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

2018¹ – 2016¹ – 2014¹ – 2013³ – 2009² – 2008¹

2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Picking of iva grass on Ozren mountain	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Living culture of three writing systems of the Georgian alphabet	Georgia
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Slava, celebration of family saint patron’s day	Serbia
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Commemoration feast of the finding of the True Holy Cross of Christ	Ethiopia
Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs in Štip	North Macedonia
Petrykivka decorative painting as a phenomenon of the Ukrainian ornamental folk art	Ukraine
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari	Bulgaria
Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition	Estonia
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cultural space and oral culture of the Semeiskie	Russian Federation