The Silk Roads Programme

Calling young photographers! Do you live along the Silk Roads? Have you travelled these ancient routes? Does their rich history fascinate you? Then join UNESCO in promoting dialogue, diversity and development! The 2021 edition of the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads international photo contest, open to everyone around the world aged 14 to 25, is an unmissable opportunity to share your creative talent and capture the vibrant shared heritage of the Silk Roads.

‘The Silk Roads in Contemporary Conversations’ is a series exploring the relevance of the Silk Roads in modern issues of interconnectivity and the impacts of changes, such as those caused by Covid-19, on the ways in which we exchange and interact with one another.

––– The deadline to apply for the Silk Roads Youth Research Grant has been extended to 3 May 2021 ––– UNESCO has launched a call for young women and men under the age of 35 to apply for the 2021 Silk Roads Youth Research Grant.

Although occurring at a radically different time in human history, the invention of printing technology was potentially as far reaching and influential as the invention of the wheel.

Prior to the invention of any form of printing, creating texts was a highly time consuming and labour intensive process in which texts had to be copied out by hand from an original manuscript.