Youth

Youth Programs

Attracting young people to the grounds of PORTUGAL 2010 – World Philatelic Exhibition is a major objective of the Organizing Committee.

In the Exhibition Hall, a special space will be dedicated to the Youth Programs, where several computers will be available with philatelic oriented games and attractive information about stamps from all over the world.

Experts from the Portuguese Philatelic Federation (FPF – Federação Portuguesa de Filatelia) – those with more experience in promoting Philately to the young - will be there everyday, teaching the children how to start their own collections.

There will be numerous activities dedicated to the young participants. For example, qualified teachers will be asked to lead a session based upon several postal stamps.

The Portuguese Post Office has also in mind to invite well-known stamp artists to lead designing workshops for young people. One of these workshops, always a success whenever it has been applied, consists in presenting a graphic story of the stamp, involving the children, about what happens since the Philatelic Department asks for the design of a issue until the first draft is delivered by the artist.

Many invitations will be sent to public and private schools of Portugal to attend these workshops.

A detailed program, with the dates of the events, will be published here in the site more close to the opening of PORTUGAL 2010.