The UNESCO Living Heritage Entity is looking for an individual specialist to revise and enrich an information sheet on education policy and intangible cultural heritage. Proposals should reach UNESCO by 24 May 2019. Context In the context of implementing the...
UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, will hold a workshop from 11 to 13 March 2019 in Siem Reap on “The Status of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in World Heritage Sites...
The publication “Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development in Tuvalu” is a report the first intangible cultural heritage (ICH) workshop held in Funafuti in 2017. Linking its discussions to the Tuvalu National Culture Policy (TNCP): Strategic Plan 2018...
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages to raise global attention on the critical risks confronting indigenous languages and its significance for sustainable development, reconciliation, good governance, and peace building. The 2019 celebration...
Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed eleven elements from the Asia-Pacific region on the Lists of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Among them, two elements have been added to...
On 26 November 2018, ssirum/ssireum wrestling from North Korea and South Korea was jointly inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. An unprecedented event. Revered and practiced throughout the Korean peninsula, this sport has a...
The thirteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (13.COM) will take place at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre in Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius, from 26 November to 1 December 2018. During...
Held in Brussels on 1 and 2 October 2018, the Meeting of UNESCO Chairs Linked to the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage was intended to discuss about the pressing challenges in the ICH field and...
From 29 October to 7 November, 2018 the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section and UNESCO-UNEVOC are co-hosting a virtual conference on integrating the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). The conference, which comes...
The UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section is looking for an individual specialist to develop content for a clearinghouse on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in formal and non-formal education, in the context of its program on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in...
