Youth Travel and Learning Experience in Paris

Hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle all Youth team countries attended the second Youth meeting in Paris, France, from 7th to 9th November, 2016, with additional funding from UDPN – Usages Des Patrimoines Numerisés allowing extra Youth to have the opportunity to travel to Paris and experience the city and the ECFOLI learning experience. They met and presented their teams and work to each other, forming bonds through physical workshops and excursions. The Youth and their leaders presented the ECFOLI project at the ANR Translit Symposium on the 8th November, which was hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. On the 3rd day the ECFOLI Youth were invited by the Louvre Museum Paris to conduct a cultural digitization workshop in the Islamic Arts section, where they discovered a common shared cultural heritage.