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19th International Summer School Youth and Heritage

WHAT IS ISSYH?

The International Summer School Youth and Heritage is an advanced educational platform intended to complement university syllabi. The curriculum is a unique combination of practical and theoretical learning methods, performed in Sarajevo, Mostar, and Stolac – historic Bosnian cities which suffered extensive damage during the early 1990s war. Since the end of the war, these cities have been a focus of post-war heritage reconstruction and social recovery. This environment provides students with personal experience of working and living in a context where heritage reconstruction is a factor of the necessarily long-term process of healing societal and cultural trauma. Since its inception, the Summer School programme has thus focused on promoting understanding and the conservation of significant expressions of tangible and intangible cultural heritage within a post-traumatic context.

– The Nineteenth International Summer School ISSYH 2024 info booklet (PDF)

WHEN AND WHERE?

The 19th International Summer School Youth and Heritage will be organised between July 25th and August 10th, 2024 in Sarajevo, Mostar and Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Introductory lectures will be held online between July 1st and 3rd, 2024. Participants of ISSYH will have access to public lectures organised as part of the International Conference on Unity and Plurality in Europe titled ‘Twenty Years after the Reconstruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar’. ISSHY 19 is organised in partnership with ICCROM, UNESCO Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), UNESCO Chair of World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Management in the Arab Region, German Technical University, Muscat and the Cambridge Interfaith Programme – University of Cambridge.

PARTICIPANTS?

The ISSYH hosts up to 30 young people aged between 20 and 35, young professionals or students interested in cultural heritage, with good English language skills. The ISSYH program features cultural presentations, social interactions, recreational activities, and fun, creating a lively atmosphere for participants of diverse backgrounds.