped in Ephesus in the Temple of Artemis, of classical Hellenic architecture;

• We mourn the death of Mausolo in what was one of the most beautiful and best ornamented funerary monuments of the ancient world, and which would give its name to constructions of this type, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus;

• We were impressed, as were the sailors who entered the port of Rhodes and were greeted by the colossal statue of Helios, the Greek god of the sun;

• We imagine seeing the light in the sea coming from one of the monuments that held the record of being, for many centuries, the highest in the world: the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, some painted by Maerten van Heemskrerck. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.

The old list includes only the wonders built by the hand of man, what today we call cultural assets. But there are many wonders of nature of enormous antiquity: waterfalls, mountains, monoliths, islands ... Mount Uluru, the great red monolith in central Australia, is more than 600 million years old; the Namib Desert, which already existed when the dinosaurs became extinct, more than 65 million years ago; and the Galapagos Islands, inspiring muses of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", began to form about 14 million years ago.

Today, UNESCO has compiled a list of more than 1,100 wonders of the world that includes cultural and natural treasures of humanity. These goods, with an exceptional universal value, are distributed among the five continents and, many of them, are in danger of disappearing.

It is time to wonder whether future generations will be able to see with their own eyes the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, the Old City of Damascus, the Okapi Fauna Reserve, Sumatra's tropical rainforests and the historic center of Vienna or should they conform with his written memory as happened with the gardens of Babylon, with the statue of Zeus or with the temple of Artemis. It is time to ask ourselves if we have the right to end the wealth of the world.