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This new brochure "World Heritage in Switzerland" presents the ten Swiss World Heritage sites and the candidate.
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Das Handbuch informiert über die Ziele der Welterbekonvention, über das Verfahren der Anerkennung und die Aufnahmekriterien der UNESCO, über die internationalen Verpflichtungen und die Anforderungen aus Sicht der Denkmalpflege, über die Monitoring-Instrumente und über die "Liste des gefährdeten Welterbes".
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The Educational Resource Kit was developed with the cooperation of teachers at UNESCO project schools.
The Swiss Commission for UNESCO has a number of copies in German and French that it can send to teachers in Switzerland.
Requests should be sent by e-mail. Please state the name of the school, the teaching level and the address.
This is also available online in French, English and other languages.
The UNESCO World Heritage map 2009-2010 presents the 890 World Heritage sites in 148 countries. Using photographs and brief explanations, it outlines the goals of the World Heritage Convention consisting in the protection of cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value as part of the common heritage of humankind.
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