UNESCO 2022 Patrimonito Storyboard Competition

Recent months and years, we have seen cultural and natural heritage sites, including many World Heritage sites, threatened by wildfires, floods, storms and mass-bleaching events. Climate change puts living heritage – oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, festive events, and traditional knowledge – at risk as well. As climate change leads to displacement and forced migration, entire ways of life risk being lost forever.  

While this challenge of Climate Change is monumental, one can also take inspiration from heritage towards climate action. World Heritage properties also harbour options for society to mitigate and adapt to climate change through the ecosystem benefits, such as water and climate regulation. Cultural heritage, on the other hand, can convey traditional knowledge that builds resilience for change to come and leads us to a more sustainable future. It is hence crucial for all generations to help raise awareness on the impacts of climate change on human societies and cultural diversity, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the world’s natural and cultural heritage.

In this context, we invite young people from around the world to reflect on the pressing issue of Climate Change, and its impact on the World Heritage sites around them, and the solutions or measures in their opinion, that would help address these challenges.

• Table of Content
• About United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• Patrimonito Storyboard Competition
• Aim and Benefits of Patrimonito Storyboard Competition
• Requirements for Patrimonito Storyboard Competition Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in Agenda 2030, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015. Political and economic arrangements of governments are not enough to secure the lasting and sincere support of the peoples. Peace must be founded upon dialogue and mutual understanding. Peace must be built upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of humanity. I... continue reading

Patrimonito Storyboard Competition

Aim and Benefits of Patrimonito Storyboard Competition

The winner will receive a UNESCO certificate, and the winning storyboards will be professionally adapted into an animated film episode of the Patrimonito’s World Heritage Adventures series.

The name of the creator of the winning storyboard will be credited in the film which will be distributed worldwide by UNESCO and its partners.

Requirements for Patrimonito Storyboard Competition Qualification

The Patrimonito storyboard competition is open to young people from all over the world aged between 12 and 18 years old.

The artworks must be created solely by the participant(s), either by hand or using digital drawing tools. 

Application Deadline

How to Apply

The story and drawing should reflect:

• the participant’s knowledge of the World Heritage site they have chosen and the exceptional value of the site.
• a challenge/problem faced by the site based on the impacts of Climate Change
• the solution or measures proposed by the participant to the challenge/problem.

The scanned version of the storyboards should be sent to the World Heritage Centre by email: [email protected]

The original copies (in case of hand-drawn entries) or the print versions (in case of digital artworks) must be submitted to the attention of:

Ms Ines Yousfi
Focal Point, World Heritage Education Programme
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
7, place de Fontenoy,
75352 Paris 07 SP France

For more details, visit UNESCO website.