UNESCO

Patricia will be participating in an event that UNESCO is currently preparing in close cooperation with Panasonic .

This event is organized within the framework of the agreement signed between UNESCO and Panasonic on 17 May 2011. Further to this agreement, Panasonic is implementing an education project entitled “The Kids School programme”. This Project is initiated in cooperation with the UNESCO’s World Heritage Center .

The Project “The Kids School programme” involves school children aged 8-11 from different regions of the world with the aim of giving them an insight of what World Heritage preservation means in a context of ecological challenges. School classes are gathered at the premises of a site where heritage and ecological behaviour are discussed in a playful way. One of the activities of the programme is to fill an “Eco Picture Diary” where children write down and draw the activities they have done during the day and how they plan to contribute to protect their environment. With this diary, the children take part in a contest where the best illustrations are rewarded on the occasion of a ceremony.

The official ceremony to announce the results of this contest will take place at UNESCO HQ in Paris ,France on February 8th 2012.

Patricia Velasquez , in her capacity as a UNESCO Artist for Peace, will be a member of the Jury that will be composed on the occasion of this contest.

Panasonic "Eco Picture Diary" Global Contest Ceremony

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Panasonic organizes in cooperation with UNESCO a ceremony for the “Eco Picture Diary” Global Contest for children between the ages of 7 and 11.
Developed by Panasonic for primary school children between the ages of 7 and 11, the “kids school – eco learning” education program gives pupils the opportunity to learn about climate change and protecting our planet in an easy-to-understand and playful way. Within the framework of the agreement signed on 17 May 2011, Panasonic is now implementing this project in World Heritage sites in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre. School classes are gathered at the premises of a site where heritage and ecological behaviour are discussed. One of the activities of the program is to fill an “eco picture diary” where children write down and draw the activities they have done during the day and how they propose to contribute to protect their environment. With this diary, the children take part in a contest where the best illustrations are rewarded on the occasion of a ceremony.
Panasonic will hold in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre the first of these ceremonies, at UNESCO headquarters on 8 February 2012.
37 countries participated in the contest since 2008. 160,000 people participated, 130,000 diaries were collected.

Details

Country France
Venue UNESCO Headquarters
Permanent Delegation Contact Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO
Language of Event English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese
Estimated number of participants 500