(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, JUNE 05 - From September 2012, the
game, a board game designed by the project 'Siwa and Tangiers: a
heritage for a better life', and funded by the European Union in
the framework of Euromed Heritage IV, will be released in in
Arabic and French and distributed to schools and associations of
the city of Tangiers. According to the Enpi website
(www.enpi-info.eu), it is an educational game played in groups,
aimed at children from the age of 10 and designed to teach them
the historical heritage of their city and to learn its history.
The game - a turtle run through the medina of Tangiers - consists of several stages with questions about the most famous monuments and specific cultural aspects of the old Medina. So far, the game has been offered to public schools and associations of Tangier in a large format. The project "Siwa and Tangier: a heritage for a better life" aims to help people, especially women and young people both in Morocco and Egypt, to take ownership of their own cultural heritage within a sustainable development perspective. The challenge of the project is to take advantage of the basic principles of sustainability, namely the participatory approach, the ownership by local communities and dissemination of knowledge, to develop management tools for a sustainable safeguarding of tangible and intangible heritage and of the cultural characteristics of Tangier and Siwa. (ANSAmed)
The game - a turtle run through the medina of Tangiers - consists of several stages with questions about the most famous monuments and specific cultural aspects of the old Medina. So far, the game has been offered to public schools and associations of Tangier in a large format. The project "Siwa and Tangier: a heritage for a better life" aims to help people, especially women and young people both in Morocco and Egypt, to take ownership of their own cultural heritage within a sustainable development perspective. The challenge of the project is to take advantage of the basic principles of sustainability, namely the participatory approach, the ownership by local communities and dissemination of knowledge, to develop management tools for a sustainable safeguarding of tangible and intangible heritage and of the cultural characteristics of Tangier and Siwa. (ANSAmed)
