For the last ten years, the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme (WHE) has been implementing activities, programs and competitions in its effort to help children learn about World Heritage Sites, its challenges as well as encourage them to craft their own contribution to help conserve heritage. An approach to the World Heritage Education is the use of special cartoons and animated short films, through a cartoon character, Patrimonito, who mobilizes young people to participate actively in World Heritage preservation.

The World Heritage Education Programme has launched the Patrimonito International Storyboard Competition 2010-2011 and is inviting young people to express their ideas through drawings in the form of a storyboard to comprise the new materials for animated short films of the Programme.  Young students and youth organizations may submit entries following the themes: World Heritage and the Role of Communities, World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, World Heritage and Sustainable Development, World Heritage and Biodiversity.

Students who are 12-18 years of age may submit the original copies of their entries to the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, Ground Floor, 2330 Department of Foreign Affairs Building, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City on or before 1 December 2010. Five storyboards will be selected as the Philippine entry to the Competition. The national finalists will receive a UNESCO Certificate. The UNESCO Headquarters will then select three entries per theme. The students will receive a UNESCO Certificate and a medal. Their work will be professionally animated into film episodes of Patrimonito’s World Heritage Adventure series, to be distributed internationally.

For more information, please download the Competition Guidelines.