1st Asian Cultural Heritage Conservation & Utilization Proposal Competition Call for Participation

1^st Asian Cultural Heritage Conservation & Utilization Proposal Competition

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Background

Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. It is a major birthplace of human civilization and the fastest-growing and most dynamic region in the world. However, due to the impacts of urban development, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and armed conflicts, cultural heritage properties across Asia are facing unprecedented challenges.

Echoing the Asian Initiative for Cultural Heritage Conservation, the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund created the Asia Cultural Heritage Fund in 2022. In collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Tourism in UNESCO Designated Sites at Sun Yat-sen University, this fund is proud to organize and present the inaugural Asia Cultural Heritage Conservation & Utilization Proposal Competition. This competition aims to promote cultural heritage education between Asian countries, share cultural heritage protection and utilization best practices, spread the concept of sustainable development of cultural heritage and strengthen cultural exchanges and knowledge sharing among the youth in Asian countries. Highlighting youth participation in this competition, we also wish to build a network of exchanges, cooperation, presentation, and communication for youngsters of Asian countries and enhance their knowledge and interest in Asia’s cultural heritage.

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Organizers:

Organizer: UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Tourism in UNESCO Designated Site at Sun Yan-sen University

Sponsor: Asia Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund

Objectives

This event calls for proposals focused on the theme of “Conservation and Utilization of Asian Cultural Heritage in the context of climate change”. Proposal entries must suggest creative solutions and/or their implementation for heritage conservation or utilization within Asia.

Competition

There are three stages to this competition – Preliminaries, Selections and Final.

Preliminaries

Interested participants are to fill in the registration form attached to this Call for Participation and send their completed registration form to our official email address at:

contact@asiaheritage.info,  addressed to Ms. April Xu.

Selections

Participants will share their proposal entry in the format of one short video on multiple social media platforms, namely, Douyin, Bilibili, Weibo, Wechat video, Tiktok, Instagram YouTube, or Twitter. After getting over 1,000 likes for their short video proposal (which may be disseminated over multiple platforms), participants are to send their proposal(including the online video and written proposal text) to contact@asiaheritage.info for further consideration. There will be a panel of judges who will conduct a preliminary evaluation of all qualified entries.

Final

The panel of judges will select 50 outstanding proposals from all the qualified proposals for sponsorship. The top 20 outstanding teams will be invited to visit Guangdong Province, China, for a proposal defense (the defense may be conducted online, depending on the Covid-19 situation), and from these twenty proposals, the top three winners will be selected.

Participation Criteria

This contest is open to all Asian university students (including undergraduates, Masters or Doctoral students) or Asian youth between 18-32 years old.

Qualifying Criteria and Information

1. All proposals must comprise a specific cultural heritage site in the country of residence. The chosen site must represent the local heritage and/or high cultural heritage value or a world cultural heritage site.
2. All proposals must be submitted by a team comprising 3-5 individuals and include on-site fieldwork.
3. The intellectual rights of the proposal belong to the participants. There will be no intellectual property dispute with the organizers.
4. The contents of the proposal will cover the following:

• The video introduction of each proposal should include the specific climate change issues encountered by the heritage site, the specific solutions proposed and the reasons these solutions will alleviate or solve the highlighted problems.
• The length of the video must be between 8-10 minutes. English explanation is preferred. However, if the team chooses to use their native language, the video must include English subtitles.
• The video files submitted by the contestants must be at least 1280*720 in resolution. MPG, MPEG, AVI, MOV, and MP4 formats are acceptable.
• Besides a written introduction about the video, there should be a written proposal plan (5000 to 8,000 words, MS word format) written in English.
• Proposals are to be labeled with the team’s names and the country/ region of residence.

Event timelines

Deadlines are as follows:

• Email Registration: by 15 November 2022, 24:00 (Beijing Time)
• Proposal Submission:  by 30 November 2022, 24:00 (Beijing Time)
• Final:                          10 December 2022, (timing to be announced)

Sponsorship

• Sponsorship for 50 outstanding proposals: 5,000 RMB
• Sponsorship for the top 20 selected outstanding proposals is as follows: 

Terms and Conditions

1. Entries suspected of plagiarism, fraud, or other equivalent conduct will be disqualified.
2. The Organizing Committee reserves all rights to modify the terms and conditions of this competition.

For any queries, please contact:

Ms. April Xu

Event Coordinator

Email Address:  contact@asiaheritage.info

Please download the registration form at the bottom of the page.