Location of the initiative:
ESTONIA
Relation to Strategy 21 Recommendations:
K2 - Implement measures to encourage young people to practise heritage
Brief description of the initiative:
There is a NGO initiative supported by the Ministry of Education called Back to School that urges young and more senior specialists from various field of life to give lessons in schools to forward their experiences, talk about their line of work etc. The cooperation in heritage field was created during the National Year of Cultural Heritage. There is a subdivision called Cultural Heritage on the webpage of the NGO where there are contacts of 50 of our colleagues in Estonia and the teachers can contact them and ask to come talk in their lessons to children about the different aspects of heritage.