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Turtle run through the Medina: a game to learn the cultural heritage of Tangiers

01-06-2012

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. 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. Elementary and junior public schools were selected in collaboration with the Delegation of the Ministry of Education.

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. (EU Neighbourhood Info)
 
Read more
 
Press release
 
Euromed Heritage IV – fiche and news
 
Euromed Heritage – website
 
Siwa and Tanger project website

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