UNESCO Patrimonito Storyboard Competition on World Heritage and Climate Change and Adaptation into an Animated Film

UNESCO is pleased to launch the latest edition of the Patrimonio Storyboard Competition for 2022, which aims to provide young people with an opportunity to use their creative and problem-solving skills to raise awareness about World Heritage sites. The World Heritage Education Programme is welcoming secondary school pupils and youth to create storyboards on the theme for this year's competition, which is World Heritage and Climate Change. The best submission will be selected by an independent jury and professionally produced into animated films for global distribution to schools and at World Heritage education events.

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. The release of the next episode is scheduled for 2023.

1. The Patrimonito storyboard competition is open to young people from all over the world aged between 12 and 18 years old.
2. The artworks must be created solely by the participant(s), either by hand or using digital drawing tools. In either case, the scanned copies must be submitted by email OR the original copies (in case of hand-drawn entries) or the print versions (in case of digital artworks) must be submitted by postal mail to UNESCO. Participants may also choose to submit their entries through their countries’ National Commissions for UNESCO.
3. The story and drawing should reflect:
4. the participant’s knowledge of the World Heritage site they have chosen and the exceptional value of the site.
5. a challenge/problem faced by the site based on the impacts of Climate Change
6. the solution or measures proposed by the participant to the challenge/problem.
7. Usually, a storyboard is drawn in pencil, ink, or through digital drawing tools. The images or visual illustrations of the story are portrayed using a series of frames.
8. Participants should reflect on the story they would like to convey to the audience on the theme of Climate Change. Patrimonito should play one of the main roles among the characters, and there should ideally be two more main characters - a young girl and a boy.
9. The script will need 'shape' - this means it needs a beginning, middle, and an end:
10. Beginning: The participants should set up story and characters in relation to the selected World Heritage site.
11. Middle: This is the backbone of the story. Here, they should present the obstacles or problems that the characters must overcome; or perhaps if there were no obstacles, an interesting journey, or series of coincidences that they experienced. Participants should communicate main message in this section.
12. End: This is the conclusion of the story where everything should fall together, depicting how the problem should be resolved in the participant’s view, and giving the end of the story.
13. Participants should balance the presentation of the story. They should consider the number of frames devoted to the description of the site, to the issue confronted by the site, and to the solution they propose.

About UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Founded in 1945. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information.

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