The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.
By clicking on the inscribed elements below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.
2017 | |||
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Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’ | Italy |    | |
| Rebetiko | Greece | | |
2016 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Momoeria, New Year's celebration in eight villages of Kozani area, West Macedonia, Greece | Greece | | |
2015 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Tinian marble craftsmanship | Greece | | |
2014 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Argan, practices and know-how concerning the argan tree | Morocco | | |
| Know-how of cultivating mastic on the island of Chios | Greece | | |
2013 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Mediterranean diet | Cyprus – Croatia – Spain – Greece – Italy – Morocco – Portugal | | |
2011 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Ceremonial Keşkek tradition | Turkey | | |
| Tsiattista poetic duelling | Cyprus | | |
2010 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Chant of the Sybil on Majorca | Spain | | |
| Flamenco | Spain | | |
| Human towers | Spain | | |
| Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival | Turkey | | |
| Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi ritual | Turkey | | |
| Traditional Sohbet meetings | Turkey | | |
2009 | |||
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding | |||
| Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica | France | | |
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition | Turkey | | |
| Irrigators’ tribunals of the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the Council of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia and the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia | Spain | | |
| Karagöz | Turkey | | |
| Lefkara laces or Lefkaritika | Cyprus | | |
2008 | |||
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity | |||
| Arts of the Meddah, public storytellers | Turkey | | |
| Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral songs | Italy | | |
| Mevlevi Sema ceremony | Turkey | | |