Within the framework of the project “Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding Palestinian intangible cultural heritage”, the UNESCO Ramallah Office holds the workshop on preparing requests for international assistance, thanks to the generous support from the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.

Within the framework of the project “Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding Palestinian intangible cultural heritage”, the UNESCO Ramallah Office holds the workshop on preparing nominations for the Lists of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage thanks to the generous support from the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.

After the previous three workshops in Bishkek (2017), Almaty (2018) and Tashkent (2019), this fourth ICH Training of Trainers for Central Asia will be held in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) from 2 to 6 March 2020. Co-organized by UNESCO and the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (CRIHAP), it will be an opportunity for participants from four Central Asian countries to deepen their knowledge about the 2003 Convention and strengthen capacities around several themes, including the mechanisms of international cooperation foreseen under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Implemented from January 2019 to July 2020, the UNESCO-EU project Engaging Youth for an Inclusive and Sustainable Europe proposes an innovative approach to education by inviting teachers and learners to explore their living heritage and learn not only about it, but also with and through it. Over the past few months, teachers and students from 10 selected UNESCO Associated Schools across the European Union have developed and implemented pilot projects in their own schools. Accompanied by UNESCO trained facilitators, each school team has conducted activities to identify the living heritage present in their school communities and to integrate it in lesson plans of subjects as diverse as mathematics, physics or languages, as well as in extra-curricular activities.

In this context, UNESCO, in close cooperation with the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO has brought together the ten ASPnet school teams to share their experiences, analyze the approaches used, and provide input for the development of the resource materials for teachers in Europe, to be produced by the end of the project.

The workshop was held from 27 February to 1 March 2020, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Organized by Khartoum UNESCO Office in collaboration with the National Council for Cultural Heritage and Promotion of National Languages. The workshops are part of the project of “Strengthening National Capacities for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sudan”, sponsored by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Department (UAE).