UNESCO, in collaboration with ICHCAP, will hold an online seminar on 26 January from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Paris time on the subject of ‘Intangible Heritage Monitoring in Education: Contributing to Heritage Safeguarding and to Achieving SDG4.’ This...
A popular annual request from our members is for information about how we are growing our culture collections in our eHRAF databases. Below is a brief summary of what cultures and traditions we have added or updated in the past...
Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori, and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them. Vanuatu...
Culture is who we are and what shapes our identity. No development can be sustainable without including culture. In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, with seventeen ambitious, universal goals to transform...
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The 246 cities which currently make up this network work together...