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 : 15 elements corresponding to 11 countries

2017³ – 2016⁵ – 2013¹ – 2012¹ – 2011⁵

2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Whistled language	Turkey
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Bulgarian Chitalishte (Community Cultural Centre): practical experience in safeguarding the vitality of the Intangible Cultural Heritage	Bulgaria
Margilan Crafts Development Centre, safeguarding of the atlas and adras making traditional technologies	Uzbekistan
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chapei Dang Veng	Cambodia
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum	Croatia
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmission	Bulgaria
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
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Methodology for inventorying intangible cultural heritage in biosphere reserves: the experience of Montseny	Spain
2012
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
Call for projects of the National Programme of Intangible Heritage	Brazil
Fandango's Living Museum	Brazil
Programme of cultivating ludodiversity: safeguarding traditional games in Flanders	Belgium
Revitalization of the traditional craftsmanship of lime-making in Morón de la Frontera, Seville, Andalusia	Spain
Táncház method: a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage	Hungary