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This is the fourth edition in which the Department of Education,
Universities and Research of the Basque Government, supports
the participation of Basque students in the “ International
Heritage Photographic Experience”.
In the present times where everything is done fast and in a
hurry, students are proposed an offer to perform an activity
which consist precisely in the opposite, that is, that they stop
for a moment and look around them, observe what is next to
them, discover the Heritage in their environment, dive into the
origins of their towns, submerge in its history and collect that
“discovery” on an image.
Although at the same time as they are asked to look inwards,
they are also invited to open to the outside. To show, by means
of their photographs those corners of their country which they
managed to capture with the lens of their camera at a certain
time and place and show it to the world, therefore transforming
that “particular heritage” into a “common world heritage”.
I would like to thank and congratulate both the education
centres belonging to the Network of Centres associated to the
UNESCO: the Ikastola Artxandape of Bilbao and the Ikastola
Urrexu-Zumárraga, for their participation in this year’s edition of
the “International Heritage Photographic Experience”.
From this department, we are committed to continue
supporting this type of initiatives that promote the exchange
of experiences and educational projects among the different
centres and between youths of different countries to therefore
contribute to the mutual understanding of the different
cultures and acknowledge the different people as a treasure of
the entire humanity. |
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