Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

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.

Full text search: The system will search the exact expression entered (i.e. ‘sustainable development’), except if you separate the terms by a comma so that the motor search one or the other expression or the two (i.e. ‘foodways, culinary practices’).

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Results : 9 elements corresponding to 9 countries

2016⁴ – 2013¹ – 2012³ – 2011¹

2016
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum	Croatia
Oselvar boat - reframing a traditional learning process of building and use to a modern context	Norway
Regional Centres for Craftsmanship: a strategy for safeguarding the cultural heritage of traditional handicraft	Austria
Safeguarding of the folk music heritage by the Kodály concept	Hungary
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian calligraphy	Mongolia
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife	Brazil
Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona	Italy
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2011
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Programme of cultivating ludodiversity: safeguarding traditional games in Flanders	Belgium