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Name, address and sourceActivities related to ICH
ABAIM
Colonel Maingrad street
Beau Bassin
MAURITIUS
URL: http://www.abaim.mu
Tel.: (230) 489 4006

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/French/Creole) - No. 90443
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1983
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

African Cultural Regeneration Institute - ACRI
Institut africain pour la régénération culturelle [fr]
P.O. Box 18062-00100
Nairobi
KENYA
URL: http://www.acriwebsite.org
Tel.: +254 733 748 411

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90119
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2011; 2012
Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- other
- development - updating African culture and making it relevant for the modern world and globalisation, linking it with devepment issues.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- editing - identifying negatives aspects and recommening appropriate action

Main countries where active:

Kenya

Objectives:
African Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI), aims at promoting African culture by way of identifying relevant indigenous cultural values that Africa can use for her own development today as well as for lending to the emerging global family, by way of Basic Education
The observed reality of the world today appears to vindicate the following assumptions:
 The values ruling the international communities presently are dominated by the philosophy of materialism, which is essentially a western cultural element. This materialism does not seem adequate as a value for guiding the global international family.
 Some values based on the African heritage could be very useful in helping Africa find it's own way inside out and shape the emerging global family with inputs that are not necessarily materialistic.
 It is possible to study the various aspects of the African culture, extract relevant elements that may be useful in guiding Africa and the world. Then these values would be packaged by way of writing, filming, videotaping and other methods, including performance and cultural centres, then present them to the world for global enrichment.
 Africa's emerging generation will have what to fall back to when they realise the damage that may have been done on them by cultural alienation. This imperative is equally pertinent to the Africans lost in the Diaspora.

The efforts of ACRI are geared to highlighting the existence of the different facets of African culture and to go further on and recommend the retention and/or rejection of certain aspects of the negative culture.

The approach of ACRI envisions results that will benefit not only Africa, par excellence, but the world at large. We may say also that African cultures are automatically being integrated into the global civilisation through varied human interaction. A deliberate scientific extraction, to highlight and refine certain important values, philosophies, viewpoints, and visions, which characterised the soul of the traditional African societies, has not been done. This is what makes ACRI unique; it will establish African cultural mines for extracting cultural gems from traditional spiritual values
Activities:
#1Today a suitable location and piece of land (about 8 acres) is identified by ACRI to the North-East of Mount Kenya, adjacent to the traditional convention centre of the Meru people, a place rich with Meru African cultural history, since 1842 A.D., NCHIRU- Kunene, when the first Meru constitutional conference was made. The Ameru Cultural Centre (ACCAW) is planned to coordinate all cultural activities of the Ameru people, recognise them and promote them, making effort to marry the past and the present cultural history, manufacture traditional cultural instruments and create employment industries; building technologies in games, dances, foods, drinks, plants and traditional medicines; and promoting modern technology transfer in order to add value to traditional culture by way of printed materials, audio and video recordings, and film making.
#2NJURINCEKE (traditional council of elders) has been resurrected and uplifted as a cultural entity, outreaching all parts of Meru land; model for good governance and African democracy. NjuriNceke recently advised youths of Meru against misbehaviour during post election violence in Kenya at the beginning of 2008.
#3Local language Radio service, Muga-FM, was established 2005, transmitting cultural values to every corner of Meru. The communities appreciate KiMeru service because every member of community is thereby informed and entertained.
#4Cultural Festivals have been started: Songs, foods, Drinks and Traditional medicines promoted. Research into Ameru cultural traditional instruments is in progress.
#5Writing of books has been made on the Ameru culture, e.g., Miturire ya Ameru (Meru traditional lifestyles) by Gitobu Rinyiru, and translation of the work into English is in progress, by Prof F.X. Gichuru, making it accessible to global community; and Doctoral Thesis by Gaita Baikiao entitled “Towards Africanization of Christianity“.
#6Local language paper, BATWI AMERU, is now in circulation since December 2008, and will reach every corner of Meru land. Issue 2 is under preparation in March 2009. Paper treats actualities, Meru traditional lifestyles, language, and other aspects of Meru culture, including environment.
#7MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (MUST) is being promoted by Njuri-Nceke, which spans 10 Districts; University was conceived in 1960 after Mau Mau War of Independence, and now it is materialising due to efforts of ACRI.
#8African Traditional Medicine is being promoted by ATDAM (Ameru Traditional Doctors of African Medicine).
#9Ka’Meru International Foundation programme is established to dig up cultural history, dynasties and relationships in Meru. There is an effort to rehabilitate orphaned and destitute children, including the disabled.
#10Nkirote cia Kiao Women Group in the spirit of African culture is organised to promote development perspectives and employment in food production, dairy animals, chicken, honey, in order to fight against HIV/AIDS, and to promote marketing.
#11Locating and studying of traditional resource materials as in Nkacii, Kunati, & Kaongo (for cooking pots & related earthenware) is underway.
#12Educating all on traditional foods, i.e. vegetables, bananas, cassava, millets and yams with 13 varieties, actively being promoted.
#13AMKA GROOVE AFRICA (2006) –Attempt to assist the youth and street children create jobs for themselves through organised dances based on globalised African culture .
The personel and executive members of ACRI include:
1. Prof. F.X. Gichuru, Ph.D. (1982) – Founder Chairman of ACRI. Has been professor of Education and Senior Research Fellow at Kenyatta University. Wrote "Etapes de l'education en Afrique traditionnelle" in Cahier de pedagogie africaine, 1977, Bordeaux II; Has worked relentlessly to see that ACRI comes to fruition.
2. Dr. Gaita Baikiao, Ph.D. – An ardent promoter of African culture. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled Towards Africanisation of Christianity (1977). Has been instrumental in revival of Njuri-Nceke, the traditional Council of Elders of Meru, which today acts as the moral authority of the Ameru; in the past it was the government. Baikiao has promoted activities in Meru aiming at making Africans proud of themselves. He taught Anthropology, History and Religion at the Kenya Methodist University.
3. Mr. Michael Gitobu Mwirichia, Director of Culture, Njuri-Ncheke Council of Elders, Meru. He was Civic leader in the Meru Municipal Council in the 1970s; has written a book on Meru history and lifestyles, Miturire na Mikarire ya Ameru Karaaja (2000). He believes that the African Culture has a lot to offer to the world.
4. Ms. Easter Kaimuri Ciombaine,(B.Ed.) 2004, A young graduate who believes in the revival of the best of the African Culture; has worked for the establishment of the African Cultural Regeneration Institute since 2003; represents the youthful generation who care about the values of the past
Cooperation:
Njurinceke is the traditional Council of Elders, almost destroyed by colonialists but saved through the efforts Dr Gaita Baikiao, a director of ACRI. Other officials of ACRI belonging and guiding Njurinceke are Prof Francis Gichuru, an initiated Elder of Njurinceke, and Michael Rinyiru, Director of Culture of Njurinceke. The role of Njurinceke since the start of the Meru community was to preserve the cohesiveness of the people of Meru, the territorial integrity, ensure proper governance of the society with justice and fairness to all, protect the weak and vulnerable especially women and children, and act as guardians of culture and identity. With the coming of the colonialists, Njurinceke was suppressed and weakened so that the invader could alienate the land and the people.

When Gaita Baikiao finished his doctorate in 1977 at Universitas Urbaniana in Rome, having studied social anthropology among other studies, he came back to Kenya and found that Njurinceke was dying, and the meeting spaces reserved for the elders were about to be alienated by land-grabbers because the organisation had no certificate of registration. He quickly organised documentary registration for purposes of allocation of the traditional meeting spaces. He helped to organise a democratic alternation of leadership, and became eventually a mover, together with Prof Francis Gichuru, for the establishment of the African Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI) in 2003.

Michael Rinyiru is the elected Director of Culture of Njurinceke and is a key recruiter and initiator of new elders into the Council of Elders. The Intangible Cultural Heritage, which includes the values and secrets of the Njurinceke, are transmitted during initiation of new elders, and the secrets are not available to non initiates. Michael Rinyiru is currently the Chairman of the traditional land tribunal, recognised by the current government. Without this tribunal today some land disputes cannot be solved fairly by modern courts.

ACRI is therefore working with Njurinceke as mover and facilitator, with key members of ACRI being operational and key elders of the Council of Elders. Njurinceke aims at preserving the cultural integrity of the Meru people and making the people live with dignity and respect for one another. The organisation is respected both locally and in the nation of Kenya as a whole. During the Post Election Violence in Kenya in the beginning of 2008 Njurinceke simply issued guidance to the youth of Meru to respect other human beings and not cause any mayhem as it was the case in other parts of Kenya, and the youth complied. ACRI will continue to work with the Njurinceke and the people Meru, as well as with other cultural communities in Kenya, to promote good conduct and respect for human rights, in the promotion of respectable global human civilisation.
This project is at proposal stage. The African Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI) is providing the dream, inspiration and guidance. The Meru people had a very rich traditional heritage before the colonialist came at the turn of the 19th Century and slowly strangled and discouraged it. The weakening of the heritage has been exacerbated by modernisation. The proposed centre is intended to preserve the heritage in a conscious effort of safeguarding in one specified area, such as in a living museum. Bits and pieces of this heritage can be found here and there, but still under pressure of disappearance.
The Meru people need to be rejuvenated and revived in order that they know themselves and become proud of themselves. Many of their traditional crafts were ingenious and useful both for lifestyle and health in general. The ACCAW will gather these crafts and practices in one place for the purpose of training the youth and showing them how to make economic industries out of them. It will also serve as a centre to demonstrate to the world what the Meru culture was and will open the world to the Meru people. The Meru communities are desirous to rediscover themselves and to make value out of their traditions. Before the old folk die out the youth want the elders to teach them what they know of their past skills. This will best be done in a centralised place.
Therefore, the communities, in their search for their identity, will manufacture traditional cultural instruments and create employment industries. They will develop technologies in games, dances, foods, drinks, plants and traditional medicines. They will promote modern technology transfer in order to add value to traditional culture by way of printed materials, audio and video recordings, and film making. In all this, ACRI is providing guidance and inspiration, advising the people to tap into their history without being shy and create value from their traditions.
In that respect, a suitable piece of land (about 8 acres) has been identified for the construction of Ameru Cultural Centre for Africa and the World (ACCAW) for the purpose of planning and coordinating all cultural activities of the Ameru people, recognising them and promoting them, making effort to marry the past and present.
From efforts of ACRI, revival of 'Njurinceke' is important. Following colonial domination of Kenya since 1900's Njurinceke became dormant after 1950s. During Post election violence in Kenya at the beginning of 2008, NjuriNceke was very instrumental in calming the youths of Meru against misbehaviour.
Today, suitable location and piece of land (about 8 acres) is identified for construction of Ameru Cultural Centre for Africa and the World (ACCAW), planned to coordinate all cultural activities of the Ameru people, recognise them and promote them, making effort to marry past and present, manufacture traditional cultural instruments and create employment industries; building technologies in games, dances, foods, drinks, plants and traditional medicines; and promoting modern technology transfer in order to add value to traditional culture by way of printed materials, audio and video recordings, and film making.
Advising a local investor in MEDIA industry, a local language Radio, Muga-FM, was established since 2005 through leadership of ACRI. Though the NGO does not share in management or profits of the business, it is content with having cultural values transmitted to every corner of Meru.
Books on Ameru culture, e.g., Miturire ya Ameru (Meru traditional lifestyles) by Gitobu Rinyiru, and Doctoral Thesis “Towards Africanization of Christianity “by Gaita Baikiao have been popular with communities and researchers.
BATWI AMERU, a local language paper is now in circulation since Dec 2008.. This paper is helping the Meru communities find their culture and language, and makes them proud of themselves.
Many of the projects of ACRI have stalled due to lack of funding support, and what has been happening is volunteer work; sometimes proposals circulated soliciting funding, e.g. to establish Music and filming studio for recording and research into African music, are frustrated by dishonest potential sponsors that steal the proposals while the NGO is trying to work with the local community.
The staff and drivers of ACRI are very motivated, qualified and dedicated to safeguarding African culture. Much has been achieved with volunteer work. With collaboration from organisations sharing similar interests like UNESCO, the scope of work can be vast and of very high quality.
Agence des Musiques des Territoires d'Auvergne - AMTA
1 route d'Ennezat
BP 169
63204
RIOM
FRANCE
Tel.: +33-1 (0)473646000

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: French) - No. 90290
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1985
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
Cette association a pour but la promotion, la coordination et le soutien de diverses actions entreprises dans les champs des musiques traditionnelles et plus généralement du patrimoine culturel immatériel considérés comme ressources pour favoriser le développement des territoires en région Auvergne. A cette fin, l’association développe des actions de collecte et de conservation du patrimoine oral, de soutien à la création, à la diffusion et programmation du spectacle vivant, la formation, la recherche, l’animation, la documentation, l’initiation, etc., et l’information des acteurs concernés par ces secteurs.
Activities:
L'AMTA est un centre de ressources dédié au patrimoine culturel immatériel. Sa fonction est d'être un lien de référence, d'expertise, de conseils et d'appui pour les différents acteurs du territoire. Ses principales activités sont:

1/ Inventaire, sauvegarde et mise en accés
L'AMTA utilise le logiciel de base de données Alexandrie 7 qui est le logiciel utilisé par l'ensemble des centres documentaires du réseau national des musiques et danses traditionnelles (FAMDT) avec rien qu'en 2011 plus de 200 heures de bandes sonores (supports DAT) et vidéos et plus de 500 documents iconographiques. Pour le traitement des archives sonores, une fois inventoriées, elles sont numérisées, qualifiées, classées et mises en ligne sur un méta-portail mutualisé par 6 structures à l'échelle du Massif Central.
L'AMTA est un pôle associé à la BNF pour tous ce qui concerne l'inventaire et le catalogage de fonds sonores en Auvergne. Nous travaillons en partenariat avec les archives départementales où nous avons déposé plus de 4000 photos.

2/ Transmission et pédagogie
L'AMTA developpe l'intérêt du public pour le patrimoine immatériel à travers son exposition itinérante sur les musiques du paysage, des productions (livres, CD), des conférences et la réalisation filmés de personnages remarquables.
L'AMTA intervient auprès d'établissements scolaires dans la conception et la réalisation de programmes pédagogiques en lien avec le patrimoine culturel immatériel comme la réalisation de contes musicaux.

3/ Mise en réseau
L'AMTA, en tant que centre régional, s'attache à remplir une mission de coordination, de centre de ressources et d'informations pour l'ensemble des acteurs du patrimoine oral de l'Auvergne.

4/ Expertise et conseil
L'AMTA s'attache à valoriser les fonds en apportant un appui aux enseignants, étudiants, artistes et chercheurs des différentes disciplines concernées par le patrimoine immatériel.
L'AMTA apporte son expertise et accompagne les acteurs des territoires dans le cadre de projet de développement territorial.
L'AMTA construit et anime des projets de développement territorial par la valorisation du patrimoine culturel immatériel comme la création par les scolaires de contes musicaux qui réinventent l'origine de leur pays et la réalisation de portraits de personnages remarquables.
Cooperation:
Réseau national: L'AMTA est membre de la FAMDT (organisme acrédité par l'UNESCO) et participe activement à la commission sur le patrimoine culturel immatériel avec d'autres membres acrédités (DASTUM, ANCT, MPO, etc.) L'AMTA est via la FAMDT un pôle associé à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Elle coordonne un projet inter-régional sur le Massif Central, regroupant six structures (ANCT, MPO, IEO Limousin, CRMTL, ADDA, Scènes Croisées) dans quatre régions (Bourgogne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin et Auvergne), intitulé patrimoine "langues, musiques et danses".
Réseau régional: L'AMTA coordonne l'ensemble du réseau des musiques et danses traditionnelles en Auvergne qui regroupe quatre centres departementaux, 300 groupes de musiques et environ un milliers d'adhérents.
Agence du patrimoine culturel du Mali - SARL
Mali Cultural Heritage Agency [en]
Bamako-Senou E/505/1807 V
BP: E04-Bamako-Mali
MALI
Tel.: 00 223 207 269 07; 00 223 764 889 12; 00 223 664 779 33

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/French) - No. 90409
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Mali, United States of America

Objectives:
Agence du Patrimoine Culture! du Mali/Mali Cultural Heritage Agency is a registered non-­governmental organization (NGO) that conducts applied research specialized in the areas of agricultural heritage, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), ethno archaeology, human ecology, the performance arts and Sociocultural anthropology. Mali Cultural Heritage Agency explores, mobilizes and deploys Sociocultural practices in support of sustainable development. The integration of material and symbolic culture is the backbone component of its innovative agenda.
Mali Cultural Heritage is working to help create a better world; a world in which poverty is reduced and livelihoods are more secure and meaningful. The agency's task is, by definition, ongoing and long-term. Its approach prioritizes the integration of grassroots communities, their Sociocultural practices, local knowledge and human geographies. The NGO members are committed to building a sustainable future with and for indigenous people and their cultural heritage.
The NGO mission ambitiously centers upon drafting a national register of cultural heritage, developing cultural park services, and revitalizing and sustaining valuable cultural practices throughout Mali.
All-encompassing goals:
Conceptualizing and creating a national register of cultural heritage in Mali
Conceptualizing and implementing cultural parks
Integrating participatory cultural heritage management, consultancy and the promotion of cultural services, cultural assets and developing money and non-money economies
Safeguarding, preserving, conserving, and promoting cultural heritage and non-governmental cultural action while moving with grassroots communities
Integrating local communities in the management and the conservation of the natural and sociocultural environment in the process of empowering cultural identity
Reducing poverty through the development of network connections between grassroots communities and the institutions that are active in the areas of cultural heritage and education
Enhancing local knowledge and local practices and integrating these practices in sustainable socioeconomic development work in Mali and particularly in the regions of Sikasso, Kayes, Koulikoro, Mopti and the Bamako District.
Activities:
Safeguarding activities speak to an ambitious nationwide project. Primarily, in the Bamako District and its backdrop country side and particularly in Sokonafin and Niamakoroni, the agency members are identifying, documenting, (recording) and conducting research in the areas of local traditional performing arts and masquerades, (Ciwara, Namanin-Kun, N'Tomo, Cɛblen-kɛ). The Niamakoroni Cultural House project mentioned earlier is an ambitious multi-functional center where local communities and villagers with the help of Mali Cultural Heritage Agency and partners are engaging in various sustainable socio-cultural and agricultural heritage activities. The NGO is building local capacities, empowering local (urban and rural) communities’ expertise in the areas of securing their masks and costumes of their masquerades and agricultural heritage. The NGO is also helping local communities digitizing their practices in the areas of performing arts and gender related knowledge relating to human ecology and biodiversity for future generation.
Cooperation:
The organization is building an extensive socio-professional experience with public institutions and grassroots communities and villagers for over 08 years. The NGO procured and conducted a consultancy for the Malian Office of Tourism, Office Malien du Tourisme et de I'Hotellerie from 2008 to 2010. The consultancy was on the human geography of cultural and tourist practices in the Bamako District and its backdrop country side. At the level of grassroots communities, the organization is mentoring the safeguarding activities of their intangible cultural heritage. On a casual basis, it plans and conducts training activities that focus on traditional mapping activities that aim to locate and make the inventory of places where rituals, rites, and/or performing arts take place to best plan the safeguarding of the practices related to their intangible cultural heritage. The agency members help local communities document and or record their local practices relating to gender knowledge and their festive events. Besides, they are usually invited to attend local festive events by communities' elders and/or their leaders of opinion. Usually, each time the communities are facing a challenge and or a sad experience, they visit them to express their compassion.
Aigine Cultural Research Center - Aigine CRC
Общеcтвенньй фонд кулътүрно-исследовательский центр Айгине [ru]
93 Toktogul Street
720040 Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN
URL: http://www.aigine.kg
URL: http://www.traditionalknowledge.org
Tel.: +996 312 664 832; +996 312 661 951

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90335
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Evaluation Body mandates: 2022
Year of creation: 2004
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Kyrgyzstan

Objectives:
Aigine Cultural Research Center works in the field of traditional knowledge, education, humanities and social research. Founded in 2004, the Center set a goal of studying and preserving natural and cultural heritage and diversity in Kyrgyzstan. Having started with primarily academic projects such as study and documentation of the ancient tradition of pilgrimage to sacred sites, the Center adopted Participatory Action Research approach as the main working principle of the Center. The majority of Aigine’s projects are aimed at safeguarding biocultural heritage with focus on three domains a) sacred sites including its natural, spiritual, social components and dimensions, b) the great heroic epic “Manas.Semetey. Seitek” as well as small Kyrgyz epics, c) the folk music. All elements of biocultural heritage that Aigine aims to preserve comprise in themselves intangible cultural elements.
Over the course of its work Aigine came to realize that biocultural heritage can be best preserved when it is integrated in contemporary life and when stakeholders and rigthsholders manage to build meaningful collaboration. Thus, since 2007, Aigine identified two additional objectives:
 Preserving, developing and integrating traditional wisdom with contemporary life and aiming to incorporate the positive potential of traditional wisdom in decision-making at all levels of public and political life;
 Seeking points of rapprochement and interconnection among esoteric knowledge and science, nature and culture, traditions and innovations, West and East, and other experiences often seen as oppositions.
Designed to meet Center’s objectives, Aigine projects have directly contributed to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Kyrgyzstan. Aigine has been building effective connections with both traditional practitioners and state agencies, thus bridging important stakeholders and rightsholders involved in preservation of biocultural heritage. Since 2007, Aigine have been promoting inclusion of elements of traditional knowledge on sacred sites and revived folk musical systems into formal education. Some Aigine projects contributed to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through exposing positive potential of traditional culture in preventing conflicts in the society and empowering vulnerable social groups (e.g. disabled youth). Thus, Aigine’s broader objectives aiming to preserve biocultural heritage at whole explicitly encompass an objective of preserving intangible cultural heritage.

Activities:
Since 2005 till present, Aigine CRC has been conducting a study on sacred sites in all provinces of Kyrgyzstan. The study includes identification, documentation and inventory of sacred sites throughout the country. Students of local universities, «village intellectuals» and practitioners have been involved in field research in each province. Findings of the study made it possible for Aigine to define an outline of Sacred Geography of Kyrgyzstan. It contains the inventory of 920 sacred sites, which includes locations and descriptions with pictures of the places, recognized by local people as sacred or holy. Besides the inventory, the study investigated intangible cultural elements such as historical and contemporary dimensions of sacred sites, as well as, beliefs, rituals and traditional practices. The study results suggest that sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan should be considered as both natural and cultural heritage, which represents local land and indigenous culture in unity.
Aigine has been working for safeguarding a tradition of reciting the Manas epic, which is considered to be unique element of intangible cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan. Working in close cooperation with epic chanters, Aigine has helped to build strong nationwide network of epic narrators. In last three years, Aigine has pioneered creation of a video compilation of the entire Manas, Semetei, Seitek epic trilogy recited by the contemporary epic chanters. This 67 hour-long video compilation is the first and the only video version of the entire epic trilogy ever created in Kyrgyzstan and beyond. The video compilation meets standards of modern ‘digital age’ and serves as a documented baseline of the current state of the contemporary epic recitation. The video compilation of the epic trilogy has been distributed free of charge among all the educational intuitions throughout the country so that students and teachers can have better access to study materials on the epic heritage. Also, the video compilation was made available on local and international video-sharing websites to contribute to preservation and promotion of the epic heritage in the Kyrgyz Republic and abroad.
Aigine sees promoting diversity to be a key component of preserving epic heritage. Thus, Aigine has been working on studying and supporting newly emerging version of the epic presented by a female practitioner. This version evoked numerous debates in the society at large at Aigine has conducted a series of workshops on mitigating contention points between male and female practitioners.
Aigine’s another groundbreaking project aimed at safeguarding epic heritage was a School for Novice Manaschys conducted from 2010 to 2012. One of the main objectives of the School was to revitalize and enhance traditional mentor-apprentice system that has been lost. Over the course of the project, nine young epic reciters were recruited out of more than thirty applicants from all over Kyrgyzstan. This School gave the young manaschys a unique opportunity to meet with and learn from recognized epic chanters during few-day-long workshops three times a year. The School became a ground for sharing manaschys’ spiritual experiences and improving their recitation skills. Aigine’s projects contributed a great deal to a successful nomination of Manas. Semetei. Setek epic trilogy for the UNESCO ICH List.
In 2009-2014, Aigine implemented a project called En Belgi on promoting traditional musical heritage. En Belgi is music note system developed by a prominent traditional musician – Nurak Abdrakhmanov, which facilitates learning to play komuz, the folk musical instrument. The system builds on intangible traditional cultural elements such as traditional mentorship, values and practices. In 2011-2012, Aigine introduced the En Belgi system in formal education.
Senior researchers at Aigine hold advanced degrees in humanities and social sciences. Both senior and junior researchers constantly thrive to improve their research skills and expertise by combining academic research and education with applied projects. Dr.Gulnara Aitpaeva, Director and Founder of Aigine worked for a long time at the Department of Anthropology at American University of Central Asia and attended special courses on Methods in Ethnoecology at Duke University in 2007.
Cooperation:
Since 2005, Aigine CRC has been using PAR – participatory action research in order to preserve and promote the phenomena of intangible cultural heritage related to Kyrgyz epics, folk music, sacred sites, practices related to weather and environment, and many others. By its essence PAR demands involvement of all stakeholders, but in the first turn it requires putting practitioners, bearers and custodians in the center of a problem solving process.
Aigne has been successful in building fruitful and meaningful cooperation with traditional practitioners and local communities. For instance, a series of national and international level gatherings with the epic chanters in 2010-2014 allowed conceiving and implementing the idea of creating a video compilation of the Manas. Semetey. Seitek trilogy. En Belgi project resulted in creating informal country-wide network of music teachers, while the research on sacred sites and consecutive workshops with traditional practitioners created a basis for establishing an informal network of sacred sites’ guardians.
Aigine thrives to build trust-based and long term cooperation with all its partners and prioritizes interests and needs of local communities, traditional practitioners and knowledge holders. This approach proved effectives since it fosters self-organization and strong horizontal ties among stakeholders. For example, the community of the epic reciters took a lead in identifying the list of core episodes for the video compilation and the epic chanters who were to recite each episode. The epic chanters were directly involved in video-shooting and editing of the final version.
Aigine constantly keeps communication with the members of the sacred site guardians’ network. Strong ties allow Aigine to update information on sacred sites on a regular basis. Aigine’s publications (more than 10 books in Kyrgyz, Russian and English) and electronic resources allow traditional practitioners to have their say. For example, trust-based and mutually respectful cooperation between Aigine and the informal network of the sacred site guardians resulted in joint attempts to lobby and advocate legal recognition of sacred sites and related intangible cultural elements
Akşehir Nasreddin Hoca ve Turizm Derneği
Association de Nasreddin Hodja et du Tourisme - ANHT [fr]
Selcuk Mah. Tabakhamam Sok. No: 35
Aksehir/Konya
TURKEY
URL: http://www.aksehirnasreddinhoca.org.tr
Tel.: +90 (0) 332 813 14 35

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90148
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1959
Budget: U.S.$360000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement

Main countries where active:

Turkey

Objectives:
Notre association a pour but de sauvegarder le patrimoine culturel de Nasreddin Hodja, afin de donner à cet héritage culturel immatériel la place qui lui revient. Car Nasreddin Hodja n’a rien écrit de son vivant. Mais on écrit sur lui depuis le XVe siècle dans plusieurs endroits du monde. Il a donc une valeur nationale et universelle.
Il a vécu au XIIIe siècle (1208-1284).Sa renommée va des Balkan à la Mongolie et ses aventures sont célébrées dans des dizaines de langues, du serbo-croate au persan en passant par le turc, l'arabe, le grec, le russe et d'autres.
Les informations sur la vie de Nasreddin Hodja sont mêlées quelquefois à des dires en raison du grand amour que lui nourrissait le peuple et se sont aussi transformées parfois en événements extraordinaires.
La valeur de Nasreddin Hodja n’est pas mesurée avec les événements qu’il a vécus, mais avec la finesse de la conception, de la satire et des éléments de moquerie dans son humour et celui que le peuple raconte en son nom. D’après les études réalisées sur les plaisanteries, qui seraient les siennes, on comprend par la signification des mots qu’il n’a pas exprimé le mode de vie, et les éléments humoristiques et satiriques d’une époque précise, mais ceux du peuple d’Anatolie. La base des éléments qui forme ses plaisanteries sont l’amour, la satire, l’éloge et la moquerie. Il aime ridiculiser, il s’entraîne vers une contradiction avec lui-même. Nasdreddin Hodja apparaît comme un foyer humoristique diffusant les sentiments du peuple. Ainsi, le peuple fait entendre sa voix par le biais de Nasreddin Hodja.
Les Fondateurs de l’association et leurs successeurs avaient les objectifs suivants:
 Etudier Nasreddin Hodja, sa vraie Personnalité, son époque et ses anecdotes.
 Faire connaître son humour, sa philosophie, sa tradition de "Rire et Penser"
et sa ville Akchehir dans le Monde entier.
 Préserver le tombeau de Nasreddin Hodja, les autres bâtiments historiques et leurs environnement naturels
 Renforcer l’esprit de promouvoir notre héritage culturel au sein de la société, comme les expressions traditionnelles, rituels de naissance, de mariage et de funérailles, traditions culinaires,….


Activities:
En premier lieu, l'association de Nasreddin Hodja et du Tourisme organise le "Festival International de Nasreddin Hodja" avec la Municipalité, à Akchehir (Akchehir- Ville Blanche) du 5 au10 juillet, depuis 50 ans. D’ailleur, l'Unesco a déclaré l'année 1996, « Année de Nasreddin Hodja ».
Cela se passe tous les ans ainsi :
Quelques jours avant le festival, nous rendrons visite aux députés et aux ministres à l'Assemblée Nationale de Turquie (TBMM) avec le délégué de Nasreddin Hodja, pour les inviter au Festival.
À la veille du festival; un train spécial (Train d'Humour) part d'Istamboul pour Akchehir et amène nos invités: des artistes, des écrivains, des journalistes, des folkloristes, des universitaires et autres intellectuels. Au départ et à l'arrivée du train, il y a chaque fois une cérémonie truculente.
Du 5 au10 juillet, concernant le programme du Festival :
Dans la matinée du 5 juillet, nous commençons avec le rituel de la résurrection au tombeau. On appelle Nasreddin Hodja qui vient parmi nous. En effet, un acteur qui représente le Hodja sort du tombeau et fait son discours contenant le message de l'année.
Par la suite ; le Hodja, entourré de foule , va au bord du lac, ajoute un peu de yogourt à l’eau et les melange avec une louche. On lui demande « Que faites-vous Hodja ? » « Je fermente le yogourt ! » repond-il. Les entourages :« Mais c’est impossible dans un lac et jamais vu.. » Le hodja sourit et repond comme 8 siècles avant: « Je sais bien, mais si on y parvenait !»
Pendant le festival ;Il y a les spectacles de théâtre, de danse, concerts de musique (rock, pop, musique traditionnelle turque); des expositions de caricature, de dessin, de photographie, sculptures, articles céramiques; des débats, des conférences, des dialogues sur les thèmes de Nasreddin Hodja et de l'humour; les pratiques liées à la chasse, la pêche et la cueillette.
Les artistes et les experts qui participent aux activités du programme viennent de différentes villes de Turquie et de plusieurs pays.
Cette année, le comité du festival que nous représentons a décidé de distribuer les « Prix du Rire et de l’Ane d’Or de Nasreddin Hodja » à trois humoristes.
Notre association a aussi donné le « Prix de Chercheur du 50ème Année » à Dr. Mustafa DUMAN, qui est à la fois écrivain, documentaliste et collectionneur, sur le thème de Nasreddin Hodja.
D'autre part, notre association organise aussi le "Festival des Enfants de Nasreddin Hodja" avec l'aide de la Municipalité, chaque année, à Akchehir (Akchehir- Ville Blanche) le 23 avril pendant la Fête Nationale Turque de Souveraineté et des Enfants.
Nous organisons ainsi les concours de caricatures, d'histoires humoristiques, photographies, d'affiches de Festival. (Cette année nous n'avons pas pu les faire à cause de crise.)
Nous participons aux symposiums, festivals nationaux, internationaux et
également à des réunions de l'UNESCO sur le thème de patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI), comme observateur. ( à Sofia, la 2ème session extraordinaire du Comité Intergouvernemental du 18 au 22 février 2008 et à Istanbul la 3ème session du Comité Intergouvernemental, du 4 au 8 novembre 2008)
Nous étions également à la réunion de travail sur le sujet de “ Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel et les ONG ”, le 4 juin 2009 ,à Ankara/Turquie. Celle-ci a été organisée par Commission de l’ UNESCO de Turquie, les Universités , TURKSOY et Centre National Turc de l’ UNIMA. Les cadres du ministère de la Culture et du Tourisme et du ministère de l’ Education étaient présents. On a eu un débat important sur les processus de l’ accréditation des ONG de Turquie par l’UNESCO.
Par ailleurs, nous avons une riche archive à notre siège. Elle comprend des bouquins, des revues, des bulletins, des affiches, des cassettes VHS, des CD, essentiellement sur Nasreddin Hodja, sur les festivals et sur les héritages culturels nationaux et internationaux
Notre association a également en son sein un groupe qui s'appelle les " Jeunes Bénévoles". Ce sont des élèves, des étudiants ou bien des artisans qui travaillent bénévolement pour l'association surtout pendant les Festivals comme représentants de leur ville et de leur culture et participent à nos activités culturelles et sociales durant toute l’année.
Quant au Conseil Consultatif de notre Association, il a été créé en novembre 2006. Ce conseil fonctionne comme un centre d'expertise dans ce domaine et regroupe des experts de différentes disciplines (histoire, sociologie, économie, folklore, archéologie), des artistes (acteurs, caricaturistes, peintres, photographes), écrivains et journalistes célèbres de Turquie.

Cooperation:
Au sein de notre association; il y a un groupe traditionnelle qui s’appelle “Sıra Yarenleri” (Rang de Frère). L’une des institutions qui a aussi contribué à l’union culturelle de l’Anatolie est celle des Ahis (Frères) . Les Ahis, arrivés en Anatolie en même temps que les derviches de Ahmet Yesevi, 12. siécle, se sont installés surtout dans les régions urbaines plutôt que rurales en raison de leurs qualités professionnelles.
Bien que les Ahis constituent une organisation professionnelle ( surtout les artisans), qui avaient des us et coutumes ainsi que des secrets.
Le principe fondamental chez les Ahis est l’égalité absolue des membres de l’organisation. Tous les membres sont frères. Mais un respect infini existe du membre le plus jeune à l’égard du membre le plus âgé. Pour devenir membre de l’organisation, il faudra la recommandation de l’un de ses membres. Ceux qui ont commis des actes terribles, ont une mauvaise réputation et qui pourraient nuire à l’organisation ne peuvent devenir membre des Ahis. L’adhésion se fera lors d’une cérémonie spéciale . Le candidat Ahi se nouera une ceinture autour de la taille pour la cérémonie et il lui sera conseillé de nourrir de l’amour à l’égard de tous les humains, de les respecter et de ne pas dévier de la juste voie. Il lui sera aussi demandé de se soumettre éternellement à l’organisation. Les scélérats ne pourront absolument pas y adhérer tout comme les fanatiques d’ailleurs.
Comme les Bektaşi, les Ahis feront passer leurs membres par des phases qui leur donneront des particularités comme la connaissance, la patience, la purification de l’âme, la fidélité, l’amitié et la tolérance.
Parmi les “Frères” il y a les membres de notre association et nous organisons avec eux les spéctacles mélangés de jeu, de danse, de théatre. On distribue les cadeax par tirage au sort, etc, pendant toute la soirée . Le groupe joue leurs jeux avec l’ assistance .
Nous avons aussi de bon relation avec la population alévite d’Akchéhir qui sont souvent musiciens et artisans. On les nomme souvent par erreur les tziganes.
Ålakustens kulturarvsförening
The Eel Coast Cultural Heritage NGO [en]
c/o Maria Blombärg
Yngsjövägen 1299
296 92 Yngssjö
SWEDEN
URL: http://www.alarv.se
Tel.: +46 (0) 70 354 17 75

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90428
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2013
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Sweden

Amagugu International Heritage Centre
P.O. Box 53
Bulawayo
ZIMBABWE
URL: http://www.amaguguheritage.org
Tel.: +263 773 017 831, +263 773 702 030, +263 712 701 651, +263 962 526

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90383
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Zimbabwe

Objectives:
Amagugu International Heritage Centre (AIHC) is located within the confines of the Matobo World Heritage Landscape. In partnership with local communities, AIHC researches on, documents and promotes tangible and intangible indigenous cultural heritage with a view to highlighting African thought, worldview and philosophy that live behind local cultural practices and rituals. Through participatory cultural activities, AIHC develops and enriches the consciousness of the people about their cultural heritage and fosters respect for cultural identities. Regular inter-cultural exchange programs by AIHC serve to cultivate cultural exchange and give indigenous culture international prominence. Through working bays for crafts production and a craft shop, AIHC develops skills and knowledge relating to traditional crafts and facilitates establishment of market linkages. Working through traditional leaders, AIHC researches and documents cultural elements in local communities for purposes of developing an inventory of cultural elements residing in the local communities and feed these into national inventory. AIHC has peformance spaces which serve as a platform for identification and nurturing of rural based performance artists. Through cultivating cultural exchanges, AIHC gives indigenous culture international prominence in a manner that supports sustainable development of rural communities in Zimbabwe. AIHC cooperates with public and private cultural institutions and interested bodies for the purpose of highlighting indigenous thought, worldview and philosophy. The organisation uses both traditional and new media to facilitate documentation and promotion of threteaned elements of intangible culural heritage. AIHC's vision is to be a centre of excellence in the documentation, preservation and promotion of Zimbabwe's cultural heritage.
Activities:
Revitalising Traditional Hut Painting - AIHC is facilitating the revitalisation of the art of traditional hut painting using natural pigments in Zimbabwe's Matobo District. An annual competition motivates women to paint their homesteads thus preserving the art form.
Resident Dance Group - AIHC has a resident dance group whose members are women, men and youths from the local community. The group specialises in performing the wosana traditional dance which is a rain making dance unique to Matobo District. Members of the local community and researchers use the group to understand the dance routine and dancers' black attire.
Community Inventorying - With technical support from AIHC, members of the local Matobo community are doing write ups about the nature, rationale and signifance of social practices such as lobola (pride price) and sacred spaces. Research output published through AIHC's Amagugu Publishers.
Cultural Policy and Strategy Formulation - AIHC is currently supporting four Rural District Councils in Zimbabwe to craft cultural policies and strategies so as to build local level institutional capacity to preserve and promote various elements of indigenous cultural heritage. Project mainstreams indigenous cultural heritage in service delivery. Project supported by UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity.
Botanical Garden - The botanical section of AIHC has various indigenous tree species supplied by members of the local community. Medicinal and nutritional value of the trees and shrubs is shared with visitors to the Centre.
Tour of Cave Paintings and Visits to Njelele Shrine - Tour guides at AIHC facilitate visits to rock art and the Njelele shrine for members of the local community. The spirituality of the paintings and the shrine is interpreted thus raising awareness on local traditional religion.
Promotion of Craftsmanship - AIHC supports communities in Matobo with training in basketry, pottery, leather tanning and wood carving. AIHC also has working space for craft persons and a craft shop to promote market linkages. Inter-generational transmission of craft skills is done through discussions and trainings between the elderly and the young at AIHC.
Traditional Food and Beverages Expo - The Expo is a platform for the local Matobo community to learn about traditional food and beverages. The role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the agriculture value chain is shared so as to enhance food security and household nutrition.
Tour of Murals - The perimeter wall at AIHC has murals which were conceptualised by members of the local community and depict the pre-colonial way of life of the local Ndebel people. The murals are used as learning aids when primary, secondary and tertiary institutions visit AIHC to learn about intangible cultural heritage such as beer brewing, corn threshing and interpreting of decorative motifs.
Book Publishing - AIHC has a book publishing unit, Amagugu Publishers, whose mandate is to publish texts that document various elements of local intangible cultural heritage. Over 12 texts have been published to date and these are being used by both teachers and students in primary and secondary schools.
Film Screenings - Film screenings are used as an informal method of learning particularly for members of the local Matobo community who have no access to national television. Film screenings often share information on Zimbabwe's social practices and rituals.
Storytelling sessions - Working with a network of elderly women, young children receive at AIHC invaluable social teachings through storytelling sessions.
Cooperation:
AIHC is a self-contained multi-purpose institution strategically located within a communal land in the confines of the Matobo World Heritage Site.
Annual Traditional Food Expo empowers women to showcase their culinary skills and sell farm produce. Project on traditional hut painting using natural pigments works through a local committee made up of traditional leaders and villagers. Local committee does adjudication.
Two gazebos at AIHC provide local dance groups with access to free rehearsal space. Local groups also perform at events organised by AIHC. A music and dance exchange program was launched in 2015 and entails established groups sharing knowledge and skills with emerging youthful groups so as to foster intergenerational transmission of ICH.
In order to strengthen viability of traditional craftsmanship in Matobo, there are working bays at AIHC where local youths are taught by the elderly the skill of crafts making in the realms of basketry, pottery and leather tanning. AIHC also has a craft shop where locals deposit their artefacts which are sold to visitors. Matobo crafts are promoted to the public at fora such as the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair where selected craft persons have been supported to attend and exhibit. Workshops have also been conducted for craft persons with the view to initiate and sustain financial literacy.
An annual face painting competition for women is held and seeks to revitalise the waning art of face painting using natural pigments. Local elderly women are responsible for adjudication of this project.
Tour guides at AIHC are members of the Matobo community and this has ensured that intangible cultural heritage is shared in the most effective manner.
AIHC's ward and district level assemblies of creative practitioners are a systematic approach to ensuring ease of access to individuals and groups knowledgeable about the five domains of ICH. Assemblies are self-regulating and meet annually at AIHC.
Groups from the various schools in the locality visit AIHC where they are taught various elements of ICH as part of intergenerational transmission of knowledge and skills.
The Centre provides local children and adults with regular edutainment through film screenings that address chosen ICH themes.
Amis du Patrimoine de Madagascar (APM) - APM
Village Saint François
Lot II Y 43 G Andrainarivo
Antananarivo 101
MADAGASCAR
Tel.: +261 33 11 283 82; +261 22 283 82

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90195
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1992
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Restauration et aménagement de monuments et de sites

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Restauration - conservation, veille, interpellation et sensibilisation

Main countries where active:

Madagascar

Objectives:
Les APM constituent une association à but non lucratif, apolitique qui réunit tous les amis des arts et des techniques traditionnelles malgaches. Son but est d'entreprendre et d'appuyer toutes initiatives et actions ayant pour objet de promouvoir l'expression littéraire, scientifique et esthétique se rapportant à la valorisation du Patrimoine culturel et artistique malgache. Les APM assurent également un rôle de veille, d'interpellation et
de sensibilisation auprès des autorités et de la population locales malgaches dans le domaine de la conservation du Patrimoine national.
Activities:
- En 2009, les APM ont organisé une conférence-débat sur le thème de: "La cuisine traditionnelle en lmerina: son histoire, sa diversité, son avenir" qui visait donc la promotion et la remise en valeur de l'art culinaire traditionnel malgache.
- De 1998 à 1999, les APM ont constitué une documentation historique sur le Tranobe (Palais royal) du site d'Evato Vohipeno, un haut lieu de l'histoire qui abrite les reliques des "Sorabe" (culture arabico-malgache).
- Les APM participent également à de nombreux spectacles de musiques traditionnelles et folkloriques, d'expositions et de journées culturelles, et ont pris part au festival Madajazzcar en 2007 (jazz).
Membres de l'organisation et compétences:

- Désiré RAZAFINDRAZAKA, Président des APM: Président du festival Madajazzcar, Président de l'association culturelle Mada sur Seine - Titulaire d'un DEA en langues, littérature et sociétés (Option: Etudes malgaches) à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales de Paris.
- Daniel DARTIGUEPEYROU, Secrétaire Général: Historien Géographe retraité
- Jacques TRONCHON, Secrétaire Général Adjoint: Enseignant historien retraité - Histoire de Madagascar
- Dominique RAKOTOMALALA, Trésorier Général: Etudes supérieures en diplomatie et langues étrangères (Espagne, Autriche, Allemagne).
- Elyane RAHONINTSOA, Vice-Présidente: Formation aux métiers du Tourisme et de l'Hôtellerie (USA, Grande-Bretagne, Japon... ), stages linguistiques.
- En général, les APM sont consistués de membres écrivains et historiens, passionnées de culture et de développement.

Additional information:

Les activités récentes des APM décrivant nos activités récentes et notre expérience avérée en matière de sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel :

-2010-2011 : Promotion et valorisation de la richesse culturelle et patrimoniale malgache à travers la publication d’un ouvrage sur le patrimoine malgache tant sur le plan immatériel que matériel, en collaboration avec la Coopération Suisse à Madagascar.
Il s’agit d’un outil de plaidoyer, d’éducation, d’interpellation et de communication permettant aux APM de sensibiliser les décideurs, les jeunes et la population malgache en général en matière de préservation du patrimoine.
Plusieurs thématiques seront abordées dans ce recueil :
Le Hain-teny et le Kabary (discours traditionnel) ;
Les Arts martiaux malgaches comme le Diamanga ;
Le Sorabe (écriture arabico-malgache) ;
La cuisine traditionnelle ;
Les techniques paysannes ;
Les modes d’habillement et les arts de la coiffure traditionnelle ;
La vannerie ;
La culture du riz ;
Les archives nationales ;
La musique (tradition et jazz), etc.

-Janvier 2010, dans le cadre du Café littéraire, les APM ont participé à une conférence débat sur le thème : « Faut-il défendre le patrimoine ? »
Il s’agissait d’une campagne de communication et d’interpellation autour de la notion du patrimoine notamment du patrimoine naturel, de la faune et de la flore, de l’architecture, de la langue, de la culture, etc.

-En 2009, les APM ont organisé une conférence-débat sur le thème de: « La cuisine traditionnelle en Imerina: son histoire, sa diversité, son avenir » qui visait donc la promotion et la remise en valeur de l'art culinaire traditionnel malgache.

-Les APM ont également participé à de nombreux spectacles de musique traditionnelle et folklorique, d'expositions et de journées culturelles. Ces spectacles ont été organisés sur des sites historiques, ce qui a permis de valoriser en même temps le site, en lui-même, en tant que patrimoine culturel matériel et la musique traditionnelle malgache.
L’association a notamment organisé un concert mariant le jazz à la musique traditionnelle et a pris part au festival Madajazzcar en 2007 (jazz), ce dernier a été organisé au Palais de Justice d’Ambatondrafandrana, construit en 1881 sous le règne de Ranavalona II.

-La semaine de la « Valiha », avril 2001, en collaboration avec Univers Valiha Production et l’AFT
Festival organisé tous les ans depuis 1993 ayant pour objectif de populariser l’instrument à travers la Grande Ile. La Valiha est une variété de cithare tubulaire en bambou.

-Concours artistiques sur le thème de l’ « Unité Nationale »

-De 1998 à 1999, les APM ont constitué une documentation historique sur le Tranobe (Palais royal) du site d'Evato Vohipeno, un haut lieu de l'histoire qui abrite les reliques des « Sorabe » (écriture arabico-malgache) en vue de la revalorisation et de la protection de ces derniers.

-Colloque sur le « Langage et développement »
Cooperation:
En partenariat avec l'Association des Journalistes du Patrimoine, les APM ont lancé avec l'Institut d'Etudes Supérieures des Arts (IESA) une formation sur "La communication du Patrimoine (2007).
- En partenariat avec l'Alliance française de Tananarive et l'ORTANA (Office Régional du Tourisme de la Région Analamanga), les APM ont organisé l'évènement Lire en fête sur le thème de: "Une ville, une oeuvre" (2007).

Additional information:

Les expériences concernant « la coopération, dans un esprit de respect mutuel, avec les communautés, les groupes et, le cas échéant, les individus créant, pratiquant et transmettant le patrimoine culturel immatériel »

-2010-2011, avec la Coopération Suisse : projet de promotion et de valorisation du patrimoine culturel malgache.

-En partenariat avec l'Association des Journalistes du Patrimoine, les APM ont lancé avec l'Institut d'Études Supérieures des Arts (IESA) une formation sur « La communication du Patrimoine » (2007).

-En partenariat avec l'Alliance française de Tananarive et l'ORTANA (Office Régional du Tourisme de la Région Analamanga), les APM ont organisé l'évènement Lire en fête autour du thème de: "Une ville, une œuvre" (2007).

-Partenariat avec le comité organisateur du festival Madajazzcar, 2007

-Collaboration avec Univers Valiha Production pour l’organisation de la semaine de la Valiha et l’Alliance Française d’Antananarivo, 2001.
ArteSol – Artesanato Solidário
ArteSol – Solidary Crafts [en]
Rua Pamplona 1005, 4º andar
CEP: 01405-001
Jardim Paulista
Sao Paulo
BRAZIL
URL: http://www.artesol.org.br
Tel.: 55+11 30828681

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90168
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
ArteSol started its works in 1998 and became a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest in 2002. Its institutional mission is to contribute to the safeguarding of traditional craftwork and to improve the living standards and self-esteem of their practitioners in areas of Brazil with low human development indices. The decision to prioritise families whose income often falls below the poverty line implies that ArteSol has contributed to safeguard several craftwork expressions at risk of disappearing.

Activities:
With the support of several partners, sponsors, volunteers and donors, ArteSol has developed 114 projects supporting traditional producers of pottery, weaving, lace and embroidery work, wooden and clay sculptures, musical instruments and toys, among other artefacts made primarily by women. These projects have benefited approximately 5,000 people, considering artisans and their family members, in 96 localities of various regions of the country, distributed as follows: two in the North, 61 in the Northeast, 1 in the South, 29 in the Southeast and 3 in the Midwest.
The actions developed by ArteSol set out from the principle that intangible cultural heritage in general, and traditional craftwork in particular, are resources of special significance in terms of the history, worldviews and ways of life of their practitioners. These resources are potentially available to most, if not all, members of cultural communities, allowing for differences in gender, age and other forms of social differentiation. They are often an important component of family income. For such economic and socio-psychological reasons, their safeguarding and development, when sustainable, can contribute decisively to improve their living conditions, boost their self-esteem and promote access to citizenship rights.
The social technology developed by ArteSol includes the identification of groups of traditional craft-workers living in poverty; the understanding of their activity as an integral part of social life, worldview and family budget; interpretation of the values attributed to their work and products by the wider public; elaboration of specific safeguarding plans, implementation and continuous evaluation of the project performance.
One of the first priorities of action plans are to contribute to the formation of associations; to understand consumer needs and tastes; to redesign products where necessary, respecting traditional taste and techniques; to help in price formation and in establishing as direct as possible relations with the market. A key objective has been to strengthen the autonomy of the artisans in the sale of their products and advise them on how to market in line with fair trade principles.
ArteSol has effectively contributed to safeguarding expressions of intangible cultural heritage at risk in Brazil. Examples of good practices are the support to lacemaking in Divina Pastora (Sergipe State), to the construction of viola de cocho guitars in Corumbá and Ladário (Mato Grosso do Sul State) and the making of earthenware cooking dishes in Goiabeiras (Espirito Santo State). IPHAN – Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage has registered these three cultural elements as Brazil’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
.
In addition, this approach contributes significantly to projects of regional sustainable development like those taking place in Polo Veredas < http://www.artesol.org.br/site/english/cases/ > (Minas Gerais State), for example.
Individuals and institutional partners have contributed a variety of financial, intellectual, technical and political resources, at various levels, to the continuity and development of the projects and actions developed by ArteSol.

Cooperation:
ArteSol still implements this approach with communities included more recently its programs. However, its main goal since 2012 has been to build the ArteSol Network, focusing mainly on the communities that have participated in activities developed by ArteSol since 1998.
This network’s objective is to develop a specific website allowing direct contact with associations, cooperatives, masters, artisans and their commercial partners: i.e. agents belonging to the productive chain of traditional craftwork in Brazil.

Traditional craftwork supported by ArteSol registered as Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage (IPHAN):
Goiabeiras earthenware cooking dishes (Espirito Santo State), in 2002.
Viola de cocho guitar of Corumbá and Ladário (Mato Grosso do Sul State), in 2005.
Divina Pastora Irish Style Lacemaking, in 2008. It also received Indication of Origin by the National Institute of Industrial Property, under the geographic name of ‘Divina Pastora’ in 2012.
Eleven craftwork associations supported by ArteSol received the SEBRAE Top 100 award in 2009.
Mamulengo Project, World Bank’s Award for Innovative Social Enterprises in 2002
Esperança, the Agreste Doll Project, Banco do Brasil Foundation’s Social Technology Award in 2005.
In the near future, the Network aims to include gradually stores, support institutions and government support programs through a communication plan that provides ready access to information and contacts. Rede ArteSol is not a sales site. Its objectives is build relationships and become an effective networking tool for the development of traditional craftwork in Brazil.
This initiative has produced already very positive results, encouraging us to continue to work in this direction.
Aşıq Şəmşir Mədəniyyət Ocağı İctimai Birliyi
Ashiq Shamshir Cultural Center Public Union [en]
Mehdi Huseyn st. 73/1
Baku 1001
AZERBAIJAN
Tel.: 905349156226; +994 506282575

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90327
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2010
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Azerbaijan

Objectives:
The general objectives of the Ashiq Shamshir Public Union is the collection, research, study, publication, protection, promotion of Azerbaijani Ashiq Art and its transmission to the future generation.
Activities:
The Public Union has been involved in the following projects and events related to the safeguarding, promotion and transmission of intangible cultural heritage of Azerbaijan.

Projects:
1. The Public Union has started the implementation of a project named "Promotion of Nearly Forgotten Fork Art Genres" in March 2010. The project was sponsored by the Council on State Support to NGOs. The samples of the forgotten folk art genres, especially the family-domestic folk plays were gathered, filmed and the educational materials were prepared aiming promotion of these folk arts.
2. In June 2012, the Public Union has started the execution of the project of "Masterworks – Come to Read the Alphabet of Our National Values Together". The objective of the project is to outline the importance of the masterworks in the education of the young generation and to provide information to the young generation in this regard.
3. In October 2012, the Public Union has started the execution of a project named: The National Wealth of the Modern Azerbaijan - Ashiq Art" and has launched a scientific-research program at Caucasian University on 24 October 2012.
4. In April 2014, Dede Gorgud's Da, the Public Union has organized Saz workshops in Baku and Ganja for protection of the old Azerbaijani music instrument of Saz.

Events
1. The Public Union has organized and hosted a seminar for “Uzeyir Hajibayli and the Ashiq Art" in December 2010. The lecturers presented their works on subjects like the importance of folk arts in the Uzeyir Hacibayli's works and the role of Uzeyir Hajibayli in development of Ashiq Art.
2. In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Public Union organized the
"Ashiq Competitions between the Young Ashiqs of the Country - a Tribute to Ashiq Shamshir'' on 22 December 2010. 77 young Ashiqs from 33 districts throughout the country performed their works on this occasion.
3. The Public Union organized and hosted an event on 2 February 2011 named the “Role of young Ashiqs in Development of Ashiq Arts". The objective of the event was the safeguarding of traditions and folk arts and also emphasizing on the importance of continuation of all actions undertaken in line with this issue.
4. In collaboration with the Folklore Institute, the Public Union organized the scientific-practical conference on Folk Art of Azerbaijan in the Context of European Civilization on 21 December 2011.
5. On 24 March 24 2012, the Public Union has organized a concert program for the Azerbaijani people in Mainz, Germany within Novruz festival programme.
6. In collaboration with the Council on State Support to NGO, the Public Union implemented a project- conference on "Ashiq-Ozan, the Symbol of United Culture of Azerbaijan- Turkey" in June 2013. The objective of the conference was to contribute to cultural integration between the nations.
7. In collaboration with the Folklore Institute, the Public Union organized an international scientific conference on “The Historical Development Path of Ashiq Art and Ashiq Shamshir's Era" on 7 December 2013. The objective of the event was to investigate the role of the outstanding representative of Ashiq - Ozan Art of 20th century, Ashiq Shamshir in this art and its investigation from scientific and theoretical points of view.

Commemoration events
1. In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Public Union organized “The
Master Ashiqs are in People's Hearts" as a tribute to the master Ashiqs on 29 June 2011 which was a concert program of Azerbaijani Ashiqs.
2. In collaboration with the Institute of Eurasia International Investigations, the Public Union organized an event dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Master Poet Ashiq Gurbani in June 2012.
3. The Public Union organized an event on 21 December 2012 on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Hoseyn Javid, an outstanding poet and drama writer. The winners of essay competition on “Hoseyn Javid and the Azerbaijan Literature” held between the students were declared on the event.
4. In collaboration with the Shahriyar" Society, the Public Union has organized an event dedicated to the master Ashiqs of the Republic of AzerbaiJan at House of Nations in Moscow on 3 June 2013.
5. In collaboration with the Baku State University, the Public Union organized an event dedicated to the 105th anniversary of Mir Jalal Pashayev, the outstanding scholar and writer, in December 2013.

Awards
The Public Union took part in a book festival on 28 May 2011. Ashiq Shamshir' Cultural Center Public Union was selected as the winner of the Outstanding Cultural Institution for the year 2010 at the 11th Book Festival. The prize was awarded to the Public Union for its role in development of cultural values, its efforts in line with the promotion of Ashiq art and its support provided to the field of culture.

The Public Union has participated in numerous international conferences, festivals and cultural events. It has as well supported many publications on Ashiq Shamshir.

Cooperation:
The Public Union has established close relationships with folk experts, musicologists, poets, masters and performers of Ashiq Shamshir as well as with other persons involved or interested in the field of art.
Asociación Cultural e Pedagóxica 'Ponte ... nas Ondas'
Cultural and Educational Association 'Ponte ... nas Ondas' [en]
Rúa Colón, 17 6 D
36201 Vigo, Pontevedra
SPAIN
URL: http://www.pontenasondas.org
Tel.: +34 615 02 98 40

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90355
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1995
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- education

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Brazil, Portugal, Spain

Objectives:
The objectives for the creation of the Cultural and Educational Association PONTE…NAS ONDAS! included in its statutes are the following:
1. Spread the manifestations of the Galician-Portuguese Cultural Heritage.
2. Foster the conservation and respect for the Cultural Heritage of the Euroregion as an original cultural property in this territory with a presence throughout the world.
3. Foster the relationship among the Galician and Portuguese educational establishments as well as others from different countries in order to strengthen their mutual knowledge.
4. The promotion of cultural and educational activities in school environments and the spread of activities related to the school radio and the use of new technologies in school.
5. The spread and use of Galician language in relation with Portuguese, as well as the promotion of the common identity of the two territories through an overall perspective of the European integration and the Portuguese-speaking world.
6. Promote the collection and spread of the Intangible Heritage contents in order to be the link of the bearers of knowledge with new generations and, at the same time, enhance the potential of this heritage.
7. Defend before governments and organisations deemed appropriate, the creation of the Euroregion Living Human Treasures System.
8. Collaborate with other associations, as well as public and private bodies to carry out activities which help to revitalise and keep the expressions of the Galician-Portuguese Cultural Heritage alive.
Activities:
The cultural and pedagogical Association Ponte...nas Ondas! ( hereinafter "PNO!" ) is comprised of teachers from Galicia and the north of Portugal who come from different education levels, ranging from compulsory education to University. Its activities began in 1995 and continue up to present date. Galician and Portuguese specialists in pedagogy, philology, anthropology and ethnography collaborate on the Association's projects.
The first activities of the Association were focused on achieving, in both sides of the Galician-Portuguese border, a mutual recognition of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage ( hereinafter "GPIH" ).
• Inter-school Communication Days
PNO!'s activity started with a day of communication and dialogue via radio between educational institutions from Galicia and the north of Portugal, carried out entirely by students: this initiative was named "PONTE...NAS ONDAS! Inter-school communication day" ( the Association chose its name after this event ).
The subject matter of its 6th edition ( year 2000 ) was UNESCO's project "The Slave Route", in which schools of the UNESCO Associated Schools participated with a 24-hour radio broadcast from Europe, Africa and America.
Since the proclamation of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001, the Association decided to start a line of work on the Intangible Heritage.
The Inter-school Communication Day has had 20 editions, and saw the participation of more than 800 educational institutions from Spain and Portugal, as well as other educational institutions from America and Africa.
• Samples of the Galician-Portuguese oral tradition
Activity aimed to disseminate the GPIH all along the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion. The Samples of the Galician-Portuguese Oral Tradition intend to make known, in a single event, examples of the oral Galician-Portuguese tradition by joining oral expression, theater and music together.
Since its first edition, 10 samples have taken place in locations in Galicia and the north of Portugal.
• Meeting of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage Bearers ( Melgaço 2005 )
Meeting aimed to give visibility to the Candidature of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage presented before the UNESCO. For three days, representative expressions of the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage were shown.
• Galician-Portuguese Oral Tradiction Collection Contest (2006)
This activity was aimed to collect samples of the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage from an educational point of view, so the students can find out their nearest heritage expressions. The collected samples came with the corresponding technical data sheet and transcription. This was the only contest aimed to the educational institutions of the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion.
• Publication of books, CDs and DVDs related to the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage.
Meniños Cantores ( 2005 ). CD-Book-DVD produced by 17 educational institutions from Galicia and the north of Portugal featuring traditional songs and a documentary about the GPIH. Published in Galician, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Cores do Atlántico ( 2010 ). CD-Book about the cantigas de amigo ( Galician-Portuguese medieval lyric poetry ) from the Galician-Portuguese oral tradition carried out by brazilian artist Socorro Lira and Ria Lemaire, professor at the Université de Poitiers.
Na ponte ( 2013 ). CD-Book-DVD that collects works from teachers, anthropologists, journalists and artistic collaborators from PNO!
• International Congress “PONTES DE CULTURA, PONTES DE FUTURO” (2010)
Cross-border congress carried out on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of PNO! Teachers, anthropologists, journalists and artists particicipated as speakers and discussed the GPIH and PNO!'s role. The Congress's main subjects were education, the heritage, the ICTs and the media.
• Living treasures of the sea ( 2013 )
Project for the recovery of the maritime heritage of A Guarda`s town council ( Galicia ). Interviews and data related to heritage-bearers were collected. The initiative resulted in the creation of a website and the publication of a Book-DVD about the recognition of persons and groups belonging to maritime culture in A Guarda's town council.
• Galician-Portuguese Traditional Games Meetin
Aimed at educational institutions at both sides of the border, this activity intends to convey the traditional Galician-Portuguese games to the younger generations. It takes place in locations in Galicia or in the north of Portugal. XI annual meetings have already been held.
• Candidacy of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage
Presented by Spain and Portugal in 2004. It was the first candidature promoted by two educational institutions from two european countries. The process started in 2005 and the proposal was developed for two years by team of the Association.
• Recognitions
PNO!'s activities were awarded the seal “Buena práctica Iberoamérica” by Spain's Ministry of Education, culture and Sport; they also received the ONDAS award (Spain's most prestigious communications awards) in 2014 for the “best media coverage of the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage”.
Cooperation:
The PNO! ( Ponte…nas ondas! ) Association has been working since 2002 towards the documentation, gathering and recognition of several manifestations of the GPIH ( Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage ). This work was always carried out in direct contact with the communities bearing the said heritage. These groups collaborated in many of the Association's activities in order to revitalize this heritage and convey it to the younger generations.
During the elaboration of the proposal for the Candidature of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Cultural Heritage, which began in 2002, the Association contacted the representative communities of the GPIH in both Galicia and the north of Portugal. These communities were representative of the heritage's fields featured in the Candidature: the oral tradition's popular literature, the oral tradition of rural and fishing areas, the artisanal knowledge and the celebrations throughout the year. The written consent and the Candidature's documentation were submitted together.
In all of the GPIH's fields, the bearing communities and gathering groups of this heritage in Galicia and North of Portugal collaborated with the Association, thus providing equipment and performing conveying activities in formal learning as well as in public events.
Once the Candidature was presented before the UNESCO in 2004, and as it was being assessed by the international jury, communities and bearers performed activities to spread the common heritage throughout the Galicia-North of Portugal Euroregion.
Due to its territorial involvement and the number of involved communities, we wish to highlight the role of the Galician Federation for Maritime and Fluvial Culture ( Galician initials: FGCMF ), which groups together with important bonds the maritime communities of the Galician and Portuguese coastline that protect the manifestations of the Galician-Portuguese maritime culture.
The forest or baldíos (communal property system of swabian origin) communities, wich are grouped together in several Federations along the whole Euroregion and perform communal agricultural and farming activities, also collaborated with the Association.
Other experiences with communities included their participation in some of the Association's activities such as the Samples of the Galician-Portuguese Oral Tradition, the Traditional Games Meetings or the Inter-School Communication Days "Ponte..nas ondas!".
Asociación Teje Teje
Teje Teje [en]
Calle 7 A . 4-40 Apto 403 Rodadero
Santa Marta
COLOMBIA
URL: http://www.tejeteje.org
Tel.: +57 314-5889042; +57 310 5645115

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Spanish) - No. 90368
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2005
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Colombia

Objectives:
Since its creation in 2005, Teje Teje is committed through its field work to the strengthening of the cultural identity and traditional expressions of indigenous peoples and other groups too. Connected concerns for the achievement of this goal are the preservation of the environment, the fostering of sustainable development, and the support to children education and traditional leaders' capacity building. In this manner Teje Teje contributes in the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the implementation of formal, informal and non-formal education processes.
lt provides services and consultancy for the implementation of projects that include the restauration of values such as solidarity and the respect for human dignity. As a consequence, it cares for the individual and collective cultural growth of the communities as well as for the preservation of the environment. lt fosters resilience in rural areas mostly.
Its work is focused in the restauration of traditional knowledge and production in land production, environmental management, sacred and ritual centers, gastronomy, healing, spirituality, artifact, looking at these various elements of individual and collective life with an holistic approach.
Teje Teje is convinced that social policies are essential for the definition and implementation of its mainly indigenous counterparts’ potentialities. lt draws from priority concerns such as: cultural and environmental conservation, community participation, respect for multiculturalism and equity in all levels of society, private-public cooperation.

Activities:
Travels around the sacred sites of the Ette Ennaka indigenous population for cultural strengthening (2016- current, Magdalena and Cesar) Beneficiaries: Directly: 10 traditional authorities. Indirectly: 2.238 Ette Ennaka people. Products: 1) Cultural cartography document that includes maps and inventory of sacred sites and medicinal plants. 2) Video, memory of the travels 3) Document that compiles discussions and conclusions on the sacred sites.
Workshops with the Zenu indigenous population on their intangible cultural heritage (2015- 2016, Cordoba and Sucre) Beneficiaries: Directly: 300 people that assisted to the workshops. Indirectly: 187.913 Zenu people. Products: 1) Special Safeguards Plan of the cultural expression: "Weaving of the Cariaflecha in Cordoba and Sucre". 2) Inclusion of the cultural expression in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Historic, anthropologic and environmental research based on qualitative and quantitative methods (2014- 2015, Magdalena and Cesar) Beneficiaries: 2.238 Ette Ennaka People. Products: Document: Cultural Characterization of territorial affections of the Ette Ennaka People for land restitution process.
Travels around the sacred sites of the Black Line (boundaries of the ancestral Arhuaco, Wiwa, Kogi and Kankuamo territory) with the indigenous shamans for cultural strengthening (2008, 2010, 2014, Magdalena, Cesar Guajira, and Atlantico) Beneficiaries: 341.134 people fron indigenous communities of the 3 departments. Products: Documentary films: "Pagamento: Ritual Territory", "Ritual and Thought" distributed in indigenous schools for culture strengthening.
Compliling of Ette Ennaka's oral tradition on territory and settlement with the elders, for cultural strengthening (2014, Magdalena) Beneficiaries: 2.238 Ette Ennaka People. Products: Recordings as a contribution to the Ette Ennaka’s life plan and to the municipalities inventory on intangible cultural heritage.
Itinerant Exhibition that shows the Ette Ennaka's history of their travels and settlement in ancestral territory (2014, Magdalena) Beneficiaries: 2.238 Ette Ennaka People. Products: 6 photography panels (1x2 Mt).
Construction of the Nara Kajmanta's school kitchen and dining room with a traditional design and economic support for the Ette Taara's (languaje) teacher (2013- 2014, Santa Marta) Beneficiaries: Directly: 60 Ette Ennaka Children. Indirectly: 136 people. Products: Kitchen, dining room, Ette Taara lessons guaranteed.
Recuperation and construction of traditional home orchards (Kaaria) for food sustainability and cultural strengthening (2007 and 2010-2014, Magdalena and Cesar) Beneficiaries: 167 families. Products: 169 Traditional Home Orchards.
Workshops on traditional: weaving, handcrafts, music, dance, ethno medicine and self-government for the Ette Ennaka indigenous communities. (2011 - 2014, Magdalena and Cesar) Beneficiaries: 122 families. Result: recovery of material culture.
Advisory to the women weavers of the following indigenous communities: Wayuu, Arhuaco, Kogi and Kankuamo, on issues such as traditional design, quality and marketing. (2005, Guajira, Cesar, Magdalena). Beneficiaries: 10 women weavers. Result: Recovery of traditional designs and improvement of their income.
Publications:
March 2, 2014 Hoy Diario del Magdalena (Today Magdalena’s Newspaper, Macondo Sunday Magazine), «Teje Teje Association to the rescue of the Ette Ennaka culture".
December 2014 Iguana Magazine, "Chimila women and children preserve their ancestral culture".
June 30, 2013 Hoy Diario del Magdalena (Today Magdalena’s Newspaper), «Eight years working in the Department of Magdalena. Teje Teje seeks to preserve indigenous cultures".
December 2012 Iguana Magazine, «Compromised with tradition of the Chimila Indigenous population"
December 2009- January 2010 Gesti6n Social Caribe (Caribbean Social Management) Magazine,"Recovery and strengthening of traditional and cultural practices associated to the Ette Ennaka familiar and sustainable food production".

Cooperation:
Since 2005 Teje Teje has made alliances with women weavers of the following indigenous peoples communities: Kankuamo in Atanquez, Wayuu in Manaure and Arhuaco in Jimain, aiming to support the preservation of their traditional handcrafts. In addition, Teje Teje promoted the creation of the Ette Ennakas Women Weavers Association in 2009 which today provides indigenous women with incomes to help support their families.
In 2007 and 2010 - 2014 Teje Teje worked in alliance with the Ette Ennakas "Cabildo" (Authorities) in the strengthening of their traditional practices associated to food production, political organization, and cultural heritage around issues such as weaving and handcrafts, music, dance, ethno medicine and self-government, benefitting 145 families. Since early 2016, Teje Teje has worked in association with the Ministry of Culture, with the accredited NGO to the 2003 Convention, Traditions for Tomorrow, and with the Ette Ennaka "cabildo" on a project that aims tore vitalize its cultural identity considering the conservation of sacred sites, knowledge of medicinal plants and the word of the elders.
With the Zenu Indigenous population, Teje Teje is currently working with the indigenous authorities to encourage the creation of a group of people (committee) that will manage cultural heritage based on the Special Safeguards Plan of the cultural expression "Handcrafts as the heart of Zenu Identity".
Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan (ATL)
Oral Tradition Association (OTA) - ATL [en]
JIalan Menteng Wadas Timur No. 8
Jakarta Selatan 12970
INDONESIA
URL: http://www.atl-oraltradition.com
Tel.: +62 21 83 12 6O3; +62 81 31 97 81 555

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90223
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1996
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement

Main countries where active:

Indonesia

Objectives:
• To hold various activities involving researchers, observers, people interested in oral traditions, and those who support oral traditions, in order to develop their potentials.
• To appreciate and introduce the diversity of our cultural heritage, especially oral traditions, using three approaches, Le. science / education, documentation, and performance, including its publications.
• To organize accompanying programs (applied programs) preceded by research / deep observation in order to develop oral traditions and their supporting communities by means of conservation activities, reservation, preservation, and revitalization.
• To work on the re-functioning of certain oral traditions among communities, both in their original forms and in their modified or transformed forms.
• To assist the government and the general public by providing services in information, documentation, publication, research, and the advancement of oral traditions in order to create a network of information formed among various individuals and institutions.
Activities:
• Research in the various regions such as : oral tradition of Suku Anak Dalam in Jarnbi (Continuities and discontinuities), Mabissu (Buginese dance ritual), Makyong Performance in province of Kepulauan Riau, Bedalung: oral tradition of Suku Laut (the Sea Tribe) in Province of Bangka Belitung and the art of "Tenun Ikat Flobamora" in East Nusa Tenggara.
• In cooperation with the national education department provides scholarships namely study of oral traditions program (MoU for five years 2009-2010). This program prepares grants a scholarships especially for this programmed for M.A. students and PhD student in Indonesia. Participants are young lecturers
from various universities around Indonesia. After completing their studies are expected to return home to teach at various universities This program also to train and prepare a number of scholars for research and
fieldwork on endangered languages and cultural activities in different areas all over Indonesia. Primarily it is necessary to conduct a general survey to understand the present situation of intangible cultural heritage in Indonesia, and to plan a strategy of protecting the most endangered species.
• Besides that, ATL is preparing Internasional Seminar and Festival of oral tradition in Bangka on November 2010 (Lisan VII Festival).
Cooperation:
As matter of fact, the "spearhead" of the ATL's success is the speakers or storytellers, the shamans, the syeh (teachers ofIslam), the datuk (the elders), and tribal elders from various regions in Indonesia. Nevertheless, we have to express our gratitude to the researchers and resource persons who helped ATL in designing and carrying out our revitalization and accompanying programs i.e. Drs. M. Hamidi, M. Hum (Jakarta), Dr. Tabir Sitepu (Medan), Prof. Dr. Suripan Sadi Hutomo (Surabaya), Dr. Aminuddin (Malang), Prof. Dr. Mursal Esten (Padang Panjang). In addition, we would like to express our most sincere gratitude to cultural experts and artists, such as the late B.M. Syamsuddin (Pekanbam), King Hamzah Yunus (Penyengat Island), and Tengku M. Atan Rahman (a Mak Yong artist from East Bintan).
Associació d'Estudis Fallers (ADEF)
Fallas studies association [en]
C/ Creu 1
46003 València
SPAIN
URL: http://www.estudisfallers.org
Tel.: +34 608 267549

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90350
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1990
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Spain

Objectives:
The objective of the organization is mainly the study of the Fallas Festival, urban festival from Valencia and others cities through the region. It is linked to European Carnival festivities, has important components of popular satire, festive sociability, artistic expression, artisan practices and singular techniques. It is also felt by the community involved as an importart signal of its identity.
The Associació d'Estudis Fallers (ADEF) field of study is extended to other festivals including fire and ephemeral manifestations of art and its relevance and importance to the intangible cultural heritage of Valencia (Spain). Likewise, are also an important objective for the association to publicize and promote the heritage aspects of the festivities related to the use and rituals of fire, promote the research related to them and create opportunities for reflecting on the importance of heritage management in popular festivals.
Activities:
The activities of the association address in different ways to safeguard the tangible and intangible heritage generated by the festival of Las Fallas, as an example of a popular celebration of wide dissemination and social and identity implications. Without being exhaustive, we highlight the following activities:

Identification, documentation, research:
Call and organization for Jaume I Congress on Popular Cultures and Fire Festivals (Congreso Jaume I de Cultura Popular i Festes del Foc,1995)
The inventory and reasoned catalogue of Fallas Museum of Valencia, especially characterized by its unique collection and intangible cultural practices linked to it (2000-2004)
Issue of the Revista d'Estudis Fallers since 1995: annual scientific journal that publishes original research papers about Fallas Festivals and other celebrations of fire. Journal meets the scientific standards at the reception and approval of articles.
Design and implementation in 2005 of the Center for Documentation of Fallas festival with the City Council of Valencia for the collection of written, audiovisual and intangible documentation catalogue and archive for the free access and consult of researchers.
Participation in CARNVAL Project. Ephimeral Heritage on the European Carnival Rituals (carnval.blogs.upv.es), co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union to promote the variety of Europe’s historical and social realities by disseminating some of its most European Carnival rituals and the cultural and creative sectors associated with them.

Preservation and protection:
Design and development of thematic exhibitions on the creative and technical aspects of the Fallas ("Falles i art: 40 anys transitant per la frontera", 2008 and "La Falla: un artefacto tecnológico" 2011) and on the productions of Fallas "llibrets" (anual books published by Fallas Popular Comittees as a part of Cultural Heritage (El llibret de falla 1850-2014, 2014).

Promotion and improvement:
Organization of "Les falles a la Nau" discussion sessions, since 2005 in collaboration with University of Valencia, where different agents involved in the Festival come together to reflect on interesting issues, especially on heritage, promotion, protection and enhancement.
Since 2005 the association awards the best article of reflection and disclosure of Fallas festival: The Enric Soler i Godes Award.
Organization ot the Mostra de Llibrets de la Comunitat Valenciana to promote the Llibrets de falla, native publications edited by fallas comittes, to implement synergies between the different agents implied and to work in the consolidation of this cultural field.

Transmission and formal or non-formal education:
Organization, in collaboration with the Secretary of Tourism of the Generalitat Valenciana (regional government), of several editions of a training course on the Fallas festival and its intangible cultural heritage for official tour guides.
Realization of different divulgation talks and lectures on the history of the Fallas festival in collaboration with festive and cultural associations.
Participation in seminars and scientific meetings offering unpublished works on social and heritage importance of the different elements of the festival.

Revitalization:
Retrieval and update, in collaboration with the Valencia City Council, of ancient festive events like "Cavalcada del foc" a parade of fireworks that connects with the festive tradition of mediterranean fire and had ceased to be held in 1936.

The association is made up of sociologists, linguists, journalists, cultural managers, museum and tourism management professionals, art historians and artisans and artists, all of them with a personal and professional involvement with the cultural heritage. Thus, it is established as a multidisciplinary group working together on different projects of research and enhancement of the cultural aspects of festival. In addition to the specific training of each of the members, a continuous exchange of information that allows to extend the knowledge of the other members, so that skills and competeces in the field of cultural heritage immaterial are exponentially increased.
Cooperation:
During regular activity, the association has been working with the following groups and individuals:
Valencian Museum of Ethnology in campaigns for the identification and enhancement of the documentary and cinematographic festivals-related heritage.
Valencia City Council in the inventory and cataloguing of the Fallas Museum, in the design and implementation of the Documentation Centre of the Fallas festival and the recovery of missing festive events.
Generalitat Valenciana (regional government), in the design and realization of exhibitions on intangible cultural values linked to the festive literature.
Junta Central Fallera (local festive committee) in works for developing new measures to promote cultural heritage linked to fire festivals.
Federations of Falla committees, associations and local committees, in organizing and conducting various activities to publicize the festival of Las Fallas and other popular festivals: Federación Benicalap-Campanar, Federación de Fallas de Gandia, Junta Local Fallera de Xàtiva, Junta Local Fallera de Dénia, Junta Local Fallera de Alzira, Junta Local Fallera de Paiporta, Federación de Fallas de Borriana, Falla La Malva de Alzira, Falla El Mocador de Sagunt, Falla Borrull-Socors, Falla Pere Cabanes-Joan XXIII, Falla Na Jordana, Falla Marqués de Montortal-Berni i Català, Falla Sant Roc de Torrent, Falla El Canet de Cullera, Falla Santa Anna de Cullera, etc.
Gremio Artesano de Artistas Falleros de Valencia, in the catalogue and enhancement of the Museum of the Fallas Artists and in the restoration of some of its pieces.
Universitat Politècnica de València, in the realization of exhibitions that have an impact on the research and promotion of intangible artistic elements of the festival of Las Fallas.
Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, in organizing a conference on representation of science in the Fallas Festival.
Universitat de València, in organizing seminars and conferences on the festive heritage, its promotion, its protection and its enhancement.
Consell Valencià de Cultura and Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, in the writing and publication of books and monographs on the Fallas Festival.
Association Culturelle Passaté
07 BP 5193
Ouagadougou 07
BURKINA FASO
URL: http://www.festivalwedbinde.org
Tel.: +22670250764/76666020/78005207

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90450
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2001
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Association européenne des jeux et sports traditionnels - AEJST
European Traditional Sports and Games Association [en]
Associacion European de Juegos y Deportes Tradicionales [es]
(siège)
Mairie de Lesneven
8, Place du Château
29260 Lesneven
(administrative head quarter)
Museo El Fuerte
56 calle El Fuerte
5100 La Almunia de Doña Godina
(Spain)

FRANCE
URL: http://www.jugaje.com
Tel.: + 33/298865137; 34 606 599 53

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90106
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2001
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- Anthropologie corporelle

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- Formation du public et des formateurs

Main countries where active:

Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
L'AEJST est un réseau d'organisations locales, régionales ou nationales dont le but est la promotion et la défense des jeux et sports traditionnels, patrimoine immatériel de l'humanité. Le réseau est compose de confédérations, de fédérations, mais aussi d'universités, de musées et d'associations de formation.
Activities:
L'activité de base est la mise en réseau des organisations adhérentes pour créer des synergies et alimenter des projets communs : organisation de festivals culturels, de conférences sur la place et le rôle des jeux traditionnels dans la société, de colloques et séminaires, de travaux d'investigation orientes vers l'inventorisation, l'application éducative, récréative ou sociale des jeux et sports traditionnels. Le tout est produit en trois langues minimum: fran9ais, anglais et espagnol.

La mise en réseau est également utilisée pour le soutien à l'édition de revues, de livres, la mise en place d'expositions, mais aussi et surtout pour mutualiser les moyens, le matériel, et les expériences en rapport avec la formation et la pédagogie.

La dernière activité est la fonction représentative du réseau, pour sensibiliser les décideurs au niveau mondial du risque de voir la disparition d'une grande partie de ce patrimoine immatériel de l'humanité que constituent les jeux traditionnels.

Cooperation:
Un inventaire des jeux traditionnels d'adultes de 11 régions d'Europe a été réalisé (projet "Play with your heart; share your culture" Jouez avec tout votre cœur, partagez votre culture), regroupant 21 coorganisateurs : fédérations, institutions, musées, universités. Tous les jeux ont été analyses et une présentation significative en a été faite sur notre site Internet. Une vidéo de synthèse a également été produite, en fran9ais, anglais et espagnol (ci-jointe).

Une base de donnée est actuellement en activité auprès des membres volontaires pour répertorier tous les jeux des territoires ou nos organisations sont actives (voir copie jointe d'un jeu).

De nombreuses monographies, souvent les seules en rapport avec ce domaine, ont été publiées par les organisations membres de I'AEJST. Leurs auteurs sont souvent des universitaires.
Association Île du Monde
15, passage Ramey
75018 PARIS
FRANCE
URL: http://www.iledumonde.org
Tel.: +33(0)7 83 90 89 40; +33 (0)6 44 98 05 64

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French) - No. 90388
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

France, Georgia, Guinea, Mexico

Objectives:
L’objectif principal de l’association île du Monde depuis sa création en 2012 est de sauvegarder le Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel (PCI) et plus particulièrement le PCI « trans-local », ainsi que les instruments, objets, artefacts et espaces culturels qui lui sont associés. Par PCI trans-local, on entend le PCI porté par les communautés issues des diasporas dans un pays d’accueil déterminé. Cette volonté de sauvegarde s'inscrit dans la conviction de cette ONG que cette sauvegarde permet la création de ponts entre les cultures, ouvrant ainsi un dialogue interculturel essentiel au sein d'une société où l'exclusion et les tensions entre les individus s'aggravent tandis que la cohésion sociale est nécessaire plus que jamais. Le territoire prioritaire d’action de l’association est la région Île-de-France. Les principaux destinataires de ce travail de sauvegarde, sont donc les communautés issues de la migration internationale qui résident dans ce territoire. Le travail de l'association se traduit à travers différentes actions : l'identification, à l’aide des communautés, des éléments de leur PCI ; la création d'un inventaire des éléments identifiés ; la promotion des activités des individus et collectifs porteurs de traditions, liées à ce PCI ; le soutien à la préservation de certains éléments de PCI qui risquent de disparaître, en capitalisant sur les possibilités de valorisation offertes par la métropole parisienne (en terme de marchés culturel, commercial et touristique) ; l’encouragement à la transmission des savoirs liés au PCI grâce à l’organisation de rencontres, événements et ateliers ; la valorisation de ce PCI à travers l'accompagnement à l’insertion professionnelle des porteurs de traditions, grâce à leurs savoir-faire traditionnels. Les projets soutenant ces objectifs sont actuellement menés en région parisienne, néanmoins ils pourront être proposés dans d’autres réalités urbaines multiculturelles. Aussi, le fait de travailler avec des communautés étrangères a porté l’association à tisser des liens au fil des années avec des organisations et des personnes opérant également dans leur pays d’origine. En effet, Île du Monde a également commencé à développer des projets de sauvegarde du PCI dans d’autres pays comme le Mexique, la Guyane Française, la Géorgie et la Guinée. Île du Monde se positionne alors comme un acteur engagé dans la mission de sauvegarde du PCI des communautés migrantes dans les villes cosmopolites, ainsi que comme une source d’expertise pour la proposition de projets liés à la sauvegarde du PCI dans les pays d’origine de certaines de ces communautés.
Activities:
Identification des porteurs de tradition et des éléments de PCI portés par les communautés issues de l’immigration.
Participation à l’Inventaire national du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel de France depuis 2014, avec le projet Inventaire du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel translocal francilien. Le projet est soutenu par le Ministère de la Culture. Travaux publiés : la Fête du Printemps asiatique ; les chants polyphoniques géorgiens ; le Lavage de la Madeleine brésilien ; la danse du lion asiatique ; la djèliya mandingue. Travaux en cours : le Vaisakhi des Sikhs ; la coiffure africaine ; les danses traditionnelles géorgiennes. Un autre projet dénommé Inventaire du Patrimoine Multiculturel Immatériel de Guyane française a débuté en 2016. Travail en cours : l’art tembé des Bushinengués.
Documentation, rédaction d’articles et réalisation de vidéo-documentaires au sujet des porteurs de tradition et des éléments de PCI identifiés.
Gestion d’un site web, une page Facebook, une chaîne Youtube dédiés aux activités de sauvegarde du PCI mises en place par l’association.
Agenda événementiel des activités culturelles concernant le PCI des diasporas en Île-de-France
Diagnostic des savoir-faire traditionnels présents dans les communautés migrantes en Île-de-France, en partenariat avec des acteurs publics et associatifs. Objectif : insertion sociale et professionnelle, transmission et préservation des savoir-faire traditionnels.
Projet Rencontres île du Monde. Rencontres île du Monde sont une série de dispositifs de rencontre interculturel autour de la découverte du patrimoine culturel immatériel porté par l'immigration. Les points communs de ces Rencontres sont la découverte réciproque des cultures, la recherche d'un cadre convivial pour la rencontre et la meilleure compréhension d'une culture grâce à l'apprentissage d'une pratique traditionnelle. Ces Rencontres peuvent se décliner de manière diverse : ateliers pédagogiques autour d'un savoir-faire spécifique ; repas chez l'habitant ; ateliers de découverte culturelle ; ateliers pour la préparation de voyage ; soirées ou journées culturelles ; rencontres entre communautés éloignées culturellement. Notre premier dispositif « Rencontres cuisine » (repas et ateliers chez l'habitant) est en opération depuis février 2016.
Projet île des savoirs. L’association a initié́ un volet Economie Sociale et Solidaire au sein duquel elle accompagne les porteurs de traditions dans la professionnalisation de leurs savoir-faire traditionnels : le dispositif a pour ambition de permettre à ces individus de capitaliser sur leur maitrise d’un savoir-faire traditionnel en leur permettant de le transformer en une activité́ économique durable. Dans le domaine de la gastronomie, île du Monde a également ouvert un incubateur culinaire, qui prend la forme d’un traiteur multiculturel.
Pilotage de la candidature de l’œuvre de la communauté géorgienne d’Île-de-France en faveur de la sauvegarde des chants polyphoniques en contexte migratoire, au Registre des bonnes pratiques de sauvegarde du PCI de l’UNESCO. L’association travaille depuis longtemps en collaboration avec la communauté des chanteurs franco-géorgiens présents en Île-de-France. Elle accompagne cette communauté dans le travail préalable à la candidature au Registre de l’UNESCO. Elle s’occupe des aspects administratifs, la rédaction du dossier, la mise en relation des acteurs concernées (communauté géorgienne d’Île-de-France, Ministère de la Culture Français et Géorgien).
Accompagnement de l’association A nous pour la mise en place de projet de co-développement à Dubreka en Guinée. Depuis deux ans, île du Monde est partenaire de l’association à Nous, qui réalise de projets socio-culturels dans la ville de Dubreka en Guinée. L’association propose et coréalise des projets liés à la sauvegarde de savoir-faire traditionnels dans la région de Dubreka.
Conception d’un projet de valorisation du PCI des communautés afro-descendantes du Mexique. Grâce à la présence de deux membres de l’équipe d’origine mexicaine, l’association a pris contact avec la communauté afro-descendante de la région de Oaxaca. L’association est en train de réfléchir à la réalisation d’un projet d’Inventaire du PCI de cette communauté.
Cooperation:
L’un des principes fondamentaux du travail de l’association île du Monde est la participation des communautés. Cette participation commence par l’identification que les propres communautés font de leur patrimoine culturel immatériel. Le travail d’Inventaire mis en place par l’association, basé sur les méthodologies de la recherche ethnographique, ne peut pas se passer de leur participation. Par ailleurs, une démarche de recherche-action participative légitime notre travail de sauvegarde. C’est grâce à l’aide des membres des différentes communautés culturelles et des porteurs de tradition que nous arrivons à mieux comprendre les particularités et l'importance patrimoniale de chacune des pratiques traditionnelles que l'on valorise ; garantissant ainsi une approche éloignée des stéréotypes qui déforment la représentation d'une culture donnée. Grâce au travail mis en place depuis désormais cinq ans ainsi qu’à ses multiples activités, l’association a pu se rapprocher de différentes communautés issues de la migration dans le territoire francilien. Différents groupes et individus sont désormais des véritables partenaires de l’association. On peut citer le cas de la communauté franco-géorgienne, parmi d’autres : à partir d’une recherche sur les chants polyphoniques géorgiens, l’association a pu instaurer des rapports durables avec les cinq chorales présentes dans la région parisienne ; ces rapports ont ensuite amené à une collaboration pour d’autres projets, notamment en ce moment pour le projet de candidature au Registre des bonnes pratiques de sauvegarde de l’UNESCO. Dans le cadre de cette candidature, l’association a promu la formation d’un Comité pour la sauvegarde du chant polyphonique géorgien en Île-de-France. Ce Comité rassemble tous les acteurs concernés et il pourra représenter un outil pour la mise en place d’un plan d’action de sauvegarde. Par ailleurs, l’association a pu élargir ses contacts, ce qui nous a permis par exemple de solliciter les institutions en charge de la sauvegarde du PCI en Géorgie. La communauté franco-géorgienne reconnaît désormais île du Monde comme un partenaire fiable. Cet exemple vertueux illustre la forte coopération de l'association avec les communautés, ainsi que sa volonté de développer de tels échanges avec d'autres communautés, comme l’asiatique, la mexicaine, la ouest-africaine et d’autres encore.
Association Mamelomaso (MM)
Lot IB 341 bis
Andoharanofotsy 102
MADAGASCAR
Tel.: +261 330507173; +261 340877414

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90419
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1995
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- sites et monuments historiques

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- restauration de monuments historiques

Main countries where active:

France, Madagascar

Association mauritanienne pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel - AMS - PCI
Tevgragh Zeina Lot 791
NOUAKCHOTT
MAURITANIA
Tel.: 222 36 28 40 10 ; 222 22 68 40 10

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90347
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
Sauvegarde du PCI en Mauritanie,
mise en place des listes nationales du PCI,
diffusion de la Convention 2003 sur le plan national,
recherche des solutions pour l'amélioration de niveau de vie des communautés,
valorisation et promotion de l'artisanat traditionnel,
promotion des savoir-faire transmis oralement

Association nationale cultures du monde
BP 58
92, rue des Moulins
03800 GANNAT
FRANCE
URL: http://www.lesculturesdumonde.org
Tel.: +33 (0)4 70 90 12 67

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90043
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2010
Year of creation: 1965
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka

Objectives:
- Conserver, utiliser et diffuser les cultures traditionnelles et populaires selon la définition
de l'Unesco

- Favoriser la recherche, la sauvegarde, la promotion du patrimoine immatériel

- Promouvoir l'expression vivante des cultures traditionnelles et populaires

- Favoriser les échanges sur le plan national entre les associations françaises de culture
traditionnelle et populaire

- Favoriser les échanges entre celles-ci et les partenaires internationaux et, plus
particulièrement les partenaires européens, afin de contribuer au rayonnement de la à
l'étranger et au développement des échanges culturels d'un pays à l'autre, dans un
esprit de culture et de paix.
Activities:
Après plus de 42 ans d'expérience dans le domaine des cultures traditionnelles, l'ANCT
est devenue aujourd'hui :

Un lieu de diffusion et de création avec une programmation annuelle : des concerts,
bals, et scènes ouvertes, « Massif, Musiques et Danses » : rencontre et concours des
musiques et danses traditionnelles du Massif Central (depuis 23 ans), des résidences
artistiques de création : des rencontres uniques entre artistes de différents horizons
culturels ou musicaux pour donner naissance à des créations originales, des stages et
ateliers : initiation ou approfondissement en danses et musiques traditionnelles d'ici et
du monde.

L'Ecole des Savoirs et des Arts Populaires : des ateliers et stages (masques, dinanderie,
vannerie, marionnettes, sculpture sur bois, un lieu de transmission entre générations),
des formations : organisation de stages BAFA sur le thème « Cultures d’ici et d’ailleurs",
les Rencontres Internationales de Jeunes (RIJ) : proposé à une quinzaine de jeunes du
monde entier, en partenariat avec le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, il s’agit de
valoriser un territoire et la richesse de son patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel, la «
Quinzaine des Marionnettes du Monde » : une programmation sur un territoire élargi,
présentant les marionnettes d’un pays invité : Chypre, Slovaquie, Sicile, Togo… avec
spectacles, ateliers, expositions. Un travail de sensibilisation important mené auprès des
scolaires.

Le Festival "Les Cultures du Monde" : Cette programmation est la manifestation phare
de l’association : vitrine du travail mené tout au long de l’année, elle est un produit
culturel reconnu, porteur des valeurs et du savoir faire de l’association en matière de
programmation internationale. Pour sa 35ème édition (2008), l’association a bénéficié du
patronage de l’UNESCO. De nombreux temps forts ponctuent cette manifestation,
permettant au public de découvrir les cultures du Monde sous toutes ses formes :
spectacles et concerts, soirées de cérémonies et rituels, ateliers, symposium
international et projections / débats expositions, repas typiques.

Des projets de coopération locaux et internationaux : (voir descriptif détaillé dans "Projet
Associatif") avec des projets tels que : Culture of Peace in the Land of Olonkho,
Masques et Mascarades, Eté des Cultures du Monde, le réseau Massif Central …
Une forte présence dans les réseaux et un rôle d’ingénierie culturelle :

Le rôle des réseaux est essentiel dans le travail de l’association, aussi est elle impliquée
dans des projets à diverses échelles : Réseau de structures culturelles Musiques et
danses traditionnelles du Massif Central, Réseau de Centre culturels de l’Union
Européenne, Extra ! (un réseau de 6 partenaires européens travaillant sur les
métissages de traditions), Forum Culturel Européen, CIOFF, FAMDT

Par ailleurs, l’association est impliquée dans le montage de projets locaux dans
différentes pays du Monde, en tant que conseil artistique ou technique : Rencontre des
peuples autochtones d’Amazonie (Brésil et Venezuela), Festival « Les cultures du
Monde » de Akko (Israël), Coopérations en Afrique de l’Ouest ..

Cooperation:
- Trésors Humains Vivants : travail de collectage qui a permis de recenser 350 porteurs
de savoir-faire traditionnels locaux (métiers, artisanat, parlers, agriculture…)

- Ecole des Savoirs : issue du travail mené ci-dessus, elle permet de valoriser ces
savoir-faire menacés à travers stages et ateliers (dinanderie, vannerie, sculpture,
marionnettes, lutherie…)

- Projet Massif Central (en projet) : valorisation des musiques et danses traditionnelles
du Massif Central et mise en place d'une réseau inter-régional et national de diffusion et
de création

- Ingénierie culturelle : l’ANCT accompagne par du conseil ou de l’aide à la
programmation artistique des porteurs de projet locaux et nationaux : Fête des
Vendanges à Chareil-Cintrat (03), Carnaval de Nice (06), Carnaval de Loupian (34)
International (entre autres)

- Pologne : Jean ROCHE, Directeur Artistique de l’ANCT, accompagne depuis plusieurs
années le festival de Zakopane pour du conseil à l’organisation

- Israël (en projet) : appui à la création d’un festival des cultures du monde dans la vieille
ville d’AKKO – St Jean d’Acre

- Yakoutie (Russie) : Jean ROCHE est co-directeur artistique de « Culture of Peace in
the land of Olonkho », festival basé sur les pratiques du chamanisme

- Sri Lanka : suite au tsunami de 2004, l’ANCT accompagne la reconstruction du village
de Kosgoda ainsi que la création d’un centre culturel dédié aux cultures traditionnelles

- Amazonie (en projet) : mise en place d’une rencontre culturelle entre peuples
autochtones de la forêt amazonienne (Venezuela et Brésil) en partenariat avec le
gouvernement indigène

- Pérou : aide à la mise en place d'un Centre Culturel avec les natifs de l'Ile de Taquile
(Lac Titicaca)

- Burkina Faso : missions d’expertise auprès du Festival International de Masques et des
Arts de Dédougou (FESTIMA)

- Bénin : accord de coopération avec le Ministère de la Culture du Bénin : diffusion de
groupes Béninois en Europe et dans le monde (2008 : organisation d’une tournée en
Europe de l’Est pour la troupe Towara), formation de professionnels de la culture (2008 :
accueil d’une stagiaire, présidente d’une association de femmes) et coopération sur des
projets régionaux ou internationaux

- Afrique de l’Ouest (en projet ) : mise en réseau d’acteurs culturels du Bénin (Ministère
de la Culture et troupe Towara), de Côte d’Ivoire (MASA : Marché des Arts et des
Spectacles Africains) et du Burkina Faso (FESTIMA) en vue d’une valorisation des
traditions et rituels masqués en tant qu’outil de développement durable.
Association pour la sauvegarde des masques - ASAMA
B.P. 42
DÉDOUGOU
BURKINA FASO
URL: http://www.festima.org
Tel.: +226 20 52 08 36

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90209
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022
Year of creation: 1995
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Mali

Objectives:
• la revalorisation des valeurs positives endogènes en voie de disparition et la promotion des initiatives de développement durable
• le renforcement des capacités des villages à sociétés de masques pour un développement durable (patrimoine culturel, agriculture durable, sécurité alimentaire, environnement, mobilité rurale, formation, santé, etc);
• la promotion des échanges interculturels sur les sociétés de masques du Burkina Faso et d'ailleurs, en vue de la restauration des identités et de la valorisation de la contribution de ces villages à la civilisation de l'universel.
Activities:
Les principales activités de l'ASAMA sont: i) l'organisation d'un festival international des masques et des arts; ii) la préservation, protection et valorisation du patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel, iii) la recherche, inventaire sur les sociétés de masques; iv) la diffusion des résultats de la recherche; v) la formation 1sensibilisation au développement; vi) la transmission et l'éducation. A travers ces activités, l'ASAMA s'est bâtie une solide expérience dont les points saillants sont:

a) Le Festival International des Masques et des Arts de Dédougou (FESTIMA) : Quatorze années de programmation biennale, ce festival est la manifestation phare de l'association. Sur le continent africain, le FESTIMA s'est positionné comme le principal cadre d'expression des communautés détentrices de masques. Le festival s'organise autour de i) spectacles de danses et d'exhibitions de masques, ii) exposition, iii) assises à palabre des sages, iv) symposiums internationaux, v) marché des communautés, vi) nuits au village (musiques et danses du terroir) ; vii) concours artistiques interscolaires (dessins, poèmes sur les masques).
b) Le Programme sécurité alimentaire et développement durable: Ce programme vise la diffusion d'un paquet technologique en matière d'agriculture durable en vue du renforcement des capacités des villages à sociétés de masque au Burkina Faso particulièrement dans la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun. Initié depuis 2004, le programme a permis de réaliser plus d'une trentaine d'ateliers de formation, de voyages
d'études et d'échanges d'expériences au profit de petits producteurs sur les thèmes couvrant l'amélioration de la productivité agricole et pastorale, la gestion durable des ressources naturelles, la promotion des activités génératrices de revenus (AGR) et le renforcement des capacités institutionnelles et l'organisation des communautés villageoises.
c) Les projets de coopération locaux et internationaux: dans ce cadre l'ASAMA a initié en 2004 en collaboration avec l'Association nationale culture et tradition (ANCT), France, une mission de coopération et de diffusion du FESTIMA au Festival « les cultures du Monde» à Gannat, en France et au Festival international du folklore en octodure (FIFO) à Martignie, en Suisse. En 2008, toujours en coopération avec ANCT, l'ASAMA a présenté lors du Festival « les cultures du monde », une exposition sur « les
richesses et les menaces du masque en Afrique de l'Ouest» et a participé au symposium international « traditions: de la vie à la scène ».
Plus récemment, en 2009, l'ASAMA a initié avec six partenaires de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, un projet de coopération pour la valorisation des masques en Afrique de l'Ouest. Ce projet est en cours d'exécution et est financé par le Fond Régional pour la Promotion de la Coopération et les Echanges Culturels en Afrique de l'Ouest de la CEDEAO, de l'UEMOA et de l'Union Européenne. 1/ devrait s'achever en novembre 2010. Il prévoit de réaliser: i) le recensement sous forme d'un inventaire d'au moins 200 villages à sociétés de masques dans quatre pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire et Mali), ii) l'organisation d'un symposium sous régional sur le thème «Caricatures, dérives et détournements du masque», iii) la mise en place d'une base de données sur les sociétés de masque des quatre pays; iv) la publication du premier rapport biennal sur
les sociétés de masques vivantes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest; v) l'exposition itinérante dans les quatre pays sur les richesses et la fragilité de la tradition du masque en Afrique de l'Ouest; vi) la mise en place du Centre international d'interprétation sur les masques à Dédougou ; vii) la mobilité d'au moins 22 groupes de sociétés traditionnelles de masques provenant de huit pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée Conakry, Mali, Nigéria, Togo et Sénégal) pour les échanges ouest-africains, et iv) la détermination
de circuits touristiques relatifs aux masques.
d) Une présence dans les réseaux: L'ASAMA participe à des programmes de coopération en Afrique de l'Ouest à travers le programme du Conseil international des organisations de festivals de tradition et de folklore (CIOFF - Afrique) pour l'UNESCO. Il est également membre du réseau de Festival en Afrique. A travers, le projet valorisation des masques de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, l'ASAMA oeuvre à la mise en place de réseaux d'experts (chercheurs, et porteurs d'initiatives) sur le thème des masques. Ainsi, l'ASAMA est non seulement active au Burkina Faso, mais également ces actions s'étendent progressivement au Bénin, au Mali, en Côte d'Ivoire, au Togo, au Sénégal, en Guinée Conakry, en France (avec l'antenne ASAMA - France).
Cooperation:
Au Burkina Faso
• Recensement de 180 villages à sociétés de masques
• Participation tous les deux ans d'une trentaine de sociétés de masques au
Festival international des masques et des arts de Dédougou
• Tenue de symposium, d'assises à palabres des sages pour échanger avec les acteurs et les chercheurs sur des thèmes divers « masque et environnement », «masques et tourisme », «masque, culture d'intégration ou culture de résistance », «masque et développement », « masque et coopération sud - sud », « masque et renaissance culturelle », « Caricatures, dérives et détournements du masque» ;
• Organisation d'expositions, de concours de dessin avec les écoles du primaire.

Au niveau sous régional et international
• En 2004, une mission de coopération et de diffusion du FESTIMA par et le Groupe du village de Boni, au Festival « les cultures du Monde» à Gannat, en France et au Festival international du folklore en octodure (FIFO) à Martignie, en Suisse.
• En 2008, une mission de coopération de M. Tankien DAYO, Secrétaire Exécutif avec ANeT, en tant que Commissaire pour l'exposition sur « les richesses et les menaces du masque en Afrique de l'Ouest» et communicateur au symposium international sur le thème « traditions: de la vie à la scène ».
• En 2009, coopération avec l'Association Towara Bénin, au Bénin, la Mutuelle pour le développement de Gbofia - Toumodi «Moayé», en Côte d'Ivoire, la Mission culturelle de Bandiagara, au Mali, l'Association Jeunesse Perspective Groupement (JPG- Bénin), Bénin, le Théâtre OSHUMARE, au Bénin, avec recensement de 123 villagessociétés de masques dans ces trois pays (Mali, Bénin et Côte d'Ivoire) ;
• Participation de sociétés de masques du Nigéria, de la Guinée Conakry, duSénégal, de la Côte d'Ivoire, du Mali, du Togo, du Bénin, de la Suisse, au FESTIMA (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 et 2010).
• 2010, exposition au bénin sur le thème « les richesses et les menaces du
masque en Afrique de l'Ouest»
Associazione Culturale 'Circolo della Zampogna'
Cultural Association 'Bagpipe Club' [en]
Via Kennedy, 10
86070 Scapoli (IS)
ITALY
Tel.: +39-0865-954002

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90222
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1990
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
According to the item 3 of the statute, in its larger aim of solidarity and social and cultural promotion, the objectives for which the nCircolo" was established are:

a) gathering together all those wno would have interest in the development and promotion of the social, cultural, natural and touristic heritage of Scapoli village and surrounding area;
b) working together in making active the participation of the community to the best safeguard and improvement of the historical, cultural, artistic and natural common heritage;
c) safeguarding and promoting culture and traditions with special reference to the zampogna (the typical bagpipe of Southem Italy that has in Scapoli one of the places where making and playing this instrument is a tradition still particularly alive);
d) supporting and organizing festivities, competitions, expositions, fairs, festivals, meetings, public shows, cultural demonstrations, training courses;
e) assuming initiatives, also in cooperation with the municipality and other authorities and associations, to contribute to the touristic and rural development of the area;
f) publishing magazines and advertising and popular materials according to its aims.

Besides, according to the item 4 the Cireolo carries out its work and initiatives not only in Scapoli's area but also out of it with the aim to favour the exchange and the cooperation between communities and territories.
Activities:
When some inhabitants of Scapoli decided to establish the cultural association "Circolo della Zampogna", the tradition of making and playing this ancient instrument was still deely-rooted in the local community, but they felt the need to preserve this heritage and to transfer it to the new generations. For that, many and various activities have been carried out, involving not only the zampogna makers and players but the whole
community. The main actions can be summarized in the following:
- institution of a Permanent Exposition of Italian and Foreign Bagpipes and of a documentation centre called "Italian Centre of the Bagpipe";
- revitalization of the preceding zampogna Market through the integration with a musical Festival (the Intemational Bagpipes Festival) in which traditional music and new compositions and sounds could meet offering to the young people the opportunity to appreciate the vitality and the potentiality of a so ancient and topical instrument;
- organization of training courses for playing and making the zampogna and to train groups of young people to safeguarding activities;
- participation of the "Circolo della Zampogna" to several meetings, festivals and other initiatives at home and abroad;
- educational, awareness-raising and information activity aimed at the schools of the area;
- publishing of the magazine "Utriculus" (from the Latin name of the bagpipe), CD, DVD, videos and books;
- organization of meetings and other events in cooperation with the Molise University, the Ministry of Culture, the "Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise" National Park and other public institutions;
- promotion (and support to) studies and degree thesis conceming the zampogna and its traditional and present context;
- creation of a network of exchanges and links with Italian and foreign similar associations, cultural and musical institutions, museums, scholars, experts and enthusiast people;
- participation to the establishement of the ICHNet (Intangible Cultural Heritage Network).

Especially relevant, in safeguarding the zampogna cultural heritage has been the experience of the project "Living with the Bagpipe" devised and realized by the Circolo in the ambit of the European Programme "LEADER II". Besides all the other good results in terms of preservation, promotion and revitalization, the project let the Circolo to take the first census of the cultural heritage connected with the zampogna, to collect materials and documents for the Italian centre of the Bagpipe, to realize a transnational
cooperation project called "Common Sounds to the European Rural World" in cooperation with the Local Action Group "North Pennines" (Northumber1ad, UK) and above all to reinforce the link between the community and its heritage.

About the competence and the expertise in the domain of intangible cultural heritage, the personnel and the membership consist in: traditional zampogna makers and players, ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, musicians and musical groups, cultural associations, museums, libraries, researchers, scholars, university teachers, besides
simple enthusiasts.
Cooperation:
The "Circolo della Zampogna" was bom from the will of a consistent part of the local community "to do something" to safeguard, to promote and to transfer to the new generations the typical cultural heritage represented by the zampogna. Since its foundation joined the Association several zampogna makers and players that, both as group and individuals, are those who traditionally create, maintain and transmit this kind
of heritage. Besides, most of the activities have been carried out wit the involvement and the participation of the whole community, from its younger to the older members. At this regard, a very important and successful role has been played by the LEADER project "Living with the bagpipe" with which it has been possible to reinforce the relationship between people and their cultural heritage.

Particularly significant is also the annuallntemational Bagpipe Festival in which. for some days, the whole village of Scapoli becomes like a big open-air stage where local people are proud to exhibit their instruments, music, foods, environment, meeting and exchanging experiences with musicians, craftsmen and visitors coming from
everywhere. The festival is organized in collaboration with the Commune and with the local turistic association. There are also involved all the economic and trade activities of the area, people give their help in the organization of the event, place rooms for visitors and musicians, sell gastronomic specialities, etc. In each edition of the Festival the musicians involved, traditional and not, come from all over Italy and each time from 2, 3 or more foreign countries. The event is very well attended (around 20.000 visitors, which is a very large audience for a very small village like Scapoli).

Every year, on the occasion of the Assembly of the members, the Circolo organizes also 2 "Bagpipers Meetings", in Spring an in Autumn, in which the participants analyse what has been done and propose what could better to do in terms of safeguard, research, transmission and promoting of the zampogna tradition.
Associazione Musa - Musiche, Canti e Danze tradizionali delle Quattro Province
Musa Association - Music, Songs and traditional Dances [en]
Via Umberto primo, 12
Fraz. Cosola 15060
Cabella Ligure
Alessandria
ITALY
Tel.: +36 87 70 33 36

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90048
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2009
Year of creation: 2000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
The main objective of Musa Association is promoting and safeguarding the traditional material and spiritual culture of the "Four Provinces", the appenninic northwest area divided for administration purposes into four provinces and four regions: Alessandria (Piemonte), Genova (Liguria), Pavia (Lombardia), Piacenza (Emiia Romagna). In this area traditional music is still performed and orally transmitted and still represents a reference-point for the cultural horizons of population. Musa Association is also engaged in the diffusion of the knowledge of local tradition outside the area in order to create the opportunities of dialogue with different but similar traditional languages. Another objective of Musa Association is the safeguard and promotion of the typical agricultural production of "Four Provinces", including the well-known "Montebore" cheese, protected by the international Slow Food organization, and the "Quarantina" potatoes, typical product of Genua inland. At this aim, Musa is cooperating with farmers engaged in traditional production as well as with local, national and international organizations operating in the field of traditional and natural food preservation. Musa Association is also supporting the international organization "Emergency" aiming to a larger social commitment.
Activities:
From its foundation, Musa Association is engaged in the organization of traditional players and singers performances either on the occasion of regional festive and ritual events during the cycles of the year, or in the frame of folk festivals which take place in the "Four Provinces" area. Musa also cooperates with villages communities in the organization of events centered on traditional themes, both in material and spiritual culture, and promotes material and spiritual traditional culture by means of any kind of medias (newspapers, magazines, websites etc.), as well as carrying on activities addressed to local and national institutions in order to attract the attention towards cultural heritages of "Four Provinces".
Musa Association organizes research groups mainly composed by peoples living inside the Four Provinces area, in order to enhance the awareness of their own cultural heritage. An important field of Musa research is the collection and study of documentations of music-making activities both in past time and in the present, as well as any other traces of material and spiritual traditional culture of Four Provinces (old pictures, letters, recording, working and musical instruments etc.) The researches are aimed to the publication of Cd's and books centered on traditional culture.
All members of the Musa Association are born in Four Provinces or have very deep relationship with this region, so they have a deep aknowledgement of the characteristics of the area. They grew up among the living tradition absorbing directly from their ancestors dialects, music and songs, and conceptions of life of ancient mountaineers. On the other hand some of them are also engaged as journalists and researchers in the field of traditional music or in some very closed sectors.
From the very beginnig of its activity, the Musa Association has organized many events centered on traditional music of Four Provinces, among which we wish to lay stress on the big pipe players and poliphonic singers meeting called "Curmà di pinfri", celebrating the end of summer season as the most intense working period for players. This very important event attracts every years traditional players from many parts of Europe.
During its eight years of activities, the Musa Association has also published 1 CD of field recorded traditional songs (Vieni oi bella - Traditional songs of Borbera valley, 2003), 2 ethnographic books (Cosola - Environment, work, tradition in an Appenninic community of high Borbera Valley, 2005 ; Chi nasce mulo bisogna che tira calci - A journey through the traditional culture of Four Provinces), 1 Cd-book (Noi cantiamo con il verso bello - Liturgy, rite and religious traditions in Cosola, Borbera Valley)
Most recently, Musa Association has organized one show of traditional songs and musics of Four Provinces centered on the important theme of emigration from the Appenninic mountains to the America. The show was performed by traditional musicians playing piffero (a traditional pipe belonging to the family of hautboys) and accordion (the instrument that at beginning of ninteenth century took the place of the ancient local bagpipe).



Cooperation:
As we said before, Musa Association's members are deeply rooted on the local reality, consequently they carry on their activities in a constant dialogue with peoples living in the area. The village community is the first collective subject with which the Musa Association get in touch every time it undertakes a new activity. All the events promoted by Musa Association resulte from the dialogue with all the organizations and the individualities someways engaged in traditional practices. For example, the publication of books and Cd is the result of a field-research in which many peoples of different ages were involved playing the role of witness of the past and holders of traditional knowledges. During the performances dedicated to the emigration towards America, many people which experienced emigration, as well as sons and relatives of emigrants, took part actively at the show speaking about their own experience. Of course, a particular attention is dedicated to the traditional musicians; some of them indeed are directly involved in the activitiy of Musa Association. In the organization of traditional musical performances Musa Association emphasizes the artistic abilities of all the musicians respecting the various performing characteristics of each one, with particular attention to young people at the beginning of their career.
Associazione per la conservation delle tradizioni popolari
Association for the conservation of folk traditions [en]
Piazzetta Antonio Pasqualino,5
90133 Palermo
ITALY
URL: http://www.museodellemarionette.it
URL: http://www.facebook.com/museoantonio.pasqualino
URL: http://twitter.com/MuseoPasqualino
Tel.: +39 91 328060

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90316
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1965
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Traditional puppet theatre

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- Organization of events such as Festival di Morgana (Morgana's Festival)

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
After the crisis of Sicilian traditional puppetry, the Association was established and in 1975 it founded, and still manages, the ethno-anthropological Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino (Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum), which houses ab. 4.000 items used in traditional puppetry from different countries. It aims to safeguard and revitalize puppet traditions and the related craftsmanship, as well as local practices and productions in their different territorial, artistic and traditional expressions so as to save and expand the rich immaterial heritage connected to Sicilian folk traditions and to encourage the research focusing on their relation with their original context. It keeps a comparative attitude by relating Sicilian puppetry to other countries’ traditions.
This activity takes place by means of collecting; research; promotion; networking and cooperation; educational, didactic and theatrical activities, eg. Festival di Morgana (that promotes the cultural/professional exchange between Sicilian and foreign puppeteers), as follows:
-the socio-anthropological researches about traditional puppetry and practices;
-the organization and management of centres for multi-disciplinary documentary research; the foundation of libraries, film archives, and multimedia application centres focusing on identification, documentation and research (including inventorying)
-the realization of innovation projects by means of grants, research contracts and conventions;
-the organization of cultural events in the fields of literature, theatre and art involving local and foreign institutions
-the participation in national/international events to preserve, continue and expand Sicilian traditional practices in Italy and abroad;
-the publishing activity, to popularize the subjects connected to traditional puppetry and practices;
-the creation of networks including other institutions operating with the same aim and in the same field all over the world
-the promotion and realization of programs for the collaboration with public/private institutions, national and international, aiming to operate in the research field and promote the exchange of professionals with other Italian and foreign certified institutes;
-the counselling service to help the Regional government adopt the right strategies for the preservation/promotion of traditional practices, expand its collection about material/immaterial culture; the conservation and permanent exhibition of some of its ethno-anthropological collections;
-the organization of educational/didactic projects and activities in cooperation with private/public institutions concerning the Museum’s patrimony, local and foreign traditions.
Activities:
The Association’s managing board and its scientific committee are composed of high-brows mainly operating in the field of folk traditions, in collaboration with the anthropological faculty of Palermo’s University. Since the beginning they have undertaken important researches about local traditions and material culture collecting important testimony and recording, among others, religious festivals, puppet shows, interviews to puppeteers and traditional spectators. These researches led to the Congress “Museografia e folklore” (Museography and folklore), held in Palermo in 1967 and organized by the Association: it was to be the first step for the creation of a new demology and museography centred on a scientific approach in the study of folk traditions. Moreover, the Association prepared the nomination and supported the Opera dei Pupi to obtain the 2001 UNESCO’s declaration as a “Masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of Humanity”. Also, to safeguard the Opera dei pupi, the Association started to collect lots of items used to put on traditional shows creating the first core of the collection, which was to be exhibited at the Museo internazionale delle marionette (International Puppet Museum), founded in 1975: its collections include ab. 4,000 items concerning traditional puppetry, both Italian and foreign as well as contemporary puppet art.
Among the numerous activities of the Association:
• the organization of the annual Festival di Morgana, a review of traditional theatrical practices organized in collaboration international festivals and institutions. It gives the opportunity to increase the Museum’s collections, promotes the trans-national mobility of cultural operators and the trans-national circulation of artistic and cultural works. It encourages the intercultural dialogue by adopting an interdisciplinary approach and proposing programmes, which have always promoted an exchange between folk and cultivated theatre, art and music in relation to the field of performing arts, heritage and culture. In its latest five editions, it involved more than 500 artists (www.festivaldimorgana.it)
• the creation of a stable Opera dei pupi company involving the main traditional puppeteers from all over Sicily. This stable collaboration has allowed the organization of ab. 250 traditional Opera dei pupi shows in the last 2 years, and proved to be impressively effective for the promotion and revival of this local tradition
• the management of the Museum’s library “Giuseppe Leggio” which includes ab. 7,000 volumes on anthropology and folk traditions, the Opera dei pupi and puppetry
• the cataloguing of the Association library’s patrimony through SBN Unix C/S application of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Central Institute for a Unique Catalogue); the cooperation for the creation of a Libr@rsi website: these activities aim to provide a free, wider and easier fruition of the uploaded on-line catalogue of the Association’s library
• the copying, digitalizing and inventorying of the Association’s audio-visual patrimony (including ab. 1,578 items), with particular reference to the bobbins dating back to the Sixties concerning the Opera dei pupi shows and interviews made by Antonio Pasqualino and Marianne Vibaek.
• the revision of the Museum’s photo archive which includes white and black photos of the Museum’s collections and the performances
• the restoring of the Museum’s oldest puppets and its recent promotion through the project “Adotta un pupo” (“Adopt a puppet” – www.adottaunpupo.it) which involves donors who can choose the puppet to restore and be informed about its state
• the restoring of the oldest advertising posters and backcloths of the Opera dei pupi
• the organization of seminars in collaboration with prestigious national/international institutions: eg. “Art and Anthropology”, (in Palermo), in collaboration with Paris “Musée du Quay Branly”; seminars centred on epic stories in the oral and written traditions such as those organized on the occasion of Morgana’s Festival (Palermo and other Sicilian towns) or “Storytelling”, a festival (in various Sicilian towns), in collaboration with the Sicilian Museum Casa museo Antonino Uccello, which was centred on the oral transmission of knowledge and the various expressive codes of traditional storytellers; the “Convivio musicale. Incontri con l’arte e la musica tradizionale” (The Musical Feast. Meetings with art and traditional music), held in various Sicilian towns and in collaboration with CIDIM (Italian National Committee for Music), which included performances of local story-singers concerning some famous stories of the poetico-musical repertoire. Performed according to the traditional executive techniques and staging codes; cunti, which are serialized stories publicly related by wandering storytellers and concerning chivalric epics stemmed from the ancient French Chansons de geste; concerts of folk songs; seminars about the Opera dei pupi and Unesco masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity held in Palermo.
Cooperation:
Since its foundation, the Association has cooperated with local puppeteers and craftsmen to help them survive the deep crisis, which since 1950s threatened the existence of this local tradition. This stable collaboration aims to increase their activity and expectations within a constant exchange and dialogue, which are at the basis of the important research activity carried on by the founding members of the Association. Moreover, their continuous presence at the Museum proved to be precious for the revision of the Museum’s inventories, which include important details about the items of its collections (origin, creator, character, etc.). The result of such relation and researches led to obtain the UNESCO’s declaration of the Opera dei pupi as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. In addition, in order to revive, promote and popularize it, since the opening of the Museum, the Association organized an annual review of the Opera dei pupi and during the year it still schedules Sicilian puppet shows by inviting companies from all over Sicily and involving them in other didactic activities. Not only does the Association mediates in the relationship between puppeteers and national and international spectators and institutions, but it also creates contacts and cooperation with craftsmen, puppeteers and artists from other countries promoting the cultural and professional exchange between Sicilian traditional artists and foreigners operating in the same field. In fact, during the annual Festival di Morgana, the Association often invites companies from abroad, which perform or hold workshops in Palermo, and it has also promoted the production of innovative performances mixing traditional practices (ex. Chinese Opera and Sicilian Opera dei pupi), or various forms of art (contemporary dance, paintings and music): the result was the creation of artistic works which plays with the Opera dei pupi traditional codes which gave Sicilian artists the possibility to become more aware about their activity and to expand the range of their experience in the puppet field. Finally, this exchange has helped the development of a more general comparative study of traditional theatrical practices.
Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie di Pastellessa
Sant'Antuono & the Battuglie of Pastellessa Association [en]
Corso Umberto I, 62
c/o Chiesa Abbaziale San Martino Vescovo
81047 Macerata Campania (Caserta)
ITALY
URL: http://www.santantuono.it
Tel.: 0039 333 37 99 846

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90242
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
The "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" carries out activities for the promotion and safeguarding of the intangible culture and tradition of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa" or "Carro di Sant'Antuono" of Macerata Campania (Caserta, Italy), which is unique for many aspects and has a long tradition.
The "Battuglia di Pastellessa" are ornamental wagons that are prepared to celebrate the religious feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, in January following a tradition that started 700 years ago in Macerata Campania. "Pastellessa" is the name of the special sound executed by the "Battuglia di Pastellessa", where "battuglia" stands for group and its members are called "bottari", or barrelbeaters, from the unusual rural instruments utilized consisting in barrels, vats and sickles.
The "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" is apolitical, non-partisan and a nonprofit
organization with the following aims:
- to organize the religious and civic celebration of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, in Macerata Campania (Caserta, Italy);
- to valorize and promote among the general public the arts of the ancient rural tradition of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa";
- to make concrete the values of solidarity and participation, through actions and initiatives aimed at solving social problems of all seqments of the population, with particular attention to those mostly affected by injustices and imbalances deriving from the present prevailing development model;
- to defend and promote the territory in all its aspects - ecological, urban, artistic, social and religious - and all its potential strength - in terms of tourism, sport, production and leisure management, against all forms of exploitation and deterioration;
- to translate the popular culture of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa" into research, studies, and events
of all kinds.
Membership to the Association is free, without any kind of discrimination with regard to race, citizenship, sex or religious belief. Other Associations, Committees, Institutions and Foundations, sharinq the same purposes of the Association, can apply for membership to the Association.
Activities:
Intangible Cultural Heritage: The "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" is actively engaged in the organization of the ancient Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, in Macerata Campania, promoting and safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa" of Macerata Campania. During such event the Association coordinates about 1.000 "bottari".

Event: "Festa di Sant'Antuono" (Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot), Macerata Campania, January.

On January 17 the old-town of Macerata Campania hosts every year the Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot. During the previous days concerts, tastings and religious liturgies warm up the atmosphere. The feast consists in: firing the "Cippo di Sant'Antuono" (Saint Anthony's piece of wood), parade of the ornamental wagons of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa", fireworks and a raffle. The band exhibition of the "bottari" is in the morning when they are carried on 16 meter-long wagons, with their instruments consisting of vats, barrels and sickles, realized by local artisans, around the town. "Pastellessa" is the name of the special sound made by the unusual rural percussion instruments, but it is also the name of a local recipe, typical dish of the feast: pasta with dried chestnuts. After the Mass fireworks are exploded as symbol of the purification and the struggle against the evil spirit. Figurative fireworks representing a woman, a pig, a donkey, enrich the symbolism and represent the protective force from the snares of the world. Traditional games as tug of war, the sack race and the raffle, when all donations collected during the procession are auctioned, mark the closure of the festivities. The event is organized by the Association with the sponsorship of the Municipality of Macerata Campania, the Province of Caserta, with the
Campania Region, and the participation of the "Comitato per la promozione del patrimonio immateriale".

Dissemination

Project Sant'Antuono Web 2.0:
With the aim of disseminating knowledge about the intangible heritage, the Association has created a net of Internet Web (Official website, YouTube channel, Facebook group, etc...) that allows to communicate and interact with the people from all over the world. The Association's Web community puts together more than 1.000 subscribers.

Event - Official Presentation of the "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" and the Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, 2009 edition, Macerata Campania, October 26, 2008. The event was organized by the Association with the sponsorship of the Municipality of Macerata Campania.

Event - Official Presentation of the Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, 2010 edition, Macerata Campania, October 25, 2009.The event was organized by Association with the sponsorship of the Municipality of Macerata Campania.

Event - "Pastellessa Folk Festival", Macerata Campania, September 25,2010 - Festival of musical culture to put together and analyze the intangible cultural heritage of the "Pastellessa" of Macerata Campania and ''8allo e Canto sui Tamburo" (Dance & Song on the Drum) of the Italian Region Campania. The event was co-organized by the Association and the "Associazione Radici" with the sponsorship of the Municipality of Macerata Campania, the "Ente Provinciale per il Turismo di Caserta" , by the Province of Caserta and the "Comitato per la promozione del patrimonio immateriale (ICHNet)".

Round Table - "11 Carnevale dei popoli - 11 ruolo delle comunita nella salvaguardia e nella valorizzazione sostenibile del Carnevale" (The Carnival of the Peoples Role of the Community in Safeguarding and Sustainable Valorisation of the Carnival), Montemarano, March 12, 2011 -

A one day workshop to analyze the intangible cultural heritage of the Carnival in Campania and other Italian Regions, with the participation of the "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" in order to illustrate the ancient rural tradition of the "Battuglia di Pastellessa" of Macerata Campania. The event was co-organized by the "Comitato Carnevale di Montemarano" and the "Comitato per la promozione del patrimonio immateriale (ICHNet)" with the sponsorship of the "Istituto Centrale per la Demoetnoantropologia" of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Education

Cooperation agreements established with Primary and Secondary schools of Macerata Campania for the Project "Scuole Aperte" promoted by the Campania Region.

Establishment of the Study Centre "Historia Loci" in order to fulfil safeguarding activities for the intangible cultural heritage of Macerata Campania through research, studies, and events.

"La festa di Sant'Antuono, patrimonio culturale immateriale di Macerata Campania" (Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, intangible cultural heritage of Macerata Campania) - A research study on the Feast of Saint Anthony, the Abbot, in Macerata Campania.
Cooperation:
The "Associazione Sant'Antuono & le Battuglie Pastellessa" is tightly connected to and cooperates with the local community through a continuous relationship with young and elder people to maintain and transmit the tradition. Young people are invited to join in the practice of playing the various typical musical instruments used while elder people participate in the transmission of techniques and patterns of playing and singing.

The about 1.000 "bottari" split into twenty local groups, in order to create, maintain and transmit the intangible cultural heritage of the area.

In order to fulfil the safeguarding activities for the intangible cultural heritage of Macerata Campania, the Association collaborates with other Associations, Committees, Institutions and Foundations, of the territory such as the "Associazione Radici" of Marcianise, the "Comitato Carnevale di Montemarano" of Montemarano, the Province of Caserta, the Municipality of Macerata Campania. In order to strenghthen the knowledge of its local tradition and specific percussion techniques, it also collaborates with organizations from other parts of Italy including the "Comitato per la promozione del patrimonio immateriale (ICHNet - Intangible Cultural Heritage Network)" and the "Istituto Centrale per la Demoetnoantropologia" of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Azərbaycan Xalçaçıları İctimai Birliyi
Azerbaijani Carpetmakers' Union [en]
51/4, Asef Zeynally street
Sebail district
1095 Baku
AZERBAIJAN
Tel.: (+994) 12 496 35 30; (+994) 50 42 99 000

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90266
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2010
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Azerbaijan

Objectives:
The purpose of the Azerbaijani Carpetmakers' Union is the safeguarding of the Azerbaijani national carpetmaking and handicrafts, their development and popularization in the world.
The Union helps to learn and form the public opinion about carpet-making art, legal rug products, and it also helps the stimulating of the raising of the creative work mastery of the physical persons, popularization of quality and special signs of our national culture and handicrafts to determine various examples of carpets and also helps theirs popularization and demonstation in Azerbaijan and the world. The NGO collaborates with local and international organizations of carpet-making art, including museums and also with legal and physical persons, as well as the state agencies.
The Unity organizes different trainings and workshops, round tables and meetings, exhibitions, charitable fundraising, conferences, other cultural and other mass measures; dissiminates information about purposes and activities, publishes print materials.
Activities:
In 2009-2010, the Azerbaijani Carpetmakers' Union participated in developing the nomination file of Azerbaijani carpetweaving for the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
For preservation of a variety of the Azerbaijan carpet, weaver's communities together with the Association «The World of carpet» and Azerbaijani Carpetmakers' Union collect information about local features of carpets, popularisation of products of local weavers through exhibitions-sales, organising trainings. So, in August 2009, in Baku, the Azerbaijani Carpetmakers' Union uniting all carpet communities of the country and the Association «World of Carpet» organised the round table which was devoted to problems of activization of manufacture of pileless carpets in Azerbaijan. The Carpetmakers' Union organises regular trainings in technique of pileless carpets at the the Museum of the Azerbaijan carpet.
Communities of carpet weavers demonstrate the works at various exhibitions. So, in 2009 the national competition-festival of carpets in various zones of the country was organised. In 2009, works of national weavers were shown in one of the Days of the Azerbaijan culture in Basel.
Besides, the following national laws were adopted: in 1998 the Law on import-export of cultural objects, in 2003 - the Law about folklore, in 2007 - ratification of the Convention of UNESCO on Protection of intangible Cultural heritage.
In 1983, 1988, and 2003, three international symposiums of the Azerbaijan carpet were organised in Azerbaijan. The first two ones were passed under the aegis of UNESCO. In 2007 4th symposium devoted to the 100 anniversary of Ljatif Kerimov took place in UNESCO headquarters in Paris where the exhibition of artists works also was organised.
Among large publications of carpet protection for last decade: Roya Tagieva «The Azerbaijan carpet» 1999, presentation of which has taken place in 2000 in Louvre Museum, Azadi-Kerimov-Tsollinger «The Azerbaijan Caucasian carpets» 2001, and the two-volume book «The Azerbaijan carpet» 2006, devoted to L.Kerimov and Materials of 4th symposium about the Azerbaijan carpet.
Many last projects have been connected with efforts on revival of carpet art. Among of them:
• CD issues: 2004 - «The Virtual Museum of the Azerbaijan carpet and applied art» (UNESCO grant),
2005 - «Technologies of the Azerbaijan carpet»,
2006 - «The Azerbaijan carpets» (with financial assistance of the Moscow bureau of UNESCO);
• in 2008 was spent the exhibition of carpets «Azerbaijan – the country of fires and carpets» from a collection of the Kiev art museum of Boqdan and Barbarians Hanenko and the catalogue of the publication «The Azerbaijan carpet»;
• In 2009 Republican festival and an exhibition of modern carpets from various regions of the country;
• In July 2009 in Baku – exhibition «Dream of the master: a new life of ancient patterns» in which works of modern weavers have been exposed.
In 14th of September, 2009 has been spent the round table and a master class "Not varying values of varying time" with the assistance of carpet – wavers, artists on carpets, collectors and businessmen, and also fans of carpet art. It has been shown a collection of clothes with use of carpet patterns of young designer Minary Kulieva, works of the master on embroidery art with use of a carpet thread of Shahla Askerova, etc.
On 17th of November, 2009, on the day of birth of the great artist on carpets, masters, scientific Ljatif Kerimov has been opened the exhibition of professionals and masters is national-applied art "The art Bridge, the leader from the past in the future".
On 18th of May, 2010 has opened the exhibition of tapestries "Tapestries: yesterday and today", where have exposed the works of masters of Non-governmental organisation.
On 10th of May, 2010 has been opened the exhibition of the Union's member Mr.Eldar Mikailzade “Dedication to geniuses".
In February, 2011 has been opened the exhibition of felt products, a member of NGO Rauf Abdulgasanogly devoted to Hodzhali tragedy.
In March, 2011 has been opened the exhibition of masters on national-applied art was devoted to a holiday of Novruz.
Since 2010 the Carpetmakers' Union has started to carry on negotiations with similar international communities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, in Russian Federations and in Islamic Republic of Iran. Result of negotiations was the opening of an exhibition of masters of people-applied art of Uzbekistan which has been opened together with "Fund-Forum of culture and art of Uzbekistan", Associations of Antiquaries of Uzbekistan "Meros" which will proceed in the autumn opening of an exhibition of the Azerbaijan masters in Tashkent, also opening of an exhibition of carpets on the basis of pictures of the National artist of Azerbaijan and Russia Tahir Salahov. Last exhibition has been shown for the first time in 2010 in Moscow, in the Museum Center of History of Musical Art named after M.Glinka, and also in 2011 which was organized by UNESCO in Paris.
Cooperation:
The Carpetmakers' Union plays the main role of creating intangible cultural variety of the local communities, groups and various persons. In this way the Union supports to enrich cultural variety, protect non-material cultural heritage especially among young generation. It carries out monitorings for the learning cause and effect in the material and technical direction, prepare the activity program in the direction of restoration of the technologies defining on the basis of getting results of the sensible and forgotten kinds of the carpet-making art.
In 2010 in Guba, Khachmaz, Gusar, Shabran, Siyazan the Union carried out the survey about modern situation of the carpet-making art, in 2011 in the result of analysis of the surveys compile the plan of monitoring and in Guba unity have been organized the exhibition from the works of the carpet-makers and masters of applied art.
In 2010 there were surveys about carpet-making art in the west zone of Azerbaijan.
The same problem is connect with various kinds of art embroideries. It is about the propaganda the ancient kinds and names of embroideries art among the young generation. Once in a month the Union organize the meetings with craftsmans in the various handicrafts of people-applied art and investigate their problems. Carrying out the work among different adults (9-17, 18-28) the Union learns their interests to various kinds of applied art and organize different groups.
Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e. V.
Bavarian association for cultural heritage [en]
Ludwigstrasse 23 Rgb.
80539 München
GERMANY
URL: http://www.heimat-bayern.de
Tel.: +49 89 286629-0; +49 89 286629-16

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/German) - No. 90438
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1902
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- other
- Tangible cultural heritage (architectural consultancy), cultural aspects of landscape

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Berättarnätet Kronoberg
The Storytelling Network of Kronoberg [en]
Märta Ljungbergsvägen 1
341 35 Ljungby
SWEDEN
URL: http://www.sagobygden.se
Tel.: +46 372 14855

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90306
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1990
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Sweden

Objectives:
It was established to highlight the oral intangible cultural heritage from the region and to revitalize by stimulating oral storytelling, shedding knowledge of fairy tales, legends and folktales and to safeguard the narrative traditions of the Land of Legends (which is three municipalities in this region of Sweden).
Activities:
Activities for safeguarding: The storytelling network of Kronoberg runs; The Museum of Legends, The Land of Legends, The largest yearly storytelling festival in Scandinavia, Ljungby storytelling festival. These three parts have all the same goal, to highlight and safeguard our oral traditions, this is being done by:
Storytelling performances/guided tours; in the museum but also in the landscape of The Land of Legends and at the festival.
Educational activities: At the museum but also in schools. We are using the tales and the storytelling as a pedagogical method (following the Swedish curriculums) and working/teaching at all school levels, from kindergarten to university. We are holding courses for youths and adults who want to learn, and also have two university courses at the museum together with the Gotland University.
Festival: Since 1990, every year we have had a storytelling festival, which is local, national and international. At the festival we host a Nordic youth camp for the next generation of storytellers. We are trying to highlight different kind of storytelling traditions, 2013 we highlight the romany tradition.
The Land of Legends: We have marked 80 places in the landscape which has a particular story/tale connected to it. This has been done by; road signs, maps, story cabinets at the actual place (the cabinets consist of a story that the visitor can read in Swedish, English or German, a painting which is connected to the story), an app (you can listen to the story in your phone instead of reading if you like) geocaching, performances, activities and excursions. Every summer we do a summer program in The Land of Legends, with performances open for the public. Many of the legends we tell in the The Land of Legends är concted to knowledge and pratices concering nature and the universe.
Performing arts: Storytelling is a performing art, we do plenty storytelling from stages, at theathers and festivals.
Book publishing: Several books have been published with the old tales but also with the new stories that we have collected today.
Networking: As The Storytelling Network of Kronoberg is the first of its kind in Sweden, we have become a centre for storytellers in Sweden and help others to form networks/or connect with storytellers in Sweden and abroad.
Projects: We work with different kinds of projects: During 2012, 2013 we have/are working with projects such as: “Museum education for those with special needs” (for students with learning disabilities of different kinds) “Stories for memories” (working with elderly at care homes with or without dementia) “Meetings with stories” (working with “young” dementia patients and their relatives) “Land of Legend- an arena for stories and meetings” (an EU-project on how to develop the countryside and highlight the stories of it) “Storytreasure” (collecting stories of today from groups and individuals) “The Basket” ( a project that combines the making of baskets and the stories of this old traditional handicraft)

Implementing the Convention in Sweden: The network is active in the work that is now taking place in Sweden of implementing the Convention with the Institute for Language and Folklore. Which has resulted in the Regional Council’s consideration to give us a regional assignment regarding the safeguarding of oral traditions.
Cooperation:
Examples of groups we are working together with:
Individuals – at our website everyone can download their own stories (done by calling a number and telling your story) At the festival we always have some telling of life narratives.
Minority groups – we have highlighted storytelling traditions belonging to groups that unfortunately have been overlooked in history, for example Romany and Sami.

The Swedish local heritage movement – the largest heritage NGO in Sweden. Together we have done many projects, and helped them at several places to highlight their legends and stories connected to places where they operate.
NGO for traditional handicraft – connected to the making of handicraft are several stories and tales. We work together with the traditional handicraft association to bring forward these stories.
ABF - Sweden’s largest adult liberal education association, we do study circles together and they are a partner in the Ljungby storytelling festival
Museums – Mainly local and regional museums but some national in different projects. We co-operate around storytelling, doing performances at the museums.
Universities -Mainly with Gotland University and Linnaeus University, teaching and research.
Municipalities – Land of Legends, consists of three municipalities (Ljungby, Älmhult, Alvesta), they help us in our work of revitalizing the places in the landscape. (The municipalities give founding to our work yearly)
Authorities – for instants: County Administrative Board (have supported our work for a long time), the Institute for Language and Folklore (implementation of the Convention), Regional Council South Småland, (gives us a yearly founding).
Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland, Bundesverband für Kultur, Natur und Heimat e.V.
Federal Organisation of the Local Heritage Organisations in Germany [en]
Adenauerallee 68
53113 Bonn
GERMANY
URL: http://www.bhu.de
Tel.: +49 22 822 40 91 ; +49 22 822 40 92

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90353
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1904
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Germany

Carrefour mondial de l'accordéon
301, boulevard Taché Est
Montmagny (Québec) G5V 1C5
CANADA
URL: http://accordeonmontmagny.com
Tel.: 1-418-248-7927

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90439
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1989
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Center for Peace Building and Poverty Reduction among Indigenous African Peoples - CEPPER
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
P.O. Box 2050
Enugu
Enugu State
NIGERIA
URL: http://cepperngo.com
Tel.: (+234) 70-30-63-44-82

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90167
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1998
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- revival and rehabilitation of wawa igbo intangible resources,TK,Tces and Folklore; poverty reduction between among the indigenious peoples; re-establishment and modern application of indigenious conflict resolution systems

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- legal advocacy legislative draftsmanship

Main countries where active:

Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal

Objectives:
... Main objectives of the Organization:
1. Rediscovery and promotion of the intellectual and traditional knowledge of the Igbos
relating to its traditional medical knowledge and practices;
2. Protection of the masquerade and oracular prophetic practices of the Igbos, Wawa
people as they extend in Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'lvoire and Senegal;
3. Defense and sustenance of the natural and customary practices of the indigenous
African people under the context of foreign religion and globalization which exterminate
the
population's social and economic existence;
4. Sensitization of the intellectual class in Africa on the issues that border on African
intellectual property and folklore;
5. Research and publications on African intellectual and folklore history and issues by
collating end reports of conferences and workshops.
6. Poverty reduction programs to ensure environmental and economic sustainability for
the Wawas in 19boland spread through the four West African states;
7. Designing relevant programs that will impact positively and contextualize the
millennium development goals in the lives and customs of the Wawas in 19boland,
especially those in tension soaked Niger delta of Nigeria.

1. Rediscovery and promotion of the intellectual and traditional knowledge of the Igbos relating to its traditional medical knowledge and practices;

2. Protection of the masquerade and oracular prophetic practices of the Igbos, Wawa people as they extend in Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal;

3. Defense and sustenance of the natural and customary practices of the indigenous African people under the context of foreign religion and globalization which exterminate the population’s social and economic existence;

4. Sensitization of the intellectual class in Africa on the issues that border on African intellectual property and folklore;
5. Research and publications on African intellectual and folklore history and issues by collating end reports of conferences and workshops.

6. Poverty reduction programs to ensure environmental and economic sustainability for the Wawas in Igboland spread through the four West African states;

7. Designing relevant programs that will impact positively and contextualize the millennium development goals in the lives and customs of the Wawas in Igboland, especially those in tension soaked Niger delta of Nigeria.

Activities:
1. We have embarked upon documentation and profiling of the intellectual properties and folklore of the Wawa people of West Africa with a view to seeking legislative and copyright protection of these activities, previously undocumented;
2. Publication of well researched articles and books on Wawa indigenous people that will itemize the various cultural properties and rights of the people to sensitize the world and national governments on the areas which are threatened with distinction.
3. Organizing workshops and attending global fora of world indigenous peoples to present the perceived areas of injustice and marginalization which have threatened them with extinction and permanent dislocation in the geography of their present locations in West Africa.
4. Collaboration with all other individuals and organizations which promote and defend the intellectual property and folklore of indigenous people worldwide with a view to exchanging information and visits from other parts of the world;
5. Making representation to governments in the four West African countries to recognize and adopt best practices and conventions on world indigenous intellectual rights and properties.
6. Policy advocacy on curriculum change, legal reform and cultural promotion of the intellectual property of the Wawas and Igbos in West Africa.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance - CTMD
32 Broadway, Suite 1314
New York, NY 10004
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
URL: http://www.ctmd.org
Tel.: +1-212 571 1555 ex. 36

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90003
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1968
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- Publications: audio & vidao recordings, written publications

Objectives:
Founded in 1968, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, one of the US'premier traditional arts organizations, is dedicated to maintaing the vibrancy of the performing arts traditions of ethnic and imigrant communities through grass-roots community organizing, research-based educational programming and public performances.
Activities:
Since its founding in 1968, CTMD has produced over 900 major presentations including concerts, festivals, tours, CD and fim series, and lectures. Materials gathered by CTMD staff, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and community cultural sepcialists are the basis for subsequent articistic presentations and educational programming. CTMD-produced recordings, publications, and documentary films preserve and document cultural traditions and educate the public about the rich artistic heritage of New York's diverse immigrant/ethnic communities. Annually serving more than 100,000 artists, immigrant/ethnic community, and general audience members, CTMD's programs have a positive impact to ensure that the artistic traditions, which define a commuity, continue to exist and have contemporary meaning for successive generations. Activities include:

- Community Cultural Initiatives - multi-year field research and presentation projects which help community and cultural activists, artists and educators within targeted immigrant/ethnic communities to preserve their cultural traditions;

- An-Sky Institute for Jewish Culture -a partnership with New York University, the JCC in Manhattan, the Workmen's Circle and the Center for Jewish History to research and revitalize the practice of traditional East European Jewish performing arts;

- Masters on Stage -ongoing partnerships with major intitutions (i.e., Linclon Center, New York Historical Society, American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution) that are designed to introduce leading practitioners of New York's rich immigrant expressive traditions to wider audiences;

- New York World Festival -a biannual event devoted each time to a different region of the worls. Celebrating New York as the most culturally diverse city in the world, the festival acknowledges the vitality of immigrant and ethnic performing arts and their contributions to the New York City landscape;

- Touring Artists -a fee-based program designated to promote community -based artists and assit these artists access mainstream performance venues and media;

- Archives/Dissemination -over the past thirty-five years, through extensive fieldwork and research, the Center has assembled one of the largest collections of urban immigrant and ethnic music anywhere in America. The collection includes audio and video recordings, photographic documentation and related ephemera on CTMD's presentations and programs. Sound and video recordings are published through CTMS's Ethnic Heritage Recording Series and the Global Beat of the Boroughs series in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways. A monthly eNewsletter provides news, events and informatin about NY's traditional music and dance scene.

CTMD's programs and intiatives help build the cultural infrastructure within immigrant/ethnic communities by bolstering immigrant/etchnic artistic traditions within the communituy and introducing these time-honored and continually evolving traditions to larger, more diverse audiences.

Cooperation:
Through its innovative Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI) program, CTMD has worked in partnership with artists, educators and traditional arts advocates to conduct multi-year research, documentation and presentation programs in a number of New York City-based immigrant groups, including the Albanian, Arab, Dominican Irish, Indo-Caribbean, Central Asian, Chinese, Phillipino, Peruvian, Soviet Jewish, Ukrainian, Mexican and West African communities. While CCIs are deeply grassroots and NY-based, they produce ripples that can extend nationally and even internationally. In the 1970s, CTMD's project to document and present Jewish klezmer music helped spark a workd-wide revival. In the 1980s, CTMD helped form the renowned all-women's ensemble Cherish the Ladies which ispired huge interest amongs women across North America ane even Ireland in performing Irish music (previsously a male-dominated activity). In the 1990s, CTMD was the first organization to introduce Indian Bhangra music to the US. And, in the last five years, CCIs have generated the first Mariachi academy on the East Coast as well as the first Peruvian music and dance school for youth in the US.
Centre Albert Marinus
40, rue de la Charrette
1200 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM
Tel.: +32 27626214

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90330
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1980
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Belgium

Objectives:
Le Centre Albert Marinus (anciennement Fondation Albert Marinus) porte le nom et prolonge le travail d'Albert Marinus (1886-1979), l'illustre défenseur du patrimoine culturel immatériel de a Belgique. Celui-ci œuvra durant toute sa carrière, tant sur le plan national qu'international, pour une meilleure connaissance en ce domaine. II enseigna aussi Ia sociologie et l'économie politique à l'Institut pour journalistes de Belgique. II devint vice-président de Ia Commission internationale des arts populaires auprès de l’UNESCO de 1947 à 1964. II participa également à Ia création à Londres de I'International Folk Music Council dont il fut vice-président de 1947 à 1972. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages de référence, il recréa I'Ommegang bruxellois en 1930.
Le Centre a donc été créé en 1980, en l'honneur d'Albert Marinus, sociologue, folkloriste et humaniste de réputation internationale.

En tant qu'association sans but lucratif, il poursuit un triple but scientifique:

• Ia sauvegarde et Ia diffusion des écrits et des théories d'Albert Marinus ;
•Ia poursuite de Ia recherche en matière d'ethnologie et de sociologie en développant des études sur Ia vie et les traditions populaires, le patrimoine culturel oral et immatériel ainsi que les métiers d'art ;
• Ia sensibilisation du public aux arts et traditions populaires en tant que patrimoine culturel immatériel mais aussi en tant qu'outil de connaissance et de réflexion sur Ia vie sociale.
D'une manière générale, I' association veille à faire prendre conscience au public le plus large de son appartenance à Ia communauté de langue française de Belgique par Ia réalisation de ces objectifs.
Le Centre ne peut réaliser ces objectifs sans contacts permanents avec des organismes, des associations, des chercheurs qui partagent ses préoccupations, en Belgique et à l'étranger. Elle assure à cet égard le role de "plaque tournante de l’information entre théoriciens, chercheurs, praticiens, amateurs ou grand public.


Activities:
Les activités du Centre Albert Marinus comprennent plusieurs volets:
- un centre de documentation;
- des activités culturelles de sensibilisation;
- des activités de formation;
- des activités scientifiques et publications

Cooperation:
Le Centre entretient des rapports fréquents avec les acteurs du patrimoine culturel immatériel de Bruxelles et notamment le Meyboom (reconnu par I'UNESCO), I'Ommegang (reconnu par Ia Communauté française), le théâtre de marionnettes de Toone, les différents serments d'arbalétriers. II organise également des échanges d'informations avec les universités belges
(Bruxelles, Liège, Gand, Louvain, Namur) ainsi qu'avec des associations nationales, tant flamandes (VIaamse Centrum voor Volkskultuur, Archief and Museum voor het Vlaams Leven in Brussel…) que wallonnes (Musée de Ia Vie wallonne, Musée en Picon rue, Maison des Géants d'Ath…). Sur le plan international, il communique avec diverses institutions auxquelles il envoie régulièrement ses publications (Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi de San Sebastian, Seminario Permanente de Estudios de Cultura Popular et Patrimonial de Ia Region de Murcia, Société française de Mythologie, Société d'Ethnologie française…).

Jean-Paul Heerbrant, directeur du Centre Marinus, siège dans les instances d'avis de Ia Communauté française de Belgique : Conseil d’ethnologie et Commission du Patrimoine oral et immatériel. Les séances régulières de ces associations sont I'occasion de rencontrer d'autres acteurs du terrain et d'échanger points de vue et nouvelles. Ces rencontres ont d'abord pour finalité de juger des candidatures de reconnaissance au titre de Patrimoine oral et immatériel introduites auprès de Ia Communauté française de Belgique et auprès de l’UNESCO, d'accorder des subventions aux praticiens et aux acteurs du patrimoine culturel immatériel ainsi que d’émettre des avis destinés à Ia Ministre de Ia Culture de Ia Communauté française de Belgique.
Centre d'interprétation de la culture traditionnelle Marius-Barbeau
4839, rue de Bordeaux
Montréal (PQ), H2H 2A2
CANADA
URL: http://www.cdmb.ca
Tel.: 514 522 1511

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French) - No. 90414
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1977
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Canada

Objectives:
Le mandat du Centre Marius-Barbeau est de sauvegarder le patrimoine immatériel et encourager la reconnaissance, la conservation, la transmission et la diffusion des arts et traditions populaires québecois et canadiens, incluant ceux des Premières Nations et de la diversité culturelle. Il privilégie, entre autres, l'acquisition et la conservation de collections patrimoniales, de publications et de documents oraux (musique, chansons, contes, légendes) ainsi que la conservation de costumes et autres artefacts relies au folklore et a la danse. Il encourage la recherche et la mise en valeur de sa documentation reliée a l'ethnologie et au folklore. Il met sur pied des expositions en lien avec ses collections.
Cela fait maintenant plusieurs décennies que le CMB ouvre ses partes et ses archives au public. Depuis aout 2014, le Centre Marius-Barbeau est reconnu, par le Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, comme organisme culture! du Répertoire de ressources culture-éducation. Il se consacre a diverses activités de médiation culturelle et propose notamment, depuis bientôt cinq ans, des cours d'initiation au fléché dans ses locaux.
Activities:
Au Centre Marius-Barbeau, la sauvegarde et la promotion du patrimoine culturel immatériel passent par l'organisation d'expositions itinérantes aux thèmes varies. L’interprétation scénique et la diversité culturelle sent les thèmes de l'exposition « Masques, cotillons et envoutement ». « Montréal, capitale de la fourrure » partage les coutumes des trappeurs et des Amérindiens au temps de la colonie. « Le fléché au bout des doigts » valorise cette ceinture emblématique qui est inscrite au Registre du patrimoine culture! du Québec a titre de patrimoine immatériel. Et finalement, « Marius Barbeau, un géant a découvrir » fait connaitre la vie et l’œuvre du père fondateur de l'anthropologie canadienne et québecoise. Ces réalisations sent possibles grâce a un assemblage de compétences de haut niveau réunies sous la gouverne du Centre Marius-Barbeau.
Dans les lieux mêmes du Centre Marius-Barbeau, plusieurs fends d'archives sent a la disposition du public et des chercheurs.
S'ajoutent les démonstrations de fléché de nos artisans et les formations sur l’art de la fabrication du fléché qui sent aussi des activités prisées.
On sollicite beaucoup l'expertise des employés du Centre Marius-Barbeau comme lors du dépôt du mémoire du directeur fondateur dans le cadre de la consultation sur le Projet de Politique de développement culturel 2017-2022 de la ville de Montréal. M. Di Genova y a présenté le mémoire « Reconnaissance a part entière du patrimoine vivant? ». De son cote, l'archiviste fut invite récemment a la table de concertation sur le patrimoine de la danse.
Comme dernier fleuron de nos activités, les conférences de Lola Chevreau sur le renouveau de l'art Salish et celles de Jimmy Di Genova, tiennent l'affiche pour un public attentif et avide de savoirs.
Cooperation:
Notre coopération avec les communautés culturelles est constante de par la nature même de nos activités. Lors du montage de l'exposition « Masques, Cotillons et envoûtement », nous avons collaboré avec des membres de la communauté AyitiMakaya et de l'association Amitié Québec Kabylie pour l’élaboration de certains valets de l'exposition. Nous avons donc intégré ces sociétés dans notre processus décisionnel et ouvert notre champ d'action pour les intégrer pleinement.
Certains représentants de ces communautés sont présents au sein même de notre conseil d'administration et renforcent ainsi leur voix et la notre dans les choix qui sont adoptés.
Nous collaborons aussi avec le collège Montmorency, Le CEGEP Maisonneuve, l'association des artisans de ceinture fléchée de Lanaudière et le Musée canadien de l'histoire. Ces échanges bilatéraux sont bénéfiques pour tous et démontrent notre implication dans notre communauté. Plusieurs étudiants font ainsi leurs premiers pas dans le monde de la conservation et du partage du patrimoine d'ici et d'ailleurs grâce à ces ententes bénéfiques pour tous.
Centre de valorisation du patrimoine vivant
5, rue Cul-de-sac
C.P.123, Succursale B
QUÉBEC (Qc) G1K 7A1
CANADA
URL: http://www.cvpv.net
Tel.: 418 647-1598

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French) - No. 90394
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1981
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Canada

Objectives:
Le Centre de la valorisation du patrimoine vivant (CVPV) est une corporation sans but lucratif qui œuvre à la préservation et à la mise en valeur de l'expression dynamique de l'héritage culturel du Québec. Fondé en 1981, le Centre s'est d'abord appelé "Les danseries de Québec". Comme son nom indiquait alors, il s'est consacré à la recherche, à l'enseignement et à la promotion de la danse et de la musique traditionnelle. Avec les années, ses préoccupations se sont élargies, recouvrant graduellement l'ensemble des arts et métiers et des expressions esthétiques traditionnelles, qu'elles soient musicales, gestuelles, orales ou plastiques. Depuis quelques années, l'organisme est connu sous le nom de ès TRAD. La petite particule ès signifiant une reconnaissance des savoirs du domaine de la tradition. Depuis plus de 30 ans, l'organisme est un acteur important de la vie culturelle dans la grande région du Québec.
La mission du Centre touche les volets de la recherche, de la conservation et de la formation, de la diffusion et de la mise en valeur du patrimoine vivant. Depuis ses débuts, le CVPV a travaillé dans la tradition scientifique des écrivains, historiens, folkloristes et ethnologues qui ont recueilli, conservé, et fait connaitre la littérature orale des Français d'Amérique et des autres collectivités qui composent le Québec. En collaboration avec des organismes universitaires et gouvernementaux, le Centre a procédé à des collectes ethnographiques et mené des recherches documentaires. Ces travaux ont permis de produire des documents audio et vidéo uniques et de qualité (quelques exemples : "Prenez-vous des Mi-Carême?", Ernest Fradette, conteur, "Le Miroir d'argent", Musiciens du Québec, accordéons diatoniques, André Alain violoneux de Portneuf et l'Irlande au Québec).
Le Centre a été l'instigateur des États généraux du patrimoine vivant qui ont eu lieu en 1922 à Québec. Cet événement a permis de faire le point sur la situation et de créer le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant, organisme chargé de représenter et de stimuler le milieu.
Activities:
Le Centre est basé à Québec, dans la capitale de la province de Québec, au Canada. C'est le seul organisme à travailler à la diffusion et à la médiation du patrimoine immatériel dans la région et ce, tout au long de l'année.
Depuis 1981, il organise une série de veillées de danse traditionnelle qui réunit une fois par mois musiciens, calleur et danseurs. Le Centre organise à chaque automne depuis 1991 son festival annuel. Maintenant connu sous l'appellation "les Rendez-vous ès TRAD de Québec", il a longtemps été connu sous le nom de Festival International des Arts Traditionnels (FIAT). Au fil du temps, le Centre a reçu es délégations de nombreuses régions de France. Depuis quelques années, avec son partenaire le PicNic festival de Namur, en Belgique, il procède à des échanges de groupes musicaux. Il présente également un atelier de démonstration artisanales estivales depuis 1995. À cette occasion, des artisanes et artisans de grands talents se réunissent et présentent les différentes étapes de confections de pièces ainsi que les techniques de base liées à leurs savoir-faire respectifs. Depuis 2006, le Centre a également mis en place une série de concerts acoustiques afin d'augmenter la visibilité et la diffusion de la musique traditionnelle dans la capitale et ce, à l'année.
Le Centra a aussi à son actif de nombreuses activités d'enseignement par des cours sur la musique et la danse traditionnelle et de sensibilisation du publique par des stages, des ateliers et par sa participation à des festivals et des colloques internationaux. Nous avons au cours des années délégué des artistes à plusieurs festivals en Amérique du Nord et en Europe.
Le CVPV a préparé des expositions thématiques sur l'accordéon et le violon, qui ont circulé au Québec et à l'extérieur de ses frontières. Il a également réalisé l'exposition "Corps à corps avec le patrimoine immatériel". En 1997 et 1998, il a été le producteur associé, choisi par la Société nationale des Québécoises et des Québécois de la capitale, afin d'organiser le spectacle de la Fête Nationale sur les Plaines d'Abraham et à Place d'Youville, plus de 100 000 spectateurs à chaque occasion. En outre, Expo-Cité a utilisé son expertise afin de mettre sur pied les Pavillons des arts d'expo-Québuec, qui a accueilli en 1998 et 199 plus de 200 000 visiteurs.
Cooperation:
Les activités du CVPV sont basées sur la coopération avec les communautés, les groupes et les individus travaillant à la mise en valeur et à la transmission du patrimoine immatériel. Il a toujours travaillé afin de mettre en valeur l'expérience et les connaissances des porteurs de traditions avec qui il travaille. Il regroupe, sous son conseil d'administration, des représentants de quatre disciplines du patrimoine vivant: conte, musique, danse et savoir-faire artisanaux. Ses membres sont consultés une fois par an afin de leur présenter ses orientations et ses actions.
Centre des musiques et danses traditionnelles et populaires de Guadeloupe - CMDT Guadeloupe
Rèpriz, Regional center for traditional music and dances [en]
Centre Rèpriz
Monsieur Félix COTELLON
2, rue Dubouchage
97110 - POINTE-A-PITRE

FRANCE
URL: http://www.repriz-cmdtp.org
Tel.: 05 90 20 99 18

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90026
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2005
Budget: U.S.$100000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Publication de livres et de disques, organisation de rencontres et manifestations

Main countries where active:

Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Objectives:
Cette association a pour but la sauvegarde, le développement et la valorisation des musiques et danses traditionnelles, populaires et contemporaines en Guadeloupe, et en particulier:
- de mettre en oeuvre des actions de collecte, de recherche, d’étude et de mise en valeur du patrimoine musical et dansé en Guadeloupe ainsi que des autres formes apparentées des arts et traditions populaires,
- d’assurer un rôle d’information et de conseil des musiciens et danseurs guadeloupéens ainsi que la diffusion régulière d’information par tous les moyens mis à sa disposition,
- de contribuer au développement de toutes actions éducatives en faveur de la sensibilisation et de l’initiation des jeunes publics, en particulier, aux musiques et danses traditionnelles et populaires guadeloupéennes et caribéennes,
- de participer à l’élaboration et à la mise en oeuvre d’un programme de formation spécifique,
- de favoriser la diffusion, l’exportation et la promotion des musiques et danses actuelles et traditionnelles de la Guadeloupe dans la Caraïbe et dans les Amériques, en France, en Europe et dans le reste du Monde,
- d’assurer une mission de relais auprès des collectivités publiques en matière d’expertise et d’évaluation des actions mises en place dans les domaines des musiques traditionnelles et actuelles.
Activities:
1) Collectes des chants et traditions maritimes de la Désirade en collaboration avec Françoise URI-LANCREOT(Musicologue), Diana REY-HULMAN (ethnolinguiste), Robert BOUTHILLIER (Chercheur, ex-Directeur de DASTUM), ce travail est réalisé et se poursuit en collaboration avec l'association DASTUM et Michel COLLEU (spécialiste des chants marins)
2) Collectes des chants et traditions indo-créoles de Guadeloupe en collaboration avec l'anthropologue et danseur, Raghunath Manet
3) Travaux réalisés par Dominique CYRILLE, Ethnomusicologue martiniquaise, Doctorat es Musicologie à l'université Paris-IV-Sorbonne en 1996,chargée de cours au Lehman College, City University of New York. Collecte, étude, recherche et publication sur les Quadrilles de Guadeloupe et les chants de la terre (chants de labours, chants de travail)
4) Manifestations
*Rencontres guadeloupéennes du Quadrille en collaboration avec la Ville de Basse-Terre et la Maison du Patrimoine dans le cadre des Journées Européennes du Patrimoine (janvier 2007)
*Rencontres guadeloupéennes du GwoKa sur thème : Nouveaux enjeux, Nouvelles problématiques (juillet 2008)
*Séminaire d'ethnomusicologie de la Caraïbe : Patrimoine culturel immatériel de la Caraïbe : Sauvegarder et promouvoir les danses et musiques caribéennes, Nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles problématiques avec le concours de : Kwamé BOAFO (Directeur Unesco Caraïbe), Christian HOTIN et Jean-Pierre ESTIVAL (Ministère de la Culture - France), Michael BIRENBAUM QUINTERO (ethnomusicologue - Colombie), Katerine HAGEDORN - USA, Carlos ANDÙJAR Persinal - République Dominicaine, Kennedy SAMUEL - Sainte-Lucie, Thomas Mitchel SCRUGGS - Vénézuéla, et de nombreux chercheurs et artistes de Guadeloupe et de Martinique
5) Promotion, mis en valeur des tenants de la tradition
-Publication de trois disques CD
*Kadri Gwadloup n 1, avec l'accordéoniste Reynoir Casimir dit Négoce
*Kadri Gwadloup n 2, avec l'accordéoniste Jacques Danican et le groupe Flamme Abymienne
*La Tradition du Quadrille, en collaboration avec OCORA Radio France et France Musique (Prix France Musique des Musiques du Monde 2006)
Cooperation:
- Coopération avec :
*les associations des marins de la Désirade - 7 et 8 juillet 2007 - Thème : Pourquoi et comment sauvegarder et promouvoir les chants et traditions maritimes ?
*Les associations de quadrilles de Guadeloupe et Marie-Galante - 28 janvier 2007 - Thème : Bokantaj asi Kadri Gwadloup (Rencontres guadeloupéennes du quadrille)
*Mouvement culturel de Grelin (Marie-Galante) - Tradition rurale des chants de labours
*Kozé-Bokantaj (Conférence-débats) avec la communauté guadeloupéenne du GwoKa - Thème : Faut-il inscrire le GwoKa sur la liste représentative du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel de l'Humanité ?
*Homage rendu aux principaux tenants de la tradition
Centre des musiques traditionnelles Rhône-Alpes (CMTRA) - CMTRA
46 cours du Docteur Jean Damidot
69100 VILLEURBANNE
FRANCE
URL: http://www.cmtra.org
Tel.: 04 78 70 81 75

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French) - No. 90387
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- other
- patrimoines musicaux, culturels et linguistiques issus de l'immigration

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
Le CMTRA est une association régionale qui œuvre, depuis sa création en 1991, à la connaissance et à la valorisation des musiques traditionnelles et des cultures de l'oralité (danses, langues régionales, langues issues de l'immigration, contes, fêtes populaire ...) telles qu'elles sont pratiquées dans les territoires urbains et ruraux de la région Rhône-Alpes. Comme l'ensemble des structures composant les réseaux des Centres de Musiques Traditionnelles (FAMDT), le CMTRA est né de la volonté de l'État et des Régions d'apporter reconnaissance et soutient aux cultures populaires, singulières et minoritaires relevant de la transmission orale et des héritages régionaux. Structure pionnière dans la valorisation des "musiques du monde" et des patrimoines culturels, linguistiques et mémoriels issus de l'immigration, le CMTRA travaille dans le sens d'une articulation et d'une reconnaissance mutuelle entre les musiques de tradition orale historiquement ancrées dans le territoire rhônalpin, et l'ensemble des patrimoines issus des migrations, anciennes et récentes.
À la fois animateur d'un réseau régional d'acteurs, coordinateur de projets de recherche-action et centre de ressource, le CMTRA articule donc accompagnement des pratiques artistiques amateurs et professionnelles, recherche, documentation patrimoniale et action culturelle, aide à la création et à la diffusion du spectacle vivant. Son engagement en faveur des patrimoines culturels immatériels pluriels de la région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes repose sur un esprit de mobilisation et d'échange, de créativité collective et de démarche partagée qui prend corps dans les territoires, par l'appropriation et la réinvention du "bien commun" et le tissage de nouveaux liens entre milieu rural et milieu urbain, entre les générations, entre les cultures et le groupes sociaux.

Activities:
Les activités du CMTRA s'organisent autour de troit lignes de force:
1/la coordination d'un réseau régional d'acteurs vaste et hétérogène, composé d'associations (culturelles, communautaires, sociales, éducatives), d'artistes, d'enseignants, de chercheurs et d'institutions patrimoniales.
La réseau régional s'organise autour de trois commissions thématiques (pratiques amateurs / transmission / spectacle vivant) chargées de proposer des axes de réflexion et d'actions à développer collectivement, avec l'accompagnement opérationnel du CMTRA. Son animation repose sur la mise en œuvre d'initiatives de valorisation communes tels que les forums régionaux annuels, les festivals des Jeudis des Musiques du Monde ou de la Semaine des Patrimoines Vivants, les rencontres, pique-nique et apéros interprofessionnels, l'orchestre régional du "Grand Orphéon".
2/ la valorisation des patrimoines musicaux et linguistiques de la région, par la réalisation de projets de collectage sonore visant à questionner l'identité d'un quartier, d'une ville ou d'un territoire rural par le prisme des musiques qui y sont pratiquées et racontées.
Ces recherches de terrain font systématiquement l'objet d'événements de restitution (organisation de concerts, ateliers de transmission), de la réalisation de documentaires sonores, et/ou d'un travail d'édition de livres-CD ou de webdocumentaires. La collection des «Atlas Sonores » est aujourd'hui riche de 24 numéros, accessibles en ligne pour les adhérents du CMTRA. Le CMTRA a ainsi pu mettre en oeuvre depuis 25 ans de nombreux projets de recherche et de collectage qui ont amené une diversification croissante des terrains pris en compte, aussi bien que des dynamiques de partenariat- pour ne citer que certains d'entre eux : « Musiques ! Voyage sonore à Villeurbanne » depuis 2008 (avec le Rize à Villeurbanne), le projet « Place du Pont Production » de 2010 à 2014 (avec les Archives Municipales de Lyon, les éditeurs Frémeaux et Associés), le projet « Tutti bruitti » (avec le Conservatoire de Givors) ou plus récemment le projet « Comment sonne la ville? Musiques migrantes à Saint-Etienne» (avec le laboratoire du CIEREC à l’Université Jean Monnet, les Archives Municipales de Saint-Etienne, le Centre Max Weber).
Depuis 2015, le CMTRA coordonne en outre un réseau collaboratif dédié aux archives sonores en Auvergne Rhône-Alpes composé de 13 structures détentrices de fonds sonores (voir liste en annexe 8.a).
3/ La coordination d'un pôle de médiation scientifique dédié à la thématique « Musiques, Territoires, lnterculturalités ».
Grâce au label « Ethnopôle » alloué en 2016 par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le CMTRA joue un rôle d'interface entre les mondes de la recherche scientifique, de l'action culturelle, du patrimoine et du développement territorial sur l'ensemble du territoire de la nouvelle région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A travers l'organisation de journées d'étude, de tables-rondes, de projets éditoriaux et de mise à disposition de documentation, d'actions culturelles locales, d'expositions plurimédia, le projet de I'Ethnopôle-CMTRA est d'ouvrir des espaces de dialogue, de ressources et de créativité collective dans le champ des patrimoines musicaux et de l'interculturalité. Il s'articule autour d'un programme scientifique et culturel intitulé "Musiques, Territoires et lnterculturalités" en annexe 8c_bis de ce dossier.

Cooperation:
Depuis sa fondation en 1991, le CMTRA développe ses activités à la croisée de différents mondes professionnels (artistique, socio-culturel, institutionnel, patrimonial, scientifique) ayant pour engagement commun la connaissance, la reconnaissance et la valorisation de la pluralité des patrimoines musicaux et culturels régionaux. Les projets de recherche de terrain et de collectage, de documentation, d'action culturelle et de diffusion sont donc systématiquement menés en coopération étroite avec cette diversité d'acteurs. Notre démarche est ainsi très inspirée des méthodes de travail de l'économie sociale et solidaire et favorise les projets participatifs, la mutualisation des savoirs et des compétences, et les espaces de réflexion et de décision collectives.
Par ailleurs, le collectage constitue un outil de médiation essentiel pour venir à la rencontre d'habitants et de groupes sociaux peu représentés sur les scènes culturelles "officielles" des territoires urbains et ruraux de la région. Ces moments d'écoute attentive et de valorisation dans le cadre d'Atlas Sonores ou d'expositions de moments musicaux et de récits de vie captés dans le contexte intime et quotidien des habitants d'un territoire, permet la prise en compte de leurs propres définitions et de leurs propres pratiques des patrimoines musicaux, culturels et immatériels. Nous rejoignons en ce sens la dynamique de reconnaissance des droits culturels impliquant la de considérer toutes les expressions musicales (berceuses, musiques accompagnant des rituels religieux, des fêtes communautaires ou familiales) comme des patrimoines culturels aussi dignes d'intérêt que ceux que l'on retrouve plus communément dans les lieux institués de la culture.
L'édition d'Atlas Sonores (en livre-CD ou en projet multimédia), la réalisation de documentaires sonores, l'organisation de tables-rondes, d'émissions radiophoniques et de concerts avec les habitants rencontrés au fil de nos projets de recherche et de collectage, ou encore le montage d'expositions de portraits sonores, sont quelques-unes des initiatives que nous mettons en oeuvre dans le but de donner sens et résonance aux patrimoines culturels quotidiens et a priori « ordinaires » de nos territoires.
Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo
Government Reserved Area
Abere
Osun State
NIGERIA
Tel.: +234 812 369 6010

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90423
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2009
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Ethiopia, France, Germany, Nigeria, Togo, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA)
Swahili Cultural Centre premises
Off Mama Ngina Drive
P. O. Box 90010
80100 Mombasa
KENYA
URL: http://www.heritageinafrica.org
Tel.: +254 707 70 17 61; +254 722 89 01 79

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90313
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2005
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Capacity building and institutional support for the conservation and management of movable and immovable cultural heritage in Africa

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Capacity building for African heritage institutions and professionals in all the above intangible cultural heritage undertakings

Main countries where active:

Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Objectives:
CHDA is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) dedicated to the reservation, management and promotion of cultural heritage in Africa through a programme of training and development support services. Its work is mainly with preservation of Immovable, Movable and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa.

CHDA started as a program (PMDA), dedicated to heritage resource management and development needs of Museums in Africa. However, from 2001 it increased her activities to encompass the conservation of both movable, immovable and intangible heritage assets. In recognition of these developments and for the organization to be recognized as a permanent institution as opposed to “a program,” PMDA was transformed into CHDA in 2005.

CHDA is mandated to Organize, co-ordinate and develop viable projects and activities for heritage and museum development in Africa, such as the post-graduate diploma course in the care and management of heritage and museum collections in sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with the University of Nairobi and University College London, and the Africa 2009 program.
• Provide advice and technical support to museums and heritage institutions
• Diffuse data and information about museums and heritage development
• Work with national institutions, individuals, community heritage projects and custodians of heritage resources to conceive, develop and implement special projects in the field of museum and heritage development
• Work with and complement other regional projects and programmes to ensure the successful implementation of their respective activities
• Contribute to raising the profile of African heritage institutions at local and International levels
• Consolidate the necessary financial and human resources for museums and heritage development.
Activities:
During the life of CHDA, from the year 2000 when it was PMDA (Program for Museum Development in Africa) until today, nearly 1000 heritage professionals on the African continent have gone through the CHDA training programs. In many programs, CHDA invites expert resource persons and also teaching assistants, who use the opportunity to understudy the expert trainer on their way to becoming expert trainers in their own right. These professionals, many of who went on and acquired further qualifications, became part of the CHDA network of heritage professionals, a pool of experts that CHDA draws on for its professional training needs, as resource persons, facilitators and program coordinators in case of need. It is important to note that the network has experts in most of the different aspects of heritage management, including tangible, intangible, movable and immovable heritage. They also have loyalty and commitment to CHDA, having come through it in the development of their professional careers.

A few of the programs CHDA has undertaken in the past and which had a direct bearing on intangible heritage management included:
1. Endangered Heritage Assets Program (EHAP)
This program was undertaken by CHDA in 2004-2005 successfully sought to identify, document and disseminate the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the Mijikenda people of the Kenyan coast, especially those that are threatened with extinction.

2. The three-year en-compass project
The project began in October 2010 and is on-going. It brought together participants from China, England, Guyana, and Kenya (with the remit for Anglophone Africa)
The program looked at issues related to the dangers and challenges faced in the protection of intangible and tangible cultural heritage in all participating countries. The participants used these issues to develop a coherent programme which they used to mobilize people in their countries/regions by conducting awareness and dissemination campaigns, aimed at helping people become more aware of the dangers and challenges faced in terms of the promotion and safeguarding of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible.The program activities also included a workshop to scope and audit key tangible and intangible heritage resources, including cultural expressions, products and services in each partner country.
These in-country workshops provided a focus and momentum for long-term on-going scoping and auditing activities post training. However, the information and material gathered through the scoping exercise was also fed onto a database, used to create the online and published catalogues- this process is still on-going. The project also intends to create an inventory of cultural heritage resources (Tangible and Intangible), including those at risk in the short-term from the scoping exercise undertaken in each of the three partner countries. The catalogue of cultural heritage assets (both tangible and intangible) collected will be researched and used to design and develop a travelling exhibition that will go around all the participating countries.
In the last year of the program, three practitioners from Africa (Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia) were admitted for a Master’s Degree Course in Heritage management at the Newcastle University, UK.

3. Post-Graduate Diploma Courses
CHDA held 2 nine-month Post-Graduate Diploma Courses in Heritage Management, in collaboration with the University of Nairobi and the University College, London. This course had a whole unit dedicated to "Indigenous knowledge systems and community involvement", which is basically training in intangible heritage of communities.

4. Africa 2009 Courses
CHDA hosted the 3-month Africa 2009 courses for 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009
One of the issues Africa 2009 program addressed was the issue of insufficient human resources and capacity for management, conservation, and maintenance of immovable heritage properties on the continent, using traditional methods and materials. This means that traditional methods, knowledge and skills, which are basically intangible heritage assets, were being mainstreamed in the program, in a participatory approach involving local communities in the conservation planning and management processes. For example, the field projects aimed to establish self-confidence within the local custodians and to enhance their recognition as efficient professionals. The project also worked to integrate traditional techniques in conservation of monuments resulting not only in monuments that are responsive to local environments, but also to the sustenance and promotion of traditional skills - the intangible heritage within the local communities.

5. Workshop on Recording Intangible Heritage
In February 2005, CHDA organized and hosted a three-day workshop on Recording of Intangible Heritage. The aims of the course was to produce professionals who can record Intangible Heritage appropriately and to enable trainees effectively apply methodologies, standards, and equipment for recording Intangible Heritage. The main course objective was to enable participants to record Intangible Heritage using digital and video cameras in line with laid down standards and procedures as provided in the course.

6. Capacity Building in Universities
CHDA also undertook training on strengthening capacities of African Universities in intangible cultural heritage, on behalf of UNESCO/ICH section at the CHDA Centre in Mombasa between 18th and 22nd June 2012.
Cooperation:
These are just a few of the courses that CHDA has implemented. It is important to note that apart from special trainings deliberately designed to inculcate knowledge and skills among heritage professionals on how to work with communities and stakeholders; how to involve them in all heritage management/conservation activities; how to ensure economic benefits for them, e.g. the training course on stakeholder participation, CHDA has always appreciated the fact that the communities are the ultimate custodians of heritage properties, managing and conserving them in their day-to-day actions. For this matter, community participation has always been incorporated into the programs CHDA offers its participants - either by making it part of the teaching learning content or by inviting community members as participants in training programs to exchange issues with professionals, learn from and teach them and to create networks for future exchange.
In the last training that CHDA held in Zimbabwe on Risk Preparedness for Heritage properties between 6th and 18th May 2013 for example, two community members were invited as participants to help build an understanding among professionals on the traditional approaches to risk management of the Great Zimbabwe, as well as to help us understand the community needs and expectations from the professionals in their professional work of management and conservation.
Centro Daniel Rubín de la Borbolla a.c.
Daniel Rubin de la Borbolla Center, a.c. [en]
Galeana 115 San Ángel, c.p. 01060
México D.F.
MEXICO
URL: http://www.centrodanielrubindelaborbolla.org.mx
Tel.: +52 +55 555 095 69; +52 55 3399 4308 (n  transmis par LP)

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90023
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2022
Year of creation: 1993
Budget: U.S.$36300
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- patrimonio cultural gastronomía tradicional

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- desarrollo de instrumentos metodológicos para el registro y elaboración de inventarios aplicación de sistemas de información geográfica al inventario y promoción del patrimonio cultural

Main countries where active:

Mexico

Objectives:
-To create a collection of documents, specialized in popular arts, crafts and traditional cuisine, which includes a library, archive, serial publication fund and photo library, to be used mainly by researchers, popular artists, artisans and culture promoters.
-To develop research intruments, such as: thesaurus, cartographies and specialized bibliographies, among other.
-To document current technology used in the craftwork production processes and its problems.
-To carry out research in the field of popular arts and crafts in collaboration with educational, promotion and cultural institutions.
-To support rescue and safeguarding actions and the study of cultural processes related
with popular arts, crafts and traditional cuisine.
-To promote the best expressions of popular arts and crafts by carrying out and
supporting contests and exhibitions.
-To participate in the registry and cataloguing of craftwork and traditional cuisine
expressions.
-To participate in the promotion, registry, documentation and preservation projects of
popular arts, craftwork and traditional cuisine.
Activities:
-Gives consultation services on its library, archive, photo library and serial publication funds.
-Carries out research in the field of cultural heritage with special emphasis on popular arts and crafts, traditional cuisine and cultural tourism.
-Develops research instruments, such as: thesaurus, specialized bibliographies and handicraft cartographies.
-Participates, together with public institutions and civil organizations, in the promotion, preservation and protection of the cultural heritage with special emphasis on popular arts, crafts and traditional cuisine.
-Gives workshops for social organizations at a community level to increase registry, protection and promotion of the cultural heritage.
-Participates in national and state competitions of popular arts and crafts to recognize masters and their works.
-Participates in the Specialist Committee, working on the development of the methodology and the survey for the inventory of intangible cultural heritage of Mexico.
- Organizes and participates in meetings, congresses and round tables in which reflect on Mexican and Latin American cultural heritage.
Cooperation:
-It gives workshops on recognition, evaluation and registry for the communities to develop projects for strengthening, conservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage.
-It is presently developing the digital atlas of popular Mexican art with the collaboration of artisans and popular artists.
-It participates in the Specialist Committee for the development of the methodology and the survey for the inventory of the intangible cultural heritage of Mexico, in which the communities will have a predominant role.
Centro de Trabalho Indigenista - CTI
Indigenist Work Center - CTI [en]
Centre de Travail Indigèniste [fr]
SCLN 210
Bloco C, Sala 217, Asa Norte
Brasilia - DF
BRAZIL
URL: http://www.trabalhoindigenista.org.br
Tel.: +55 (61) 3349.7769

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90174
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2012; 2013; 2014
Year of creation: 1979
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Practices and knowledge concerning territorial and territorial rights

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Brazil

Objectives:
Our aim is to work alongside with indigenous groups so that they can assume effective
control over all interventions that occur in their territories, informing them about the
Brasilian State's role in the protection and guarantee of the indigenous peoples'
constitutional rights. The Centro de Trabalho lndigenista has as its mission and identity
trait the direct support that we offer to the indigenous groups with which we work,
assisting them with the resources and technical support that they need to accomplish
greater political and economic autonomy, always respecting the sociocultural universe
pertaining to each indigenous community. In other words, the projects developed by the
Centro de Trabalho lndigenistas are projects in which the indigenous peoples involved
are coauthors and collaborators and in which their traditional knowledge and practices
are respected and affirmed.
Our main objectives are:
- The promotion and circulation of community-organized projects in the areas of
agriculture, education, health and culture;
- Development of actions which contribute with the legal recognition of lands
traditionally occupied by indigenous people;
- Preservation and protection of the natural environment of the indigenous lands;
- Development of actions that promote and enhance the transmission of the indigenous
peoples' traditional knowledge and practices;
- Production of audio-visual material with the indigenous groups so that they may
circulate and preserve their traditional knowledge and practices;
- Promotion of occasions in which the indigenous groups may exchange experiences
and information with other communities, research centers and organizations;.
Activities:
The Centro de Trabalho Indigenista works with the promotion and protection of
indigenous peoples' rights. These include territory, health, education and cultural rights.
We understand that these domains are not segregated, eventhough the Brazilian State
frequently separates them in different policies and agencies. Therefore, in working with
the indigenous for the recognition of their land and the preservation of its natural
resources, we are better able to work towards the promotion, transmission and
protection of their cultural heritage. We have aquired experience in the domain of
intangible cultural heritage, working with various indigenous groups over the last thirty
years. Currently, we are working with the Guarani people in a large project of register
and safe-guard of their intangible heritage. The project is developled in cooperation with
the Brazilian official agency responsible for intangible state policies (Insituto do
Patrimonio Hist6rico e Artistico Nacional) and the Spanish International Cooperation
Agency (AECI). We are researching vast documentation concerning the Guarani in all
public archives in the south and southeast regions of Brazil, aiming at producing the
most complete reference material available, so that the indigenous people, researchers,
government workers and policy makers and other people interested in learning more
about the Guarani and their culture or in promoting actions in colaboration with the
Guarani can have access to this information. This reference material includes, books,
reports, academic research, maps, fotographs, and audio visual registers from the
nineteenth century to present day. We are also working with the Guarani to identify the
aspects of their intangible heritage which they endeavor to preserve, protect and
transmit to future generations and are creating the means for this to be accomplished in
a long-term plan. This endeavor to affirm Guarani culture also includes the awareness of
the non-indigenous people who surround their communities and non-indigenous society
in general. Through the production of materials which contribute with this awareness, we
are hoping to promote better relations and understanding among these groups.
Cooperation:
The Centro de Trabalho Indigensita has worked with indigenous communities for the last
thirty years. We have worked in collaboration with the members of various indigenous
groups, so that the indigenous may assume greater control over interventions that affect
their communities and gain greater political and economic autonomy. We recognize that
for this to be accomplished it is necessary that the indigenous have a good understanding of their rights and the means by which they can guarantee respect for
these rights. On the other hand, it is of fundamental importance that we acknowledge
each indigenous group's specific forms of political, social and cultural organization and
help governmental and non-governmental agents to better understand these forms and
respect them. In recognizing these aspects, we are able to develop more effective
actions, in which the indigenous people are protagonists.
Centro Etnografico delle Isole Campane
Ethnographic Center of the Campane Islands [en]
Via Ulisse,26
80077 Ischia (Na)
ITALY
URL: http://www.ethnoi.it
Tel.: +39-081-984704; +39-3497504280

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Italian) - No. 90462
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1982
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Centro UNESCO de la Ciudad Autonoma de Melilla
Melilla UNESCO Center [en]
Centre pour l´UNESCO à Melilla [fr]
Avda. Cándido Lobera, 11, Bajo B .
52001 Melilla
SPAIN
URL: http://www.ugr.es/local/javera
Tel.: + 34 63 915 79 76

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90002
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1996
Budget: U.S.$60000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- Convivence interculturelle

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Argentina, Cuba, Gambia, Greece, Italy, Paraguay, Romania, Spain, Togo

Objectives:
Promouvoir les hauts idéaux, principes et valeurs de l'UNESCO, tant en Espagne qu'aux divers régions de l'UNESCO (Europe, Amérique Latine et Caraïbes, etc.).
On peut concrétiser sur les suivants objectifs spécifiques:
- Développement durable, dans le cadre philosophique de l'UNESCO.
- Sauvegarde et mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel aussi bien matériel, dans ses volets historique-artistique et naturel, qu' intangible.
- Contribuer à la réussite des objectifs du millenium de l'ONU.
- Renforcer le modèle politique démocratique à travers la formation de la société civile.
Activities:
Nous énumérons brièvement les dernières activités réalisés:
- Participation à la deuxième réunion du Comité Intergouvernemental de la Convention PCI, à Tokyo (Japon) du 3 au 7 septembre 2007.
- Participation aux Premières Journées Nationales sur la Protection de l'Environnement et le Patrimoine Culturel, à Matalascañas - Huelva (Espagne) du 3 au 6 octobre 2007.
- Participation au V Congrès Ibéroaméricaine de Parcs et Jardins Publiques, à San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentine) du 2 au 13 novémbre 2007.
- Organisation et tenue de la Rencontre Euro-Arabe du Réseau Civil de l'UNESCO, à Melilla (Espagne) du 21 au 24 novembre 2007.
- Participation en tant que conseiller de la Délégation Oficielle Espagnole à la 34 Conférence Générale de l'UNESCO, à Paris (France) pendant les mois d'octobre et novémbre 2007.
- Participation aux évènements du 25º anniversaire de la déclaration du Centre Historique de Florence (Italie) comme Patrimoine de l'Humanité, à Florence du 16 au 20 décembre 2007.
- Projets de coopération internationale pour le développement dans les domaines de la démocratie et le développement durable en Maroc et en Gambie, pendant ces dernières années.
Si vous voulez plus d'information vous pouvez consulter notre site web:
http://www.ugr.es/~javera/2-5-memoria.htm
Cooperation:
- Coopération pour favoriser la convivence interculturelle avec la population d'origine, culture et langue Tamazigth, dans la région du Rif, la population d'origine et culture juïve et la population d'origine et culture éuropéenne.
- Coopération avec la Fédération Nationale Gambienne sur l'origine et la route de l'esclavage.
- Coopération avec des groupes de recherche de la culture et la langue guaraní, en le Paraguay.
Centro UNESCO de San Sebastián
San Sebastian UNESCO Centre [en]
Calle Paseo de Colón 9 - 1º C
20002 SAN SEBASTIAN
SPAIN
URL: http://www.unescoeskola.org
Tel.: +34-94 3293168

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French/Spanish) - No. 90005
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1992
Budget: U.S.$22598
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Jamaica, Madagascar, Morocco, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Objectives:
Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien s’attache de promouvoir la diffusion des idéaux de l’UNESCO à travers de la éducation internationale et l’encouragement de recherches éducatives importantes pour l’Organisation, visant à assurer la viabilité du patrimoine culturel immatériel, y compris la transmission, essentiellement par l'éducation non formelle et à distance. L’élaboration des matériaux didactiques pour l’éducation en matière de droits de l’homme et la promotion des valeurs universelles et de l’éducation interculturelle, surtout, à travers du Cours à Distance pour la Formation d’Animateurs UNESCO. Les buts sont :
- Fournir les instruments de base orientés à améliorer la qualité de l'intervention des professionnels Animateurs UNESCO Experts en Développement dans les communautés.
- Promouvoir des espaces pour se préparer dans l'analyse des problèmes internationaux, contribuant ainsi à l'enrichissement de la diversité culturelle.
- Aider à prendre conscience des nouvelles caractéristiques mondiales, de la diversité des communautés humaines et de l'interdépendance des pays ainsi que des relations entre les cultures.
- Sensibiliser envers les causes et les conséquences des phénomènes sociopolitiques.
- Analyser des méthodes pour faire face aux défis humains tels que la survivance, le développement, la pauvreté, l'environnement et le patrimoine culturel.
- Concevoir des plans et des activités tendant à l'amélioration intégrale d'une qualité de la vie modeste et prospère des communautés humaines en prenant en considération les desseins et directrices de l'ONU et l'UNESCO.
- Favoriser la création d'un profil professionnel reconnu à niveau international.
Activities:
Les principaux activités et expérience du Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien en matière de sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel, sont la capacitacion et formation à travers du Cours d’Animateurs UNESCO. Ce cours poursuit :
La diffusion et transmision des objectifs de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel à travers de la formation en éducation internationale, droits de l’homme, éducation pour la paix, diversité culturelle, développement soutenable et la mise en oeuvre de programmes d’éducation de base non formelle conçus comme un moyen d’aider au développement des compétences nécessaires dans la vie quotidienne, contribuant ainsi à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des populations. Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien travaille dans deux domaines prioritaires :
- Enseignement: Depuis 1993, le Centre organise le Cours à Distance pour la Formation d’Animateurs UNESCO (CDFAUN). A l’heure actuelle, le CDFAUN est implanté dans 75 pays, où plus de 1000 élèves reçoivent une formation de haut niveau et ce, exclusivement en accord avec les idéaux et les directives de l’UNESCO, à travers une éducation non formelle et à distance, aussi, pour la diffusion des objectifs de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel. La première promotion d’Animateurs UNESCO est sortie du CDFAUN en 1995, au cours d’un acte qui s’est tenu au siège de l’UNESCO. En 2008 sortira la 14ª promotion.
- Recherche: L’une des finalités statutaires du Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien est la recherche scientifique. Une bibliothèque permet de disposer de ressources documentaires de première main sur des thèmes en rapport avec l’UNESCO. Les archives et les bases de données du Centre reçoivent des informations de dernière
heure provenant des endroits les plus divers du monde entier où opèrent des Animateurs UNESCO, engagés dans l’implantation et la diffusion des buts de l’UNESCO. Le Centre a publié de nombreux ouvrages de recherche sur l’UNESCO et a été invité comme rapporteur à des congrès nationaux et internationaux.
Principales activités récentes et reconnaissances
- 1994-2000: Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien signe 5 Contrats d'Honoraires avec la Secretariat de l'UNESCO
- 2004: Le Cours d’Animateurs UNESCO est appuyé par et 36 Etats Membres.
- 2006-2007 : Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien signe 7 Protocoles de Colaboration pour la diffussion des objectives du patrimoine culturel immatériel à travers du Cours d’Animateurs UNESCO avec les Commissions Nationales pour l’UNESCO de Equateur, Venezuela, Maroc, Burkina Faso, Jamaica, Uruguay et Madagascar.
- 2007 : Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien signe un Protocole de Colaboration avec le Bureau Internationale de l’Éducation de l’UNESCO à Genève pour la élaboration des matériaux didactiques pour l’éducation en matière de droits de l’homme et la promotion des valeurs universelles et de l’éducation interculturelle et des projects de
développement curriculaire.
Le Centre dispose d’un bureau ouvert au public et d’un personnel fixe et spécialisé dans l’enseignement international et la recherche scientifique. Il compte également sur la participation de collaborateurs dans le monde entier.
Cooperation:
Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien maintient des contacts réguliers avec le Siège de l’UNESCO, avec les Délégations permanentes auprès de l’UNESCO, avec les commissions nationales pour l’UNESCO, et avec les bureaux et organismes dépendant de l’organisation et situés hors du Siège.
L'orientation et le contenu mondial des activités du Centre concordent avec les objectifs stratégiques de l'Organisation. C’est ainsi qu’en 1997, le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien commence à réaliser une évaluation complète de son projet qui obtient le rang de thèse doctorale, afin d’identifier la tâche éducative de cet institut à l’égard des idéaux et des objectifs de l’UNESCO. Cette recherche a été publiée en 2003 sous le titre
La UNESCO en San Sebastián, après une évaluation académique universitaire qualifiée summa cum laude.
Grâce au Cours à Distance pour la Formation d’Animateurs UNESCO (CDFAUN), le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien a obtenu l’élargissement de l’accès à l’éducation dans 75 pays, grâce à l’élaboration de stratégies globales et intégratrices en faveur des exclus. Ce qui s’est traduit par la mise en oeuvre de programmes d’éducation de base non formelle conçus comme un moyen d’aider au développement des compétences
nécessaires dans la vie quotidienne, contribuant ainsi à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des populations.
Le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien élabore des matériaux didactiques pour l’éducation en matière de droits de l’homme et la promotion des valeurs universelles et de l’éducation interculturelle par la mise en réseau de l'Association Mondiale des Professionnels Animateurs UNESCO (AMUPRAUN) et l’Organisation Ibéro-Américaine
des Associations UNESCO (ORIBAUN), composée d’Animateurs UNESCO diplômés auprès du CDFAUN, des écoles et la collaboration avec les associations d’enseignants et les organisations de jeunesse.
Depuis 1992, le Centre UNESCO de Saint Sébastien a signé cinq accords de coopération avec différentes Divisions de l’UNESCO dans le but d’améliorer la connaissance des valeurs universelles au moyen de méthodes éducatives non formelles grâce à des ateliers et des séminaires nationaux, régionaux et mondiaux.
Centrum voor Agrarische Geschiedenis
Centre for Agrarian History - CAG [en]
Centre d'Histoire agraire [fr]
Atrechtcollege
Naamsestraat 63
3000 Leuven
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.hetvirtueleland.be
Tel.: +32-16 32 35 25

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90300
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2001
Domain(s):

- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- Agriculture, culinary traditions

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Belgium

Objectives:
Le Centre d'Histoire Agraire (Centrum Agrarische Geschiedenis - CAG) souhaite, avec toutes les personnes intéressées, étudier le passé de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation , le préserver et le rendre accessible au grand public, afin de donner à cet héritage la place qui lui revient dans la société et sa réelle signification actuelle. Il se veut un point d' appui indépendant pour les initiatives visant la préservation, la valorisation et l'accesibilité de l'héritage en matière d'agriculture, développement rural, préservation du paysage et alimentation.
Le Centre d'Histoire Agraire souhaite informer, éduquer et animer le public plus large possible, en se basant généralement sur l'actualité.
Activities:
Le Centre fonctionne comme un centre d' expertise dans ce domaine et regroupe des scientifiques des différentes disciplines (histoire, géographie historique, agronomie, sociologie, économie, ...)
Cooperation:
The Centre for Agrarian History is being supported by the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Cera, Boerenbond, VLAM and the Flemish Community.
Centrum voor Sportcultuur vzw.
Sportimonium [en]
Trianondreef 19
1981 Hofstade-Zemst
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.sportimonium.be
Tel.: 015/618.220

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90144
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1980
Budget: U.S.$900000
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- traditional games

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
The Centre for Sport Culture (CSC, formerly Vlaamse Volkssport Centrale) - a non profit organisation - was established for the study, promotion and safeguarding of traditional sports and games. The roots of the CSC lie in an extensive research programme (Katholieke Universtiteit Leuven) on the history and the current situation of traditional games in Flanders (the Dutch speaking part of Belgium), started by prof. R Renson in 1973. The unexpected richness and variety of traditional games lead to the foundation of the CSC in order to promote this (endangered) sporting heritage and to get people acquainted (again) with the traditional games.

The mission of the CSC states that the CSC must be a centre of expertise in safeguarding the intangible heritage of the traditional and modern movement culture in vivo and in situ via identification, documentation, research, protection, handing down, revitalizing … on a national and international level.
To achieve this objective the CSC took over, partially, the research from the university and developed a range of initiatives (publications, library & documentation centre, exhibitions, tourist routes, conferences, lending services, …).

Gradually the CSC broadened its scope to a European and even a worldwide scale. On a European level the CSC carried out a lot of demonstrations of traditional games abroad and invited traditional games practitioners from many countries to Belgium for demonstrations and exchanges. In line with these activities, the CSC was among the founding members of the European Traditional Sports and Games Association (2001). The activities worldwide concern mainly research, publications, the gathering of documentation and exchange of information.

From 2000 onwards, the CSC committed itself, together with Sportmuseum Vlaanderen (Sports Museum Flanders) to realise the Sportimonium-project, a museum about the sports history of Flanders in its national and international context. Especially as traditional games are concerned, both the tangible (artefacts) and intangible (loan service, games park –see further) aspect of the sporting heritage is taken into account.

Activities:
The Centre for Sport Culture (CSC) has launched a variety of initiatives for safeguarding the tangible and intangible heritage of traditional games and sports:

Research
- In collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the CSC carries out research on traditional games (inventory, evolution, organisational structure, ..) and supervises, as co-promotor, papers and theses (bachelor and master degree). For enquiries the centre calls upon the traditional sports federations for collaboration.
- the CSC organized the ‘Second European Seminar on Traditional Games’ (Leuven, 1990) on behalf of the Council of Europe.
- the CSC organised a symposion (Leuven, 2004) to present and discuss the results of its research project on the evolution of traditional games in Flanders 1982-2002.

Publications
- CSC was the editor of a series of 8 publications on traditional games (history, specific language, rules, dissemination, social aspects, …), 1980-1988
- CSC is editor of the journal ‘Sportimonium’ (history of sport, traditional games), 1980–up to now
- Staff members contributed about one hundred articles to many (inter)national reviews and books, 1980–up to now.

Documentation centre and library (open to the general public)
- ca. 2000 books on traditional games (worldwide)
- a series of periodicals
- archives

Artefacts
The CSC has gathered hundreds of artefacts and thousands of audiovisual documents related to traditional games (playing equipment, garment, photographs, posters, songs, interviews with the practitioners, footage …). This collection has been handed over to the Sportimonium in 2000. In this museum one of the sections is entirely dedicated to traditional games worldwide.

Promotion
- a large travelling exhibition ‘Traditional games in Flanders’ has been set up in about 15 cities (1980-1990) and smaller travelling exhibitions are available for schools, cultural and sport centres. A travelling exhibition ‘Traditional games in Europe’ is also available,
- organizing demonstrations/festivals and initiations of traditional games (in close cooperation with the practitioners),
- the CSC manages within the Sportimonium-project a park of traditional games (since 2005). The action and interaction inherent in this sort of heritage cannot be ‘stowed’ in the museum depot nor can it be experienced in a static exhibition. Therefore the visitors can get acquainted with the skills of a variety of traditional games which are still practised (locally) in Flanders.
- in the same line the CSC runs a series of loan services all over the country for traditional games in order to provide people with the equipment for practising at festivals, family feasts, school and youth movement activities,
- the games equipment for the above mentioned loan service is produced, based on the authentic examples, in the CSC’s own workshop.The CSC provides assistance in building/restoring traditional sports infrastructure.
- the Sportimonium mainly focuses on school classes (10-14 year) to teach them about sports heritage. Another important target group are the students physical education/sports (bachelor and master degree). As the future teachers and sport administrators they are invited to the Sportimonium in order to sensitize them and to get them acquainted with traditional games. They are therefore able to hand this down to the next generations in schools or by supporting the practitioners of traditional games, the bearers of intangible heritage, on regional/municipal level.

Counselling and support
- supporting festivals organized by the traditional games players
- helping clubs, federation and their individual members in research matters
- counselling associations or federations for candidatures for the Belgian list of elements of intangible heritage
- participation in (governmental) assessment committees (cultural matters)
- collaboration with Unesco (project on traditional games 1990, platform for traditional games worldwide 2006-2009).

Personnel: manager (1), research/fieldworker (1), administrator (1), workshop (3), library (2).
The staff of the CSC has almost 30 years experience in safeguarding traditional games. The staff members (3) have university degrees and have followed in the course of years many courses related to the safeguarding of (intangible) heritage. The CSC is in close contact with other organisations in the country taking care of popular culture in order to exchange experience.
The same goes for engagement in the international network of the European Association for Traditional Sports and Games, of which the CSC has been among the pioneers. Due to these constant contacts, on the one hand with the practitioners of traditional games and at the other hand with professionals working in the fields of culture, sport and tourism the personnel of the CSC has acquainted its competences.
The composition of the supervising CSC-General Assembly – a mix of university professors (sports history, sports sociology, ethnography, literature, …), directors/chairmen of (traditional) sports organisations, museum collaborators, directors of cultural institutions … guarantees a high standard quality

Cooperation:
The CSC has established over the years good contacts with many practitioners and their clubs and federations. The CSC has been instrumental in helping the clubs to get in contact with each other and to found (if appropriate) federations of their own. This resulted in 1988 in the foundation of a confederation for traditional games (Vlaamse Traditionele Sporten vzw, VlaS) with the CSC as one of the founding members. This confederation grew steadily from 500 to 12.000 members and acts now as an umbrella organisation for 23 types of traditional games.
The CSC is member of the board of directors of VlaS and vice versa, firstly in order to be well informed about each other activities and initiatives, secondly to collaborate where appropriate.
While constructing the traditional games park, there has been close cooperation with practitioners in testing and adapting the facilities in full respect with the games while using – if possible - modern materials. The latter being important to make the ‘old fashioned’ games a little more attractive to young(er) people.
One of the CSC objectives is to make the bearers of the intangible heritage, i.e. the players themselves, aware of the importance and richness of their activities. This must lead to an enhanced self-consciousness towards heritage in order to hand it down and to defend it.
Important for the CSC remains, furthermore, exchange and collaboration with other organisations experienced in the domain of popular culture and in safeguarding intangible heritage.
Česká národopisná společnost
Czech Ethnological Society [en]
Société ethnologique tchèque [fr]
Národní třída 3
PRAHA 1
117 20
CZECHIA
URL: http://www.narodopisnaspolecnost.cz
Tel.: +420724172858

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90140
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2011; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019
Year of creation: 1990
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- presentation des resultats aux professionnels et au grand public

Main countries where active:

Czechia

Objectives:
Société ethnologique tchèque est une association professionnelle de haut niveau de
l'ethnologie tchèque. Il s'agit d'un regroupement indépendant et bénévole de
chercheurs, d'enseignants-chercheurs et de professionnels, d’étudiants en ethnologie et
d' adeptes de cette discipline travaillant dans des disciplines assimilées.
La mission fondamentale de la société consiste, des sa création, en la promotion du
développement multifactoriel de I'ethnologie. Des les premières années de son
existence, cette société était à I'origine du musée ethnologique national, pendant de
longues années, ses activités concentraient en elles la grande majorité des
développements ethnologiques sur Ie territoire actuel de la République tchèque. Elle
développe ses activités actuelles dans Ie domaine de la documentation et de la
recherche systématique en matière de formes historiques et actuelles d' expressions
immatérielles et matérielles de la culture populaire traditionnelle dans I' espace central
européen.
Fait partie intégrante de I'activité de la société une présentation des connaissances
concernant Ie patrimoine culturel destinée aux specialistes et au grand public: par
I'intermediaire de periodiques et publications (Ia revue Narodopisny vestnik [Bulletin
ethnologique]; publications occasionnelles; livres), de sites Internet, de conferences et
de seminaires, de formations methodologiques destinees aux collaborateurs exterieurs
en regions (reseau de correspondants) etc.
Les riches archives de la Societe contiennent de nombreuses references aux differentes
expressions de la culture populaire en Republique tcheque, elles sont utilisees de
fayon systematique par des professionnels, mais egalement par des adeptes de la
revitalisation de certains phenomenes en regions. Les informations des archives de la
Societe ethnologique tcheque sont regulierement publiees.
Dans Ie domaine de la culture imrnaterielle, nne des composantes de la Societe
developpe nne activite particulierement intense: il s'agit de la Commission des us et
coutumes populaires qui organise tous les deux ans une conference particulierement
prisee sur des sujets choisis dans Ie domaine de la culture intelectuelle et sociale (tels
que: culte et elements; droit de coutume; phenomene du don; coutumes de groupes
socio-professionnels; verdure dans la culture populaire etc.).
La Societe participe de fayon active ala mise en ceuvre du document gouvememental:
Conception d'nne prise en charge plus efficace de la culture populaire traditionnelle.
Activities:
A l'heure actuelle, la Societe ethnologique tcheque developpe ses activites d'une
part par l'intermediaire de ses membres individuels: collaborateurs directs ou
emerites d'eminentes institutions specialises en Republique tcheque (musees
nationaux, regionaux et specialises, instituts de I'Academie des sciences de la RT,
universites), ou de membres collectifs (15 institutions: musees nationaux,
regionaux et specialises, instituts de l'Academie des sciences de la RT, universites,
antennes de l'Institut national du patrimoine); une activite apart est developpee par
les collaborateurs exterieurs qui appartiennent au groupe d'enqueteurs amateurs a
I' echelle regionale.
Ces demieres annees, la Societe developpe notamment, sur une base reguliere,
l'activite de publication: elle publie notamment la deuxieme revue ethnologique
tcheque la plus ancienne, asavoir Ie Bulletin ethnologique. Cette revue, dotee d'un
comite de relecture, est publiee par un conseil de redaction de composition
intemationale et SOUllet des etudes aussi bien que des contributions relatives au
domaine du patrimoine culture! immateriel (Ie contenu, y compris les abstracts en
anglais sont disponibles a !'adresse suivante:
http://www.narodopisnaspolecnost.czlvestnik08.php). A cote du Bulletin
ethnologique, la Societe publie occasionnellement des tires a part, qui sont dans
une large mesure consacres it la presentation des connaissances dans Ie domaine de
la culture immaterielle.
Les professionnels apprecient egalement beaucoup les recueils de documents issus
des conferences organisees par la Commission des us et coutumes populaires qui
developpe son activite dans Ie cadre de la Societe ethnologique tcheque. Ces textes
sont dedies, de fayon ciblee, aux themes relatifs au patrimoine culturel immateriel.
Au cours des annees precedentes, la Societe a realise plusieurs projets
subventionnes, dont Ie projet Documenlation de stereotypes dans Ie regime
journalier des femmes au XX" siixle qui a permis de decouvrir de nombreuses
informations precieuses.
La Societe compte parmi ses membres des chercheurs chevronnes qui realisent des
enquetes menees sur Ie terrain, mais egalement des personnalites qui participent a
l'evaluation des recherches de terrain et leur mise en valeur en tant qu' elements
precieux pouvant servir it la revitalisation ou au soutien apporte aux expressions
immaterielles du patrimoine culturel (textes, images et films). Par ailleurs, les
membres de la Societe participent egalement a I' elaboration de documents
conceptuels (tels que la Conception d'une prise en charge plus efficace de la
culture populaire traditionnelle) en vue de reunir les conditions pour
I'identification et Ie maintien d'expressions vivantes de la culture immaterielle sur
Ie territoire de la RT.

Cooperation:
appliquees a son activite professionnelle sont les pre-requis essentiels pour une
bonne renommee de la Societe ethnologique tcheque parmi Ie grand public ainsi
qu'aupres des depositaire de la tradition vivante sur Ie territoire tcheque. Les
memhres de la Societe ne participent pas uniquement a la documentation et aux
recherches concernant ces phenomenes, mais egalement a leur preservation et a leur
transmission, par exemple sous forme de participation aux structures
organisationnelles de la Societe, a travers des consultations techniques, par Ie travail
redactionnel et d' autres fayons encore.
Une approche differenciee et Ie respect des traditions appliquees aux enquetes
menees sur Ie terrain sont egalement mis en ceuvre par la Societe vis-a-vis de ses
collaborateurs exterieurs, les «correspondants ». II s'agit d'arnateurs sans formation
particuliere qui travaillent dans les regions et qui se sont rapproches de la Societe en
raison de leur interet pour les expressions locales et regionales de la culture
traditionnelle. La Societe leur offre une gestion methodologique ainsi que la
possibilite de publier leurs contributions. Une collaboration rnutuellement
avantageuse entre la composante professionnelle et non professionnelle de la Societe
porte egalement ses fruits permettant d'approfondir la connaissance du contexte local
et de la tradition par la biais de ces collahorateurs exterieurs ce qui se repercute
ensuite sur la qualite et la quantite des connaissances recueillies, exploitables ensuite
pour les activites de recherche et de vulgarisation.
CIOFF България
National Section of CIOFF Bulgaria/International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Art [en]
CIOFF Bulgarie [fr]
PRONO, fl.14, office 12-15
1 Bulgaria Sqr. NDK
1463 Sofia
BULGARIA
URL: http://www.cioff-bulgaria.com
Tel.: +359 2 963 4178, 865 0137, 916 65 48

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90060
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- other
- Folklore dancing, music and singing

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- Cultural exchange

Main countries where active:

Bulgaria

Objectives:
National section of CIOFF Bulgaria works for the safeguarding and dissemination of traditional culture. Through its activities the organization aims for the following main objectives:
- Development of the cultural exchange between the nations and popularization of the Bulgarian folklore in our country and abroad
- Co-operation in organizing international folklore festivals in our country and abroad
- support the activities of its members and those of non-governmental organizations, working in the areas of folklore and cultural heritage
- promote the intangible heritage from all over the world, through forms of expression such as dance, music, games, rituals, customs and other arts
- enrich the knowledge of the nations for the folklore wealth
- support and create conditions for active cultural exchange
- serve the cause of peace and non-violence through the implementation of the above objectives
- serve the objectives of UNESCO
Activities:
The enumerated in point 5 objectives of the organization are realized by:
- Placing invitations for participating in International Folklore Festivals to different Bulgarian folklore ensembles. The invitations are on CIOFF’s side or from other organizations;
- Investigation of possibilities for Bulgarian ensembles to visit countries preferred by them;
- Insurance of possibilities for mutual visiting of Bulgarian collectives and foreign groups;
- Regular organization of national reviews where the presentation and the artistic qualities of the ensembles from the country are evaluated. In the reviews participate more than 200 ensembles, the best of which are specified as “Representative ensembles of the National section of CIOFF”;
- Popularization of the Bulgarian folklore art by all legally permitted forms and resources;
- Providing of information about organized festivals of CIOFF, symposiums, conferences, seminars and other activities related with folklore and traditional arts;
- Formation of own informational data base concerning the professional and unprofessional folklore formations in Bulgaria;
- Realization of partnership, organizational and methodical co-operation to the Folklore festivals in Bulgaria. NS CIOFF Bulgaria organizes the International Folklore Festivals in Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia, co-operates in the organizing of the CIOFF festivals in Varna, Plovdiv, Dorkovo
- Maintenance of a web page on Internet
- Organization of annual meetings of the choreographers in Bulgaria. At those meetings the award “Golden yoke” is bestowed for entire contribution to the development of Bulgarian folklore and its popularization;
- Participating in the celebrations of national feast with different projects.
Cooperation:
All our work is related with different folklore ensembles, choreographers, musicologists and people who make efforts to revive Bulgarian traditions and folklore which nowadays are put aside.
At the National reviews our jury of specialists meets more than 200 collectives, evaluates their qualities and their art. The Section communicates with those groups as to organize participation for them in different Festivals and Folklore events all over the world. We assist concerts and presentations of those ensembles.
For better communication with all those collectives from different parts in Bulgaria the section collaborates with 24 choreographers who are responsible for particular regions of the country. Meetings with those coordinators are organized frequently and any needed and important information is given to them.
More than 150 choreographers from the country take part in the annually organized seminars of the choreographers in Bulgaria. At those events are discussed different problems related with the folklore and its popularization.
In many of our activities we co-operate with the Ministry of Culture, with the Union of the cultural clubs in Bulgaria, and with different organizations working in the cultural domain. During the organization of the Festivals in Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo we co-operate with a lot of people who have experience in the folklore sphere in order to choose groups of a great quality fot the Festivals and to present them our traditions in best way.
Comité Colbert
2 bis, rue de La Baume
75008 PARIS
FRANCE
URL: http://www.comitecolbert.com
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 89 07 60

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French in preparation) - No. 90082
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1954
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
Le Comité Colbert est une association dite "loi 1901" fondée en 1954 à l'initiative de
Jean-Jacques Guerlain afin de préserver et valoriser "l'art de vivre à la Française" en
France et sur la scène internationale. Il rassemble 69 maisons de luxe selon un
processus de cooptation selon trois critères:
- L'excellence de ses savoir-faire et leur caractère identitaires,les inscrivant dans un
patrimoine culturel national;
- Sa créativité, seul garant de la pérennité de ces savoir-faire par leur inscription dans la
modernité
- Sa notoriété internationale qui permet au luxe français de faire la démonstration l'ooportunité que constitue la sauvegarde du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel en matière
de succès écoomique d'un pays.
La richesse du Comité Colbert tient à la .diversité des métiers qu'il rassemble, monde. Le Comité Colbert peut se flatter de réunir dix catégories de métiers différents,
qui rassemblent plus de cent trente métiers et comptent 65 Meilleurs Ouvriers 8 maîtres d'art. Cette diversité fait de lui le représentant par excellence la culture de l'identité françaises, un acteur majeur en France de la valorisation et de la
transmission du patrimoine immatériel de savoir-faire et le symbole de l'art de à française tant vanté à travers le monde.
Les maisons joaillières de la Vendôme acte par le biais du Comité Colbert qui les réunit. L'adhésion à ce Comité, créer un réseau actif, dépit des concurrences économiques, à la promotion de leur métier et de Cet implication de ces maisons défense leur immatériel. Fondée sur le
libre consentement avec la possibilité de se désengager, le Comité entreprises libres dont les présidents votent décision constituées à cette fin. Les membres de la commission Métiers Humaines et celle des Culturelles Internationales réunissent très régulièrement et mettent en place des actions autour du immatériel.

Depuis sa création le comité Colbert a eu à coeur, dans l'esprit de la Convention de l'UNESCO de préserver, transmettre et valoriser les savoir-faire exceptionnels des artisans de ses maisons. conscient que ce patrimoine immatériel français ne devait pas disparaître il a mené et mène de nombreuses actions de sensibilisation auprès des jeunes afin d'assurer une relève pour ces métiers d'art.
Conseil international des monuments et des sites - ICOMOS
International Council on Monuments and Sites - ICOMOS [en]
11, rue du Séminaire de Conflans
94220 Charenton-le-Pont
FRANCE
Tel.: +33(0) 1 41 94 17 59

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/French) - No. 90412
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1966
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- ICH associated with natural and cultural landscapes and the spaces and places that may be essential for the inter-generational sustainability of intangible heritage domains

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- protection of places, sites or landscapes in order to ensure conservation of ICH values; recognition of traditional practices and systems of conservation (often in themselves important aspects of ICH)

Objectives:
ICOMOS is an association of over 9 800 cultural heritage professionals present in over 100 countries throughout the world, working for the conservation and protection of monuments and sites – the only global non-government organisation of its kind. It benefits from the cross-disciplinary exchange of its members – architects, archaeologists, art historians, engineers, historians, planners, who foster improved heritage conservation standards and techniques for all forms of cultural properties: buildings, historic towns, cultural landscapes, archaeological sites, sites having intangible values, etc. ICOMOS is officially recognized as an advisory body to UNESCO, actively contributing to the World Heritage Committee and taking part in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. It also runs 28 specialised International Scientific Committees on a variety of subjects.
One of these is the International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage which, within the mandate of ICOMOS as an organisation concerned with the conservation of monuments and sites, specialises in the protection of sites that have intangible values and in so doing the conservation of the intangible that gives value to certain monuments and sites.
ICOMOS has six principal objectives:
To bring together conservation specialists from around the world and serve as a forum for professional dialogue and exchange;
To collect, evaluate and diffuse information on conservation principles, techniques and policies;
To co-operate with national and international authorities on the establishment of documentation centres specialising in conservation;
To work for the adoption and implementation of international conventions on the conservation and enhancement of architectural heritage;
To participate in the organisation of training programs for conservation specialists on a world wide scale;
To put the expertise of qualified professionals and specialists at the service of the international community.

Activities:
ICOMOS’ activities in the area of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) have been directly prompted by the preamble to the ICH Convention: "Considering the deep-seated interdependence between the intangible cultural heritage and the tangible cultural and natural heritage".
ICOMOS members, who are specialists in the management of sites with intangible cultural heritage associations, were part of their national delegations in the drafting process of the ICH Convention.
The core business of ICOMOS is the conservation of monuments and sites and the development of standards of professional practice and networks. ICH is an established area of professional specialisation within ICOMOS. Our focus is how appropriate and adequate protection of sites can strengthen intangible heritage practices; and how intangible values such as traditional knowledge systems, crafts and practices contribute to the sustainability of cultural places and landscapes.
Key activities in this area:
Debate around ICH and its associations with monuments and sites. ICH was the focus of the 2003 ICOMOS General Assembly Symposium at Victoria Falls on the theme, ‘Place Memory and Meaning’. In 2008, ICH was again the focus of the ICOMOS General Assembly Symposium in Quebec, under the theme ‘The Spirit of Place’.
ICOMOS Mexico and ICICH conference ‘Tangible and Intangible Heritage as Inseparable Categories of Cultural Heritage’ 1-4 October 2013 in Coatepec in Veracruz State. The ‘Carta Coatepec’ was issued with principles espousing intangible heritage considered in all heritage place activity.
ICOMOS-UK’s first ICH conference: ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage in UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures’ 20 September 2014, London, UK
In 2014, ICICH hosted a colloquium in Florence in conjunction with the ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence which brought together members and researchers in ICH related fields.
In 2015, ICICH convened the ICOMOS Scientific Symposium held in Fukuoka, Japan: ‘Risks to Identity: Loss of Traditions and Collective Memory'.
ICICH members have been active in the Culture Nature Journey, a joint ICOMOS/IUCN improving practice initiative, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both organisations to explore and document the entanglement of Natural and Cultural Values. ICH features strongly in regards to the strengthening of traditional practices and the benefits for sustainability and indigenous practices associated with cultural landscapes.
Development of national and international standards of professional intangible cultural heritage practice in relation to sites and landscapes. The ‘Kimberley Declaration’ of 2003 was developed as an initial response and is followed by the development of an international charter on the conservation of sites with ICH value. Several ICOMOS National Committees have incorporated ICH into national charters for best practice in heritage conservation, e.g. ICOMOS Australia’s Burra Charter.
The establishment of a network of specialists in ICH values. In 2005, ICOMOS formed its International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICICH). Members are actively involved in research and documentation activities under the 2003 Convention; they share expertise and activate to promote the convention. Several ICOMOS National Committees have established National Scientific Committees around this issue, e.g. UK, Australia and Mexico. Our members actively participate in national and international conferences and publish extensively on this subject through scholarly books and peer reviewed journals.
The evaluation of sites with ICH values both as part of ICOMOS’ duties to the World Heritage Committee and as a specialist body that is regularly consulted by governments and others concerned with such sites, at local, national or international level.

Cooperation:
ICOMOS is an organisation made up principally of individual practitioners who work in heritage conservation. The members of its International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage work daily with community custodians and practitioners of ICH specifically around the following:
Documentation of ICH.
Perpetuation and transmission of the ICH aspects of a site.
Strengthening of ICH practices.
Identification of conservation measures needed on a site to ensure continuation of associated cultural practices
Recognition and strengthening of traditional land management systems as a means of conserving a site and associated ICH practices.
Recognition by national and conservation authorities of traditional and/or communal custodians as appropriate managers and protectors/conservators of sites
Management of outside impacts on sites and associated ICH practices and measures most appropriate to governing these.
Training of community members in conventional heritage conservation practice, tourism management, etc. in order to retain community control of valuable sites and/or ensure appropriate integration of contemporary conservation methods with traditional management systems.
ICOMOS members routinely work with issues associated with community heritage and international standards and governance systems for conservation of heritage, both tangible and intangible.
ICOMOS was an accredited NGO of the 2003 Convention (Ref NGO-90073) from 2008 (recommended for accreditation) until 2015 (accreditation was withdrawn due to the absence of a written quadrennial report). Throughout its accreditation, ICOMOS made a concerted effort to attend meetings of the General Assembly of States Parties and the Intergovernmental Committee, despite difficulties of financing attendance costs (our representatives must pay their own way as we are unable to financially support them): 4th General Assembly (2012, Paris) attended by Mr Toshiyuki Kono and 7th Intergovernmental Committee (2012, Paris) attended by Ms Celia Martinez Yanez and Mr Hervé Barré; 5th General Assembly (2014, Paris) attended by Ms Clara Arokiasamy and the 9th Intergovernmental Committee (2014, Paris) attended by Ms Ana Lucia Gonzales. The ICOMOS International Secretariat also responded rapidly on several occasions to the UNESCO Convention Secretariat when it requested names of experts.
Conseil international des musées ICOM
International Council of Museums ICOM - ICOM [en]
22 rue de Palestro
75002 PARIS

FRANCE
URL: http://icom.museum/
Tel.: +33 1 4734 0500

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French/English) - No. 90376
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1946
Domain(s):

- other
- pratiques muséales qui concernent la promotion et la sauvegarde du Patrimoine culturel immatériel; réflexion sur le rôle que peuvent jouer les musées dans ce domaine

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- other
- formation aux bonnes pratiques de promotion et de sauvegarde

Objectives:
Le Conseil international des musées (ICOM) est une organisation créée par et pour les professionnels des musées. Son réseau unique rassemble plus de 36.000 musées et professionnels des musées qui incarnent la communauté muséale mondiale. C'est un forum diplomatique qui rassemble des experts issus de 138 pays afin de répondre de façon commune aux défis des musées dans le monde. L'ICOM occupe un rôle de premier plan en matière de déontologie, notamment grâce à son "Code de déontologie pour les musées" mondialement reconnu et diffusé. L'ICOM est aussi un des membres fondateurs du Comité International du Bouclier Bleu. Ses trois langues officielles de travail sont l'anglais, le français et l'espagnol.

Activities:
L'ICOM s'engage dans la protection du patrimoine immatériel, notamment par le biais de son Code de Déontologie pour les musées dans lequel (art 7.2) I'ICOM reconnait un certain nombre de législations internationales comme une base d'interprétation du Code, incluant la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel de 2003. Notion est aussi faite du PCI dans la définition du musée qui "expose et transmet le patrimoine matériel et immatériel de l'humanité". Selon les statuts de l’organisation, "toutes les personnes souhaitant devenir Membre de I'ICOM devront indiquer à I'ICOM qu'elles acceptent et respecteront les Codes de déontologie de I'ICOM pour les Musées".
En 2002, lors de la septième Assemblée régionale de l'Organisation Asie Pacifique de I'ICOM, la Charte de Shanghai est née, à la suite de l'atelier sur les musées et le patrimoine immatériel. Les musées y sont considérés comme des piliers de la protection du patrimoine de l'humanité, y compris immatériel dans la mesure où ils sont des "promoteurs de partenariats constructifs". La sauvegarde du PCI est vue comme un moteur de cohésion et de paix sociale.
L'engagement de I'ICOM dans la défense du Patrimoine Culturel lmmatériel trouve un écho particulièrement important et symbolique dans l'organisation de la vingt et unième Conférence générale à Séoul, ayant pour thème "Musées et patrimoine immatériel". Il existe une véritable volonté de la part de I'ICOM de promouvoir le rôle que peuvent et doivent avoir les musées dans le soutien à la sauvegarde de ce patrimoine intangible particulièrement fragile. La Conférence a été une occasion pour souligner le rôle du PCI dans la défense de la diversité culturelle. Elle a rassemblé 1462 participants venus de plus de 100 pays. Eveiller les consciences au sujet de l'importance du PCI et du rôle actif que I'ICOM peut avoir fut au cœur des différentes discussions. Des problématiques extrêmement importantes ont été abordée, notamment le rôle de la Convention de 2003, le lien possible entre PCI et musées, l'importance de ce patrimoine dans la sauvegarde de l'esprit humain en général.
Le journal "lnternational Journal of Intangible Cultural Heritage" est publié par le National Folk Museum of Korea depuis 2006. Il est le résultat d'une collaboration avec I'ICOM à la suite de la Conférence générale de Séoul. Il s'agit d'un journal universitaire et professionnel dédié à la promotion de la compréhension de tous les aspects du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans le monde. Le président de I'ICOM est membre du Comité Consultatif.
L'ICOM travaille actuellement à la formation d'un Groupe international pour le Patrimoine Culturel lmmatériel. La réflexion menée par le groupe aboutira à la rédaction d'orientations générales sur le rôle que peuvent avoir les musées dans ce domaine. Les musées ont une place dans la documentation de ce patrimoine, sa préservation, sa valorisation et sa transmission. La réflexion sur la muséologie relative au PCI est une des mutations fondamentales du débat au cours du dernier siècle. Les musées sont en mesure de faire usage de leur mandat, de leurs infrastructures et de leurs ressources pour contribuer à la sauvegarde de ce patrimoine. La création et diffusion d'un instrument officiel à la fois conceptuel et technique apparait comme une mission de première nécessité pour permettre d'avancer dans la collaboration entre les communautés détentrices du patrimoine et les musées.
L'ICOM est une organisation très active dans le domaine de la formation, et le PCI fait dorénavant partie des trois thèmes possibles pour ces activités de renforcement des compétences des professionnels des musées, venant s'ajouter aux formations en relation avec les compétences fondamentales en muséologie, et la protection du patrimoine culturel. Les formations sur le thème du PCI ont trait à l’implémentation de la Convention, les pratiques d'inventaires, le management muséal en lien avec les pratiques du PCI.
Depuis 2016, I'ICOM participe au projet EU-lAC-MUSEUMS, qui porte sur le rôle des musées communautaires dans le développement durable.

Cooperation:
A travers les activités (conférences, ateliers, publications, formations, programmes) de ses 119 Comités nationaux et ses 30 Comités internationaux, mais aussi à travers celles de ses 36.000 membres institutionnels et individuels, I'ICOM communique et coopère de façon régulière avec les communautés, les groupes et les practiciens du patrimoine culture! immatériel. Dans certains cas, les communautés sont directement impliquées dans les activités quotidiennes du musée et dans les relations avec les publics. C'est particulièrement le cas pour les musées d'ethnographie, les musées d'arts décoratifs, ou encore dans les musées de la musique.
Certaines institutions membres de I'ICOM, comme le Te Papa Museum, sont internationalement reconnues pour leur savoir-faire et leurs expériences innovantes en termes d'inclusion et de collaboration avec les communautés et les praticiens du PCI.
Chaque année, le 18 mai, la journée internationale des musées, de nombreux musées hébergeant des collections issues ou liées au PCI et à ses communautés et praticiens organisent des évènements et opérations spéciales avec ces communautés et individus. Qu'il s'agisse de spectacles de théâtre ou d'opéra organisés dans le musée, de performances artistiques, ou encore d'ateliers d'artisanat, toutes ces activités sont organisées en coopération et en harmonie avec les communautés locales et les individus, et dans le respect des principes déontologiques de I'ICOM et de la Convention de 2003.
Par ailleurs, I'ICOM fait partie du think-tank du projet "Intangible cultural heritage & Museums Project (IMP)" coordonné par Tapis Plein, une ONG accréditée auprès du Comité. Le projet, qui regroupe plusieurs organisations européennes expertes des questions de PCI, vise notamment à aider au développement des capacités des professionnels et à développer les échanges interdisciplinaires à l'international entre les professionnels des musées et du PCI, dans l'esprit de la Convention de 2003.
Enfin, à travers sa participation au projet EU-LAC-MUSEUMS inaugure en Novembre 2016, le Secrétariat international de I'ICOM participe directement à un projet dont certaines des composantes sont menées en étroite collaboration avec les communautés en question.
Conseil international des organisations de festivals de folklore et d'arts traditionnels - CIOFF
International Council of Organizations for Folklore Festivals and Folk Art - CIOFF [en]
Consejo Internacional de las Organizaciones de Festivales de Folclor y de Artes Tradicionales - CIOFF [es]
Stockton Business Centre
70 Brunswick Street
Stockton on Tees
TS18 1DW
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
URL: http://www.cioff.org
Tel.: +33 (5) 45 29 07 07

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90129
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1970
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- culinary traditions, traditional games

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
Par son action depuis 1970, le CIOFF vise les objectifs suivants:
- Promouvoir le patrimoine immatériel à travers les formes d'expression telles que la danse, la musique, les jeux, les rites, les coutumes, l'artisanat, les costumes et la cuisine traditionnelle,
- Servir les objectifs de l'UNESCO dans le domaine de la culture traditionnelle,
- Soutenir les activités de ses membres ainsi que celles des organisations nongouvernementales et toutes les autres institutions qui oeuvrent dans le domaine du patrimoine culturel,
- Oeuvrer, en réalisant ces objectifs au niveau international, pour une culture de la paix et de la non-violence.

Additional information:

Les objectifs de notre organisation sont contenus dans une charte relative à notre politique qui précise que le but est de promouvoir le patrimoine culturel immatériel en accord avec les recommandations de l'UNESCO
Objectifs généraux:
• promouvoir le patrimoine culturel immatériel dans les domaines suivants:
diffusion du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans ses formes d'expression comme:
• musique, danse, jeux, rites, coutumes et autres arts
Objectifs spécifiques
Les objectifs premiers du CIOFF sont:
a) la diffusion du patrimoine culturel immatériel par:
• l'encouragement à l'organisation d'événements
• l'encouragement à une plus large information au sujet du patrimoine culturel immatériel
• l'encouragement à l'utilisation des connaissances des folkloristes et des autres personnes ayant des compétences dans le domaine du patrimoine culturel immatériel
• le soutien aux services existants de production de matériaux éducatifs
• l'aide aux rencontres et aux échanges entre individus, groupes et institutions
b) la Coopération internationale par:
• la promotion du dialogue et du travail en réseaux entre les membres du CIOFF ;
• la coopération avec les associations internationales et régionales
• la coopération dans le domaine de la connaissance, la diffusion et la protection du patrimoine culturel immatériel;
• la coopération avec d'autres organisations pour établir un réseau international d'information
En complément le CIOFF apportera sa coopération dans les domaines suivants:
• Identification du patrimoine culturel immatériel
• Conservation du patrimoine culturel immatériel
• Préservation du patrimoine culturel immatériel
Activities:
Activités annuelles :
- plus de 300 festivals de folklore internationaux, dont 24 festivals d'enfants,
- échanges internationaux d'ensembles traditionnels représentant plus de 90.000 artistes du monde entier, .
-1500 expositions d'art et d'artisanat traditionnels,
- 5000 ateliers de danse, musique, chant et artis@nattraditionnels,
- séminaires, colloques et conférences,
- Folkloriada Mondiale du CIOFF (tous les 4 ans),
- Participation aux programmes de l'UNESCO,
- Publications: calendrier des manifestations, bulletin d'information, site, rapport annuel,
- Congrès Mondial et Assemblée Généra,l
- Collaboration avec les organismes nationaux, internationaux et autres organisations non-gouvernementales.
Rôle culturel: promotion du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel, préservation des identités culturelles, transmission de l'héritage culturel aux enfants, collaboration culturelle internationale pour une culture de paix et de non-violence, création d'un répertoire des Folklore ...
Role educatif:
5000 ateliers organisés chaque année (2000 ateliers danses, 1000 ateliers musique, 2000 ateliers artisanat), chaque année ce sont plus de 320.000 pni':::ln't<:: LiJV.\.JVV jeulnes et 210.000 adultes qui bénéficient de ces ateliers de 9 d'Euros par an en billetterie, 17 millions d'Euros de financement international versé chaque année aux festivals folkloriques internationaux, 10,2 mililons d'Euros de contribution annuelle globale des parrainages et sponsors des festivals folkloriques internationaux...
Aspect touristique: 15 millions de spectateurs par an, 5,4 millions de personnes voyagent sur de longues distances, 3..000 groupes internationaux voyagent dans le monde entier (soit 90.000 artistes), voyages des représentants nationaux dans les conférences, séminaires, congrès...
Le mouvement des jeunes: en 2000, le GIOFF a commencé à faire participer des jeunes à son administration en créant un groupe de travail « jeunes ». Depuis, le nombre de jeunes participant aux travaux des différentes entités du CIOFF est en constante augmentation. Son but est le développement de programmes et d'activités
prenant en compte les besoins spécifiques des jeunes.. Depuis 2003, le Comité de Coordination Jeunes en tant que structure permanente a remplacé le groupe de travail.

Additional information

Par ses structures composées d'un Bureau exécutif, un conseil de 15 membres des commissions s'occupant de l'aspect légal, culturel et des festivals des comités de travail couvrant les activités du travail avec les enfants, d'éducation et enfin un groupe de travail sur l'évènement phare de notre organisation: les Folkloriada, le
CIOFF® rassemble les conditions pour être:
UN RESEAU DE DIFFUSION:
Grâce à un réseau de 250 festivals répartis dans les cinq continents, le CIOFF® contribue à une diffusion du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans plus de 90 pays.
Conformément au guide d'organisation établi, le respect des différences et des droits humains sont spécialement mis en valeur.
L'encouragement à l'organisation de tels évènements a fait l'objet d'une promotion particulière par l'établissement d'un calendrier annuel d'informations sur ces festivals.
UN RESEAU DE COMPETENCES:
L'organisation pyramidale du CIOFF® permet de réunir diverses catégories de membres. Tant les organisations de festivals que les ensembles de folklore et les instituts s'occupant de patrimoine culturel immatériel réunissent les compétences pour mener à bien des actions et des recherches dans les domaines de l'identification, la conservation et la préservation du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
UN RESEAU DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE:
En se basant sur les principes de : la valeur du patrimoine culturel, l'égalité entre les patrimoines, la compréhension entre les peuples et le respect du patrimoine, le CIOFF® est devenu une plate forme d'échange.
Il se fait le relais des programmes initiés para l'UNESCO et les Nations Unies. Par ce réseau de coopération, il est à même de travailler et de collaborer avec des ONG actives tant sur le plan du patrimoine culturel immatériel que de la diversité culturelle. Il diffuse les slogans et les actions dans le domaine de la culture de paix et l'action
pour les peuples autochtones auprès de l'audience des festivals et des sections nations qui réunissent des millions de personnes.

Additional information:

Les sections nationales du CIOFF® doivent être démocratiques, ouvertes et représentatives. Par ce fait les membres constituant une section nationale regroupent les associations et les institutions qui oeuvrent au niveau national pour le patrimoine culturel immatériel.

Nous noterons plus spécialement quelques actions qui ont été menées :

En Argentine : "la Banco de Memoria" :
Le but de ce programme étant d'établir un système de banque d'information qui permet de préserver, de conserver, d'enregistrer et de mettre à disposition du public la documentation sur le patrimoine culturel vivant du pays.

Au Paraguay : " Recherche sur le peuple Guarani"
La Section nationale du Paraguay par M. Mario Garcia Siani mène des enquêtes et des recherches pour sauvegarder et promouvoir le patrimoine culturel immatériel de cette minorité

En Suisse : "Répertoire des porteurs de traditions"

La Section nationale suisse a mis sur pied un répertoire afin de sauvegarder non seulement les traditions mais également les porteurs de ces traditions.

Ces quelques exemples montrent la diversité des travaux et des actions de coopération menées avec les communautés pratiquant le patrimoine culturel immatériel. Les 90 membres du CIOFF® récoltent une masse d'informations qui sont échangées entre les membres au niveau international.
Cooperation:
Le CIOFF s'est impliqué massivement sur la préparation de la recommandation sur la sauvegarde de la culture traditionnelle et populaire, son évaluation, et plus récemment sur l'élaboration et la mise en oeuvre de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel.
Présence du GIOFF à toutes les réunions du comité et Assemblée Générale UNESCO.
Implication de plusieurs de ses sections nationales au sein de leur Commission Nationale UNESCO.
De même, ,le CIOFF s'implique dans le cadre de la Convention pour la Diversité des Expressions Culturelles en participant comme observateur aux réunions du Comité et Assemblée Générale.
Le CIOFF s'est vu attribuer des Programmes de Participation en direction du Dialogue Interculturel : "La Route des Esclaves" : Afrique, Caraïbes et t\mérique Latine et en direction des jeunes (jeux traditionnels).
Le CIOFF apporte sa contribution!ors des consultations du Directeur Général.
Membre du Comité de Liaison des ONG, nous avons participé à toutes les conférences internationales des ONG.
CIOFF est également expert auprès du programme « Creative Cities Network».

Additional information

Le CIOFF®, ONG opérationnelle réalise à travers des activités les objectifs énoncés et par ce fait initie des coopérations et répond à des demandes de mise en commun des actions avec diverses institutions tant nationales qu'internationales:
SON RESEAU DE DIFFUSION:
L'organisation d'évènements, festivals, conférences et forum contribuent à une plus large information sur l'héritage culturel immatériel et amène le CIOFF® à faire appel aux connaissances des folkloristes et institutions qui sont membres des réseaux suivants:
• Réseau des sections nationales
• Réseau des festivals
• Réseau des ensembles folkloriques
• Réseau des relations culturelles
SON RESEAU DE COMPETENCES:
A l'occasion de chaque Congrès mondial le CIOFF® réalise depuis de nombres années une conférence culturelle et invite des institutions ou d'autres ONG à présenter leurs réflexions sur le sujet proposé. Durant ces dernières années le CIOFF® a fait appel aux personnes représentant les partenaires suivants:
2003 : La culture traditionnelle un moyen de Communication
M. Serge Monnier - Philosophe, Puy en Velay
M. Diégo Gradis - Tradition pour demain
2004 : La Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel
M. Gerard Cosane - l'Eco Musée idéal
M. John Gall
2005 : La sauvegarde de la culture traditionnelle des peuples indigènes
Dr Zirousile Fante - Centre for San people in Pretoria
M. Mario Garcia Sani - Institut pour le Peuple Guarani
2006 : De tradition à création
Mrs. Tsenka Ivanova and Dr. Svetlozar Vlaykov - Intern.Centre for Bulgarian Studies
2007 Le dialogue interculturel au sein du CIOFF®
Olga Najera-Ramirez - University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Miguel Velez Arceo - University of Veracruzana Mexico
2008 : Le CIOFF à la porte de l'Orient
Prof. Fikret Degerli - Folklore Conservatory of University of Istanbul
M. Ali Cevaz - Researcher at University of Istanbul
SON RESEAU DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE:
Le CIOFF® soit par des accords de coopération soit par le statut de relations formelles de consultation auprès de l'UNESCO entretien des relations continues ou réalise des travaux de coopération avec les institutions suivantes:
• Comité de liaison des ONG à l'UNESCO
• CIM Comité international de la Musique
• 10V - International Organisation of Folk Art
• Tradition pour demain
• Isca - International Sport and Culture Association
• ICTM - International Council for traditional music

additional information2:

Le CIOFF®, ONG opérationnelle initie des coopérations et répond à des demandes de mise en commun des actions avec diverses institutions tant nationales qu'internationales:

SON RESEAU DE DIFFUSION :
A travers ses activités, le CIOFF® fait appel et collabore avec :
•Réseau des sections nationales – 90 pays
•Réseau des festivals – 250 festivals
•Réseau des ensembles folkloriques – 3500 groupes
•Réseau des relations culturelles

SON RESEAU DE COMPETENCES : Le CIOFF® réalise chaque année une conférence culturelle en collaboration avec des institutions suivant les thèmes choisis :

2003 : Conférence : La culture traditionnelle un moyen de Communication
M. Serge Monnier Philosophe, Puly en Velay
M. Diégo Gradis ONG Tradition pour demain
2004 : Conférence : La Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel
M. Gerard Cosane l'Eco Musée idéal
M. John Gall
2005 : Conférence : La sauvegarde de la culture traditionnelle des peuples indigènes
Dr Zirousile Fante Centre for San people in Pretoria
M. Mario Garcia Sani Institut pour le Peuple Guarani
2006 : Conférence : De tradition à création
Mrs. Tsenka Ivanova and Dr. Svetlozar Vlaykov – Intern.Centre for Bulgarian Studies
2007 Conférence : Le dialogue interculturel au sein du CIOFF®
Olga Nájera-Ramirez University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Miguel Velez Arceo University of Veracruzana Mexico
2008 : Conférence : Le CIOFF à la porte de l'Orient
Prof. Fikret Degerli Folklore Conservatory of University of Istanbul
M. Ali Cevaz Researcher at University of Istanbul

SON RESEAU DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE :
•Comité de liaison des ONG à l'UNESCO
•CIM Comité international de la Musique
•IOV – International Organisation of Folk Art
•ONG Tradition pour demain
•Isca – International Sport and Culture Association
•ICTM – International Council for traditional music

Additional information 3:

Réseau des festivals :
Plus de 250 festivals de Folklore Internationaux et nationaux constituent le réseau CIOFF® des festivals. Par le biais de ces rencontres, le CIOFF® affecte la vie sociale des gens et des communautés de par le monde, en encourageant la fraternité, le respect mutuel et la paix entre les peuples. 15 millions d'artistes, de bénévoles et de spectateurs répartis dans le monde entier, participent chaque années aux activités des festivals.
Dans le monde entier, plus de 300 communautés locales s'investissent pour aider à organiser et gérer les festivals CIOFF®.
Au cours de ces festivals des ateliers de danse, de musique et d'artisanat sont organisés afin de transmettre à un cercle plus large de personnes les valeurs et les savoirs du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
Les festivals invitent et font la promotion des peuples minoritaires et autochtones. Cette année 2010 par exemple, une tournée européenne de trois mois a été organisée pour un ensemble de la minorité Peuhl du Niger.
Réseau des ensembles folkloriques :
3000 groupes internationaux de danse et de musique folkloriques s'activent au sein du CIOFF®.
Leurs rôles sont divers :
• éducation et transmission de la culture traditionnelle aux jeunes et aux enfants à
travers une activité artistique
• promotion et diffusion du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans les festivals de
folklore
• mise en application des programmes pour la paix et la non-violence à travers
leurs activités d'artistes
Exemples d'activités :
Revitalisation des jeux traditionnels :
Programme de participation de l'UNESCO organisé en Amérique latine dans les écoles et les cours para-scolaires et en Europe dans les festivals sous la forme d'échange entre les divers pays invités.
De l'artisanat à la Scène :
Coopération avec les Communautés de ""Tschäggätä" porteurs de masques de carnaval du Loetschental - Valais - Suisse : une collaboration entre la Commission culturelle du CIOFF®,les porteurs de masques, les artisans sculptant les masques et les danseurs du groupe Zachéos pour la transposition scéniques.
Séminaire bisannuel de danses traditionnelles :
Au FIFO - Festival International Folklorique d'Octodure à Martigny, diffusion, promotion et transmission du patrimoine culturel immatériel des danseurs invités aux participants du séminaires.
Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant
310, boulevard Langelier, bureau 242
Québec QC
G1K 5N3
CANADA
URL: http://www.patrimoinevivant.qc.ca
Tel.: +1 418 524-9090

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90243
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1993
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Rôle de regroupement national et rôle conseil auprès du gouvernement.

Main countries where active:

Canada

Objectives:
Mission:
Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant a pour mission de voir à la sauvegarde, à la promotion et à la transmission du patrimoine vivant (ou patrimoine culturel immatériel) de la collectivité. Il vise à regrouper et à représenter les personnes et les organismes préoccupés par la préservation, la recherche et la mise en valeur du patrimoine vivant et à favoriser l’appropriation de ce riche héritage par la communauté.

Objectifs:
• Regrouper les personnes et les organismes engagés dans la préservation, la recherche et la mise en valeur du patrimoine vivant;
• Favoriser la représentativité des différentes régions, cultures, disciplines et secteurs d’interventions au sein du Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant;
• Promouvoir la richesse et la diversité des valeurs humaines, culturelles, artistiques, sociales et économiques du patrimoine vivant à l’échelle locale, nationale et internationale;
• Encourager un processus de développement du patrimoine vivant du Québec en suscitant des activités de sauvegarde, de conservation, de documentation, de recherche, d’information, de concertation, de formation, d’appropriation, de diffusion, de mise en valeur et de transmission;
• Représenter et défendre les intérêts des personnes et des organismes dans la sauvegarde, la préservation et la mise en valeur du patrimoine vivant au Québec.
Activities:
Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (CQPV) a récemment organisé le colloque international « Les mesures de soutien au patrimoine immatériel : gouvernements, institutions et municipalités », qui s'est tenu dans la ville de Québec du 14 au 17 avril 2011, avec le soutien du secteur de la Culture de l’UNESCO. L'événement s'est déroulé sous la présidence d'honneur de Madame Christine St-Pierre, ministre de la Culture du Québec, et Monsieur Koïchiro Matsuura, ancien Directeur général de l'UNESCO, y agissait en qualité de conférencier d'honneur. Mme Cécile Duvelle était également présente comme conférencière invitée.
Le colloque a réuni divers acteurs et décideurs dans le domaine du patrimoine culturel immatériel, avec l’objectif de favoriser l’échange d’expertise internationale. Il s’agissait pour les participants de s’inspirer des meilleures pratiques en la matière et d’évaluer en quoi l’expérience de certains États ou de certaines municipalités pourrait être applicable ailleurs. Il s’agissait également de s’inspirer de cas régionaux concrets pour réfléchir à l’ensemble du processus de promotion et de mise en valeur des arts et pratiques culturelles de tradition orale. Des responsables gouvernementaux, des représentants d’association et des chercheurs des quatre coins du globe ont été conviés à cette rencontre.
Depuis l’entrée en vigueur de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel à l’UNESCO, plusieurs expériences se sont déroulées à travers le monde à dessein de favoriser le développement du patrimoine vivant. Diverses initiatives se sont vues renforcées grâce entre autres à du soutien gouvernemental, institutionnel ou municipal. Ce soutien a pris plusieurs formes selon les pays : lois sur le patrimoine immatériel, stratégies de développement, programmes de soutien, reconnaissance par des prix ou par des statuts officiels, cursus pédagogiques nationaux, collaborations municipales ou régionales avec des associations, création d’institutions administratives, de diffusion ou éducatives, réalisation d’inventaires ou de collectes ethnologiques, etc. Parallèlement à ces actions nationales, l’UNESCO a mis en place certaines mesures afin de concourir à la sauvegarde de certains traits du patrimoine immatériel mondial, notamment par sa Liste représentative et sa Liste de sauvegarde urgente. L’événement a été l’occasion de partager ces expériences.
Au Québec (Canada), la ministre de la Culture a déposé en février 2010 le projet de Loi sur le patrimoine culturel devant l’Assemblée nationale, qui s’inspire de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Par cette loi, le gouvernement du Québec entend désigner officiellement certains éléments du patrimoine immatériel national et s’engagera à soutenir ce patrimoine spécifique transmis de génération en génération. Les municipalités se verront également confier le pouvoir d’octroyer un statut de reconnaissance à des éléments du patrimoine immatériel local. À titre de regroupement national en patrimoine immatériel, le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant incarnera un interlocuteur privilégié entre les forces vives du milieu culturel et les diverses instances élues.
Le colloque international sur « Les mesures de soutien au patrimoine immatériel » a été l’occasion de conférences et de tables-rondes à la fois inspirantes et instructives. Des conférenciers de renom en provenance d’une quinzaine de pays ont pris part à l’événement. Les actes du colloque seront disponibles dès cet automne.
Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant a également rédigé en 2010 un mémoire pour l'Assemblée nationale du Québec intitulé "Le patrimoine immatériel dans la législation québécoise" (voir p.j.). Il a pris part par la suite à la consultation en commission parlementaire sur le projet de loi 82 - Loi sur le patrimoine culturel.
Le CQPV dispense de plus des formations professionnelles relatives aux arts traditionnels. De concert avec Emploi Québec et le Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en culture (CQRHC), il organise des formations annuelles en danse et en musique traditionnelles, qui s'adressent à des professionnels du secteur, dont des enseignants et des formateurs, qui souhaitent se perfectionner dans leur art ainsi que dans la pédagogie propre à la transmission orale. Des cahiers de stage sont ensuite produits pour les participants.
Une "Charte des compétences du médiateur du patrimoine vivant" a été élaborée en partenariat avec le CQRHC et rendue publique en 2010.
Les activités de regroupement du CQPV et de porte-parole au niveau national en patrimoine immatériel avaient conduit par ailleurs à la "Déclaration québécoise du patrimoine vivant" en 2008.

www.patrimoine-immateriel.qc.ca
Voir annexe point 8.a pour davantage d'information sur le personnel et les membres du conseil d'administration.
Cooperation:
Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant regroupe des individus et des organismes voués à la sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel. Il coopère dans un esprit de respect mutuel avec les instances intéressées à cette sauvegarde, au niveau local, provincial, fédéral et international. Il tend à servir et représenter ses membres en leur offrant conseils, formations professionnelles, consultations, lieux de prise de parole, informations & promotion sous forme de bulletin web et événements des plus inclusifs. En plus de ses membres et des administrateurs au conseil d'administration, plusieurs partenaires sont associés au Conseil dans la mise en marche de ces activités. Parmi eux, on retrouve notamment: la Société pour la promotion de la danse traditionnelle au Québec, Danse traditionnelle Québec, l'Observatoire de la culture de l'Institut de la Statistique du Québec, le Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en culture, Emploi Québec, le ministère de la Culture du Québec, le ministère des Relations internationales du Québec, la Commission canadienne pour l'UNESCO, le Secteur de la Culture de l'UNESCO, l'Organisation des États américains et la Ville de Québec. Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant est également à l'origine de la création du Regroupement du conte au Québec.
Conservatorio de la Cultura Gastronómica Mexicana
Conservatory of Mexican Gastronomic Culture [en]
Conservatoire de la culture gastronomique mexicaine [fr]
Calle Gladíolas 15, San Angel Tlacopac
Alvaro Obregón
01040 CDMX
MEXICO
URL: http://www.ccgm.mx
Tel.: +52 55 55 550 92 88

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90001
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1999
Budget: U.S.$250000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- sistemas alimentarios, ecogastronomia, alimentación y arte, ciencias de la alimentación

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- Creacion de redes regionales e internacionales para el rescate de las cocinas indígenas

Main countries where active:

Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Objectives:
Faciliter la sauvegarde des racines identitaires, des connaissances et des savoirs traditionnels autour d´une gastronomie millénaire appuyée sur une riche biodiversité dont la continuité historique peut être mise en péril par la mondialisation, la dégradation écologique et les transformations sociales portant atteinte à ces modèles culturels et agricoles.
Le Conservatoire suit aussi de près les expressions novatrices respectueuses du tronc culinaire commun qui assurent la continuité d´une gastronomie à forte identité. A cet effet, il stimule la recherche académique et travaille avec les structures d´enseignement dans la formulation des programmes pédagogiques recouvrant les disciplines liées aux systèmes alimentaires et aux cuisines traditionnelles.
Activities:
Identification des communautés, groupes et praticiens des métiers liés aux cultures alimentaires et gastronomiques autochtones traditionnelles. Organisation des Rencontres et Séminaires des spécialistes. Recherche académique et enseignement. Assistance technique aux Administrations. Projets pilotes. Promotion et diffusion des informations relatives au Patrimoine Gastronomique traditionnel, y compris site web en construction.
Cooperation:
Identification et rencontres des cuisinières indigènes, des producteurs agricoles autochtones, des artisans traditionnels liés aux arts de la table, etc. Notre travail et collaboration avec la communauté est bien documenté avec le projet de récuperation de la cuisine indigène de Michoacán depuis 2004. Ce projet se développe en association avec les femmes et a pour but de préserver les traditions culinaires dans toute la région.
Les actions principales de ce projet, au-delà des importantes manifestations gastronomiques où elles transmettent leur savoir à de nombreuses professionnelles de la cuisine provenant de tout le pays et de l'étranger, consistent en l'organisation d'ateliers de formation dans le domaine de la manipulation hygienique des aliments et d'autres connaissances pour la gestion de leurs petites entreprises d'alimentation. Ces
activités se réalisent grâce à l'initiative des femmes cuisinières de l'Etat de Michoacán.
Contact Base
188/89 Prince Anwar Shah Road
Kolkata 700045

INDIA
URL: http://www.banglanatak.com
Tel.: +91 33 40 04 74 83

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90120
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- social communication; community education; rural micro enterprise promotion

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- promoting culture for employment and growth; using culture for innovating new goods and services

Main countries where active:

India

Coordinatora de Colles Castelleres de Catalunya
Colles Castelleres Coordinating Body in Catalonia (Federation) [en]
Carrer Major 2
43800 Valls
Tarragona
SPAIN
URL: http://www.cccc.cat
URL: http://www.castellscat.cat
Tel.: (34) 977 60 52 06; (34) 608 561 236

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90366
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1989
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Spain

Objectives:
The Coordinadora de Colles Castelleres de Catalunya (CCCC) is the federation that gathers all the 'colles' (teams) that build human towers ('castells') in Catalonia (currently around 100). 'Castells', of course, were included by Unesco in the representative list for intangible cultural heritage in 2010.
The CCCC was created in 1989 and its main purposes, as stablished in its by-laws, are:
Promote human towers and its values, spread its knowledge, and to stimulate research on the topic, while looking after its good image and safeguarding.
Manage and defend the affiliates' common interests and goods. CCCC is currently in charge to hire insurance policies for all the 'colles'.
Represent the human towers collective before the administrations, media, etc.
Promote good practices on human towers, especially on safety.
Promote good understanding among its affiliates.
As you can see, the organization's first aim deals directly with the safeguarding of this cultural intangible heritage element.

Activities:
Some of the activities the CCCC has developed in recent years that deal with intangible cultural heritage safeguarding are:
Promotion: The CCCC has two websites that provide information regarding human towers. The first one (www.cccc.cat) includes a complete agenda of the performances that are going to be held during the season (around 1000 each year). The second one (www.castellscat.cat) is specially thought to give an introduction to the human towers universe to those who don't know it, and its translated into Spanish, English and French languages. Both websites also explain what the Intangible Heritage Convention from Unesco is.
Documentation: The www.cccc.cat website also includes a database where you can check on line all the performances results since 1926. New data is added each weekend, as new performances take place.
Promotion & enhancement: The CCCC has created a registered brand, "Castells. Catalan Human Towers", whose aim is to sanction official products and goods which give part of its profits to the "colles castelleres".
Promotion: The CCCC has developed several actions aimed to promote human towers among concrete collectives, such as immigrant population or children through schools. The last of these actions is an activity that promotes both human towers and reading through libraries.
Promotion: The CCCC offers information on human towers to the media. lt also manages the intellectual property rights of its affiliates to deal with local TV networks to provide live coverage of the most important performances.
Transmission & education: The CCCC organizes every year two formative meetings, free for all the "colles". The first one is dedicated to safety and technical issues regarding human towers. The second one deals with legal, financial and organizational matters.
Preservation & protection: The CCCC is the organization that contracts all the insurance policies that give coverage to human towers. The CCCC has also been responsible to develop several studies that have allowed human towers to become a safer activity, including the development of a special helmet used by children climbing on the towers.
Revitalization: As a federation that gathers all the "colles", the CCCC also works as a forum where all the different groups can debate and decide jointly the future path for the element.
Revitalization: The CCCC offers help to new "colles" when they are born, while at the same time checking that these new groups respect the human towers tradition and established values.
Preservation, protection and revitalization: The CCCC boosted in 2012 the document titled "The Social Values of Human Towers", approved by all members, in which the "colles" ratified their compromise with values such as amateurism, a sustainable and responsible management, inner pluralism and democratic functioning.
Most of these actions can be checked through our websites.

Cooperation:
As explained before, the organization itself is the federation that unites all the different "colles" (teams) dedicated to human towers nowadays in Catalonia. This means that it is made up of groups that work the intangible cultural heritage. Again, as stated before, the board of directors itself is made up of intangible cultural heritage practitioners.
At the same time, it is alas important to acknowledge that CCCC works democratically. Key decisions have to be taken by the General Assembly, where every group is represented. The board of directors is also voted by the General Assembly.
All this means that the organization's tradition is to build consensus and negotiate between its members to find a position where everyone (or at least a huge majority) feels comfortable.
Craft Revival Trust - CRT
S-4 Khirki Extension
New Delhi 110017
INDIA
URL: http://www.craftrevival.org
Tel.: +91-11 29 54 50 15

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90066
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2009; 2010; 2011
Year of creation: 1999
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization
- Dissemination / Transmission

Main countries where active:

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives

Objectives:
The Craft Revival Trust (CRT), established in 1999 is a registered non-profit organisation
which works with craft and craftspersons. Craft Revival Trust is endeavoring to build an
information and knowledge infrastructure for the craft sector in South and South-East
Asia. In Craft Revival Trust’s experience. the exchange of information and the
subsequent interaction often carries within it the solutions to many of the challenges that
the crafts sector faces. We believe that free and open access to information is the core
that empowers and strengthens individuals and societies and leads to development.
It is our belief that knowledge and access to knowledge forms the core of growth
societies. one of our key goals is to support endangered cultural, historical and artistic
resources that form the fundamentals of those who are increasingly being marginalized
within the established modern framework.
The objectives of the Craft Revival Trust are
• To research and document knowledge and skills of oral craft traditions and craft
communities that have been transmitted from generation to generation
• To safeguard by creating a knowledge bank
• To create a network of crafts and craftspersons
• To promote respect for craft creativity, craft communities and the hand skills.
• To create a rights based platform for advocacy for the craftspersons.
• To create programs that facilitate and generate interest in the crafts by the next
generation
Activities:
enclosed
Cooperation:
• Weavers of the famed Benaras brocades are facing enormous threats as their
traditional products are copied and faked and sold thereby deriving traditional
craftspersons of their livelihood and creating immense hardships. A movement,
spearheaded by CRT has been initiated to consider what response might be possible for
the future of craft communities and their values.
• Through our various engagements with persons and organizations we realized
that the concerns in the traditional craft and other disappearing and endangered
traditions extends beyond artisans to all communities involved with traditional livelihoods.
Recognizing this, we have worked with wildlife conservationist Bahar Dutt, winner of the
Green Oscar, in the rehabilitation of the Snake charmers of India whose occupation has
been outlawed by the provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. It is an attempt to
transfer their existing knowledge and skills to useful and sustainable methods of earning
a living CRT worked on livelihood rehabilitation program with the Jogi Nath Snake
Charmer community. The one year project culminated in a concert with a 100 snake
charmers. The Chief Guest was the Chief Minister of Delhi. Since then the snake
charmers have received many offers to play at musical events and festivals, giving them
a reasonable livelihood. 2006-2007
• We continue with our ongoing, major long term audience engagement program of
dialogue, debate and discussion that explores issues of cultural diversity, identity and
sustainable livelihoods in collaboration with India International Center.
Titled Putting Ideas First This interactive initiative has sought to encourage debate,
exchange of information and an airing of ideas and issues that exercise us. 2005
onwards
Hands On Craft Revival Trust, over the last few years had regular workshops at large
public venues and in schools where we trained young students to respect the hand
crafts. The crafts taught have included Natural Dying; Recycling and making paper from
waste; Tie dying; Sanjhi paper cutting and jewellery making. Since 1999.
• As a member of the Tuesday Collective have interacted with the Planning
Commission and the Prime Ministers Office on issues related to weavers and
craftspersons. Since 2006
CRIA - Centro em Rede Investigaçao em Antropologia
Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) - CRIA [en]
Av. Forças Armadas s/n
Edifício ISCTE-IUL, Sala 2W2
1649-026 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
URL: http://www.cria.org.pt
Tel.: 351 210 464 057

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90164
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Angola, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, India, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Timor-Leste

Objectives:
The primary objective of CRIA is to promote the advancement of Portuguese anthropology and its internationalization through the development of theoretical and applied research projects, the promotion of events encouraging scientific debate and the diffusion of research (congresses, seminars and conferences), the edition of scientific publications (promoting the national and international diffusion of research project results), the organization of courses and connected activities of postgraduate teaching level, the encouragement of international network-based collaboration in research projects or groups, as well as in other international collaborations that promote scientific diffusion, the establishment and reinforcement of cooperative relationships with similar institutions, both national and international, the reception of undergraduate students, graduate students and PhDs, helping with their integration in the scientific community.
CRIA’s general objectives are framed by four main thematic research lines: 1.“Social Identities and Differentiation”; 2.“Culture: Practices, Politics, Displays“; 3.“Migrations, Ethnicity, Citizenship”; 4.“Power, Knowledges, Mediations”.
Although safeguarding intangible cultural heritage is not CRIA's primary objective, a majority of its researchers (working mostly, but not only, within two thematic lines: "Culture: Practices, Politics, Displays" and "Power, Knowledge, Mediations") deal directly or indirectly with this issue. They explore it from a theoretical and analytical standpoint, and they resort to it as a framework for applied research and for intervention on the field. Constantly tackling such concepts as “culture”, “knowledge”, “identities”, “ethnicity” or “differentiation”, CRIA’s members study very diverse social and cultural contexts. Their ethnographic activity provides the empirical basis and the cultural knowledge that are necessary for an objective assessment of the relevance, interest, urgency, viability and sustainability of safeguarding initiatives.

Additional information:
CRIA contributes in direct and indirect ways to safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage (lCH) through the activities of its researchers, namely through:

Theoretical and reflexive examinations of the notion of ICH, thus contributing to its conceptual understanding and elucidation. This is especially the case in activities Iinked to CRIA's main research lines: Culture: Practices, Polities, Displays" and "Power, Knowiedge, Mediations".

The organization of conferences and public lectures which allow for the diffusion of this knowledge to society in general and particularly to cultural agents and mediators. Some examples: Maria Cardeira da Silva, 2008: Cultura fora - Conversa sobre a candidatura do FADO a património da Humanidade. With Pedro Félix (INET-FCSH) Jean-Yves Durand, 2003: conference "Ethnographic Heritage, museums and development", CEAS (CRIA)/NEA, Vila Verde Township, Universidade do Minho.

Consuiting activities requested by organizations and institutions dedicated to the survey, study and promotion of ICH. Some examples: Cláudia Sousa contribution to GRASP, Great Apes Survival Partnership, project of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas (Gorilla beringei, Gorilla gorilla), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and orangutans (Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus) across their ranges in equatorial Africa and south-east Asia; Joäo Pedro Galhano, participation at "Projet de sauvegarde de la chasse à I'arc traditionnelle des Gourmantché." ONG BAIL (Niamey), Ministère de l'Environnement (Niger) et, possiblement, UNESCO.

The establishment of co-operation protocols and the joint organization of initiatives with the nationallnstitute for Museums and Preservation (IMC): Clara Saraiva, Museu da Luz, May 2008, joint conference with IMC, "Museus e Património Imaterial, agentes, fronteiras, identidades. Memória, Identidade, Projecto"; Maria Cardeira da Silva, 2008: Portuguese Fields: What do Anthropologists do? Museums and Intangible Heritage (Conference), CRIAlIMC/Ministério da Cultura.

The direct involvement of researchers and academies with local, national and international institutions developing projects aiming at the safeguard of Portuguese ICH, both in national territory and in different parts of the world: Clara Saraiva, 2008: Conference IDEMEC-CRIA "Rituels d'hiver avec masques. Réinvention culturelIe et performance: un cas portugais", IDEMEC, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de I'Homme, Université d'Aix-en-Provence.
Activities:
The competence and expertise of CRIA researchers in the field of intangible cultural heritage come from their academic background as anthropologists and from the intense ethnographic activity that is inherent to their research. The scope of their research encompasses rural and urban settings. As a result of their lengthy presence in the field, they come to gain a deep cultural intimacy with the communities and groups they study and whose life they share. They are therefore often seen by these as valid contributors and partners in actions aimed at the safeguarding of local cultural heritage.
In order to be a full member of CRIA, an investigator must hold a PhD. Students can be associate members. The members listed below have recently worked on themes that are relevant for the promotion and protection of intangible cultural heritage:
-- Conceptions of, and interaction with “nature”: Amélia Frazão, Cláudia Sousa, João Galhano.
-- Craftmanship: João Leal, Jean-Yves Durand, Vera Alves, Denise Esteves, Clara Saraiva.
-- Cognition, scientific/lay knowledge: Amélia Frazão, Jean-Yves Durand, Maria Manuel Quintela, Manuela Ivone Cunha.
-- Culinary practices and traditional gastronomy: João Alpuim, Amélia Frazão.
-- Ethnobotany: Jean-Yves Durand, Amélia Frazão.
-- Ethnomusicology: Miguel Moniz (in migration contexts).
-- Festive events: João Leal, Miguel Vale de Almeida, Paulo Raposo, Luís Silva.
-- Life histories, social memory: Ana Lavado, Elsa Lechner (mostly among migrants), Humberto Martins, Luís Cunha, Antónia Lima, Emília Marques, Francisco Oneto Nunes, Inês Fonseca, Filipe Reis, Brian O’Neill.
-- Literature and oral literature: Margarida Fernandes, Filipe Reis.
-- Ludic activities, traditional games: Ana Lavado.
-- Maritime cultures: Francisco Oneto Nunes, Christine Escallier, João Alpuim.
-- Museum projects, ethnographic exhibitions: Jean-Yves Durand, Clara Saraiva, Nuno Porto, João Alpuim, Anthony Shelton.
-- Performing arts (popular theater, dance, audio-visual media, historical re-enactments): Luís Silva, Maria José Fazenda, Teresa Fradique, Paulo Raposo, Sófia Sampaio.
-- Popular art: João Alpuim, Vera Alves, Sónia Vespeira de Almeida.
-- Rituals: João Leal, Clara Saraiva, Miguel Vale de Almeida, Paulo Raposo.
-- Rural/urban popular culture: Paulo Raposo, Sónia Vespeira de Almeida, Teresa Fradique, Vera Alves, António Medeiros.
-- Social uses of Space and landscape: Sandra Xavier, Jean-Yves Durand, Luís Cunha, Rosa Maria Perez, Filomena Silvano.
-- Therapeutic practices, healing: Clara Saraiva, Jean-Yves Durand, Maria Manuel Qunitela.
-- Traditional costume: João Alpuim, António Medeiros.
-- Traditional techniques, social uses of technology: Christine Escallier, Jean-Yves Durand, Emília Marques, Francisco Oneto Nunes, Jorge de Freitas Branco.
-- Vernacular architecture: Jean-Yves Durand, João Alpuim, Clara Saraiva.
Many CRIA researchers conceive of their research as visual anthropology (among whom chiefly Catarina Alves Costa, an internationally renowned documentary film-maker).
CRIA members also necessarily carry out an epistemological and methodological reflection in such fields as museum studies, tourism, conservation, heritage: Maria Cardeira da Silva, Anthony Shelton, Nuno

Additional information:

The competence and expertise of CRIA's researchers in the field of ICH come from their academie background as anthropologists and from the intense ethnographic activity inherent to their research, carried out both in rural and urban settings, in Portugal and abroad.

As a result of their lengthy presence in the field, anthropologists come to gain a deep cultural intimacy with the communities and groups they study and whose Iife they share. Therefore, they are often seen by the latter as valid contributors and partners in actions aimed at the safeguard of local cultural heritage.

Our researchers have worked on themes that are relevant for the promotion and protection of ICH and their work stimulated processes that contributed to actions regarding the safeguard and revitalization of cultural heritage by the communities involved. Some examples:

Amélia Frazäo-Moreira worked c10sely with the Polytechnic Institute in Bragança, Fragua Association and "Ecomuseu de Picote-Miranda do Douro" on the joint development of dissemination and training activities in the management and conservation of local plants genetic resources, particularly for the collection and retention of knowledge and specimens in the area of Parque Natural do Douro Internacional.

Paulo Raposo conducted a funded research project on the processes of folk culture objectification in Portugal which has led to a privileged relationship with local communities and cultural organizations in Northern Portugal, resulting in his being
requested to provide information and support to the conception and establishment of an on-site local museum in Podence.

Jean-Yves Durand is involved in an international network (France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico) dedicated to the investigation and promotion of handierafts and was recently appointed Director of the Museu da Terra de Miranda (Portugal), where he has launched a study of homing-pigeons races, a controversial local tradition.

Joäo Leal led a funded comparative research on the processes of transnationalization of Azorean cultural elements in Brazil and the USA. As a result of this project, the anthropologist was invited to work as a consultant (2001-2005) for the Mapping of Azorean-Based Culture, promoted by a research center in Santa Catarina, Brazil, an initiative involving thousands of activists representing the communities of Azorean-based culture in that state. Leal is currently (sinee 2005) a member of the Scientific Board of the Azorean Communities Portal, which aims at spreading the Azorean culture along the
diaspora. He is also a member (sinee 2008) of the network of activists and academies who have been organizing the International Congresses on the Holy Spirit (2008, 3rd edition).

Emllia Margarida Marques has worked for the township of Marinha Grande (Portugal) creating an archive and documentation database (1996-1997) now available at the local public historical archive - also created in part as a result of the project. Work included the inventory and organization of local archive documentation (in parish councils, associations, and schools); providing support to schools and teachers on matters of local history; talks/lectures on the local history by invitation of the local institutions (municipality, schools) and organizations (social clubs, glass workers' union). The
anthropologist was further invited by the municipality to conduct two studies on the local glass industry, published during the commemorations of its 250th anniversary.

Cláudia Sousa and Amélia Frazäo Moreira have been studying the chimpanzee distribution and relation with local human communities in the coastal area of GuineaBissau. This project is intended to provide a better understanding of the relationship between a) local human populations, b) other animais, namely chimpanzees, c) the forests surrounding these African villages. It contributes to the development of a national strategy for the preservation of the species, taking into account the needs of the local human population. Studies about the cultural perceptions of animals in general and chimpanzees in particular were undertaken by the researchers. The results have been incorporated in the discourse of tourism guidebooks, thus encouraging its conservation. Claudia Sousa collaborated in the training of rangers of IBAP (Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau) and eco-guides (tour guides in a project of the NGO AD - Action for Development), on issues related to the behavior and ecology of primate species in the country, the techniques used for monitoring these species and special care that people should have when they move into the forest.
Cooperation:
Conceived and funded (generally by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), as academic research, many projects and events promoted by CRIA (or the research centers that preceded it) meet the needs and expectations of local groups and grassroots organizations.
Research: (title; coordinator; funding; date)
-- Portuguese Castles aboard II. Heritage, Tourism and Portuguese cultural cooperation in African contexts; Maria Cardeira da Silva; FCT; 2006.
--“Lenços de namorados”: study and certification of traditional embroideries from Northern Portugal; Jean-Yves Durand; CCDRN; 2005-2006.
-- Ethnobotany of Northeastern Portugal: local knowledge, plants and uses; Amélia Frazão; FCT; 2004.
-- Aldeia da Luz: ethnography and museography of a drowned village; Clara Saraiva; EDIA; 2005.
-- Modernization and change in Portuguese hydrotherapy; Cristiana Bastos; FCT; 2002.
-- Colonial Logics. Space and Society in Goa; Rosa Maria Perez; FCT; 2001.
-- (Re) Encountering the Past: An Anthropological Study of the East Timorese
Community; Brian O’Neill; FCT; 2001.
-- USA and Brazil: Processes of Transnationalization of "Açorianidade"; João Leal; FCT; 1999/2000.
-- Objectification Processes of Popular Culture: two complementary approaches; João Leal; FCT; 1998.
Scientific Meetings/events
2009:
-- CRIA was official partner of the ONG Memoria Media for the International Day of Life Histories, http://www.historias.memoriamedia.net/vida/
-- D. Afonso®: contemporary appropriations of a national hero (ethnographic and iconographic exhibition); Jean-Yves Durand; Guimarães City Council.
2008:
-- Portuguese Fields: What do Anthropologists do? Museums and Intangible Heritage (Conferences), CRIA/IMC/Ministério da Cultura.
-- Cultura fora – Talking about Laws, Institutions and Intangible Heritage, CRIA & IMC.
-- Rituels d'hiver avec masques. Réinvention culturelle et performance: un cas portugais, CRIA/IDEMEC, Aix-en-Provence.
-- 7th Séminaire d'Ethnobotanique Européenne, CRIA/Musée Ethnologique de Salagon.
-- Animal Fights: History and Ethnography of a “tradition”, anthropology of the constitution of the “intolerable”, CRIA/Ecomuseu do Barroso.
2004:
-- Life Histories: New theoretical and methodological challenges, CEAS.
-- The Politics of Folk Culture: Reflections from the Lusophone World; CEAS/UMass Dartmouth (USA); proceedings: Etnográfica (9)1: http://ceas.iscte.pt/etnografica/2005_09_01.php
2003:
-- Anthropology, Art and Museums; CIA/University of British Columbia, U.Lisbon/Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian.
-- Ethnographic Heritage, museums and development; CEAS/NEA, Vila Verde Township, Universidade do Minho.

Additional information:

CRIA's anthropologists partake in projects always implying close and intense relationships with communities and groups based on mutual respect: deontology of ethnography-making requires in all cases the researchers' respect for the individuals,
groups and institutions they work with. Examples of co-operation contributing to ICH's safeguard:

Jean-Yves Durand led a multidisciplinary research on lenços de namorados (a form of embroidery) involving different townships, organizations of embroiderers, national agencies for the promotion of crafts. Results were published and allowed for the definition of norms of certification, as forgeries of this product had started to be imported, jeopardizing the income of hundreds of women who had gained social autonomy thanks to their work. Risks of fossilization and reification of the product were avoided by introducing a specific certification category for "Innovations".

Durand also co-organized, with alocal ecomuseum, an international conference on "Animal fights". The controversial tradition of bull-baiting (and, on alesser scale, of cockfighting) is strong in a small region of Northern Portugal. lts practitioners now reformulate it as "Iocal heritage" and clash with animal rights activists. Observing the dynamics of this controversy, the anthropologist can act as a go-between. Appointed Director of a local museum, Durand launched a study on homing-pigeons races which raise similar issues.

Clara Saraiva coordinated a multidisciplinary team working in Aldeia da Luz, a rural community in Portugal forced to abandon their old village to relocate when a government-sponsored dam was built which would leave their homes underwater. Fieldwork with the population was done to create an ethnographic record of the community before relocation and to document their resettiement not far away. Results were used to form the local museum, generating a living memory of the village and its recreation.

Joäo Leal studies cultural and festive practices of Azorean migrants in North America, participating personally in transnational networks of cultural and intellectual agents. Leal's observation and reflection about the transformation undergone by these cultural practices when they shift from the original context to migratory ones, and the impact of
that transformation back on the Islands, is relevant to the documentation and registry of this process.
Culture - Développement - CUL.DEV
BP 3507
Lome
TOGO
Tel.: +22890030953

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90454
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Industries culturelles et créatives

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Dastum
16, rue de la Santé
35000 RENNES
FRANCE
URL: http://www.dastum.net
Tel.: +33 (0)2 99 30 91 00

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90029
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1972
Budget: U.S.$876000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
Collecter, sauvegarder, transmettre le patrimoine culturel oral de la Bretagne historique. Aider et coordonner les groupements culturels et associations qui oeuvrent dans le même but.

Activities:
1-COLLECTER:
Le contenu s'est d'abord centré sur l'aspect musique, chants et contes pour s'ouvrir aux différentes croyances, proverbes et dictons pour s'intéresser récemment aux histoires de vie des « porteurs de tradition ». Dastum doit donc tisser un véritable réseau avec les différents collecteurs, privés ou associatifs, afin de leur expliquer ses missions et arguer des intérêts réciproques à ce que leurs collectes soient mises à disposition du plus grand nombre en échange d'une pérennisation des supports. Chaque déposant signe un « contrat de dépôt» dans lequel est stipulé les différents droits et devoirs des deux parties (droit de reproduction, de communication, d'édition)
Moyen humain: Dastum a d'abord sollicité son réseau proche (les fondateurs) pour alimenter son fonds. Depuis peu nous avons le projet d'avoir deux «Conservateur du patrimoine oral» l'un en Haute Bretagne l'autre en Basse Bretagne, pour remplir cette fonction d'animateur de réseau tout aussi bien capable d'aller chercher des collectes que de répondre à des questions précises sur ce domaine. (cf profil de poste en 8 -C). Celui que nous avons embauché pour la Haute Bretagne a un master d'Histoire, est l'auteur d'une importante collecte en Haute Bretagne, est titulaire d'un DE de Musiques Traditionnelles et est par ailleurs un militant associatif responsable d'un festival de Chants traditionnels

2- SAUVEGARDER :
Ces supports sont ensuite numérisés, chantier débuté en 1999, documentés, item par item, puis mis en consultation sur Internet. La base de donnée documentaire est accessible chez tout un chacun. Le logiciel accueillant cette base de donnée est sur Alexandrie-6 ce qui permet des interrogations à différents niveaux (collection, fonds, enquête, collecteur, item).Un document sur le traitement documentaire des archives sonores a
été élaboré avec la BNF et la FNAS, qui fait référence actuellement. Les autres documents (photos, cahiers de chansons sont aussi en cours de numérisation et de documentation
Moyen humain: un documentaliste, une aide documentaliste chargées de rendre l'information accessible à tous. Deux techniciens de numérisation, issus d'emplois aidés qui se sont formés sur place à la numérisation. Notre protocole de numérisation est reconnu par la BNF, dont nous sommes pôle associé par 1biais de la FAMDT, et l'INA.

3- TRANSMETTRE:
L'association a toujours cherché à rendre public ce qui avait été collecté Cependant le son n'est pas disponible, principalement pour des raisons de droit, sur Internet; le site existe depuis 1999, et il nous faut donc multiplier notre présence sur le territoire. Des points consultation existent actuellement dans nos Pôles associés. D'autres se mettent en place depuis deux ans dans les écoles de musique, les Archives Départementales et les écomusées.. Nous sommes régulièrement sollicités pour des demandes de documentation très diverses allant de l'aide à la création d'une exposition thématique à des demandes personnelles (répertoire familial par exemple).
Moyen humain: informaticien, conservateur du patrimoine oral, documentaliste, directeur

- Éditions: Depuis sa création Dastum mène une politique éditoriale afin de valoriser ses archives. C'est aussi le moment privilégié pour effectuer un travail documentaire de fond sur un domaine précis ( ex : les métiers en Bretagne, le style d'un chanteur, la danse d'un pays, la biographie d'un musicien etc..)Moyen humain: un responsable des éditions
Nous éditons une revue bimensuelle (musique bretonne, l'actualité du patrimoine oral de Bretagne) qui fait le point tant sur les dernières recherches que sur l'évolutions des pratiques liées au patrimoine oral en Bretagne
Moyen humain: une assistante de publication

- Formation : Nous intervenons régulièrement dans des formations sur la collecte, la numérisation, la documentation, le patrimoine oral, l'oralité. Nous organisons cette année, avec l'IRPa, deux jours de
rencontres sur le Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel à Rennes avec le patronage de l'UNESCO à
l'adresse des acteurs culturels, individuels ou associatifs, de Bretagne

4-PERSPECTIVES :
Continuer de développer le réseau de Points de Consultation ( Bretagne et ailleurs)
Travailler en lien avec l'éducation nationale à la diffusion de ce patrimoine vers les écoles en lien avec la notion de patrimoine culturel immatériel et de diversité culturelle
Favoriser la transmission de ce patrimoine en multipliant les formes d'intervention. Et toutes les rencontres avec d'autres formes d'expressions.
Notre activité se déplace u fil des années du pôle collecter au pôle transmettre. L'importance de celui-ci devenant primordial au fil des années il conviendra de tout mettre en place pour le développer.
Cooperation:
RESEAU DASTUM : l'ensemble de nos activités concourt donc à la création d'un réseau Dastum qui nous maintient en lien permanent avec les informateurs, les collecteurs, les pratiques actuelles (musicales, contées, documentaires)sans oublier les chercheurs. A noter que les Pôles associés, associations indépendantes qui oeuvrent à des missions similaires en étant notamment plus présentes sur le terrain en termes d'enquêtes et
d'animations locales, avec qui nous avons passé une convention et qui adhèrent à la Charte de Dastum sont présents de droit dans notre conseil d'administration. Ces pôles, au nombre de neuf, sont tous actifs dans la vie musicale bretonne et sont des relais importants de nos actions.
Les consultants (répertoriés) sont ceux qui viennent consulter dans nos locaux et sont en grande majorité des jeunes musiciens en quête de répertoire. Nos conventions « Points de consultation» avec les écoles de musique permettent un accès direct à nos archives. Ces consultants ne sont pas comptabilisés. Les liens se font avec un
professeur responsable.
Nous avons récemment mis en place une convention chercheur-associé pour permettre un accès facilité à nos archives en échange de la possibilité d'utiliser d'une manière ou d'une autre leurs travaux. Le lien avec les praticiens se fait aussi par notre revue Musique Bretonne qui demeure la seule revue à aborder la vie musicale, professionnelle ou amateur, en Bretagne et de s'en faire l'écho. Un agenda fait aussi état des principales manifestations programmées. Il faut noter que nous étions le correspondant de l'IRMA et de l'EPCC Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne pour la mise à jour des annuaires de la musique. Nous ne pouvons plus, faute de moyens, assurer cette mission. Nous gardons cependant un rôle d'expertise dans ce domaine
Nous venons de mettre en place une commission danse afin que les principaux acteurs se rencontrent et fassent état de leurs demandes vis-à-vis de Dastum Une mise à jour des fiches de danse présentes sur notre site (Panorama de la musique bretonne) et une meilleure visibilité de celles-ci est en cours.
Engabu Za Tooro - Tooro Youth Platform for Action
Tooro Youth Platform for Action [en]
Plot 18, Kaija Road
P.O. Box 886
Fort Portal
UGANDA
URL: http://www.engabuzatooro.or.ug
URL: http://www.empaako.org
Tel.: +256 772469751

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90198
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1999
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- Youth

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Uganda

Objectives:
Preserve development and promote cultura heritage as a resource for social economic development.

Establish and mantain infrastructure and facilities for preservation and development of cultural heritage and youth talents and skills development.

Develop talents and skills of the youth for self - reliance.


Additional information:

The Memorandum and articles of association provide eight general objectives. Each objective can be operationalised by a big programme. This was intended to give unlimited scope and alternative programme areas but impossible to be all implemented. The organisation eventually developed a round five of the eight objectives all curved by the theme CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT.

OBJECTIVE C
Empower youth to exploit their talents, skills development and promote creativity and self reliance. Culture become the instrument of the empowerment of the youth to build confidence and creativity for self-reliance. Skills and talents are developed in cultural and indigenous expression, like music, dance, drama and folklore. Youths and women entrepreneurial skills were developed in safeguarding, preservation and promotion of indigenous knowledge and entreprises.

OBJECTIVE D
To promote organisational discipline and effective leadership. Cultural values and indigenous knowledge was re-claimed to promote leadership and society organisation. Thus positive traditions, customs and philosophy in proverbs and sayings are used to promote good leadership practices.

OBJECTIVE F
To enhance partnership and networking with development organisations and progressive intelligentsia.
The target for partnership and networking are cultural clubs and associations in the target society who are also targets for membership and beneficiaries to the programme. At external level, the target for partnership are organizations that support culture or cultural approach to development, protection and promotion of indigenous or traditional knowledge. Hence the organisations with which we have networking and partnership relationship include
-Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda which documents and publishes our innovative cultural approaches.
-Common Wealth Foundation department of culture and diversity which gives grants to some of our cultural projects.
-Arterial Network which networks us as one of the cultural organizations in Africa
-UNESCO which funds capacity building for our Koogere Community Museum through Cross Cultural
Foundation of Uganda.
-WIPO which accredited us to participate in the sessions of intergovernmental committee on Intellectual Property and genetic resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore.
-Prince Claus Fund for Culture and development which funds some of our projects.
-HIVOS which funded some of the projects.
-International federation of Arts councils and cultures Agencies (IFACCA) which invites us to participate in the biannual world summits on arts and culture
-National Indigenous knowledge systems office NIKSO
- South Africa with which we have learning exchange relationship to enable us build capacity for traditional knowledge) reserach and documentation as a means of protection of indigenous knowledge.
-Traditional Knowledge Digital Library TKDL - India with which we have learning exchange relationship to enable us build capacity for traditional knowledge reserach) documentation and digital database development as a means of traditional knowledge protection.
-Engabu Za Tooro is finalising arrangements to either partnership with the Ministry of Gender) Labour and Social Development - Government of Uganda through a memorandum of understanding. This is the ministry incharge of culture and heritage.

OBJECTIVE G
To promote the vitality of culture as a basis of individuals confidence and self realisation. This objective gave raise to the overall theme of the organisation as a culture and development which is operationalised into an overall cultural approach to development.

It should be however noted that the organisation is in need of rephase the objectives in the memorandum and articles of association to be directed to this theme.
Activities:
Engabu Za Tooro researches, documents and reproduces the traditional folklore and promote it to modern stage through community perfomances, festivals and competitions.

Engabu Za Tooro identifies critical indigenous knowledge in the in the traditions revitalises it and reconstructs it into modern social development using music, publications and media.

Engabu Za Tooro develops cultural enterprises and services and professionalises service providers through training and market development.

Engabu Za Tooro collects and preserves traditional materials into community museum.

Engabu Za Tooro mobilises, trains and coordinates cultural consultants and practioners who constitutes its membership, personnel and programme beneficiaries. Engabu Za Tooro currently benefits from UNESCO funded capacity building country programme for community museum operators. It also benefits from international training workshops and exposure as a result of its accreditation to World Intellectual Property organisation (WIPO) intergovernmental committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional knowledge and folklore (accreditation certificate attached).


Additional information:

Engabu Za Tooro currently has two major programme areas
1. Youth Talent Development
This programme mobilises and trains the youth to develop their talents and skills in their indigenous cultural expression in perfoming art and folklore so the programme researches, documents, publishes and promotes peoples cultural heritage in form of folklore and music.

The programme re-invests the people's indigenous wisdom in proverbs, sayings and oral traditions, promote and intergrate it in the mainstream development thought and practice. This old wisdom is promoted by research and re-producing it in music, dance which is popularised through festivals and competitions.

Art pieces produced around the old traditions of indigenous communities has won national and international music and video awards. The Cultural Troupe which packages this traditional wisdom perfoms at national and international venues and events. In September and October 2010, this troupe will lead
cultural education and entertainment in several convention/conferences in several cities of USA (see attached invitation letters).

2. Culture in Development Programme
This programme researches, documents and promotes indigenous knowledge in production. Thus it promotes cultural enterprises and services and uses traditional knowledge in peoples traditions to inspire and stimulate economic activity. Specific activities involve research, training and market development of indigenous enterprises and collection and preservation od cultural materiall in community museum.

Koogere women empowerment project which uses the old tradition of a heroine to stimulate grasroot women participation has been recorgnised as a model case study in re-constructing people's traditions in today's development practice.

The organisation currently is using experience of participating in the WIPO's sessions of Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources) traditional knowledge and folklore to develop a programme of protection of traditional knowledge through research and documentation. The organisation is networking with traditional knowledge digital library of India and national indigenous knowledge systems office South Africa to develop the programme of protection of indigenous knowledge.

Yes, we are also registered with the NGO board. The certificate is attached. These certificates are renewed periodically and in most cases processes of renewal are delayed. The organisation is also finalising a process of entering a amemorandum of understanding for partnership with government through the Uganda ministry in charge of culture i.e ministry of gender, labour and social development
Cooperation:
The organisation run training sessions called cultural school where cultural practitioners come together to share experience, skills, build knowledge through documentation, coordination and networking.

The organisation links and facilitates cultural groups to exhibition festival and training oppotunities.

The organisation holds an annual cultural festival called "Koogere Week" where heritage practitioners come together to compete, debate, exhibit, demonstrate and celebrate.
Ensemble artistique et culturel TOWARA - EAC
quartier Agla zone A
carré 3462 AA'
75 m du complexe scolaire Nôtre Dame de Laurette
maison Zounon
COTONOU
BENIN
Tel.: 229 95 06 73 12

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90346
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1992
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Benin, France

Objectives:
- Valoriser les savoirs et savoir faire traditionnels et modernes, comme tremplin de tout développement culturel et durable,
- promouvoir et renforcer la participation de la société civile à l'animation de la vie culturelle sociale et humanitaire,
- renforcer la contribution du Bénin dans le partenariat culturel régional et international,
- assurer la mobilité des cultures endogènes du Bénin à travers les festivals internationaux,
Activities:
- Pratique et diffusion des danses traditionnelles béninoises,
- Festival International des Rituels et Danses Masquées (FERIDAMA)
- Préservation, protection et valorisation du patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel
- Documentaires ethnographiques
- Sensibilisation au développement, formation
- Présence dans des réseaux
Cooperation:
Au niveau national (Bénin):

Fonds d'Aide à la Culture du Bénin,
Ministère de la Culture, de l'Alphabétisation, de l'Artisanat et du Tourisme du Bénin, Participation tous les ans de quinze de sociétés de masques au Festival international des rituels et
des danses masquées (FERIDAMA), organisation d'expositions sur les masques, recensement de
54 villages à sociétés de masques

1993 : festival mondial du culte vodoun (Ouidah 92 au Bénin)

Au niveau régional (Afrique Occidentale): ASAMA (Burkina Faso), accréditée PCI

Participation au festival des masques de Dédougou

1997: Masa festival à Abidjan; 1999: Masa festival à Abidjan et obtention du prix UNESCO pour la meilleure création en danse en Afrique. 1er prix de danse au Retheb au Bénin et tournée artistique dans plusieurs villes de Ghana (par alliance française d'Accra); 2000 : Nuits Atypiques de Koudougou au Bénin; 2001 :Participation au Retheb à Cotonou et obtention du 1er Prix de danses et participation au festival de Lagos au Nigéria « Symphonie of Fire »; 2002 : Tournée nationale et régionale (Afrique de l'Ouest); 2004 : Participation à la coupe d'Afrique des Nations en Tunisie (Animation culturelle pour le soutien) 2006 : Participation à cérémonie d'ouverture du Festival International du Théâtre du Bénin (FITHEB) des Ecureuils du Bénin); 2009 : Burkina Faso, Mali;
2010 : Première édition du Festival des Rituels et des Danses Masquées lancé par Towara; 2012 : Participation à de nombreuses manifestations au Bénin (FITHEB....)


Au niveau international :

Association Nationale Cultures et Traditions- (Gannat-France), en relations officielles avec
Unesco et accréditée PCI EUROPE
1996: festivals au Danemark, Russie, France, Suisse, Italie); 2003: festivals au Centre et Nord­ Ouest de la France Festival international d'Alençon en Normandie Festival international « Les Cultures du Monde » Plusieurs manifestations estivales à Montluçon, à Vichy, à Cusset et à Clermont Ferrand; 2007 : festivals et manifestations culturelles dans 20 communes en France;
2008 : festivals en Slovaquie, Tchèquie, Allemagne, Italie et France; 2011: tournée en France de
Towara Junior; 2013 : France et en Suisse

ASIE

1997 : festival de Gagawa dans le Shikoku au Japon; 1998 : manifestations estivales à Tokushima au Japon; 2000 : Tournée artistique à Tokyo et à Nagasaki au Japon; 2009 : festivals en France, Allemagne, Espagne

AMERIQUE

2000 : festival de Wémiléré au Cuba; 2005 : manifestations culturelles à Cuba; 2011 : tournée artistique d'un mois au Brésil

MOYEN ORIENT

2013 : Tournée à Dubaï

Participation aux congrès mondial du CIOFF, réunion du CIOFF Afrique-Europe du Sud
European Federation for Architectural Heritage Skills
Fédération européenne pour les métiers du patrimoine bâti - FEMP [fr]
Ingrid Boxus
IPW-Centre des métiers du patrimoine 'la Paix-Dieu'
Rue Paix-Dieu 1B
B-4540 Amay
BELGIUM
URL: http://femp.jimdo.com
Tel.: +32 (0) 85 410 354; +39 0 44 537 23 29

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/French) - No. 90370
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other

Main countries where active:

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
The European Federation for Architectural Heritage Skills (FEMP) is a non-governmental, nonprofit association of continuing vocational education and training (CVET) centres specialised in the training of heritage skills as well as professional organisations promoting vocational education and training of heritage craft skills. FEMP aims to promote the understanding of the role of craft skills and craft conservation for the preservation of monuments and cultural objects. FEMP also seeks to improve the strategic framework for international training in order to develop and expand heritage craft skills. To this end, FEMP is engaged both in political advocacy and in the exchange, dissemination and expansion of expertise at international level.
FEMP pursues a range of activities such as:
Setting up initiatives to increase awareness of the traditional know-how and techniques associated with the preservation and restoration of architectural heritage sites and moveable and other material cultural heritage (craft conservation and restoration);
Establishing a network connecting the various heritage skills CVET centres to facilitate training mobility and to develop and expand heritage craft knowledge and heritage craft skills;
Creating a communication platform and expert database for heritage craft skills to serve training centres, practitioners, heritage institutions and the public at large;
Taking on the role of central point of contact with a view to defining common objectives, and of monitoring and advisory body for all matters involving the safeguarding, management and further development of heritage skills;
Organising and encouraging activities involving publications, conferences, meetings, events and training programmes in the field of heritage skills inside and outside Europe; advocating measures to assist in the free circulation of services provided by craft trades heritage professionals;
In European countries, nowadays, the effect of academisation broadly endangers the transfer of traditional craft skills. This is due to a declining number of apprentices on the one hand, who are channelled, through assymetric education policies, into higher education with VET left underdevelped. On the other hand, biased conservation regulations, standards and procurement practices have detrimental effects to craft trades businesses and their day-to-day work endangering the constant reproduction of their skills sets. By keeping up an expert dialogue and informing on these problems as well as by teaching, researching on and promoting traditional craftsmanship and heritage skills, FEMP seeks to foster the general understanding for crafts people and their issues in order to improve the strategic framework for traditional craftsmanship in heritage preservation.

Activities:
Knowledge Transfer
Through its members engaged in the research on and training of heritage skills, FEMP supplies vast specialist knowledge on the intangible cultural heritage of traditional crafts. Its eldest member, the European Center for Heritage Crafts and Professions has extensive experience in conducting international courses, going back to 1978. The European Centre provides CVET courses specifically for heritage preservation in theory and practice, as well as special Italian preservation and restoration techniques. This course targets painters and decorators, stucco plasterers, metalworkers, carpenters and joiners, stone masons and sculptors, gilders and bricklayers. The European Centre is the only institution in Europe offering such specialised courses not just on national scale, but also for participants from other countries. The apprentices are given the opportunity to apply what they have learnt under the supervision of the Centre's instructors.
The craftsmen participating are expected to deepen and extend their knowledge and skills in restoration and heritage preservation. In addition, they will get to know specific Italian techniques, swap "tricks of the trade" with craftsmen from other countries in the classrooms and workshops, and - once back in their home countries - pass on what they have learnt to their colleagues and other apprentices. The aim of the interaction with craftsmen from other countries is to reflect on
one's own ways of working and to boost one's self-confidence. Demonstrating, imitating, correcting and joint practicing skills improve the practitioners' command of handwork as a world language. The know-how acquired benefits the material heritage and its preservation. Through learning, working and living together, the mutual respect and understanding for cultural commonality and diversity is fostered. Moreover, participants develop a feeling for a transnational craft trades identity- with regard to both the perpetual exchange, throughout history, of knowledge and skills between the peoples and the common intangible cultural heritage.
A longer-term aim of FEMP is bringing together specialist and expert knowledge and training expertise from CVET centres for heritage preservation from inside and outside Europe, to coordinate and network their activities, and to develop an ECVET-based curriculum for skilled craftsmen working in the field of heritage preservation and craft conservation and restoration.
For example, one of the FEMP member Fondazione Villa Fabris was pastly named as the European Centre for Heritage Crafts and Professions created in 1977 on a Council of Europe initiative with the support of UNESCO, the European Community Commission, the Italian Government and International Bodies and Organizations- was established on San Servolo Island in Venice.
lt implemented the principles of modern International Conservation Charters: an international environment, heritage conservation works, reviving the traditional craft professions, and training courses with multidisciplinary programs covering both theoretical and practical subjects.
In 2007, the spirit of this centre has now resurfaced in Villa Fabris in Thiene. The Centre's activities started being promoted by the Villa Fabris Foundation, in a 18th century architectural complex in the centre of Thiene.
The Foundation immediately invested in technologically advanced tools, making the Centre a place where people can exchange not only ideas and objects, but also methods, technologies and know-how.
In 2017, forty years after its establishment, the Centre attracts thousands of European and non-European participants as an international reference both in the debate on conservation and in the application.
Le Centre des métiers du Patrimoine "La Paix-Dieu" was created in 1997. Its management was taken over by the Walloon Heritage Institute in 1999. The IPW is a public interest corporation which performs various functions in parallel to the Heritage Administration: assistance to owners of listed properties at risk, the valuation of certain properties belonging to the listed Walloon heritage and the public sensitization through different activities such as publications, Heritage Days, etc.
Among those missions, the most beautiful one is the preservation and transmission of knowledge in the field of architectural heritage.
The Centre of la Paix-Dieu has the chance to develop its activities of training courses on a historic site quite exceptional, ideal teaching aid, of a former Cistercian abbey located in Wallonia, South of Belgium.
In the framework for international cooperation on the UNESCO heritage, la Paix-Dieu exports the Walloon know-how through training operations in St. Louis (Senegal), in Old Havana (Cuba), in Ramallah (Palestine), in a village in the province of Hue in Vietnam and in Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
On the European scale, the Centre of la Paix-Dieu collaborates with a lot of institutions as the association of Compagnons du Devoir in France, Association of cultural centres, Cistercian abbeys networks, ...

Cooperation:
Though carrying out regular heritage classes, FEMP training centres have gained extensive experience both in teaching craftspeople and in co-operating with them as instructors. Classes cover a wide age range from European qualification level 4 to 6.
FEMP shares and promotes the views and values of craftspeople, namely the respect of practice, tacit knowledge and experience gained through a professional, non-academic approach towards self-perfection.
The Center of la Paix-Dieu and the Villa Fabris Foundation pursues the following general objectives:
- to culturally enhance the preservation and heritage trades;
- to train young apprentices and craftsmen who are technically and culturally prepared in order to stimulate technical development in the field of restoration, combining the use of the latest technology with respect to the tradition, the history and the culture of the area;
- to hold specialization courses and updating courses for experts in restoration transferring experience and skills to new generations of craftspeople.
Also, two of the members, the Center of la Paix-Dieu and the Banffy Castle benefit the European recognition of the Cultural Heritage awarded by Europa Nostra (Federations of the European Associations of the Heritage) for the awakening classes organised for teenagers from 12 to 15 years old.
FARO Vlaams steunpunt voor cultureel erfgoed vzw
Flemish Interface for Cultural Heritage - FARO [en]
FARO. Interface flamande pour le patrimoine culturel, asbl [fr]
Priemstraat 51
BE 1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.faro.be
Tel.: 0032 - 2 - 213.10.60

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90053
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1999
Budget: U.S.$2500000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Foodways, traditional sports and games, information technology for heritage, cyberculture, heritage education.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- other
- Impact analysis and policy evaluation, surveys, promoting sustainable development, use of information technology, participation methods and cultural brokerage.

Main countries where active:

Belgium, France, Netherlands, South Africa

Objectives:
The Non-Governmental Organization FARO functions as a support center to make interesting policy instruments like the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the 2005 Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society and in particular the (new) cultural heritage decree of the Flemish Community (23 May 2008), work in practice and to explore their full potential. FARO acts as an interface between local, provincial, regional and national governments, international networks, local and national heritage organizations and institutions, the academic world and civil society. Cultivating open collaboration and win-win-situations is a preferred method, next to stimulating communities of practice, reflexivity and working towards milestones and good practices in heritage projects. FARO assists heritage networks and organizations to develop strategies and helps to put these plans in practice. FARO is a professional interdisciplinary organization doing and facilitating research, exploring and distributing information about new working methods and good practices, cultivating innovation in safeguarding programs. Raising awareness and promoting dialogue about and through cultural heritage and enhancing visibility of safeguarding practices in the field of intangible and tangible heritage, are main objectives. Studying the effects and impact of cultural heritage policy and practices and giving feedback to policy makers and organizations are also an important challenge. Facilitating international cooperation and exchange and stimulating organisations in Flanders and Brussels to participate in international debates and projects is a crucial objective. For more information see www.faronet.be.
Activities:
FARO is the interface for cultural heritage in Flanders/Belgium, providing practical support and other services for museums, archives, popular culture organisations,heritage NGOs and intangible cultural heritage practioners. This includes organizing courses, workshops and training programs, coaching and training field specialists and cultural brokers, publishing books, journals, DVDs and making websites about cultural heritage, developing a documentation and information center, conducting surveys and systematic research, sensitizing and envolving civil society for cultural heritage issues. The interdisciplinary team uses methods and theories of cultural anthropology, ethnology, cultural and social history, public history, art history, linguistics, information science, cultural studies, museology, archivistics and heritage studies. FARO has a specialized library focussed on heritage studies, popular culture and methodology. Special efforts are devoted to ICT and digitization programs, in particular webbased applications and multimedia projects. Programs are being developed for sustainable development, deontology and ethics in heritage safeguarding practices and intercultural exchange. FARO provides expert assistance in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage to groups and communities requesting help. FARO also coordinates recurrent national events, like the cultural heritage day or the week of taste. Implementing and combining international conventions is crucial in the strategy of FARO.
FARO has a staff of (on average) 30 full-time employees (21 staff members and, on average, 9 temporary project managers or collaborators) , of which 80% has an academic degree (Ph.D. or master) in heritage studies, history, art history, linguistics, anthropology, information and computer sciences or other disciplines. FARO is the result of the fusion in 2007/2008 of the VCV (NGO founded in 1999, for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage) and CBV (NGO for museums, archives and heritage consultants). The staff of both organizations (VCV en CBV) is now active in the new network organisation FARO, cultivating interdisciplinary collaboration and working. The annual budget ranges between 2 and 3 million euros.
Marc Jacobs, Ph. D., director of FARO, has participated as an official expert in all phases of the drafting process of the 2003 UNESCO convention and was the expert representing Belgium in the Intergovernmental Committee in 2006-2008. This illustrates how active VCV, now FARO, has been involved in the whole process of preparing and then implementing the 2003 UNESCO-convention for the safeguarding of ICH.

Cooperation:
FARO is the official national support organization in Flanders (including Brussels) for heritage networks, volunteer organisations, local communities, tangible and intangible heritage specialist and practioners.(see www.faronet.be). It is subsidized by the Flemish government to develop and implement methods, training programs and platforms for empowering groups and practitioners to participate in heritage work and policy issues. The Flemish Center for the study of Popular Culture (VCV) now FARO, has since 1999 succesfully managed (in helping) to include volunteer networks and NGOs as full participants in heritage policy and debates, resulting in the official recognition in the 23-5-2008 decree on cultural heritage in Flanders. VCV/FARO has set up dozens of projects with heritage communities and groups (see www.faronet.be). Intercultural contacts, cultural diversity and working with migrant groups is a specific focus of FARO. FARO is also participating in projects establishing international networks of NGOs and stimulating communication (see for instance http://www.heritage-organisations.eu/).
Federação do Folclore Português
Portuguese Folklore Federation [en]
Avenida Joao Paulo II, 857
4410-406 Arcozelo
Vila Nova de Gaia
PORTUGAL
URL: http://www.ffp.pt
Tel.: +351 227624195

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Portuguese) - No. 90447
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1977
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland

Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE) - FACE
Fédération des associations de chasse et conservation de la faune sauvage de l'Union européenne [fr]
Rue Belliard 205
1040 Brussels
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.face.eu
Tel.: +32 (0) 2 732 69 00

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90160
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1978
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Unit

Objectives:
FACE's main objectives are to promote hunting, in accordance with the principle of wise and sustainable use of natural resources, as a tool for rural development and conservation of our wildlife and biodiversity, as well as to preserve hunting as a cultural heritage together with the hunters' communities by allowing hunting traditions and shared knowledge to be passed on. As part of this FACE, representing 7,000,000 hunters and recognising the rich cultural traditions associated with hunting and hunters, works to safeguarding the undeniable, rich and varied cultural aspects that sustainable hunting traditions have added to and have helped to enriched Europe’s common heritage, as reflected over the centuries in our art, gastronomy, music and literature.

Additional information:
1) To promote and defend hunting, in accordance with the principles of sustainable use of natural ressources. Hunting has long and deep traditions spanning over thousands of years. Hunting as such (i.e. different hunting methods, such as hunting with hounds, falconry, stalking, calling etc.) as well as the traditions associated with hunting (like music, art, festive events, literature, knowledge about nature, gastronomy, hunting artefacts) constitute a rich and multiMfaceted intangible cultural heritage. In promoting and defending hunting, FACE seeks to safeguard a cultural heritage together with hunters' communities by allowing hunting traditions and shared knowledge to be passed on.
2) To establish and maintain permanent relations and exchanges between hunting associations, supporting their efforts and taking part in their work.
3) To defend the moral and physical interests of members of Member Associations, taking joint decisions on subjects of common interest and implementing those decisions.
This along with the promotion of hunting (as mentioned in point 1) implies to develop, maintain and amend national and international laws, treaties and conventions to permit the pursuit and perpetuation of hunting traditions, hunters' interaction with nature and their history, which provide our members with a sense of identity and continuity.
4) To contribute towards enlightening the public at large as to the principles of sustainable hunting, their value in the management and wise use of game and its habitats, as well as to the important role the public can play in the conservation of game and its habitats. This includes to uphold a positive public image of hunting and respect for hunting culture and traditions.
5) To promote all forms of activity, research and contacts associated with game and habitats, in particular with all national and international organisations which have similar concerns or would help in achieving the Federation's goal.
6) To raise and manage funds to contribute financially to projects of scientific research, of technical work, of conservation and management of wildlife and its habitats, of information and awareness raising and to any other initiative aiming to promote biodiversity conservation through the sustainable use of renewable natural resources.
Activities:
As a Federation much of the direct activities related to safeguarding cultural heritage is conducted by our Members who in many cases have persons dedicated to managing cultural heritage activities (e.g. horn blowing, different hunting methods, gastronomy, etc.) and regularly organise training and events to keep the traditions alive. (See section 7)
We have also organised events at a European level to showcase hunting's rich cultural heritage, including a high level event at the European Parliament called “Hunting & Culture”.

Additional information:
FACE is a non-profit international organisation, which represents national Member Associations from 36 European countries whose total membership is 7,000,000 individuals. FACE is ensuring an active membership community to pursue the objectives for which it was established. It regularly convenes the Member Associations in various Working Groups, such as the ones on 'hunting with hounds', 'bow hunting', 'ethics', 'how to communicate hunting' and others. It organises an Annual General Meeting to discuss matters of the Federation. It provides a platform for contacts between its Members and
European decision-makers, inter alia in the framework of the Intergroup "Sustainable Hunting, Biodiversity & Rural Activities", which meets regularly in the European Parliament and for which FACE is providing the Secretariat. In addition FACE is organising events showcasing huntings' rich cultural heritage, such as the recent on "Hunting and Culture" in the European Parliament, held on 22 April 2009, where participants had a gastronomic experience of game meat traditions from Austria and France, could listen to German and French hornblowers and met wildlife painters displaying their art.

Representatives of FACE in our Member Associations are organising numerous activities related to the safeguarding of hunting as a cultural heritage and are dedicated to managing cultural heritage activities (e.g. different hunting methods - such as stalking, calling, hunting with hounds, falconry, hornblowing, gastronomy, festive events, etc.). They regularly organise training (hunting courses, courses in taxidermy and the making of hunting artefacts) and events to keep the traditions alive. A part of showing hunting to
the greater public is the organising of hunters' festivals: e.g. the annual Mednieku festivals Minhauzens in Latvia (the 12th being organised by FACE's Latvian Association in 2010), bringing together hunters and non-hunters to share knowledge about hunting. FACE's Slovak Association organised the annual Hunting Days in Levice (this year for the 15th time), where representatives from the State and Town Council, and a large
number of visistors could admire exhibitions about nature and animals and the presentation and science on hunting trophies. Seminars are organised to promote and inform about specific traditions in the domain of hunting, like the one on hunting with hounds in Chambourg, France, in June 2009, or the one on game-meat in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2009. In Italy and France and other Mediterranean countries hunters
organisations hold bird regular calling competitions.

Hunting as a intangible cultural heritage is being described by FACE and its Members in Ibooks and films: e.g. the role of hunters as holders of certain cultural values in society is described by our Swedish Association in the short film "Ett satt att leva" - "A way of living". Similar actions are carried out by most FACE Members.
Cooperation:
As mentioned above our Members, who are the representative hunting associations of 36 European countries, contribute to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of hunting. As a Federation we recognise four broad social cultures of hunting in Europe as follows:
1. Anglo-saxon
2. Germanic
3. Nordic
4. Mediterranean

We as a Federation maintain dialogue and exchanges between these different hunting cultures and also with other rural stakeholders. Individually our Members maintain cultural practices in their countries in line with the standards and ethics of hunting. In particular they maintain traditions and practices through training and organisation of events - e.g. horn blowing, singing, story telling, bird calling, hunting terms/language and cooking.

It should also be recognised that hunters being both urban and rural based bridge the growing urban-rural divide and actively participate in important local cultural activities e.g. The Baltic Song and Dance Celebrations & the Slovácko Verbuňk, Recruit Dances.

Additional information:
Since its foundation in 1978, FACE, through various Members, has promoted and defended the practice, tradition and heritage of hunting where it has existed for centuries. As a Federation, our Members undertake to maintain aspects of their national hunting culture together with other rural stakeholders. FACE Members organise national exhibitions, contests and educational events related to their hunting culture. Where regions share similar cultures (Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, Central European & Mediterranean)
their Membership to FACE facilitates cooperation in promoting and safeguarding their hunting culture. At European and international levels FACE promotes this rich hunting heritage as shown in our Manifesto for the period 2009-2014. This is done through various means, but in all cases through drawing on the expertise and knowledge from within our Membership. Where the cultural elements relate directly to the taking of wildlife we work to ensure that these traditional socio-cultural practices are in line with
the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Articles 8j & 10c). We are aware that there is a need to cooperate in a spirit of mutual respect especially on heritage issues related to hunting, which can on occasion be divisive. In this regard we are engaging in proactive consultation to overcome conflicts, where they exist.

As a Secretariat we intervene when required to protect or promote the practice tradition and heritage of hunting. We regularly attend and lend support to national hunting events,most of which include significant elements related to the tradition and heritage of hunting.
Folkland, International Centre for Folklore and Culture
Elambachi
Kasargod District
Kerala 671311
INDIA
URL: http://www.folkland.org
Tel.: 0091 467 2210699 / +91 4985209699

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90172
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1989
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

India

Objectives:
Folkland stands for the promotion of folklore with an aim to protect the intangible cultural
heritage falls in the genres such as folksongs, folk theatre, folk dance and other oral
practices along with traditional performances which are in the verge of extinction.lt
seeks to document, conserve and disseminate to the larger audience. Folkland's main
areas are conservation,documentation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage,
research on folklore.lt organises seminars, workshops and festivals to preserve and
promote the traditional art and culture.lt publishes reserch papers, books and
magazines.it btrings together people from India and abroad for artistic engagement. It
also organises dialogues between communities and peoples of different cultural
traditions.Folklad provides forum for artists,scholars in furtherance of the intangible
cultural heritage.Folkland engages in the work that enhances universal values of
multicultrism.Folkland learns inorder to teach the traditional art and cultural practices
and thereby pass on to the coming generation.

Activities:
INSTITUTION PROFILE
Folkland, International Centre for folklore and Culture is an institution registered on
20.12.1989 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 vide the No 406189.During the
last 16 years it has passed through various stages of growth especially in the field of
performance, production, documentation and research besides the preservation of folkart
and culture.Folkland functions as
(l) An international Centre for folklore and culture
(2) As a Cultural Organization with clearly defined objectives and targets for
research and promotion of folk arts.
Folkland has branched and reached far and wide into almost every nook and corner of
the world. It has strived hard and treads the untrodden path with a clear motto of
preservation and inculcation of old folk and cultural values in our society.Folkland has a
credit of organizing many a festival on folkarts, workshop on folklore, culture, linguistics
etc.Seminars, discussions and symposia are also conducted and thus contributed in the
process of re-kindling the folk lamps, which has shed streaks of light into our past
treasure of knowledge.
Folkland has revitalized the old and extinct art forms like
Chimmanakkali,MangalamKali,Vannankoothu,Kurathiyattam etc with the assistance of
Dept of Culture,Govt of India and Sangeeth Natak Academy, Mew Delhi.Folkland has
veritable collection in the field of folksongs, Folk Art forms,riddles,fables myths etc which
are in the verge of extinction recorder and kept in the archives for scholastic endeavors
and posterity.
Folkland has already conducted workshops on Theyyam Costumes, myths, literature,
tribal arts, Poorakkali, Ethnomusic, folk handicrafts etc.Besides its annual festivals,
Folkland has a credit of hosting 17th Indian Folklore Congress at Trivandrum 23rd to
27th December 1996.
The main activities of Foikland falls under the performance, study and research on
folklore.Folkland has more than 600 Artistes in our roll comprised of Theyyam
,ThidanmpuNirtham, Poorakkali Velakali, Kolkali, Mangalamkali ,Oppana ,Daphu muttu,
Kalaripayattu etc.
Performance
Being the premier organization in the field of performance in the traditional art
forms,Folkland has been invited by several organizations and Departments like Zonal
Cultural Centres of Dept of Culture,Govt oflndia,Dept of Tourism,Sangeetha Nataka
Academy,Tourism Promotion Council and various other organizations
Research
Folkland has initiated several research projects during the last 16 years.Major among
them are Surwey, Documentation and Research on Kerala folklore, Art forms related to
floor-al drawings, fertility cult of Kerala,Different aspects of Theyyam,poorakkali etc.
Museum
Folkland has a museum of Theyyam with major Theyyam forms made in terracotta with
full costumes and ornaments. It has around 100 different facials drawn on the clay pots
and pulp effigies and kept in the museum. Apart from that, it has calendar of events and
a directory of artistes.
Honours
Three of our artistes were awarded for their best performance in the field of folklore by
the Kerala folklore Academy,Govt of Kerala during 2001-2002.
Website
Folkiand has launched a website on Kerala folklore under the domain name
.folkland.org.website was launched by Sri G.Karthikeyan, Hon.Minister for Culture,
Govt of Merala on 18th January 2003.
Award
Folkland has been selected for the State Award for the Best Performing Centre by the
Govt Of Kerala, Dept of Tourism for the year 2001-2002.
Training to the students
Folkland is extending training to 50 students in the field of poorakkali,kolkali,velakali and
Kalampattu.Out of the above students l 1 are getting scholarships from CCRT,Govt Of
India.
Documentation
Documentation of folk music and art forms,rare ritual arts is one of the major objectives
of Folkland. It has more than 3500 hours of folk songs and about 2600 hours of rare art
forms in the audio and video formats. Apart from that 8000 paper clippings and 4300
rare photographs in the archives. Considering the vast work in the field of
documentation,Folkland is made a member of reputed organization, Archive Resource
Community housed at Delhi.
Recognitions and Affiliations
Folkland has been recognized as an eminent Institution by the Dept of Culture,Govt of
India since 1999 and 17 of its artistes and one Guru1 Director have been given salary
by the Dept of Culture.lt has been affiliated to Dept of Handicrafts, Ministry of
Textiles,GOl. Besides that ,Folkland has been affiliated to the Kerala sangeetha Nataka
academy since 1995 and Nehru Yuvak Kendra since 2000.Folkland has become an
Associate Member of ClOFF in the year 2000 and has become the member of ARC in
the year 2000.Folkland has also been recognized by the Department of Anthropology
Norway University for their research pursuits.
Source of Funding
Folkland has been recognized by the Dept of Culture, Govt of lndia and has been
giving salary grants and production grants by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
Folkland has also been considered for grants by Govt of Kerala for several projects.
Performance charges and public contributions are our other sources of finance.
Administration
Folkland has governing body consists of a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer as its
head. There are five directors and a secretary to lead the team. Dr V.Jayarajan (Vice President Indian Folklore Congress and Advisor to Sangeeth Natak Academy, New
Delhi) is the chairman of the Governing body and Mr K.Suresh is the Secretary.Folkland
has an advisory board consists of eminent scholars and artistes of international
reputation. Sri Kavalam Marayana Panikker ( Vice Chairman,SNA) Dr. H.K.Bhat (Mysore
University), Dr Jawaharlal Handoo, (President I FC) are the present advisory board
members.
Chapters and Liaison Officers
Folkland has several Chapters in India apart from its regional office in
Karnataka(Mysore) Rajasthan, Assam,Meghalaya,Chatishgarh,Gujarath,
Tamilnadu,New Delhi,Goa,Punjab,Madhypradesh Chapters are functioning well.
Foljkland has Chapters in Saarc countries such as Nepal, Malesia, Bengladesh and
Pakisthan. Folkland has liaison officers working in countries like
France,Germany,Peru,USA.Swedan,Japan,Holland,USSR,UK and UAE
Cooperation:
Folkland has woprked with several communities such as Mavilan, Vannan, Malayan,
Pulayan who are the Teyyam performers and practionioners of Magic, ethno music,
ethnomedicine and crafts.Mangalam kali , a unique pradce performed by a hill
tribe(indigenous community) was revitalised and its artist, a lady performer was given
distinguished membership by folkland when she appears on the media at her age
of100years.Folkland has also conducted her performances at different stages and
became instrumental to bring her state award instituted by Kerala folklore academy.
Folkland has documented around 3000 hours of folkpractces.another work in which
folkland has involved is the screwpine craft. It was undertaken by the women folk of
Pulaya community. Folkland has inspired them to revitalise the traditional crafts and
given training and also extended the insurance coverage to them.Another field in which
folkland involves is the manuscripts.Folkland has surveyed around 200000 palmleaf
manuscripts and started digitization process in order to protect the same. most of the
manuscripts are community based knowledges.
Fondashon Historiko Kultural Boneriano FUHIKUBO
Bonairean Historical Cultural Foundation FUHIKUBO [en]
Kaya Irlandia 12
Bonaire
NETHERLANDS
URL: http://www.bonaire.tv
Tel.: +5997178482;+(599) 9 5657171

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90466
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1998
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Forbundet KYSTEN
The Norwegian Coastal Federation [en]
Øvre Slottsgate 2B
NO-0157 Oslo
NORWAY
URL: http://www.kysten.no
Tel.: +47 22 42 42 82 ; +47 92 20 48 74

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90349
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1979
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Norway

Objectives:
The Norwegian Coastal Federation (Forbundet KYSTEN) is an organisation dedicated to the preservation of Norwegian coastal and maritime cultural heritage. Refering to the mission statement from the bylaws in the organisation the main objectives is: Promoting preservation of the general use of traditional vessels, buildings, facilities and the coastal environment in general, conducting informational activities to boost understanding of the value of human and cultural traditions for Norway’s coastal history, maintaining and developing traditions in industry and craftsmanship, seamanship and ways of life, and raising the professional standard of maintenance and safety in the use of vessels and facilities.
The motto of the Norwegian Coastal Federation (Forbundet KYSTEN) is “preservation through use”. This means that the focus on the safeguarding programs and activities is the intangible elements of the coastal and maritime cultural heritage
The federation Forbundet KYSTEN was founded in 1979. At the end of 2014, the Association have about
10 000 members througout Norway and 126 local branches along the whole coast of Norway.
Forbundet KYSTEN is the main voluntary organisation in Norway within the field of preservation of coastal and maritime cultural heritage.
The head quarter of the federation is located in Oslo wich give us the possibility to make close contact with politicians at a national level as well as promoting actions and program in collaboration with institutions like the Ministry of culture, associations for adult education, cultural and educational programs for museums, traditional craft associations and educational institutions.
The main activities is carried out by our local branches and is based on voluntary work wich is the foundation for almost all the work and activties. The local branches objectives is to preserve local maritime and coastal cultural heritage. They aim to create social network and communities around local maritime heritage. The local organisations work on local and regional assignments in accordance with the Federation’s statutory objectives. The local branches themselves determine their areas of focus, providing this is in accordance with the federation’s mission statement.
Activities:
The Norwegian Coastal Federation (Forbundet KYSTEN) is made up of 126 local branches that are based all along the Norwegian coast. Its activities are primarily concerned with local traditions and cultural heritage.
There are two classes of membership in our organisation: full members and youth members (up to 26 years of age). Most full members are individuals, but our list of full members also includes museums, schools and other associations. Approximately 90 per cent of our membership is accounted for by members of our 126 local branches, which are spread out along the entire coast of Norway. The remaining 10 per cent are direct members of the central federation. The total number of members is 10012. Both the number of local branches and the total membership have increased steadily year-on-year since the federation was established in 1979.
The Norwegian Coastal Federation (Forbundet KYSTEN) is a democratic membership organisation. The national congress is the executive body, consisting of delegates from all of the local branches. The national congress elects the national executive. Each of the local branches can send one delegate to the national congress. Decisions are also made at the national congress regarding strategy, action plans and budgets.
Our Magazine ”KYSTEN” (”The Coast”) is published with 5 copies per year and goes automatically to all members as well as to a large number of museums, schools, craft producers and others.
The local branches are responsible for most of our activities. These are wide and varied in nature, though with an emphasis on maintaining, transferring and developing knowledge and skills within the fields of coastal culture and maritime intangible cultural heritage. Here are some examples: preservation and use of historical boats (from small rowing and sailing boats to historically significant sailing ships and steamers); documentation and recording of both tangible cultural monuments and procedural knowledge about maritime cultural heritage; the practice and passing on of traditional handicrafts and skills such as boatbuilding, sail making, rope making and rope work and textile traditions; antiquarian (both practical and theoretical) knowledge about the restoration, maintenance and construction of vessels and buildings (such as lighthouse stations, harbour buildings, boathouses and historically significant shipyards and boatyards); traditional seamanship and navigation; sailing; rowing; knowledge about coastal waterways and landmarks; songs and musical traditions from the coast; rituals and social gatherings (e.g. when launching and landing boats); the oral storytelling tradition along the coast (both collection and presentation); care and maintenance of old steam-powered engineering; practical knowledge about the operation of larger vessels; rigging of sailing ships; food traditions at sea, etc.
Many of these activities are organised as courses in partnership with our own study association (Studieforbundet kultur og tradisjon), in compliance with the regulations and guidelines contained in the Norwegian Act on adult education. This also means that the courses are prepared in accordance with the methods and practice of Nordic adult-education tradition, which emphasises non-formal education, participant-led and democratic access to learning. Our courses emphasise the procedural transfer of action-borne knowledge as their central method. According to the strategy we have adopted, the main objective of the study association is that “it should be possible for everyone living in Norway to become familiar with and learn about cultural expressions and folk traditions in a constructive and secure environment of fellowship”.
The organisation has six employees at central level: five who make up the administrative office, based in Oslo, plus the editor of our periodical, KYSTEN. These employees possess specific technical knowledge relating to their areas of responsibility, including history, ethnology, anthropology, journalism and communication. However, the most important technical expertise is found at local level. In many coastal communities, our local branches are the only remaining groups that possess and are passing on knowledge and skills within the field of intangible maritime cultural heritage.
The local branches arrange regular trips, expeditions, gatherings and festivals in partnership with the municipalities and other local organisations working to preserve cultural heritage.
The central organisation of the Norwegian Coastal Federation arranges regional and national courses, conferences and specialist gatherings, often in partnership with regional and national cultural authorities, experts and craftspeople.
The Federation’s national convention, organised as a maritime festival, takes place annually over four days in July. This event gathers together traditional boats and ships from all along the Norwegian coast, as well as visiting vessels from other countries. At the convention, there are technical lectures and seminars, and practitioners of traditional maritime handicrafts meet to exchange information and hold workshops.
Cooperation:
The local branches bring together members and active specialists who possess important knowledge and skills relating to local maritime intangible cultural heritage. The activities can be described as learning in local practising communities, with the local tradition bearers and practitioners of traditional handicrafts playing an important role in the transfer of knowledge. Almost all of the local branches include key local tradition bearers and practitioners of traditional handicrafts. Many of the tradition bearers represent traditional knowledge that has been passed down through many generations. In the case of some of the specialised fields, such as boatbuilding, this traditional knowledge may go back as far as 300 or even 500 years.
Many of our local branches work together with local coastal and maritime museums around the coast, with members taking an active part in work to preserve their boat collections and buildings. We have developed a collaboration model under which our members take care of the practical knowledge relating to these cultural monuments, with an emphasis on sailing, rowing, active use, communication and knowledge transfer. We now have an opportunity to further develop this collaboration model, as the Norwegian Ministry of Culture has recently given the museums administrative responsibility for the intangible aspects of cultural heritage within their fields.
Last year, the Norwegian Coastal Federation and UiT, The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, took the initiative to develop the “Centre for Outstanding Boatbuilding”. For almost 20 years, the University has employed a traditional boatbuilder, who has worked to pass on traditional knowledge about boats from northern Norway. Now the intention is to set up a centre with national responsibility for transferring traditional knowledge relating to the most important local and regional boat types in Norway. The centre has created affiliations with traditional boatbuilders within the various boatbuilding traditions, and emphasis will be placed on the practice of traditional boatbuilding, as well as the documentation and recording of local handicraft techniques. The University acknowledges the high level of expertise and the complex knowledge represented by traditional boatbuilding.
Foundation for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage
Байгалийн болон соёлын өвийг хамгаалах сан
#403, Peace Building 8/5
4th Khoroo
Chingeltei District
Ulaanbaatar 15160
MONGOLIA
Tel.: 976-99100184; 976-99896231

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90151
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2000
Budget: U.S.$632
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement

Objectives:
Mongolia is the birthplace of nomadic culture and civilization that has the history of thousands of years. We have been engaging our activities with the purpose to protect, recreate study and introduce the historical and cultural prides of Mongolia, and to train human resources in the cultural heritage sector within the framework of activities of the Mongolian government and diverse projects of various stakeholders to protect historical and cultural heritages. Our slogan is “Let’s protect the historical and cultural valuable heritages of our nation and transmit them to our next generations”
Since unique and rare materials and intellectual heritages created by the Mongolians are great pride of Mongolia and also part of the worldwide cultural heritages, we aim to promote our heritages in the world.
One of our most important goals is to organize various kinds of activities and events to raise public awareness on the cultural and historical valuable heritages of Asian countries and worldwide.
Objectives of our Foundation include:
- To protect, recreate, introduce and study the unique, rare, materials, intangible and intellectual heritages on the basis of scientific researches,
- To publicize and promote historical and cultural sites among international and domestic organizations
- To contact and engage cooperative activities with the same kind of international organizations for extending our foreign relations in the field of cultural and historical heritage
- To qualify and propagate the intellectual creations made by children and young people in cultural heritage field

Activities:
We engaged in the activity to register the cultural and historical sites in the Orkhon valley to the World Heritage List, and our foundation and “Foundation for Promotion of the World Heritage” of Germany jointly organized the national seminar “Management issues on the cultural and historical sites in the Orkhon valley” in 2003.
Our Foundation and “Foundation for Promotion of the World Heritage” of Germany have jointly implemented the project to recreate and signpost the tourist/guest path to the Tuvkhun monastery, established by Undur Gegeen Zanabazar in 17th century. Tuvkhun Monastery is located in a natural scenic place, which is historic and cultural site and part of the world heritage as well.
Our Foundation and Japanese Clubs/Associations of the UNESCO have successfully organized the “Picture Festival for the Asian Children” among the children of 24 Asian countries, twice through the years of 2000 – 2002, 2003 – 2005 in Mongolia with the support of the Mitsubishi Corporation.
Japanese Association of the World Heritage and our Foundation successfully conducted the “World heritage of Asia”, the ten-days Mongolian and Japanese Forum Trip in the cultural sites of the world heritage in the Orkhon valley, and in the Great Gobi desert in June 2005.
Since 2005, we have been playing an active role in the procession and implementation of the projects for identifying, safeguarding and transmitting the intangible cultural heritage and its bearers. For instance, we elaborated the project proposal for the inventory making of the intangible cultural heritage of Mongolia in cooperation with the Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO.
We have members who become a shining example for the young generations of our foundation with their excellent skills and experiences possessed as a result of efficiently working in the various sectors of cultural heritage field for a long period of time (from 30 to 44 years). For example, Dr. Urtnasan.N, President of Association of Mongolian Long Song, and Mr. Yundenbat.S, Executive Director of Mongolian National Center for the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Mr. Urtnasan.N is an author and co-author of “Historical and cultural monuments and sites in the territory of Mongolia” (1999), “Conservation of immovable historical and cultural heritage in Mongolia” (2006), “Cultural history of Mongolia” (2002) and “History and culture of the Mongols” (2004), “Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape: World Heritage site” and “Sacred Sites in Mongolia and biodiversity conservation” (2007). Mr. Yundenbat has written number of articles, books and is a producer of the following documentaries: Mongolian Traditional Music Instrument: Morin Khuur (2003), Mongolian Traditional Song: Urtiin Duu (2005), Chingges Tengeriin Toin (1999), Melody of Galbinga (2001), Melody of Tsuur (2006).
Currently, we are taking measures to create a database of the Mongolian long song-singers and develop their repertory in cooperation with the Association of Mongolian Long Song.
Executive Director of Mongolian National Center for the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Mr. Urtnasan.N is an author and co-author of “Historical and cultural monuments and sites in the territory of Mongolia” (1999), “Conservation of immovable historical and cultural heritage in Mongolia” (2006), “Cultural history of Mongolia” (2002) and “History and culture of the Mongols” (2004), “Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape: World Heritage site” and “Sacred Sites in Mongolia and biodiversity conservation” (2007). Mr. Yundenbat has written number of articles, books and is a producer of the following documentaries: Mongolian Traditional Music Instrument: Morin Khuur (2003), Mongolian Traditional Song: Urtiin Duu (2005), Chingges Tengeriin Toin (1999), Melody of Galbinga (2001), Melody of Tsuur (2006).
Currently, we are taking measures to create a database of the Mongolian long song-singers and develop their repertory in cooperation with the Association of Mongolian Long Song.


Cooperation:
The Foundation for Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage has close cooperation with the bearers of the intangible cultural heritage, such as long song-singers, throat singing-singers, and epic singers and so on. We conducted case studies on the bearers of intangible cultural heritage in 2006-2007 and published the report book 'Mongolian rituals, manners and festivals'.
There are number of governmental and non-governmental organizations we cooperate with, such as the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of Mongolia, Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO, Mongolian National Centre for the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Association of Mongolian Long Song, Mongolian Cultural Studies Association, and etc.
We are engaged in the activities (such as identifying the bearers of intangible cultural heritage and creating inventories) being implemented by the Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO within the framework of the project 'Implementation of UNESCO 'Living Human Treasures' System in Mongolia' with the support of Intangible Cultural Heritage Center for Asia and the Pacific. Moreover, we got engaged in the elaboration of the 'List of Types and Forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mongolia' with the relevant bodies and submitted to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of Mongolia for further approval. We also cooperated with he Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO on the elaboration of the nomination file for 'Mongol Tuuli: Mongolian Epic’ for the inscription on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
Furthermore, we aim to continue our active involvements and efforts for compiling and publishing the inventories on the protection of historical and cultural heritages in Mongolia, preparing the nomination files to register petrography of Mongolia in the World Heritage List, compiling data on the Mongolian sacred mountains, and publishing manuals and instructions on survey to safeguard the Mongolian intellectual heritages.
Fundação INATEL
INATEL Foundation [en]
Fondation INATEL [fr]
Calçada de Sant' Ana, 180
1169-062 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
URL: http://www.inatel.pt
Tel.: + 351 210 027 150

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90157
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1935
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
La Fondation INATEL est gouvernée par ses Statuts et en accord avec son article 5 :
« La Fondation a comme buts essentiels la promotion des meilleurs conditions pour
l'occupation du temps libre et du loisir des travailleurs, en activité de service et retraités,
en développant et en valorisant le tourisme social, la création et la jouissance culturelle,
l'activité physique et sportive, l'inclusion et la solidarité sociale ».
Et d'après le Decret-Loi nO 106/2008, du 25 Juin qui a institué la Fondation INATEL :
« Tout en préservant sa nature originelle, la Fondation INATEL développe son activité
dans tout le territoire nacional, elle est chargée de l'administration d'un important
patrimoine, constitué essenciellment par des équipements hôteliers, culturels et sportifs,
consacrés à la prestation d'un vaste leque de services dans les domaines de l'hôtellerie
et du tourisme social, du termalisme social, et senior. La Fondation appuie également la
promotion de la culture traditionnelle (groupes folkloriques, sociétés philharmoniques,
orphéons, groupes chorales et de théatre amateur), le développement du sport amateur
et ses mouvements associatifs, la concrétisation du droit au repos et loisir des
travailleurs et la promotion de programmes et initiatives d'inclusion et de solidarité
sociale qui concernent surtout les jeunes et les plus âgés »
Activities:
Dans le domaine de la culture nous allons enumérer les activités qui traduisent la
politique culturelle de la Fondation INATEL et démontrent ce qui est fait dans le domaine
de la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Ces activités sont annuellement
inscrites dans le Plan d'Activités, Budget et Investissement.
La politique de la culture, dont la Fondation INATEL est chargée, se développe em 6
aires thématiques:
1. Formation d'Associés et membres de CCD (Centres de Culture et Sport) ;
2. Concours de Créativité;
3. Plans Nacionaux d'Appui aux CCD ;
4. Editions de Livres;
5. Grands Événements;
6. Relations Internationales.
1. Dans le domaine de la Formation, des actions de formation sont développées, dans
les aires comme l'Etnographie et Folklore, la Musique et Théatre.
En ce qui concerne l'Etnographie, un Cours d'Instruments Populaires a lieu. Nous avons
également des actions de Formation Regionale d'Etnographie et Folklore.
En ce qui concerne la musique nous avons plusieurs cours:
Le Cours National de Direction Chorale et Technique Vocale; Des Masterclasses
d'Instruments Régionaux de Flute, Clarinette et Saxophone, sont aussi développés; Un
Cours Regional de Réparation et Maintien d'Instruments.
Dans le domaine du théatre, des actions de formation qui sont indispensables à la
valorisation des groupes de théatre amateur sont développés.
2) Dans le domaine des Concours de Créativité, nous avons de nombreux concours, qui
sont les suivants:
Le Concours de Vidéo; Le Concours Nacional d'Etnographie ; Le Concours de
Composition; Le Concours de la Fondation INATEL! Théatre - Nouveaux Textes.
3) La Fondation INATEL développe reguliérement et depuis plusieurs années un Plan
Structuré d'Appui qui englobe l'Etnographie, les Editions, la Musique et le Théatre
amateur et autres évenements culturels comme par exemple le folklore. Ce Plan National d'Appui constitu un élement essentiel dans la relation directe avec les Centres
de Culture et Sport (CCD's), qui sont actuellement environ 1.300 dans l'aire de la
culture, et englobent les syndicats, les associations de travailleurs, les personnes
morales de droit publique, les maisons du peuple, les associations humanitaires, et ce
Plan, dirigé exclusivement à ces derniers, leur permet l'obtention de moyens essentiels
à leurs activités culturelles, comme appuis financiers pour l'acquisition de costumes et
chaussures, instruments musicaux ou équipement nécessaire pour la production de
piéces théatrales. Ces relations startégiques de la Fondation 1NATEL avec les CCD
permet, non seulement le développement régional, mais aussi le développement
d'activités traditionnelles, dans le domaine de la culture populaire et de la préservation
de traditions.
Nous avons par exemple, plusieurs projets de niveau national qui visent appuyer les
groupes etnographiques en ce qui concerne les costumes, les chaussures et
instruments musicaux.
4) En ce qui concerne les Editions de livres, la Fondation INATEL a des editions
historiques dans le domaine de l 'Etnographie que nous allons enumérer :
- "Traditions Populaires 1 et Il''
-«Colloque sur la Musique Populaire Portugaise»
-«Étude sur le Chant de la Région de Alentejo»
-«Le Costume Regional au Portugal »- Auteur : Tomaz Ribas (edition Difel)
- «L'Art du filet de pêche» - Paradigme Ecologiquel Travaill Techniques de Navigation 1
Jet -par Professeur Universitaire Manuel Fidalgo
- «La culture Traditionnelle de 1 État Nouveau»- Auteur: Professeur Universitaire Joao
Lopes Filho
-"Chansonnier de la Région de Cova da Beira"- volumel et IV- Auteur: Ma da Ascençao
Gonçalves Carvalho Rodrigues).
5) La Fondation INATEL réalise également les Grands Évenements qui sont, par
exemple, les suivants:
- Les Promenades Culturelles; Les Rencontres et Expositions Etnographiques.
Il y aussi des representations de Traditions Populaires, comme par exemple, les «
Cantares de Janeiras e de Reis» (Pour célébrer le nouvel an) ; les Fêtes de Carnaval.
6) Dans le domaine des Relations Internationales, la Fondation INATEL, integre le
Conseil International des Organisations de Festivals de Folklore et d'Arts Traditionnels
(CIOFF) comme Organisation Non Gouvernementale auprés de l'UNESCO.
Dans le cadre de la musique, la Fondation INATEL, intègre la Confédération
Internationale des Sociétés Musicales et la Union européenne des Musiciens
(CISM/UEM).
Dans le domaine du théatre, la Fondation INATEL posséde le Théatre de la Trindade qui constitu depuis 45 ans, l'offerte culturelle permanente de la grande Lisbonne, dans les
domaines, non seulement du Théatre, de l'Opéra, de l'Opérette, de la Zarzuela, du
Cinema, du Chant, de la Danse, du Fado, des Spectacles Populaires, de l'Etnographie,
du Folklore. Lie théatre est actuellement le siége de la Compagnie Portugaise d'Opéra.
Cooperation:
La préservation du patrimoine culturel immatériel et l'encouragement de nouvelles
habitudes de satisfaction des biens culturels constituent les objectifs de la Fondation
INATEL.
Si, d'une part, la Fondation INATEL assume la responsabilité sociale de promotrice
d'une tradition culturelle centrée en deux vecteurs fondamentaux - formation et appuis
structurés aux Centres de Culture et Sport (CCD's) - d'autre part, elle s'assume aussi
comme agent dynamisant de nouvelles pratiques, qui accompagne une société de plus
en plus exigente et médiatique.
Dans cette perspective, la Fondation INATEL, prétend continuer sa politique culturelle
de préservation et constante adaptation à une société en changement, et qui exige
diversité et multiplicité en ce qui est de plus en plus important dans la formation de la
personne humaine - l'immatériel, qui nous donne de la joie, nous amuse et transmet
des connaissances, et nous aide à donner un sens à notre existence.
Dans ce sens la coopération, dans un esprit de respect mutuel avec les communautés,
les groupes, les individus, qui atravers leurs actions ont une pratique de défence de la
culture immatérielle, est une constante, d'où ressortent les CCD- Centres de Culture et
Sport- qui dans le cadre de la Fondation INATEL font un recueil et des représentations
etnographiques, des enregistrements des traditions populaires et des rituels, et dans
l'époque technologique dont nous traversons, la préservation de traditions orales
Fundación Artesanías de Chile
Crafts of Chile Foundation [en]
Santo Domingo 689
8320051
Santiago Centro
CHILE
URL: http://www.artesaniasdechile.cl
Tel.: +56 2266 44272

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Spanish) - No. 90458
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Fundación Erigaie
Erigaie Foundation [en]
Calle 10 No 3-76.
La Candelaria Centro
Bogotà
COLOMBIA
URL: http://www.erigaie.org
URL: http://www.herenciacultural.org
Tel.: (571) 2865451

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90155
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2010; 2011; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021
Year of creation: 1991
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
• Contribute to solving the problems of cultural, social and ecological environments in the
country, through the promotion of integral processes in the student, academic and
community fields.
• Promote and advance scientific and technological research, especially in the
archaeological, architectural, biological, geographical, historical and social areas.
• Provide advice and cooperation in scientific or technological research advanced or
promoted by other persons or entities.
• Disseminate and manage knowledge on cultural heritage, in its archaeological,
architectural, ecological, histroical and social aspects, through written publications,
databases, audio or visual media, exhibitions and lectures open to the public.
• Provide advice and cooperation for the maintenance, preservation, restoration,
building, managing and safeguarding of the intangible and material cultural heritage in its
archaeological, architectural, ecological, natural, historical and social aspects.
With these objectives, the foundation has developed a framework for working towards
the safeguarding of the intangible heritage which is expected to contribute specifically to
the identification, documentation, research, preservation, protection and enhancement of the intangible heritage. Similarly, the efforts to promote solutions to the problems of the
country and the scientific and technological research in various areas have been
expanded to examine these areas from the issue of intangible heritage, serving also to
support its preservation.
Activities:
Monika Therrien. Director. Anthropologist and Master in History. Professor of the
Master's degree of Cultural Heritage and Territory and of the Specialization in
Conservation of Architectural Heritage. Project manager of the Erigaie Foundation. At
the moment she coordinates research on the impact of the policies of intangible heritage
for the MIA Cultural Heritage Observatory, on industrial heritage with the project 'Fábrica
de Loza Bogotana' and the relation between heritage and tourism in Villa de Leyva.
Germán Ferro. Investigator. He has work with the communities of the Department of
Huila in the development of research projects on cultural heritage in which he involves
the Colombian histrorical and regional context, using the assessment of local cultural
processes as main teaching tool, involving the communities as watchers and managers
of their own resources. Director of projects as "cultural inventory of Huila"; "travel to the
holy places of Huila".
Carlos del Cairo and Catalina García. Researchers. Coordinators of the research area
related to maritime and underwater cultural heritage in which framework have been
carried out projects such as "The Plan for awareness for the protection of underwater
cultural heritage, phases I and", the international Seminar on "Maritime Tierra Bomba"
and memory places in the township of Tierrabomba", focused on working with the
coastal and island communities and the recovery of the fishing traditions of the island.
Alvaro Santoyo and Mónica Hernández. Investigators. Alvaro Santoyo has worked since
1999 in the analysis of what the Colombian elite thinks about the Amazon area, and
since 2003, in issues related to memory, mithology, social organization and education in
Amerinidian societies of Vaupés. Mónica Hernández for her part, has developed projects
on spatial and territorial configuration in the Colombian Pacific. They both work on the
project "MIA (Material, Intangible and Archaeological) Cultural Heritage Observatory, in
the first phase of which they analize the impact of the heritage declarations in the case
of two populations, both, at the community level and the process of formulation of public
policies for these populations.
Cooperation:
In developing projects for the protection of cultural heritage, the Foundation has
supported the creation of local NGOs "ALCAESPO" and "Buceadores de la historia de
los cañones (Divers of the history of the cannons)" made up of mothers who are heads
of families and groups of fishermen from the island of Tierra Bomba, for the local
management of the maritime resources of the island. Through the signing of agreements
with these organizations, the Foundation ensures cooperation between the institutional,
the local and the academic sectors for the implementation of initiatives for the study,
protection and dissemination of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in coastal areas and
islands.
The development of joint projects with the Terra Firme NGO, formed by researchers
supported by the Erigaie Foundation, has allowed the generation of opportunities for
dissemination of the projects related to the Intangible Cultural Heritage at national and
international levels, by young researchers and professionals working in the field.
The development of the Seminar on Intangible Heritage "management, participation and
action" held in April, 2009, was conceived as a space for theoretical debate, analysis
and work methodologies on the Intangible Cultural Heritage. This is done with the
participation of Colombian and foreign researchers who presented their case studies and
perspectives from which they have been addressed. Additionally, in four days were
presented experiences of managers, public officials and leaders of organizations to
identify and understand local contexts and the problems and challenges faced in the
formulation of public policies and action plans relating to cultural heritage and its
implementation and impact on local and regional authorities.
Through the implementation of valuation and empowerment methodologies of local
cultural resources it has been possible to involve communities from some municipalities
of the Department of Huila, as watchers and managers of the material and intangible
heritage.
The MIA (Material, Intangible and Archaeological) Cultural Heritage Observatory, has
been formed as a line of research devoted to the study of the discursive construction of
heritage and the production of relevant knowledge to act as a consultative body in the
formulation of public policies related to the indicated topic.
Fundashon Museo Tula
Foundation Museum Tula [en]
Dokterstuin 27
CURAÇAO
Tel.: 005999-6669973

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Dutch/Papiamento) - No. 90460
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2010
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Geleneksel Sanatlar Derneği
Traditional Art Association [en]
Caferağa Mah. Hülya Sok. No 62/2
Kadiköy
TURKEY
URL: http://www.gelenekeslsanatlar.org
Tel.: 0212 245 55 71; 0533 511 97 20

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Turkish) - No. 90408
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Turkey

Objectives:
Traditional Arts Association was established initially to safeguard intangible cultural heritage of the Turkish traditional arts as well as raising heritage awareness to the viability of various arts and crafts through periodical and/or temporary programmes, projects and activities. The Association also aims to support the cultural community of the traditional arts in order to maintain the transmission of the tradition.
The mission of the Traditional Arts Association is to introduce, revitalize, sustain and safeguard the Turkish traditional arts and crafts.
The vision of the Association is to become a pioneer NGO and a consultative body in safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage in Turkey.
The Association's activities can be grouped under seven sections:
Projects: The Association conducts various projects for safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage; to maintain and develop mutual interactions and cultural dialogue with national and international institutions and communities of traditional arts.
Inventories: The Association ceaselessly works on documenting the traditional arts and crafts and their artists in order to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage by preparing a complete inventory of the arts and artists. The inventory is regularly updated with new information as well as additional oral expressions.
Competitions: The Association designs, organizes and supports traditional arts and crafts competitions on national and international level. The general scheme of the competitions is to provide opportunity for young artists who will become the masters of the future.
Academic Events: The Association organizes academic events such as congresses, symposia, panels, and conferences. The events combine theoretical studies as well as artistic productions, usually enhanced with exhibitions.
Publications: The Association makes wide range of publications within an annual schedule. The publications vary from academic research on traditional arts, to monographs, Festschrifts,
Proceedings and catalogues.
Awards and Fellowships: The Association presents senior and junior awards to the artists and scholars active in the field.
Exhibitions: Periodical and permanent exhibitions are designed and conducted by the Association.
International Relations: Aiming to become a known executive body of the traditional arts and crafts internationally, the Association develops projects in conjunction with the national and international institutions.

Activities:
Since its establishment in 2007, Traditional Arts Association has been the leading NGO of Turkey in the field of intangible cultural heritage. The Association conducts research, makes academic publications, promotes traditional arts and crafts, supports conservation projects, records oral tradition and masters, organizes exhibitions and competitions to support the young practitioners as well as safeguarding the artistic production. The Association's experience in various areas displays devotion to its mission and vision in safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage.
Activities of Traditional Arts Association are given in chronological order:
Silver Tulip Award (since 2006): This is the first award in the category of traditional arts which is presented to individuals who dedicated their lives to the traditional arts, contributed in its development, promotion, and safeguarding. The winners of the award are determined based upon their artistic productions or scientific contributions.
Academic and Artistic Events (since 2007): International Turkish Calligraphy (Hüsn-ü Hat), Manuscript Painting (Miniature), Binding symposia and national Turkish Art of Marbling (Ebru) and Illumination symposia are hold, all of which combine academic and artistic activities such as panels, exhibitions and workshops.
International Events: "Two Cultures One Art: lstanbul-Tahran" (2008). A symposium and an exhibition were organized bringing miniature artists from Turkey and Iran, accompanied by a book.
"Masters of Istanbul" inventory (2010): The inventory of arts and crafts workshops in Istanbul was started and completed in 2010. The project was supported by a printed map, a booklet, a documentary (eleven episodes) and a regularly updated web site both in Turkish and English. The project is expanded to "Masters of Turkey" which is in the making.
"Fidelity to the Tradition" (since 201 0): Various programmes are hold in order to introduce and commemorate the deceased masters and academics to the younger generation and transmit the tradition to the posterity. The individual programmes are supported by a web site.
A project was conducted to introduce the traditional arts in the Balkan States in 2011.
"Masters of Future" Competition (since 2013): The competition was designed in 2012 to promote and encourage the young artists in the field of traditional arts. The annually organized competition supervised 1200 national I international participants since the beginning and the grant budget was 150.000 TL (Turkish Liras). There are separate web sites dedicated to each contest in Turkish, English, and Arabic.
"Contemporary Young Artists, Tomorrow's Masters" (2016): This project was organized to support and promote the young artists of the traditional arts which was enriched with a panel, a catalogue and an exhibition. The panel was the first of its kind where the principal issues of the traditional arts in Turkey were discussed in detail.
Education Workshop on Copyright Issues (2016): The workshop was organized to raise awareness to the fundamental copyright issues in traditional arts. The Association also gives pro bono legal counselling service to its members in copyright and royalty matters.
Publications (since 2007): Almost all the projects, competitions, gatherings and proceedings have been published. The recent publications include Festschrifs in honour of emeritus professors; monographs on Ottoman Flower and Flowerists (200), Karagöz (Turkish Shadow Theater, inscribed on the representative list of ICH 2014), Ebru (Turkish Art of Marbling, inscribed on the representative list of ICH 2014), Hat (Turkish Calligraphy), Miras (Heritage).
Ongoing Projects (2017): Kirkyama (Patchwork) competition and panel.

Cooperation:
The Association works closely with related communities such as the traditional arts departments of the universities, municipalities, museums (national and international), master's workshops, craftsmen and craftswomen, students, legal art courses and private art schools nationally.
The projects are designed and conducted with the initiative of academic and artistic bodies that the Association has cooperation with. Therefore the projects are designed according to the needs of the field as they provide the Association with the recent intangible cultural heritage issues. Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Presidency of the Turkish Manuscripts Institution, Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and other district municipalities of Istanbul, Classical Turkish Arts Foundation were among the co-organizers.
The experts and legal bodies act in the organizing committee, scientific advisory board, advisory committees.
Global Development for Pygmee Minorities - GLODEPM
Développement Intégral des Minorités Pygmées [fr]
6, Avenue Kanioka
Commune Ngaba
Quartier Luyi
KINSHASA
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Tel.: (+243) 973140059 - (+243) 854884959

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90170
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1999
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Congo

Objectives:
Etant une organisation autochtone de droits de l'homme, l'aspect culturel est partie intégrante de l'univers autochtone BATWA qui englobe les traditions et pratique BATWA, le savoir traditionnel et les connaissances et expressions lingustiques. C'est pourquoi notre objectif bine qu'humanitaire, mais est au delà culturel en vue de promouvoir cette culture brisée par le poids de la civilisation occidentale (modernism), en vue de la sauvegarde, la transmission et la révalorisation de ce patrimoine culturel moyennant de larges moyens de diffusion.
Groupe audois de recherche et d’animation ethnographique - Ethnopôle GARAE - GARAE
Maison des mémoires
53 rue de Verdun
11000 CARCASSONNE
FRANCE
URL: http://www.garae.fr
Tel.: +33 04 68 71 29 69

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90254
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1981
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
L'Ethnopôle Garae se donne les buts suivants:
Fonder et développer un centre de documentation ethnographique portant sur les techniques, les modes de vie, les représentations collectives existant ou ayant existé dans les pays audois et pius généralement, dans les pays languedociens et occitans.
Constituer avec l'aide des divers chercheurs et groupes un fichier nominal et thématique de la recherche sur l'Aude et les régions voisines.
Diffuser largement la recherche, ses objectifs et ses résultats dans le but premier de restituer aux
populations les "fruits de la collecte et de l'étude", afin de favoriser une réappropriation culturelle dans un exprit d'échange, excluant tous les rapports hiérarchiques.
Présenter des expositions thématiques à partir des collectes effectuées. Ces expositions pourront être itinérantes, dans le département et au-delà.
Promouvoir l'édition et la réédition des travaux intéressant les cultures populaires audoises, languedociennes et occitanes. Créer au besoin une collection d'ouvrages dans ce but.
Organiser des actions de formation (conférences, colloques, stages de formation théorique et pratiques) favorisant la recherche et l'animation ethnologique.
L'association doit, dans ce but, établir une collaboration suivie avec toutes les personnes intéressées par le recherche anthropologique, sans exclusive discilplinaire.
Activities:
L'Etnopôle-Garae, labellisé en 1991 par le Ministére de la Culture, a une longue histoire dans le domaine de la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Il est en effet issu de Folklore. Revue d'ethnographie méridionale, qui, de 1938 à 1988, fut un instrument de connaissance, de conseil et d'animation de première importance dans le domaine du patrimoine immatériel avant la lettre. Si la revue concernait les régions du sud de la France l'Ethnopôle a, depuis, noué de nombreux liens avec les autres pays de la zone méditerranéenne. Dans toutes ses missions et dans les divers champs qu'il a explorés il s'est toujours fixé une position d'observateur et d'acteur, analysant dans un premier temps avant de prendre une position de conseil et/ou de participer directement à l'action étudiée sur le terrain. Il nous a semblé bon de retenir quatre des opérations initiées: la littérature orale, les fêtes populaires, les regards naturalistes, et l'approche des arts modestes.
1. La littérature orale traditionnelle.
Dans les décennies 1970-2000, ont été menées, dans les Pyrénées audoises et ariégeoises, des collectes de fond sur la tradition orale. Plusieurs centaines de contes ont été recueillis sur un territoire dépeint comme un désert stérile en ce qui concerne la tradition orale. Ces enquêtes ont aussi permis de révéler un conteur exceptionnel, Pierre Pous, détenteur d'un répertoire traditionnel couvrant tous les cycles du genre. C'est auprès de lui qu'a été enregistrée une des seules versions orales du thème de Polyphème, directement inspiré de L'Odyssée. Parallèlement la collecte de chants et chansons traditionnelles, par sa richesse, a ouvert de nouvelles voies pour la connaissance de ce domaine.
La mise à disposition sous forme de publications, disques ou Dvd, a revitalisé la tradition avec l'apparition de chorales, de rencontres avec les conteurs traditionnels et les « néo-conteurs », dynamisant fortement les rapports sociaux et culturels de ces communautés montagnardes.
2. Les fêtes populaires et carnavalesques.
Après une grande étude sur La fête en Languedoc, l'Ethnopôle a réalisé plusieurs études sur les fêtes populaires, dont le Carnaval. Ce faisant il a été appelé comme consultant sur plusieurs films et émissions de télévision concernant les manifestations festives traditionnelles. Il a ainsi été conduit à analyser des cérémonies originales, à tonalité carnavalesque, organisée autour du mariage, des cours coculaires et des charivaris, regroupées sous le nom générique de « tour de l'âne », la victime, fiancé ou marié, étant exhibé sur un âne lors de ces rituels. Il est apparu très vite que la position de simple observateur n'était pas tenable et qu'il était obligatoire de participer à ces fêtes en tant qu'acteur à part entière pour en saisir pleinement le sens. L'ethnologue est donc devenu participant au point que ce sont ses études qui servent de caution à certaines cérémonies, voire qui les font survivre ou renaître comme à la Cité de
Carcassonne. Là, la fête du « tour de l'âne », remontant au Moyen Age, a retrouvé sa légitimité et sa force à la suite de sa lecture et de sa mise en valeur par l'approche ethnologique.
3. Le regard naturaliste.
Encore qu'elle soit emblématique d'une civilisation, la mise en perspective d'une production culturale est le plus souvent susceptible d'appréciations techniques, qui ne s'intéressent que peu aux constructions idéologiques ou imaginaires qui entourent sa production. Il en va ainsi de la vigne, élément essentiel de l'économie méditerranéenne, la plupart du temps réduite à quelques stéréotypes. Nous avons choisi de déchiffrer l'infime, le quotidien pour mieux saisir, à travers la trivialité des gestes du quotidien, les rapports complexes qui unissent tous les acteurs du monde végétal et la mythologie qu'ils génèrent. Entre cueillettes et culture, entre oiseaux et renards comme entre plantes qui se partagent le domaine du cultivé et du sauvage, se tissent des liens qui, à leur tour, sont à l'origine de pratiques puis de traditions.
4. Les arts modestes, à l'orée des marginalités.
Considérées avec condescendance, un certain nombre de pratiques et de créations artistiques nous ont semblé dignes d'attention dans la mesure où elles sont tantôt témoins d'une durée qui leur assure un caractère traditionnel, tantôt d'un événement exceptionnel qui en fait de fertiles marqueurs de mémoire. Dans ce domaine ont été approchés les créations singulières, faisant dès lors apparaître que, bien au delà de la personnalité de leur auteur, les réalisations des facteurs Cheval du quotidien s'inscrivaient dans le temps de la répétition et généraient des archétypes qu'il importe de préserver.
Cooperation:
L'Ethnopôle s'est donné pour règle de fonctionner avec la panoplie des acteurs territoriaux susceptibles d'intervenir dans le champ du patrimoine immatériel, comme l'illustre ce projet en cours.
En liaison avec un parc Naturel Régional (La Narbonnaise en Méditerranée) a été mise en place une étude sur les différentes activités liées au monde lagunaire et l'univers symbolique de la pêche dans les étangs. Moins que les techniques de pêche (embarcations, filets, matériel de capture ... ) ce qui est retenu ici ce sont les discours sur l'espace naturel, la topographie imaginaire, la cartographie populaire, la saga mythologique et !es périodes édéniques des grandes époques de pêche. Toute l'action a été construite en partenariat étroit avec les acteurs locaux en veillant à respecter leur diversité: les pêcheurs en activité, les anciens, les prud'hommes en charge des usages locaux, les maires des communes concernées, la population vivant de manière directe ou détournée de ces activités. Il s'agissait à la fois de recueillir la mémoire d'un savoir, mais aussi tous les discours liés au monde des étangs dans le domaine naturaliste comme dans celui des croyances, des coutumes juridiques, souvent orales, et des gestes qui fondent sa spiritualité et ses codes. Par ailleurs la réflexion, en cours, porte sur la réutilisation des connaissances rassemblées. Avec quel réseau, enseignants, animateurs, élus locaux, spécialistes, est-il possible de faire
partager le savoir et permettre aux acteurs indigènes de valoriser leur culture? Jusqu'à présent la démarche a déjà donné lieu à publications et un DVD consacré à la mémoire d'un village de pêcheurs situé sur une île au milieu des étangs. Cette recherche se double d'une approche de la chasse au gibier d'eau organisée selon des formes originales (battues rituelles, embarcations, huttes temporaines... ) en liaison constante avec le monde de la pêche et qui lui reste complémentaire. Elle est à l'origine de nombreux échanges avec les structures organisées comme les syndicats de chasse ou des assocaition dedéfense de l'environnement qui mettent tous en évidence la synergie entre les deux mondes et soulignent la richesse et la complexité du monde lagunaire.
Gulu Theatre Artists - GUTA - GUTA
P.O. Box 756
Gulu
UGANDA
Tel.: (+256) 772 965 461; 771 855 501

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90206
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1997
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- knowledge of traditional dishes, preparation processes, storage techniques and production of synopsis for all the intangible cultural heritages of Acholi where these synopsis act as the measuring yards in the documentation processes.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Uganda

Objectives:
To establish cultural Resource Centre for entertainment, information centre and trainning groud that would enable the new generations adapt the authentic skills and values of a particular Acholi cultural heritage.

To acquire all sorts of traditional costumes and props relevant to express the importance of culture maintenance. the intention is to safeguard the twenty two (22) Acholi traditional dances that have values to that society and forge unity. All these dances are performed to express the important of a particular ritual/ceremony accordingly. Namely; (Bwola, Otole, Larakaraka, Apiti, Ajere, Dingi-dingi, Acut, Okwil, Lamuya, Lacuku-cuku, Okojo, Aguma, Akel, Lyel, Rut, Jok, Nanga, Konge, Obet, Oling, Oyiny and kwero-merok
dance). And one of the documentaion processes would be producing synopsis for all these cultural dances to serve as a measuring yard in safeguarding the tangible and intangible cultural heritages involved.

To promote co-operation among the youth spiritually, morally and physically through cultural sharing.ln this process, the youngone shall copy and learn the cultural values from the elderly people and the chain continues. In the long run, the desirable cultural trait would have been instilled into these young generations through which they can use them in other cultural exchange.

To establish simple museum for Acholi culture in the long run where all historical events, costumes/props, relics and other important Acholi instruments and craftmanship are kept.

To built better office with all the office equipments, acqusition of the relevant gazates for effective documentations, store and training ground in the long run.

To promote culture of peace through non -violence means in the youth.and this would only be possible by the use of;
(i) Folk-tales which have virtues such as commonial unity, hard work, conformity, honesty, love for the clan and many others.
(ii) Drama that handle the peaceful resolution to land disputes, educate the audiance/community the importance of safe water supply and good sanitation, environmental protection and its related desieases, rights of all citizens in regardless of sex, addressing gender based violence and any outstanding problems which demands intervention for possitive transformation.
(iii) Dances and folk songs with the emphasis of the importance of being together and in harmony.
Activities:
1. Under the directorship of seven (07)competence directors and one hundrend fifty (150) active participants, GUTA is able to carry out Community sensitization through enter- educare

2. Safeguarding the intangible cultural heritages that are almost dying off through Oraginsing cultural gala. This is one of the activities aim at restoring the beautiful culture of Acholi which were destroyed due to the long war in the northern part of Uganda. our main points of interest capture the following classes that were educative, entertaining and affordable to the community of the Acholi;
1. restoring knowledge about traditional dishes which includes preparation processes, food values, storage techniques of such traditional dishes and other importance of such dishes toward our health.
2. Folk-tales narrative which includes narrative skills, audiance participation, didactic and moralistic nature, entertainment and the musical accompaniment.
3. Traditional folk songs and original composition based on the specific theme.
4. Solo performance (vocal I instrumental for individual expression of opinion.
5.Participating in civic education targeting the various roles played by an individual genders to create harmony in the society.
6.Through music dance and drama, participate in fighting water born related health diseases and other contigious diseases and addressing the importance of good sanitation.
7. Participation in the reseltlement of the community from the camp to their original home land and harminizing the immediate problem of land disputes.
8..Addressing the problem of gender based violence through music dance and drama where the audiance attending the shows get involved automatically.
9. Sensitization on universal education and its importance using the local language for the entire community consumption.
10. Engagement in traditional folk dances purely to revitalise our culture.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Name - Proffesion - Expertise - Acquisition
1.Yeko George H. - Teacher Secondary and - Literature in English - learning instn. - Instructor(folk-tales) -Oraturel dances - Royal family, MDD - UDTA/Indere
2. Okello Quinto - Teacher (SNE) - Cultural practioner - Royal family, MDD consultant - UDTA/Indere, Creativity in composition - Royal family, Scripts writting - Learning instn.
3. Okot Janani N. - National examiner - MDD - Learning instn., Cultural practioner - He is an elder, Instructor - Folk-tales narratives - Inherited.
4. LakerJolly O. - Social worker/ educationist - Culture promoters - Inherited.
5. Langol Rino - Teacher (secondary) - Cultural lovers - Inherited.
6. Lakony Joe - Social worker - Culture promoters - working with NGO.
7. Ochora Ochitti - Social worker/educationist - National adjudicator - Learning instn.

Additional information:

Mr. Lakony Joe is a Ugandan by nationality, 31 years old by now, a social worker by profession, a project officer with War Child Holland and his area of jurisdiction is in Gulu, Amuru and Nwoya districts.
Lakony previously worked with Gulu Support the children organization (GUSCO) and the work dates back from 2003 when he started with GUSCO.
In as far as his cultural background is concerned; he had worked with formerly abducted children to teach them traditional songs, dances, and practices. He had been working tirelessly to coordinate cultural ceremonies for cultural healing for the returnees. He had been at forefront for organizing cultural galas within the communities where he works.
Also in their activities they help conduct intergenerational activities where children and parents come together show case different activities. Lakony is one of the initiators of Wang-oo program as informal educational activity and avenue to teach culture to the children around fire place.
Culture is part and parcel of all the activities they do and normally they consult the traditional leaders in their work.

Mzee Janani is now 72 years old, a national examiner, graduated in tutoring, specialized in music dance and drama (MDD) and more importantly he is one of the characters in the war dance contributing toward Primary teacher’s College (PTC) and National Teacher’s College (NTC) music choir.

George is now 47 years old, a Ugandan by nationality, a secondary teacher by profession and heading music dance and drama department in his School.

Beside those,
-He is the regional co-ordinator for Uganda Development Theatre Association (UDTA) from 2003 to date.
-He is the district chairperson- UDTA for Kitgum and Lamwo districts since 1998 to date
-He is a drama scripts writer and actor.

SEMINAR/WORKSHOP OR ANY DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY ATTENDED
Civic education - From C.A to referendum - Civic educator.
Business planning - Organized by Gusby Trust MUK - Member.
Business management - Organized by N.U.M.A - Member.
HIV /AIDS/STDs Awareness - Organized by Lacor AIDs project - Participant.
Uganda German youth camp - Organized by PCY-GTZ - Participant.
Disabilities census workshop - Organized by AVSI - Enumerator.
UDTA planning workshop - Organized by UDTA - National executive.
Composed drama on civic education - Organized by NDI - Director of Gulu Theatre Artists
Land disputes resolution through MDD - Contracted by NRC - Director of Gulu Theatre Artists
Composed drama on domestic violence - Requested by ARC - Director of Gulu Theatre Artists
Composed drama about back to school - Invisible children - Patron MDD department.
Developed syllabus for MDD secondary - Invisible children - Patron MDD department.
Composed drama on right of citizen - Women in democracy (FOWODE) - Drama consultant.
Produced drama on water & sanitation - District water office & health dept. - Drama consultant/ director.
Participated in cultural revival festival - War child Holland - MDD consultant.

HOBBIES:
1. Cultural activities since I am promoting, preserving and appreciating my cultural values.
2. Developmental activities as I am working toward community positive transformation and restoring hope to the disadvantaged generations.
3. Music dance and drama as I am the chairperson of all the cultural groups under Uganda development Theatre Association in Acholi sub-zone and using MDD as one ofthe most effective communication tools for sensitization.
4. Touring as I have been monitoring all the cultural groups within the region and taking them for national festival.
5. Peace as I am absolutely involved in the peace building process through theatrical activities.

I Mr. Okello Quinto hereby declare that the information given above is true, correct and complete.
Referees
-National chairperson UDTA/Director Ndere centre. contact; 0772-200104
-Country director for invisible children Uganda. (Contact- office line) 0471432583
- District water office, district health office, district engineering office- Gulu district.
- Norwegian refugee council (NRC- ICLA- Wang-oo department Gulu main office
Cooperation:
Working in partnership with Uganda Development Theatre Association since 1997 and very many local groups were developed in northern part of ugnada which are affiliated to UOTA. to perform arts that addressed the societical problems and provide the workable solutions to those problems.

(Those activities listed from number 1 to 10 in sub-section 6.c above are the driving tools for the community participation in the safeguarding measures).
Heritage Crafts Association
81 North Street
Wellington
Somerset
TA21 8NA
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
URL: http://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk
Tel.: +44 77 39 69 07 62

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90323
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2009
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
The Heritage Crafts Association is the advocacy body for traditional heritage crafts in the United Kingdom. The HCA members are largely practicing craftspeople, and acts as their representatives. Working in partnership with Government and key agencies it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies and guilds, as well as individuals who care about the loss of traditional crafts skills. The HCA works towards a healthy and sustainable framework for the future. The HCA is unique in the UK in believing that craft skills should be protected, promoted and recorded as part our living heritage in their own right, not merely in terms of the artefacts they produce or their conservation value. The HCA received charitable status in January 2010 for this purpose.
Cooperation:
The majority of the members of the Heritage Crafts Association are craftspeople, or organisations of craftspeople. The organisation is led by craftspeople and people with other skills. All the work, therefore, is undertaken by intangible cultural heritage practitioners, groups of such practitioners, or under their direction.
The NGO regularly works with, and consult, non-members to ensure that the full breadth of experience and opinion of craftspeople is taken into account both in our own work, and in that of policy makers. For example, its work includes surveys and focus groups (e.g. Mapping Heritage Crafts), co-creation (Manifesto for Making) and consultation (e.g. consultation on new craft apprenticeship framework).
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador - HFNL
PO Box 5171
1 Springdale Street
St. John’s
Newfoundland
A1C 5V5
CANADA
URL: http://www.ichblog.ca

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90202
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2014
Year of creation: 1984
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Canada

Objectives:
The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (HFNL) was established in 1984 to preserve the heritage of the province. Originally established to conserve built heritage, the Foundation's scope has expanded to include the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Our mission in that regard is to safeguard and sustain the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador for present and future generations
everywhere, as a vital part of the identities of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and as a valuable collection of unique knowledge and customs. This will be achieved through policies that support initiatives that will celebrate, record, disseminate and promote our living heritage and help to build bridges between diverse cultural groups within and outside Newfoundland and Labrador.
Activities:
The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador's strategy for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage is based on local communities, and on the continuing activities of those with specific knowledge of traditions, skills and customs within these communities. The strategy attempts to articulate a vision and to develop practical steps to ensure that the Province's rich traditions are passed down to future generations. Developed in consultation with community heritage, culture and arts groups, the Foundation's ICH strategy has the following goals:
1. To document and preserve ICH information and traditions, including the development and dissemination of "best practices".
2. To promote the celebration of ICH at local, provincial, national and international levels, and the recognition of individuals, groups and communities who carry on ICH traditions.
3. To work with existing organizations and educational institutions to encourage and support the transmission and dissemination of traditional skills, knowledge and practices across the province and around the world.
4. To use ICH in building cultural enterprise, and encouraging the responsible use of ICH traditions and practices in a variety of economic development efforts.
5. To monitor and evaluate the implementation of the strategy in an effective manner.
6. To identify and establish a mechanism-including active stakeholder participation, staffing resources and an advisory board-to coordinate and implement preservation activities.

HFNL has created a website devoted to our ICH activities, and are continually adding new material. We have started an inventory of provincial traditions, with all materials housed in Memorial University's Digital Archive Initiative, accessible throughout the province (and the world) through our website. We offer support for community groups to preserve their ICH online through this inventory initiative. The ICH office also maintains a
web blog, twitter feed, facebook group, and monthly e-newsletter to better connect rural communities involved in safeguarding ICH.

Our ICH Provincial Advisory Group has three specialized committees that are working on a number of initiatives. The Training Committee has sponsored a series of workshops across the province for heritage workers to learn the skills required to document ICH. Throughout 2009 and 2010, for example, the ICH office developed a series of
community workshops on cultural documentation, oral history, and fieldwork methods. These course were presented in various locations and times across the province. These courses included Project Planning for Cultural Documentation, Interviewing Techniques, New Media and Place-Based Narrative, Introduction to ICH, Documentation of Boatbuilding Techniques, Planning for Folklife Festivals, Digital Audio Recording, and
Google Maps for Community Folklore Projects.

Our Inventory Committee continues to work with grassroots organizations to develop ways to foster a "grassroots" (i.e., bottom-up) inventory of the province, shaped by the priorities of community. Our Celebration Committee is working on a province-wide system to spotlight ordinary tradition-bearers and their knowledge. Besides the work of these committees, we are pursuing specific initiatives. In 2010, the ICH program
organized the first folklife festival for the province, focusing on the Christmas-time house visiting traditions (mummering).

HFNL recognizes, as a guiding principle, that the inclusion of multiple voices, including those of youth, is important in all work relating to Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Cooperation:
The forging of partnerships is critical for the safeguarding and enhancement of the province's Intangible Cultural Heritage, and as such, HFNL works to ensure the meaningful participation of individuals, groups and communities concerned with Intangible Cultural Heritage in decision-making processes at all levels. HFNL has worked with numerous groups, including:
The Town of Bay Roberts to help plan ICH projects;
Northern Peninsula Heritage groups to provide introductory training for members;
The Rooms Provincial Museum on programming related to ICH;
Tablelands Rug Hookers to promote knowledge of traditional craftways;
NL Rug Hooking Guild to digitize the provincial hooked mat database and include it in the provincial ICH inventory;
Winterton Boat Building Museum to run workshops on documenting boats and boat building traditions;
Town of Torbay Museum and Archives to digitize oral history collections;
Memorial University of Newfoundland to co-sponsor a year-long rotating ICH internship;
Southern Avalon Development Association to host a workshop and public lecture on safeguarding ICH;
Labrador Metis Association to train fieldworkers in folklore interview techniques;
SmartLabrador to provide training for local researchers on oral history, ICH and community knowledge mapping;
Conne River Mi'qkmaw Band to provide instruction for student fieldworker documenting canoe building traditions; and,

Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador to assist in the planning of the ICHthemed Canadian Museums Association Conference.

It is the one of the goals of HFNL that its programs and initiatives to safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage will recognize and support individual tradition-bearers and communities who take part in the various aspects of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The particular role of women in the preservation and dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage is recognized and supported, and the connection between Intangible Cultural Heritage and
the social and economic well-being of individuals and communities is recognized.
Heritage Saskatchewan Alliance Inc.
#200-2020 11th Avenue
Regina
SK Canada S4POJ3
CANADA
URL: http://www.heritagesask
Tel.: 306-780-9191

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90437
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2009
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Research connecting heritage to health and well being; citizenship and social cohesion; education and employment

Main countries where active:

Canada

Indigenous Cultural Society
2nd Floor Jakhalu Building
City Tower junction Dimapur
797112 Nagaland
INDIA
URL: http://www.indigenouscc.in
Tel.: 91 9774006893 / 91 9774006595

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90178
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1998
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

India

Objectives:
•To revitalize unique and fundamental cultural values through developing and promoting cultural values of human society.
•To function all its activities in line with traditional Naga Morung institute model (philanthropic institute concerns in lessons of community living, leadership, discipline, hard work and spirit of services, sports, art, music and health etc.).
•Undertake survey, research and evaluation of socio-economic, culture and religious problems and to publish documentary sources, books, periodical journals, monographs, pamphlets, souvenirs, film, videotapes, audio visual aid and CDs etc. to educate the general public.
•Provide relief and rehabilitation.
•Take up various health programme; family welfare, child welfare and help the destitute, handicapped, victims of unexpected circumstances and calamities, and economically backward people.
•Take up integrated development programme; plantation, poultry, piggery, duckery, cattle, rearing bee keeping, goat, sheep etc. for rural and village upliftment to enhance their income with proper guidance and as per geographically and climatically suitable places
•Run scale industries (small) such as food processing, yarning, dying, and handloom.
•Impart training such as cutting, weaving and knitting, handicrafts, carpentry, computer, mechanical and technical, typing and shorthand, in suitable places i.e. rural, backward and tribal areas.
•Empower women in order to bring them to the level of men-folks and to share equal privilege.
•Take up environment and ecological development activities.
•Promote games and sports among the tribals and others to provide recreational facilities and to bring about social integration.
•Open schools, colleges of different streams, Arts, Agricultural Science, Commerce, Theology and Language and cross-cultural college including adult literacy for the illiterates.
•Open care center and training centers for de-addiction cum rehabilitation, counseling, awareness center, HIV/AIDS, population control, orphan, aged and uncared by providing accommodation for such people.
•Have ecumenical set up in concept and nature in all its endeavors through networking, unity, cooperation, collaboration, and ministry.
•Advocate Human Rights for social justice, through training and motivation of the poor, and to support the cause of the poor before the government and the world community.
•Promote Right of information Act to the masses.
Activities:
I. Language, Literacy and literary programme:
Sümi Naga language course in association with Sümi literature Board, six months basic Certificate and one year advance diploma course is offered. This course is targeted to promote cross culture married couples, children, students, youth, research scholars and masses. So far ninety students in Advance and eighty students in Basic have successfully completed course and serving at different institute. At present 25 students are undergoing Advance course.

II. Cultural Research Programme
Focuses are on: Oral literature; folklore, myths, legend, wisdom sayings. Indigenous Culture: Customs & traditions, agricultural life & activities, festivity and festivals, rituals & rites, habits & diets, indigenous industries and economy.

Cross Cultural Research on Naga customs and traditions is being carried out at selected villages/places for empirical studies. Documentary and tribe affinity analysis programme has begun with seminars and workshop in collaboration with government agencies (NECC). So far two days seminar on Naga Folklores was conducted in Nov. 2007 in collaboration with NEZCC in which 12 Naga tribe participated.

Another research programme on ‘Sümi Naga folksongs documentary’, was conducted ‘at Lazami Sümi Naga ancestral village in February 2008, sponsored by NEZCC. This project has become an eye opener for awareness and promotion of cultural values.
Under this project research on oral narrative is given more importance. Networking with reputed agencies such as Sahitya Akedamy and other regional universities has developed to the level of resource person and participation at research seminars and workshops.
At present research on agricultural activities, festivity and festival are under the process.

III. Documentary & Publication work:
For documentation of oral tradition and promotion of cultural research work the society is also involved in publication work. At present the society has two research booklets in its credit, Sümi Naga work Folksong Songs book and video CD and Sümi Naga folksongs book, and video CD.

Along with the documentation work the society is also engaged in literary work for further promotional work. Thus, publish translation work as well, currently revising Sümi Naga folksongs book and video CD and English version of Naga Folklores. Apart from culture information with a view to promote vernacular literature a book entitled ‘Apostolmi chighi kini shiküka (Didache)’ was also published in 2007.

IV. Religious (Indigenous Theological) Studies:
Nagaland state is the only Christian dominated states in India with 98% of population. Whereby influence of this group of people matters a lot for the growth of the societal life. On examining such contribution and effect ICS felt responsible to initiate some avenue to check such measure. This idea leads us to realize that laypersons are untapped resource of Church and social ministry that weights special concentration. Seeing the growing need of layperson in Church ministry equipping them Biblical and Theological knowledge is encouraged. Hence, to promote built indigenous Church ICS is offering Laity Bible courses in collaboration with TESPRO International UK.: Diploma and Bachelor of Ministry course (in English & Sümi vernacular medium).

V. Human Resource Development Programme
•Personality Development: counseling, career guidance to children and youth.
•Imparting indigenous workable skill training to the unemployed youth, woman and self help groups; Handicrafts: card making, decorative items, wooden, bamboo & Cane crafts etc. Indigenous Arts, yarning, dying and weaving etc.
•Organize different training programme, workshop and seminars on different life issues and impart leadership training to leaders, woman, and youth.
•Act as consultant agency, facilitates technical and non technical trainings to national reputed Institutes for the underprivileged citizens; B.Tech. Biotechnology, B.Tech. Biochemistry, B.Tech molecular, B.Tech (food processing).B.Tech Agri. Bsc Agri., B.Sc Forestry.,Bsc. Nursing, Public Health, GNM. First aid & practical Nursing, Medical Lab tech., MCA, MA folklore studies, and Theological Studies etc. All together 78 students have been facilitated through youth empowerment programme.
•Music & arts: to the underprivileged children.
Western: Piano, Drum & drum.
Indigenous: Flute & mouth organ, Folksong and Folkdance

VI. Traditional hospitality:
1. Public Health: Care and support to HIV & AIDS victims; Mother and Child care; Aged and differently abled person.

VII Social welfare & service;
•Library cum mini cultural museum at present there are 400 members comprising of underprivileged students, researchers, scholars and general masses.
•Tobacco control in collaboration with state Government and National tobacco control Programme.
•Family counseling, technical and faith based moulding.
•Human Rights for deprived, woman and indigenous people, associated with world mountain people’s organization.
•Environment awareness & pollution control
•Asylum
a. Conference Hall (120 seat capacity)
b. Guest room (Double bed)
c. Meditation hall.
Cooperation:
The project begins with a humble beginning. No state or central government nor any private agencies came forward to help neither encouraged. However, with all humility the society began the work. The method adopted for the safeguarding of cultural heritage is fourfold; research, documentation, coding and implementation. This process began with identifying the village community through survey report and analyzing the findings.

Lazami village which is believed to be the first ancestral village of Sümi Naga tribe was then selected for the said project. This village is not only the First Sümi Naga village, but also said to have been where many other Naga tribes ie: Lachepumi and Nethophumi village of Angami tribe, Zülhami and Khutsami village of Chekhasang, Longkumer clan of Ao, Kent clan of Rengma, Lotha, Sangtam, and Yimchungrü tribe are said to be immigrated from this ancestral village.

Their Language spoken is the original unpolluted language of Sümi soil, unlike any immigrant Sümis. Lazami language also has affinity with Chekhasang, Mao, Zeliang, and Rongmei. 80 percent of Sümi Cultural life is still intact, which is comparatively higher and better than any other Sümi villages or Nagas in general. Those integral characters are; language, folksong, folklore, diet, agricultural practices, household items, and furniture etc.

Largest village of Sümi tribe, of 950 household (present 2008 record). Lazami village is rightly a ‘cultural village’. Be it Naga migratory history, village topography, villager’s nature, beauty and scientific art of Sümi language, folksongs, jhum cultivation method, product of agricultural crops and dietary habits of the people, and monument of ritualistic stone platform at Iyinu khel etc. all speaks volume of the same truth. If dreamed of having such an idol Naga cultural village, Lazami village should be the model.

Their cooperation and response to our action plan is immensely contributing a lot. Reciprocal participation is a source of encouragement and growth for our project. Such impact of restoration is even better outside the community people. Their natural goodness instead of being good is the key factor of influencing others to assimilate and restore lost cultural values.
Institut Tshakapesh
1034 Avenue Brochu
Uashat (Québec)
G4R 2Z1
CANADA
URL: http://tshakapesh.ca
Tel.: 418 968-4424

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90474
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1978
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Education et sauvegarde de l'innu (langue autochtone)

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Développement de matériel pédagogique en langue innue, documentation en langue innue

Institution SOAMANORO Doany Manongarivo
Institution SOAMANORO lieu sacré Manongarivo [fr]
Doany Manongarivo
Lot III E 15B Ambohijanahary Fort Voyron
Mahamasina Atsimo
BP 1637 Analakely
Antananarivo (101)
MADAGASCAR

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90147
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1994
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- nécessité d'existence de patrimoine culturel materiel approprié

Main countries where active:

Madagascar

Objectives:
Ce sont des us et coutumes trditionnels marquant l'identité spécifique des tribus SAKALAVA NJOATY BETSIMISARAKA avec des variantes suivant les régions du pays (Madagascar) mais gardant l'identité de fonds
Activities:
Les activités sont traditionnelles, continues, mensuelles, annuelles, publiques, solonnelles, communautaires, dirigées par des personnes responsables, suivies par toute la communauté concernée groupée en familles. (pères, mères, enfants, parents, amis, avec des notables)
Cooperation:
Il y a une veritable coopération, dans un esprit de respect mutuel avec les communautés environnantes ou éloignées, car ce sont des pratiques rituelles, officielles où tout le monde est invité, moyennant ou sans participation symbolique
Instituut Voor Vlaamse Volkskunst vzw
Institute for Flemish Folk Art - IVV [en]
Jubellaan 123
2800 Mechelen
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.instituutvlaamsevolkskunst.be
Tel.: +32 15 633 499

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90054
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1964
Budget: U.S.$60000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Flemish folk music, flag waving, traditional costumes

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Belgium

Objectives:
PEOPLE
IVV is a partner to all active participants, organisations and people interested in Flemish Folk Art. Up to now all publications have been made in Flemish (Dutch), but in the near future cooperation will be sought on an international level for publishing.
The members of the IVV are experienced practitioners of folk dance, folk music, flag waving and traditional fashions. IVV is an open organisation with no restriction as to people, politics or geographical boundaries.
PRODUCT
Folk art includes every culturally precious ‘product’ from a living ethnic community. It can also be considered as all kind of art emerging from a community. Flemish folk art belongs to Flemish Folklore within the immaterial cultural heritage of Flanders. ‘Flemish’ refers to what has been traceable within the larger Flemish historical communities (= within the Belgian, French and Dutch context). IVV concentrates on traditional (= at least 50 years existence) and contemporary folkdances, folk music, flag waving and traditional fashions.
PROCESS
IVV consists of four working parties dealing with:
(1) the study of dances and dancing music;
(2) the study flag waving
(3) the study of traditional fashions
(4) communication: a.o; editing the quarterly journal.
All working parties are meeting at least 6 times a year and their members are working on publications in the field.
IVV is a non profit organisation. It has a general committee and a general assemblee.
IVV is officially recognized by the Flemish Government and receives a annual budget of
40,000 euro. IVV has one part-time staff member.
Activities:
Main activities of IVV are concentrating on collecting, archiving, studying, translating,
reworking, publishing and teaching about folkdances, flag waving sequences, songs and
description of traditional fashions. Study is based on oral and written sources in Flanders
as well as abroad. IVV is co-operating with partner organizations within the field for study
and organizing courses and interactive workshops and for enabling the exploration of
archives.
FOLK DANCE
From 1964 until now 18 books were published. They cover 160 traditional Flemish
dances. Another 10 editions have been made with dances recently designed in folk
dance groups. One edition deals with terminology and vocabulary used to describe the
dances. All editions instruct the reader with historical background, description, music and
figures or drawings of dances. The working party on Flemish folk dances is also involved
in courses and interactive workshops.
Activities are actually focused on historical elements and dances within the traditional
archery guilds, study and visualization of variations on basic dances like polka, scottish,
mazurka, walzer and quadrille and editing newly created dances. The main challenge for
the working party is to keep folk dance attractive and to guarantee quality in performing.
FLAG WAVING
A basic handbook about the historical background and the technique of flag waving was
published in 1974. Six other editions cover specific flag waving sequences, a part is
historically based, another part comprise newly created combinations. This working party
made an edition with vocabulary and terminology of flag waving and another edition
about drum playing when accompanying the flag waving.
Actually new creations are noticed and recorded. The working party on flag waving has
its annual instructive course and is co-operating with partner organizations to spread the
culture and technique of flag waving within these organizations.
TRADITIONAL FASHIONS
A first standard work on local fashions in Flanders was published in 1994, the subject
being part of the ‘submerged cultural heritage’. It deals with local traditional costumes, a
fashion that’s always 50 years behind. A great deal of information on the development of
this clothing was obtained from paintings, drawings, description of people from the
recent past. In this book attention is devoted mainly to the period between 1750 and
1950, with an occasional glance back at the 16th and 17th centuries. A second edition
will appear in 2009. It will deal with thematic aspects (particular clothing elements),
geographical differences in clothing and the social role of clothing with special attention
to multicultural influences.
COMMUNICATION
The working party started its activities officially in 2008. It deals with diverse aspects of communication. Challenges for this working party are the content of the quarterly journal and renewal of its lay-out. By optimizing the opportunities of the website and translating the texts disseminated in at least four languages this medium must enable IVV to spread its information across Europe.
Cooperation:
The number of groups dealing with intangible cultural heritage is high in Flanders, due to individual, historical and political reasons. From its origin IVV has co-operated with different federations and organisations without any restriction. There is a large representation of these bodies within the working parties of IVV and within its
membership. Up to now there are no structural or ideological conflicts hampering cooperation of IVV with partners in the sector.
In July 2008, IVV presented a feasibility study to the Flemish Government about the role it could fulfil as intangible cultural heritage organisation in the Flemish community. A structural interview was carried out with 16 partner organisations. These interviews were written down verbatim, analysed on keywords grouped in a code book and clustered.
Additionally an inquiry was sent to 34 other partner organisations of which 62% responded. These inquiries were also analysed and the results qualitatively studied. This feasibility study gives us a clear view on the tasks and the responsibilities of IVV within the sector of intangible cultural heritage. According to the interviewees and the
inquired partner organisations IVV is regarded as a centre of excellence with regard to the study of traditional and contemporary Flemish folkdance (+ related songs and music), flag waving and fashions. It is expected that IVV collaborates within the sector for its research and that it will continue to spread the findings through the partner
organisations by publications, visualising, courses and interactive working parties.
Several partners offered to mediate in the multicultural approach of comparatively studying symbols and rites as well as outing of dance, song, music and fashions on the national and European level. The challenge of making the collaboration structurally visible within the sector of intangible cultural heritage can be met if IVV succeeds to get more staff and budget. As a direct consequence of the feasibility study, the above mentioned findings were translated into strategic and operational objectives and submitted to the Cultural Department of the Flemish Government.
Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN) - ICCN
Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN)
Valencian Museum of Festivities
St. Nou del Convent, 71
46680 Algemesí

18F City Hall
33 Gangneung Ave.
Gangneung
Gangwon 25522
SPAIN
URL: http://www.iccn.or.kr
Tel.: +34-96-2018630

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90228
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- 1) to promote the importance of local governments and their relationships with their communities as a fundamental tool in safeguarding and promoting ICH, 2) to formulate the cultural policies of local governments for sustainable development through safeguarding and promoting of ICH

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- As the core membership of the ICCN is comprised of local governments, the ICCN can play a leading role in implementing cultural policies within legislation to safeguard and promote ICH.

Main countries where active:

Algeria, Cambodia, Canada, Czechia, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, New Zealand, Philippines, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Spain

Objectives:
The ICCN (Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network) is committed to actionoriented policies concerning for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, and agrees to:
1) promote the ICCN as a platform for the world-wide collaboration of mayors and local government units for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, as envisioned in the Gangneung Declaration of 2004;
2) use the ICCN in formulating and implementing informed and balanced developmental and cultural strategies and policies in which sustainable development and the safeguarding of intangible heritage rank as priorities among local governments;
3) abide and implement in its role the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;
4) promote the relationship between local communities and local governments in regards
to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and to improve awareness as to why such relationships are fundamentally necessary;
5) utilize the ICCN as a means to meet the challenges of globalisation as then affect cultural diversity, and to preserve the cultural diversity of communities consisting of unique and invaluable local traditional cultures.

Based on these objectives, ICCN stipulates the following undertakings in the Statute:
1) to hold regular meetings to facilitate practical discussion, action plans, policies, and combined progress towards the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage;
2) to gather and share information concerning safeguarding activities;
3) to train local government administrators, professionals, and custodians to build safeguarding capacity;
4) to hold joint activities, such as the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival (with the first to be held in Gangneung, Korea in 2012) that aims at promoting the multiple aspects of education, transmission, and revitalization of the intangible cultural heritage, and sustainable local development.
5) to facilitate policies and action plans between local governments and their communities in relation to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.
Activities:
1) International meetings
The ICCN organizes the bi-annual Round Table of Mayors, the bi-annual Thematic Workshop, and the annual meeting of the Board of Directors to encourage and facilitate practical discussion on ways to improve the work carried out in the member localities to safeguard and promote intangible cultural heritage. Through these meetings, members share experiences, formulate ideas, and adopt new policies relating to the safeguarding
and promotion of ICH.

- Round Table of Mayors
.2004 (1 sI session, Korea): .Agreed on the need of an international organization for safeguarding ICH by local govenments at the global level
.2008 (2nd session, Egypt): .Discussion on "The role of women in safeguarding of traditional cultural heritage"
.Official declaration of the ICCN founding
.Adoption of the ICCN Statute (based on 2005 Charter)
.2010 (3ro session, Czech Republic ): Discussion on "State/Local Government's approach to ICH and the cultural policies of countries around the world"
.1 st ICCN Youth Forum, along with Mayor's meeting to involve youth in the safeguarding activities
.2012 (4th session, Korea): .1 st Joint Festival(World Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival with the participation of members, NGOs, practicioners, youth, communities among member cities around the world

- Thematic Workshop of Local Government Administrators
.2005 (1 st session, Korea): .Draft of the Charter containing the creation of the ICCN
.Discussion on "Sustainable development, safeguarding the ICH, and promoting Inter-City Network"
.2006 (2nd session, Korea): .Discussion on "Safeguarding of ICH and participation of young people"
.2007 (3rd session, Hungary): .Discussion on "Safeguarding of the ICH by building the network"
.2009 (4th session, Jamaica): Discussion on "Local government at the forefront of preserving our ICHlThe definition of community and its capacity building by local governments"
.2011 (5th session, France): .Strengthening of associate members in the ICCN
.Detailed plan will be follow in due course.
.2013 (6th session, Italy): .Joint activities with the city of Naples for the Universal Forum of Cultures, which is the international festival aiming at city revival through the use of cultural assets

- Meeting of the Board of Directors
This will be held on an annual basis to work as a driving force by deciding major plans for the ICCN, support mutual exchange of experience and best practices of individual Member States and municipalities in the care of cultural property and its promotion, transfer of local intangible cultural heritage to the younger generation, and cooperation
with local communities and individuals-bearers of such heritage.

- International Advisory Committee meeting
Through the composition in the ICCN Round Table of Mayors to be held in the Czech Republic in 2010, this committee will function as a consultation with members, and will provide expert advice to assist the ICCN in achieving its objectives. Its membership will be comprised of internationally and nationally recognized experts. It also will provide, on request, advice to members on drafting local cultural policy focused on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

- Youth Forum
It is an important task and the responsibility of local governments to nuture within young people an appreciation for, and an understanding of, the values associated with ICH.
Along with the Mayors' Meeting, the ICCN will organize a youth forum in cooperation with ICCN members in the Czech meeting in 2010. The Youth Forum will encourage local leaders to devise a legal and institutional framework for youth involvement in local contexts. This will contribute to the realization of the UNESCO Convention by building a greater awareness among the younger generation of the importance of ICH, and its need of safeguarding.

2) Cultural exchanges among members
The ICCN has been encouraging the exchange of folklore festivals and other cultural events among its members. The exchanges have been sucessfully accomplished among ICCN members. The Gannat Festival of France invited performers from Vlcnov of the Czech Republic, and Ifugao of the Philippines. The city of Gangneung of Korea invited cultural performers from the Philippines and Egypt during their annual festival.

The ICCN also encourages personal exchanges for sharing experiences relating to cultural policies in the development and safeguarding the ICH. As an example, Santa Fe (USA), one of the ICCN core members and a member of the Creative Cities
Network of UNESCO, participated in the international meeting hosted by Naples, another ICCN core member, to share their experiences in developing the city and its cultural heritage.

The ICCN considers such exchanges to be an important form of popularisation of the intangible cultural heritage of various communities and of learning about other nations. It is also believed that such exchanges contribute to the greater promotion of cultural diversity.

- Joint festival among members
The ICCN will hold a Joint Festival on a bi-annual basis, which aims at promoting education, transmission, and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage. The first one will be hosted by Gangneung, Korea in 2012.

3) Cooperation with international organizations/institutes
- Korean National Commission for UNESCO
The Korean Natcom has been a full partner with the ICCN since 2004, when the 1st Mayors' Meeting was oganized. It has continually played a crucial role in providing its expertise on the direction, policies of the ICCN. ICCN was a cooperative partner in the "International Forum on Common Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia" which was held in Korea in 2009. The ICCN meeting in the Czech Republic is under the auspieces of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
The ICCN organized an internation forum on the theme of "The Role of Culture, Administration and Business in Safeguarding and Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage" in 2009, in Gangneung, Korea.

-Czech National Commission for UNESCO
The ICCN meeting in the Czech Republic is taking place under the auspices of the Czech National Commission for UNESCO. This Commission plays a key role in the implementation of the Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Property.

-Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific in Korea (Category 2 Center of UNESCO)
ICCN and ICHCAP in Korea signed a MOU agreement in July 2008 for mutual cooperation for the safeguarding and promotion of intangible cultural heritage.

-COPPEM (Standing Committee of the Partnership of the Euro-Mediterranean Local and Regional Authorities)
COPPEM and ICCN signed a MOU agreement in the ICCN Round Table of Mayors in Egypt, 2008. COPPEM, an international organization with 106 members including local authorities in the Euro-Mediterranean region, has been cooperating in
disseminating the importance of ICH among its members and encouraging participation in the ICCN meetings. ICCN and COPPEM are the partners for organizing the Youth Forum and the ICCN Joint Festival.

The ICCN was a cooperative partner of COPPEM in 2009 in the "Intercultural Dialogue Night" which aimed at promoting an intercultural dialogue between traditional and modern cultures among Euro-mediterranean cities.

4) Publications
- Meeting reports
After each meeting, the ICCN issues booklets containing the presentation materials, speeches, and useful information to share with members, partners, and various institutes around the world.

- Newsletter
The Secretariat has been issuing newletters on a quarterly basis to share information among members, partners, and networks around the world.

- Promotional material
As a means of promoting cultural heritage of members, the ICCN produces various materials such as calendar, and post-cards.

5) The website can be found at www.iccn.or.kr

Additional information:

1) International meetings
ICCN organizes bi-annual Round Table of Mayors, bi-annual Thematic Workshop to encourage practical discussion on how to improve the work of the member localities to safeguard and promote ICH. Through the meetings, members share experiences, formulate ideas, and adopt new policies at the local context relating to ICH. It contributes to the promotion of ICH at the global level.

- Round Table of Mayors
.2004 (Korea): .Agreed on the need of an international organization for safeguarding ICH by local governments at the global level
.2008 (Egypt):
-Discussion on "The role of women in safeguarding of traditional cultural heritage"
-Official declaration of ICCN founding
-Adoption of the ICCN Statute
.2010 (3rd session, Czech Republic ): Discussion on "State/Local Government's approach to ICH and the cultural policies of countries around the world".
- Thematic Workshop of Local Government Administrators

.2005 (Korea):
-Draft of the Charter containing the creation of ICCN
-Discussion on "Sustainable development, safeguarding ICH, and promoting Inter-City Network"
.2006 (Korea): .Discussion on "Safeguarding of ICH and participation of young people"
.2007 (Hungary): .Discussion on "Safeguarding of ICH by building the network"
.2009 (Jamaica): Discussion on "Local government at the forefront of preserving our ICH/the definition of community and its capacity building by local governments"

- Youth Forum
The first Youth Forum was held with the participation of students from Canada, Czech, Algeria, Korea along with 2010 ICCN Round Table of Mayors in Czech Republic. After the 1st presentation of the youth forum to ICCN members, the forum was adopted as a regular program of ICCN. The 2nd Youth Forum will be held in Gannat, France in 2011. It is an important task and responsibility of local governments to raise within young people an appreciation for, and an understanding of, the values associated with ICH. The Youth Forum will encourage local leaders to devise a legal and institutional framework for youth involvement in local contexts. This will contribute to the realization of the UNESCO Convention by building a greater awareness among the younger generation of the importance of ICH, and its need of safeguarding.

2) Cultural exchanges among members
ICCN has been encouraging the exchange of folklore festivals and cultural events among members. ICCN considers such exchanges to be an important form of popularisation of intangible cultural heritage of various communities and of learning about other nations, and to contribute to the greater promotion of cultural diversity.
The Gannat Festival of France invited performers from Vlcnov of the Czech Republic, and Ifugao of Philippines. The city of Gangneung of Korea invited cultural performers from Philippines and Egypt during their annual festival.
ICCN also encourages personal exchanges for sharing experiences relating to cultural policies in the development and safeguarding ICH. Santa Fe (USA), the ICCN core member participated in the international meeting hosted by Naples to share their experiences in developing the city and its cultural heritage.

3) Cooperation with international organizations
- Korean National Commission for UNESCO
The Korean Natcom has been a full partner with ICCN since 2004, when the 1st Mayors' Meeting was organized. It has played a crucial role in providing its expertise on the direction, policies of the ICCN. ICCN was a cooperative partner in the "International Forum on Common Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia" that held in Gangneung, Korea in 2009. The 2010 ICCN meeting in the Czech Republic was under the auspices of the Korean Natcom.

-Czech National Commission for UNESCO
The ICCN meeting in the Czech Republic in 2010 took place under the auspices of the Czech National Commission for UNESCO.

-Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific in Korea(Category 2 Center of UNESCO)
ICCN and ICHCAP in Korea signed a MOU agreement in July 2008 for mutual cooperation for the safeguarding and promotion of intangible cultural heritage.

-COPPEM
As an international organization with 106 members including local authorities in the Euro-Mediterranean region, COPPEM is in full cooperation with ICCN in disseminating the importance of ICH among its members. ICCN was a cooperative partner in the "Intercultural Dialogue Night" that aimed at promoting an intercultural dialogue between traditional and modern cultures among Euro-mediterranean cities.

4) Publications
- Meeting reports
After each meeting, the ICCN issues a booklet that includes the policies of local governments, and this could be a guiding book for the local authorities to implement cultural policies at the local context.

- Newsletter
The Secretariat has been issuing a newsletter on a quarterly basis to share information among members, partners, and networks around the world.

5) The website can be found at www.iccn.or.kr
Cooperation:
ICCN members are closely linked to their communities and can provide the legislative direction, financial aid, and human resources needed to safeguard and promote ICH. The members also provide local communities with logistic and moral support in their effors to safeguard intangible cultural heritage.

The ICCN aids in facilitating bridges between local governments and their communities, thus establishing a mutual cooperation in the safeguarding of ICH at the local level.

ICCN members have at their disposal an enormous wealth of experience in the field of care of local intangible cultural heritage and relations with the communities that are its bearers. This means that the ICCN offers expert assistance in this regard to the Intergovernmental Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Additional information:

ICCN members have at their disposal an enormous wealth of experience in the field of care of local intangible cultural heritage and relations with the communities that are its bearers. ICCN members are closely linked to their communities and can provide the legislative direction, financial aid, and human resources, logistic and moral support in the efforts to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. Here are some cases of member cities of ICCN;

1) Case of Ifugao, Philippines
As an UNESCO Representative List, the Hudhud chant shows an excellent example that reflects the cooperation between the local government, and communities. To transmit the hudhud to the younger generation, the government provides funds for a teaching program so that the old professional chanters can train the volunteer teachers who will be the one to teach young children. The local government is in close coordination especially with the chanters to document their hudhud chanters. These documentation projects are used to make teaching modules for children in the elementary and high school.

2) Case of Gangneung, Korea
As an UNESCO Representative List, Gangneung Danoje festival has been transmitted in cooperation between the local government, and communities. The Gangneung municipality provides administrative support, and partly financial resources to the communities. Also more than 80 communities participate in the organization of the festival. In this process, there is a NGO committee that coordinate the smooth communication and cooperation between the two parties. This cooperation could be dated back to 500 years ago, and has been kept up to now.

3) Case of Generalitat Valencia, Spain
The School Museum of Pusol was selected on the Register of safeguarding programmes, project and activities of UNESCO in 2009. In the process of the project into one of the most representative ICH activities in the region, the Regional Government , Generalitat Valencia, has played a key role in supporting the institution. Since 1992, its Department of Culture has granted subventions to cover particular museum program and projects, including inventory, equipment, restoration, and research. Since 1998, the Education Department has provided teachers, duplicating the school staff, to meet the challenges posed by the success and development of the pedagogic project.
Interactividad Cultural y Desarrollo A.C.
Cultural Interactivity and Development, A.C. [en]
Priv. de Manantiales #3
San Lucas Cuauhtelulpan
Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala
CP 90110
MEXICO
URL: http://interactividad-cultural.mx
Tel.: +52 24 64 61 88 67

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90075
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization
- Fostering new economic activities for self-funding of intangible heritage manifestations.

Main countries where active:

Guatemala, Mexico

Objectives:
Our objectives are:
To promote the safeguarding of the cultural heritage, mainly intangible heritage, in terms of language, cultural practices and cultural knowledge, and the museums which express de cultural diversity of México.
To work with communities to promote their development, empower their social cohesion, and their capabilities to establish a dialogue in a context of cultural diversity. Work is carried out with local (municipio) cultural practitioners and stakeholders.
To valorize intangible cultural heritage through registering, disseminating its expressions, and working with people working in the local arts and cultural rituals, and festivities and their relation to the environment. Also including Mexican migrants in valorizing, funding and promoting such local intangible heritage.

Activities:
The Association has been recently formalized but has been working for the past sixyears in three connected areas:
1. we have partnered with local people to register their rituals, including the Day of the Dead ritual and many festivities, as well as forming local committees to safeguard their intangible heritage.
2. through activities in the villages, including schools, we have held exhibits and meeting to help them develop local and migrant networks to fund activities and sustain traditional forms of their cultural celebrations.
3. we have also worked for several years with legislators in several states in Mexico, helping to develop laws on culture that incorporate the principles of the 2003 Convention for Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the 2005 Convention for Diversity, and we have worked very much with the difution and promotion of it´s principles.
4. we are working at present in setting up criteria and methodology to document and classify intangible cultural expressions as well as organizational procedures to help sustain and revitalize such expressions.

Cooperation:
As an example, for the last four years we have worked in a region which has kept much of its indigenous and local heritage. Several young people from the villages were trained to be photographers in digital photos and their photos were exhibited in the villages and given to the persons who were photographed. Activities with them are continuing in order to create an archive of materials which they keep and which can show the whole range of rituals, including the Day of the Dead, festivals, including carnivals, social practices such as barter in the markets, and their views on how deforestion and diminished water supplies are affecting their ritual and festive life. Some 25 meetings have been organized with students and researchers to develop new methods to register and understand intangible cultural expressions and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing economic and social context. Mexican migrants have also been contacted to encourage their involvement with safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in their home towns. Many meetings have also been held with state legislators to encourage that laws related to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage be passed and appropriate cultural policies at local level be established.
International Association for Falconry and Conservation of Birds of Prey (IAF)
Rue de Flandre 31
B-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.iaf.org
URL: http://www.facebook.com/IAF.org
Tel.: + 32 472 069 354

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90006
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1967
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement

Objectives:
1. To represent falconry throughout the world. Falconry is the traditional sport of taking quarry in its natural state and habitat by means of trained birds of prey. It is a hunting art.
2. To preserve and encourage falconry within the context of sustainable use of wildlife.
3. To encourage conservation, the ecological and veterinary research on birds of prey and promote, under scientific guidance, domestic propagation for falconry.
4. To develop, maintain and amend national and international laws, treaties and conventions to permit the pursuit and perpetuation of falconry.
5. To require the observation of falconry, hunting, conservation and welfare laws, regulations, traditions and culture with regard to the taking, import, export and keeping of birds of prey, the taking of quarry species and the right of access to land in the country concerned.
6. To promote and uphold a positive public image of falconry with specialist organisation, which regulate or otherwise affect falconry.

Activities:
The IAF is a non-profit international association, which represents 69 falconry Member Organizations from 48 nations whose total membership exceeds more than 30,000 individuals worldwide. Regarding active membership, which forms a community linked by the desire to pursue the objectives for which it was established, the IAF Officers, Advisory Committee, and Council of Delegates meet at its Annual General Meeting to discuss matters of the association.
Representatives of the IAF have been active as members of the board of directors, participants and supporters of the Archives of Falconry (USA) and the Falconry Heritage Trust (UK). Many representatives of the IAF made presentations on the cultural tradition and history of falconry in their respective nations at the international conference held on September 12-15, 2005 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for the proposal of falconry as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. In July 2007, the IAF, along with many of its Member Organizations, attended the Festival of Falconry, in Reading, England, which united and presented the heritage of falconry for UNESCO recognition for representatives and interested festival attendees. The IAF will attend another Festival Falconry to be held for the same purpose in 2009. In November 2006, the entire Council of Delegates visited the Archives of Falconry where the greatest collection of falconry heritage materials exists in a single location in the world. The collection includes paintings, books, documents, and other literature, artifacts, and also the Memorial Sing dedicated to the memory of the founder of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, which depicts the culture, tradition, and heritage of Bedu falconry in the Arabian Gulf.

Cooperation:
Over many years the IAF, through various representatives, has intervened to protect the practice, tradition, and heritage of falconry where it has existed for centuries. IAF representatives have met with falconers, local, regional, and national government authorities, and at the international level in the European Union. We have provided expert advice in law and regulation, cultural practices, and heritage history, conservation and biological information, where appropriate, in the following countries most recently: Belgium, China, Denmark, Estonia, Kazakhstan, PMalta, Morocco, Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, and USA. Because many falconers of the world rely on birds of prey produced in captivity, we have intervened to encourage and support captive propagation throughout the world, including in Europe and North America. Similarly, where local falconers rely on raptors harvested from naturally occurring wild populations, the IAF has intervened to support wild harvest on the principle of sustainable use, as part of the nations' cultural and traditional practice of falconry.
International Association of Paremiology - IAP
Associação Internacional de Paremiologia
R: Chefe António Afonso, n 29 - 2 Esq
8800-636 Tavira
PORTUGAL
URL: http://www.aip-iap.org
Tel.: +351281321106

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90322
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- other
- Research, Education, Social Care

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- other
- Good practices in education and social care

Main countries where active:

Angola, Argentina, Brazil, China, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Viet Nam

Objectives:
The NGO is dedicated to the scientific study of proverbs. It mainly seeks to:
- encourage international cooperation in paremiology and related scientific areas;
- to establish programs of educational activities with public officials and the private sector;
- to encourage young researchers in protecting intangible cultural heritage;
- to organize conferences of national and international paremiology;and
- to promote studies in paremiology (study of proverbs).

Activities:
The NGO organizes conferences, exhibitions as well as pedagogical activities.
Cooperation:
Cooperation with Embassies, of Poland, Germany, Finland, Australia, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Malta, Estonia, Municipalities, Librarie, Schools, Social Institutions, Universities, Foundations
International Council for Traditional Music - ICTM
Conseil international de la musique traditionnelle - CIMT [fr]
c/o Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology
University of Music and Performing Art
Anton-von-Webern Platz 1
1030 Vienna
AUSTRIA
URL: http://www.ictmusic.org
Tel.: +1 410 501 5559

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90009
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2009; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015
Year of creation: 1947
Budget: U.S.$100333
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic o

Objectives:
The International Council for Traditional Music is an NGO in formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Through its wide international representation, it acts as a bond among peoples of different cultures and thus serves the peace of humankind.
Its aims are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance of all countries.
Activities:
The International Council for Traditional Music organizes World Conferences, Symposia and Colloquia, publishes a peer-reviewed journal Yearbook for Traditional Music, distributes the online Bulletin of the ICTM, and maintains an Online Membership Directory.
Study Groups are comprised of members in a common area of scholarly study. Currently there are 18 active ICTM Study Groups, on African Musics, Applied Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, Folk Music Instruments, Historical Sources of Traditional Music, Iconography of the Performing Arts, Maqām, Mediterranean Music Studies, Multipart Music, Music Archeology, Music and Dance in Oceania, Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, Music and Gender, Music and Minorities, Music in the Arab World, Music of the Turkic-speaking World, Musics of East Asia, and Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Study Groups are an essential part of the ICTM. They hold periodic symposia and publish the results of their ongoing research.
Colloquia have been organized by invitation since 1981. These events focus on selected themes intensively discussed by smaller groups of scholars and representatives from related fields.
ICTM world conferences are held biennially and offer the general membership and the public opportunities for exchanges on a broad scope of issues. The 2015 world conference will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan. The last five world conferences were held in Sheffield, U.K. (2005), Vienna, Austria (2007), Durban, South Africa (2009), St. John’s, Canada (2011), and Shanghai, China (2013).
The ICTM has edited the CDs of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music from 1995 until it came to an end in 2005. The ICTM secretariat and ICTM members were actively involved in the process of evaluating the applications for the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and afterwards they have served in the Consultative Body of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, which examined nominations for the Urgent Safeguarding List, requests for the International Assistance and proposals for the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.
The Yearbook for Traditional Music, a referenced scholarly journal, is published annually and carries essays, reviews and reports in the area of traditional music and dance for its international readership. It was established in 1949 as the Journal of the International Folk Music Council.
The Bulletin of the ICTM appears three times a year (January, April and October) with ICTM news, calendar of future events, and reports from Study Groups, National and Regional Committees and Liaison Officers. It was established in 1948 as the Bulletin of the International Folk Music Council.
The ICTM website provides the most current information on ICTM conferences, Study Group Symposia, Colloquia in preparation, and recent publications. Members may access the frequently updated ICTM Online Membership Directory, apply for membership and submit inquiries to the ICTM Secretariat at the website.
Twelve Executive Board members are elected by the ICTM members during the world conferences and they include a President and two Vice Presidents. The Secretary General is appointed by the Executive Board and assisted in the Secretariat by an Executive Assistant. Since 2011, the Secretariat is located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The ICTM has members in all states parties from the Electoral Group II except the Republic of Moldova, as well as in many other countries around the world (103 as of June 2014).

Cooperation:
Most ICTM members do fieldwork in communities in rural or urban areas by participating observation. Many take music and dance lessons and participate in performances of the music and dance they study.
Furthermore, ICTM members act as liaisons between performers and performing venues all over the world. They quite often assist communities in getting access to audiovisual recordings, and increasingly assist them in making their own audiovisual recordings and establishing documentation centers.
Through its publications, the ICTM facilitates the exchange of information, and thus contributes to the promotion and awareness-rising on the importance of intangible cultural heritage. All activities are based on the principle of partnership with communities, groups and/or individuals concerned. ICTM members, organized in National and Regional Committees, are in various capacities involved in the implementation of the 2003 Convention on local, national, regional or international levels, including the participation in the ICH NGO Forum. They are particularly active in projects that aim towards documentation, research, promotion and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage.
International Federation of Thanatologists Associations - IFTA
Fédération Internationale des Associations de Thanatologues - FIAT [fr]
Oude Enghweg 14
1217 JC Hilversum
NETHERLANDS
URL: http://www.thanos.org
Tel.: 0031 35 73 70 829

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90253
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1970
Budget: U.S.$55000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Funeral heritage and religious practices

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement

Main countries where active:

Australia, Cameroon, China, Congo, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda

Objectives:
OBJECTIVES of FIAT-IFTA: ARTICLE II; Section B and F:
B. To research and jointly study legal, moral, social and scientific issues relating to funeral services and thanatology activities, especially with regard to services rendered in the memorialization and disposition of deceased individuals;
F. To safeguard the Global Funeral Heritage in joint effort with other organizations and to create awareness in governments and international bodies;
Based on Section Band F, FIAT-IFTA as an umbrella organization cooperates, finances activities of partner organizations (ex.ASCE, ALPAR, China Funeral Ass.,Funeral museums) to safeguard traditions like dances and chants related to mourning and death; and encourages studies, research and publications on these subjects. In line with the Convention FIAT-IFTA members promotes awareness and knowledge of these practices among young persons.
EXEMPLE I of the concept: 'global funeral heritage' as meant by FIAT-IFTA in conformity with the spirit of the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage is the report on 'social pratices, rituals and festive events' made by one of our Members Mrs. Teresa Saavedra, ALPAR- Latinamerican Funeral Association:
Las Ñatitas: The Ritual Beyond Death in Bolivia
It is understood that our sense of belonging, as a human characteristic, is the total sum of all those symbols, beliefs, values, traditions and rituals - which fused together result in our cultural identity.
To this effect, it has been put forth, that the definition of "Funeral Heritage", consists of "the expressions, customs, rituals, sites, buildings, constructions and instruments related to death, loss and grief'.
The challenge of working in this area, has led us to generate a series of meetings with authorities and institutions such as the Ethnographic and Folklore Museum, MUSEF in Bolivia, which depends on the Cultural Foundation of the Bolivian Central Bank. MUSEF is one of the most representative organizations in this country, where its archive, one of the very few of its kind, guards very rich informative, historical and cultural data. This material in turn, reflects the socio-cultural processes that have been lived throughout Bolivian history - by its "living cultures" in rural as well as in urban areas. It also serves as the initiation for current and future studies in Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethno History, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Ethnomusicology and other research areas. During conversation with MUSEF's Director, Ramiro Molina, we coincided on our shared interest of studying the possibility of generating a referential framework, which would allow us to find common ground for future collaboration.
www.musef.org.bo
Inside MUSEF's department of Cultural Outreach and Communication, its head, Mr. Milton Eyzaguirre, shares with us some of the very particular hues of the perspective of certain festivities through the eyes of Andean and Bolivian culture:
"Since Pre Hispanic times, the physical and spiritual care of the deceased was of vital importance. Mummification was a common practice; the body was treated with abundant care and devotion. Life in the other world was transcendental; there were two dimensions of life: life at the physical level and life in the space of the dead. Therefore, in the country's local context, the Catholic dates for remembering All Saints and the Faithfully Deceased on November 1st and 2nd, are celebrated together as the return of the souls of all those deceased. In this context, the celebration is not only on those specific dates but it involves the whole month of November, with dedication to the "sullca" god - a minor or small god.
Furthermore, Mr. Eyzaguirre's investigations show specifically those customs related to the Day of the Dead - "the ritual of sharing food with giving the dead and their souls a meal, a feast. Today, almost all traditions of eating and drinking with the dead have been maintained to this day, as it is observed in Fiesta de Todos los Santos y de Las Ñatitas, where every November 8th, a traditional takes place, where human skulls are adorned with flowers and are taken to cemeteries and churches to be blessed. There is no precise data for the origin of the "riatitas", other than that they originated during pre-Columbian times. The La Paz native "amauta", Sabino López, confirms this fact in his account that before the Spanish conquistadors set foot on the American continent, the "Chullpas", mummified remains of "curacas"(chiefs) were worshiped. To this effect, the skulls deeply related with the soul or "ajayu" in Aymara according to Andean concepts - the body's death is not necessarily related to the death of the spirit of the deceased. It is in this context that the "ñatitas" represent Andean deities, to whom favors are solicited, some are named according to their origin and others are given pseudonyms".
The Bolivian Ambassador to UNESCO, Pablo Groux, mentioned "for a long time the festival of the "ñatitas" has been a celebration beneath the surface, underground, but in the last years it became very well known, due to in large measure to more massive means of public information. There is a great need to preserve it, in spite of some resistance by the church, which has been already dealt with. At this moment it is vital to dig in and study the ritual and its anthropological implications".
The material for a anthropological and historic research is extensive, in the quest to fully understand these traditions and rituals. But the importance of preservation remains the paramount endeavor, in the desire that all efforts are conducive to the collective protection and preservation of this patrimony.
We are certain that access and sharing this research material, is a positive way to raise awareness in the subject of cultural heritage safeguarding.
Our deepest appreciation to MUSEF and its Director, Mr. Ramiro Molina, for allowing us the possibility to look for common platforms for us to work in the future - looking to build new synergies with a multitude of actors and places, in lieu of proposing positive and pragmatic conservation strategies and solutions.
EXEMPLE II ( performing arts):
MUSICA AND MEMORIA: Study and Collection Mourning Music of the FIAT-IFTA Member:
Bunderverband Deutscher Bestatter:
Mourning music plays a central role through the centuries in all culture areas. It was composed not only for famous personalities. Frequently it is also expression of a personal processing of the mourning.
The CD collection "Musica et memoria "is far more than a pure documentation of the development of the mourning music from the Middle Ages to today. For the first time the broad spectrum of the mourning music is comprehensively opened. The selected music pieces show that mourning music does not have to sound inevitably quietly, reserved or sad. Thus the spectrum of the CD of gentle and beautiful death reaches over defendant and marching death up to uncompromising and clarified death. In one handbook worth reading the music pieces are opened so that mourning music in completely new light appears.
The project singular on the music market, which was initiated by the board of trustees of the German funeral cultural association, member of FIAT-IFTA, could close a research gap in the music science in co-operation with the Robert Schumann university in Duesseldorf also. "Musica et Memoria "offers just as affecting as surprising listener life nit for all, which are interested vocationally or privately in mourning music - in music lovers just like for all those, which are responsible for the organization of funeral services.
Musica et memoria Mourning music by the centuries Funeral Music through the centuries
Düsseldorf 2005, 6 CD, running time: 360 minutes.
MANY OF OUR NATIONAL AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS PUBLISH AND WORK IN THIS FIELD FOR MANY YEARS.
EXEMPLE III (awareness and consistency with the definition of safeguarding):
One of FIAT-IFTA's partners is ASCE: Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe. Actual President of ASCE: Mrs. Luiza Izaguirre Member of the FIAT-IFTA Funeral Heritage Advisory Committee ( see section 6c) promotes the awareness to safeguard the traditional craftmanship to preserve and maintain the European tradition of graveyards and gravestones in cooperation with many city councils and local authorities in Europe.
This is done for exemple by the publication of the book: Cemeteries of Europe - A Historical Heritage to Appreciate and Restore. A SCENE project by Mauro Felicori & Annalisa ZanottLPublished 2004
Creating awareness by publications and organizing meetings is one of the tasks of the FIAT-IFTA Funeral Heritage Advisory Committee.
FIAT-IFTA acts as an umbrella organization for financing and promoting the safeguarding and preservation of the Global Funeral Heritage:
FIAT-IFTA Charter of Funeral Heritage - Barcelona 2006
ALPAR Declaration of Funeral Heritage - Bogota 2010
Foundation by FIAT-IFTA of IAFM - International Association of Funeral Museums
FIAT-IFTA Conference on the Safeguarding and Preservation of Global Funeral Heritage, Düsseldorf, Germany 2010, Bogota, Colombia 2011 and Dublin, Ireland 2012
Publication of the biannual Funeral heritage Report
Annual meeting FIAT-IFTA Funeral heritage Steering Committee since 2006 in Chantilly, France
International Funeral heritage Expert Advisory Committee.
Activities:
Members of the FIAT-IFTA Funeral Heritage Advisory Committee:
1 - IRELAND, Name: Prof. Dr. Peter Harbison,Profession: M.RI.A., F.S.A. (Fellow Society of Antiquaries of London), H.R.H.A. (Hon. Member Royal Hibernian Academy), H.F.T.C.D.), Member, Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland.
Activities: History Professor, Member of Glasnevin Trust Board (National Cemetery of Ireland)
Publications: Has worked for many years as archaeologist. Honorary Academic Editor of the Royal Irish Academy, Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and an Honorary Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He has written widely on Irish Art and archaeology, including Guide to Historical Monuments of Ireland (1970), The Archaeology of Ireland (1976), The High Crosses of Ireland (1992), Treasures of Ireland (2003) and a number of books on eighteenth century drawings of ancient Irish Monuments.
2 - FRANCE: Name: Mme Muriel Ghys:Profession et activités: Conseiller et formateur dans le secteur funéraire.Depuis 18 ans chargée des relations internationales au sein de AMFN, dont le but est de faire connaitre le patrimoine funéraire.
Compétences : Vingt ans d’expérience dans le domaine funéraire professionnellement, spécialiste du domaine des rituels funéraires et du deuil.
Publications: Petit Guide des Rites Funéraires - de nombreux articles dans la presse professionnelle
3 - GERMANY Name: Dr. Rolf Lichtner,Profession: Director of Kuratorium Deutsche Bestattungskultur eV.; Secretary General of Bundesverband Deutscher Bestatter; Director of Fachverlag des deutschen Bestattungsgewerbes GmbH
Activities: Responsible for conferences and seminars in Germany concerning funeral heritage; cooperation with and sponsorship for universities, museums for sepulcral culture and comparable institutions; publications for the funeral branch, e.c. mourning music
Publication(s): Author and/or publisher of numerous articles and books concerning all issues of funeral heritage
4 - RUSSIA Name: Dr. Sergey Yakushin, Profession: Funeral Director, Thanatologist, researcher University of Novosibirsk,
Activities: founder of Novosibrisk Crematorium, Novosibirsk Memorial Park, Museum of World Funeral Culture (Novosibirsk, Russia), publisher in Funeral Home Journal (All-Russia funeral magazine), Academician of European Academy of Natural Sciences, Member of the Artists Union of Russia,
Publications: Articles on Funeral Apparel an Attire and Russian Mourning Music in Funeral Home Journal, owner of the Russian Funeral Attire Collection
5 - LATIN AMERICA Name: Mr. Jorge Luis Tamayo Gaviria, Profession Economist UNAULA, Autonomous Latinamerican University, Colombia, Researcher University of Antioquia, Colombia
Activities: Founder and President of ALPAR, Latin American Association of Cemeteries and Funeral Services, 1988-2003 University Professor of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, UNAULA and Universidad Cooperativa INDESCO, Specialist on Latinamerican Funeral Traditions
Board Member of:Parque Cementerio Jardines de la Esperanza (Manizales - Colombia),Parques Cementerio Jardines de Esperanza (Cucuta, Bucaramanga, Ocana - Colombia),
6 - PR of CHINA Name: Mr. Xin Bingyong, Director of the Longua Funeral Museum in Shanghai
Activities: Preservation of Foreign Funeral Sites in Shanghai
Publication: Catalogue of the collection of the Shanghai Longua Funeral Museum
7 - SPAIN Name: Mr.Fernando Sanchez Tulla, Profession: Director Museu de Carosses Funebres;
Activities: Funeral Services, Cremation, Cemeteries, Coffin Production and Repatriation. Member of EFFS (European Federation of Funeral Services) Funeral Culture Working Committee;
SPAIN Name: Ma Luisa Yzaguirre ,Profession: Current President ASCE (Associationi Significant Cemeteries of Europe) ;Publications: Articles about European cemeteries in specialist magazines, Lectures about funerary heritage in specialist exhibitions, (Valencia, Dusseldorf, Bologna, and Moscow),Lectures in specialist workshops in cemeteries and funerary heritage, Meetings and conferences with European Institute of Cultural Routes in order to get ready the European Cemeteries Route.
8 - CANADA Name; Mr. Yoland Tremblay, Directeur Cimetiere Notre Dame des Neiges and the preserved historique site of La Fabrique de la paroisse Notre Dame de Montreal.
Various publications on the subject.

EXEMPLES ILLUSTRATING EXPERIENCE IN SAFEGUARDING:
FIAT-IFTA promotes together with the French "Les Amis Du Musée Funéraire National" the founding of a French Funeral Museum in Paris in order to be able to exhibit among other artifacts the unique historic collection of "Faire Part de Décès et Cartes de Condoléance". At the moment this collection can not made accessible to the public because the French Funeral museum lacks exhibiting space and funds for the conservation of this collection. ## Ongoing activity started in 2008 ##
1978 the founding of the Shanghai Funeral Museum and financing of the archeological excavacations of historic Shanghai burial sites. Preservation of the funeral and burial customs in the region of Shanghai.
June 2002 organized by partner ASCE - Ass. of Significant Cemeteries in Europe: workshop to introuce a comparative approach concerning conservation and restoration techniques
June 2004 organized also by partner ASCE to create awareness: 'Week for Discovering Funeral Art in Cemeteries'
1995 Partner of FIAT-IFTA: Funeral Association Therebint: "Studies on Vanitas and Funeral Symbols and Burial Monuments.
Cooperation:
FIAT-IFTA as umbrella organization: Collaboration with and support of specialised organizations such as:
- Association 'De Terebinth Funeral Culture, The Netherlands ,Excursions, Newsletters, lobby activities with the government
- ASCE - Creation in 2001 of the European Cemeteries Route as a tourist itinerary. The significance of the European Cemeteries Route resides in its multicultural diversity and respectful approach of the dead. Cemeteries are part of our tangible heritage, for their works, sculptures and engravings. Likewise, cemeteries are part of our intangible heritage, of our anthropological reality, giving support to the environment surrounding the habits and practices related to death.
Lectures on: "Significant Cemeteries in front of new social habits" (Cremation, new kinds of graves, different cultures "by Javier Rodriguez Barberan (President of the Scientific Committee of the Cemeteries Route).
- National Funeral History Museum in Beckton, UK
- Exhibition 2010, Germany: "Schwermut und Schonheit, Trauerkleider"
- Permanent Exhibition and preservation by World Funeral museum in Novosibirsk of the Collection of Russian Funeral Costumes
- Exhibition of "Medaillons and Poems for the Deaths", Funeral Museum, Houston, USA
- Exhibition in Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Ancient Prints of the Last Journey of Napoleon; Preservation of the Collection Jol
Many publications in the FIAT-IFTA magazine: THANOS Magazine. Some exemples: Illustrations on Cinerary Urns in Japan, June 2007. Mortality and Rituals in Burma, October 2003. Traditional Burials in Sumba, Indonesian Island 2001
Publication by FIAT-IFTA member: Radbout Studies: 'Mortuary Rituals in the Netherlands', March 2009
FIAT-IFTA inventarises all these activities and aims to advise UNESCO on this specific field of Funeral Heritage.
International Mask Arts & Culture Organization - IMACO
239, Yuksa-ro
Andong-si
36709 Gyeongsangbuk-do
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
URL: http://www.worldmask.org
Tel.: +82-54-853-6397

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90295
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Republic of Korea

Objectives:
- To strengthen activity and human network for members
- To build the network for international mask arts & culture based on this organization
- To heighten culture related masks
IMACO aims to:
i) to keep in contact with people related to masks all over the world and region,
ii) to develop connection and friendships among member organizations,
iii) to inherit and develop mask arts & culture of each country based on the cultural diverse of UNESCO,
iv) to promote mask art activities all over the world.
Activities:
The activities of IMACO are:
(a) to arrange world mask culture heritage movie contents materials
(b) to work for making contents using IT skill such as 3D scanner
(c) to build a network system with world mask culture organizations, research centers, person
(d) to publish magazines for the variety of world mask culture
(e) to support world mask related festivals
(f) to support world mask related exhibitions
(g) to Support world mask related creative activity
Cooperation:
The IMACO’s main mission is to foster international cooperation between relevant organizations of Mask Arts and culture for the exchange of information and knowledge concerning the safeguarding of tangible and intangible culture of Mask. The construction of a portal website will make it possible to create an international pool of Mask culture -related experts and authorities who will have the opportunity to exchange information online and access a variety of materials of mask culture.
IMACO futher aims to:
- Construct an international cooperative network among various stakeholders such as practitioners, experts and officials from the field of Mask arts and culture.
- Utilize the above network for carrying out joint programs, projects and research for the safeguarding of Mask arts and culture.
International Organization of Folk Arts (IOV)
International Organization of Folk Art - IOV [en]
Comité international des arts et traditions populaires - IOV [fr]
Mr Fabrizio Cattaneo
IOV World General Secretary
Via Pietro Spino 102
24126 Bergamo
Italia

Mr Ali Khalifa
IOV World President
PO Box 5050
The Kingdom of Bahrain


ITALY
URL: http://www.iov.world
Tel.: +39 335 54 30 256

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90154
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1979
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Safeguarding through use of IP law tools

Objectives:
IOV is a worldwide organization of individuals and institutions organized for the purposes of documenting, preserving and promoting all forms of folk art, both tangible and intangible. The UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, with an emphasis on inventory making, research and documentation, is the frame of reference for many IOV projects and programs.
IOV encourages and supports scholarly and scientific research, documentation and publication on topics related to all five domains of the ICH; supports national and international folk art festivals and events; and coordinates exchanges among practitioners of folk art, including performing folk arts troupes and handicraft artisans; Through its commissions, IOV coordinates the work of experts worldwide in performing arts, crafts, festivals and events, traditional food, oral traditions including folk tales myths and legends and folk costumes
The objectives of the IOV International Commission on Scientific Research, with regional and national commissions in many areas and countries, include bringing together leading experts in folk art to collaborate on projects, symposia and conferences and publish proceedings on conferences and symposia. Through its scholarly journal Folk Culture, published quarterly in Bahrain and distributed to universities, libraries and cultural centers worldwide, the Commission on Scientific Research provides a forum where experts may submit for publication important works on folk art, folk culture and other topics within the domains of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Similar publications, as well as a newsletter either are, or will soon be, published in the languages of UNESCO. IOV believes that in order for the intangible cultural heritage to survive, it must evolve and meet the needs of people today. Consequently, IOV supports innovative ways to interest the youth in folk dance, music, song and costumes as a way of preserving and promoting folk art and ICH
IOV encourages democracy by requiring open elections of officers, executive board and presidential council members. Policy is made by the Presidential Council and ratified by the General Assembly. Officers and members of the Executive Board and Presidential Council are elected by the General Assembly. National sections hold democratic elections every two years.
IOV recognizes the importance of preserving folk culture and intangible cultural heritage by seeking to involve a broad coalition of individuals and organizations at all levels of society and from all strata of the population. To accomplish this objective, IOV has implemented a policy of nondiscrimination that welcomes all who wish to participate. Membership fees accommodations are given to those who are financially disadvantaged. IOV adheres to the WANGO Code of Ethics, adopted in 2008. A principle objective is to cooperate and coordinate our work with that of other NGOs in order to avoid duplication, as well as to conserve human and financial resources.
IOV encourages youth participation through its International Youth Commission, which currently includes over 120 members from 45 nations. World youth congresses are held biennually. The first was in 2008 and the second will take place in 2010 in Nanjing, China. IOV members commit to support the objectives of both UNESCO and IOV.

Activities:
IOV FIRST WORLD YOUTH CONGRESS: Bountiful, Utah, August 2008 brought together 120 young delegates and 350 observers from 40 nations for five days of lectures, demonstrations and workshops on ICH. The theme was "Living Traditions: Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage." Fifty lectures and presentations focused on the 5 domains of ICH, traditional knowledge and Expressions of Culture were presented. A folk art festival attended by over 12,000 plus 350 folk dancers and musicians from 10 nations provided a venue for presentation of folk art; HIGHLIGHTS included exhibits from China (Nanjing YunJin Silk Brocade Research Institute) and Azerbaijan (National Culinary Institute of Azerbaijan).
During the past four years, IOV has opened offices with full or part-time paid staff in Bahrain (2007), Nigeria (2005), USA (2009), and China (2009) Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing). Offices with part or full-time staff continue to operate in Brazil, Russia,
The Secretariat, in Austria, is staffed by the Secretary-General, a full-time Assistant, one part-time Bookkeeper and a part-time Treasurer. Since the death of IOV Founder Alexander Veigl in December 2008, the Secretariat has given priority to the job of updating membership data.
2009, IOV national sections established in Spain, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.
2009, CONFERENCE ON FOLK TALES, MYTHS AND LEGENDS, held in Manila, Philippines with international participation explored ways of identifying and preserving oral traditions. IOV publishes an extensive calender of folk festivals each year, publishes a semi-annual newsletter, maintains a web site at www.iov-world.com and will soon open an online folk art market for selling handicrafts (proceeds to support the crafts makers). Similar activities are carried on in national sections.
2009, PEACE IN THE AMERICAS Conference and Youth Forum, to be in Santos, Brazil in August 2009, organized by ABROSOFFA, the IOV Brazil National Section. Representatives from 15 countries will explore the theme "Achieving a Culture of Peace: Folk Art Projects that Work."
2007-2009 IOV Quarterly Journal "Folk Culture," a peer-reviewed Arabic language, academic and scientific journal published in Bahrain (abstracted in English and French), is devoted to ICH of the Arab States. Now in 9th edition. Support is provided by the King of Bahrain, Ministry of Information, and the IOV Regional Office for the Middle East.
2009, in April, IOV held joint meetings with The National Folk Organization of the USA (2009).
2010, IOV INDIA CONFERENCE ON THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE being organized in Baruda, India in October 2010 by IOV India, with cooperation of the Indian National UNESCO Commission, Universitiu of Baroda, Prof. Dr. Parul Shah, Chair.
2007, IOV World Congress and General Assembly in Volos, Greece, 2007, organized by IOV Hellas Section, brought representatives from 80 nations together to approve new IOV projects and the annual budget, and to elect officers and directors. An international conference on the topic "Cultural Dialogue In the Context of Globalization" was held concurrently with the GA, which included performances by folk art troupes.
2009, IOV received trademark protection for its name and logo from the US Patent and Trademark Office in June, 2009.
2009, IOV China Section was officially established with a full-time Executive Director and four paid staff members. Significant recent accomplishments in China include:
- 2009, the IOV China Section was founded and legally recognized;
- 2008, Youth delegation of 12 individual participate in First IOV World Youth Congress, in Utah, USA;
- 2008 Nanjing YunJin Brocade Brocade Research Institute received a delegation from IOV to consult on ICH project;
- 2008 Nanjing YunJin participated in an IOV sponsored exchange with the USA and sent a loom and delegation to demonstrate silk brocade weaving at the IOV World Youth Congress in Utah, USA;
- 2008 IOV Secretary-General Hans J. Holz becomes the 69th torch bearer in Olympic Relay in Nanjing, China by invitation of Beijing Olympic Committee;
- 2009, City of Nanjing agreed to host the Second IOV World Youth Congress in October of 2010 with budget of approximately $US 200,000.00 and participation of 300 youth from 150 nations;
- October 2009: IOV China will host a conference with the theme “Protecting the Endangered Cultures of Minority Populations” in Chengdu. IOV China Section will bring to China approximately 30 experts to present papers and participate in discussions.
In 2008, IOV Established an International Commission on Traditional Theatre chaired by Valery Khazanov (Russia). In July of 2009, the IOV Scientific Research Commission for Central Europe will meet in Belorus and approve its working plan for 2009-2010.

Cooperation:
IOV has thirty years of experience cooperating with national UNESCO commissions other NGOs working in the Culture Sector. In particular, IOV has supported the work of academicians, scientists and professional folklorists from the time the first IOV Science and Research Commission was founded 20 years ago. In 2005, IOV had, as members of 17 commissions, 280 professional folklorists and academic experts specializing in traditional food, handicrafts, dance research, traditional music, puppetry, theater, myths and lengends, and other categories within ICH. (These commissions exist now on the national and regional level as a result of a decentralization in 2007). Many of these individuals had the backing of universities and institutions, which frequently are IOV's partners in organizing conferences and lectures. IOV has also worked with governmental bodies to sponsor folk dance and music festivals, as well as other folk art events.
IOV's mission, in part, is to help smaller or less well established NGOs working in the areas of folk art further their missions. IOV has also cooperated with large NGOs. IOV held joint meetings with CIOFF in 2005, organized by the Russian National House of Folk Art, which represents both organizations in Russia. On the national level, particularly in the area of festival organizing, IOV and CIOFF work together. ;
IOV works closely with national UNESCO Commissions in many countries where it is not uncommon to find the same individuals working in both organizations. For example, in the Philippines, IOV President Carmen Padilla is also the head of the Cultural Section of the Philippine National UNESCO Commission. In Bulgaria, Prof. Mila Santova has been head of the Bulgarian National UNESCO Commission and Chair of the IOV Science and Research Commission. Elvira Kunina is head of the Russian National UNESCO Commission and Vice-president of IOV. In 2005, she arranged a joint meeting of IOV and CIOFF in Novgorod.
In the USA, there is a close cooperative relationship between the National Folk Association and IOV. In 2008, the two organizations worked together to sponsor an international conference on Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage where 40 countries sent participants. In Bulgaria, Dr. Mila Santova, an IOV member and co-chair of the IOV Scientific Commission has led efforts to create the national inventory of ICH. In the Philippines, IOV recently co-sponsored a conference on folktales, myths and legends together with the Philippine National UNESCO Commission. IOV has had similar success working with national UNESCO commissions in Romania, India, South Korea, and other countries. In China, the China Federation of Literary and Arts Circles, CFLAC, and IOV have worked together to organize folkloric festivals in various parts of China, including Beijing, Xian, Hongzhou, Weifang, Boashan and Shanghai.
IOV National Sections should report to their National UNESCO Commissions at least annually. In 2009, IOV submitted its annual report to UNESCO Director General, ICH Section, Culture Sector, NGO Relations, US National UNESCO Commission, the Philippine National UNESCO Commission, and others. IOV works with many national and international NGOs, IGOs and private enterprise to support events and projects in a number of countries.
Through a Scholarship named to honor the founders of IOV, deserving young people who are economically disadvantaged are given assistance for travel to conferences that will further their careers in folk art.
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore - SIEF [fr]
P/A Meertens Institute
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
1012 DK Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
URL: http://www.siefhome.org
Tel.: +31 204 628 500

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90385
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1964
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- scientific reflection on these domains

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Objectives:
The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore—SIEF—is a pluridisciplinary organization centered in the twin fields of ethnology and folklore in their various denominations, within the larger family of anthropological and cultural-historical disciplines. The principal mission is to gather scholars from its fields; to provide platforms for critical debate, networking, and exchange; to build infrastructures for intellectual cooperation; to publish and promote excellent scholarship; and to move forward the fields that it represents. SIEF facilitates scholarly exchange in the community of ethnology, folklore and neighboring disciplines. It also serves as a forum for different professional worlds, bringing together researchers, teachers, students, archivists, as well as museum and heritage professionals. The society helps to raise public awareness of the scholarship they bring together and its societal relevance. It encourages the use of ethnological knowledge, skills, and perspectives in society at large to inform public opinion and inspire innovative solutions in a rapidly transforming world.
SIEF promotes academic freedom and the critical role of scholarship in society. SIEF members are active in critical heritage studies on the one hand. On the other hand they work in daily practice closely together with governmental bodies for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as well as with the communities of ICH in its various domains. SIEF gives form to an intensive interaction between academia, ICH brokers or mediators and practitioners in daily life. SIEF also fosters academic debate on the impact of ICH and other policies on the ICH safeguarding processes, relying on research work carried out by its members and, through the platform of scholarly debates as well as larger public outreach, is encouraging exchange of various experiences and lessons learned in this regard.

Activities:
SIEF organizes biennial international congresses in odd-numbered years in cooperation with local organizers at academic institutions in various parts of Europe. SIEF has two affiliated scientific journals: Cultural Analysis (open access) and Ethnologia Europaea (open access after two years). It publishes a newsletter twice a year (open access) with practical information on the fields of ethnnology and folklore and activities of the society, its working groups and members. The newsletter also regularly covers some topical issues concerning the international debates on the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003 Convention). SIEF hosts an elaborate website with current information on the society, its working groups, conferences, and publications. SIEF makes active use of social media and visual communication to provide its members and a broader public with the latest news in ethnology, folklore and intangible cultural heritage, with updates on the activities of the society, its working groups and members.
SIEF supports active working groups organized by SIEF members around scholarly topics and approaches. These working groups, fourteen altogether, organize panels or workshops at the biennial SIEF congresses and organize their own conferences in even-numbered years, also followed by prepared publications. In 2009, the working group 'Cultural Heritage and Property' was established focusing on the position and meanings of cultural heritage and cultural property on the different societal levels in the modern world and its nation states (see 8.a). In conferences organized by the working group, and publications prepared by its members, attention inter alia is given to the politics of cultural heritage and the consequences of the UNESCO 2003 Convention. The interest of the working group is also on the contested relation between tangible and intangible heritage from the perspective of transnational organizations of cultural politics, and on the entanglements of sociopolitical processes with economic reverberations. Members of this SIEF working group are active in critical heritage studies by publishing scientific and popular articles, giving presentations and organizing conferences and workshops, as well as participating in topical international debates on the implementation of the 2003 Convention (see 8.c).
In addition to its own activities, SIEF advocates extended international cooperation and partnerships, and cultivates a sisterhood with the American Folklore Society (AFS) and the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). SIEF members are participating in a number of internationally funded research projects on cultural heritage, to name some: 'CoHERE / Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe', 'Constitution of Cultural Property: Interdisciplinary Research Unit', 'Osmose / Intangible Cultural Heritage and Comparative Law', 'UNESCO Frictions: Heritage-making across global governance'.

Cooperation:
SIEF members have a great expertise in communicating and working with communities, groups and individual ICH practitioners, due to their profound engagement in fieldwork that entails sensitive interaction with people and their culture.
Through the dissemination of the research results the voice is given to local communities. Many SIEF members advocate for those societal groups that do not have access to the means of distribution of their knowledge and skills.
The diversity of experiences is great due to the fact that SIEF members are from nearly all countries of Europe and North America and represent interests in different domains, dealing with specific aspects of everyday culture and ICH.
Apart from the international perspective of SIEF, its members perform in plurifom networks on local, regional or national levels working closely together with communities in various ICH domains. SIEF members are also involved in establishment of national ICH inventories in many European countries (to give some examples, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, The Netherlands), as well as providing expertise for developing national and applying UNESCO set reporting mechanisms on ICH safeguarding. All this is carried out in close cooperation with communities.
SIEF thus provides a platform for exchanging experiences of interaction between academia interested in critical heritage studies and ICH practitioners, being aware that these are not reciprocally exclusive communities, and scholars are often bearers of diverse cultural traditions.
Istanbul Camlıca Klasik Sanatlar Merkezi
Istanbul Camlıca Classic Art Center [en]
Küçük Çamlica
Bulgurlu Mah. Libadiye Cad. No: 11/A
Üsküdar-İstanbul
TURKEY
URL: http://www.istanbulklasiksanatlarmerkezi.com
Tel.: 02 16 650 89 77 78; 0532 293 3553; 0538 737 7139

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Turkish) - No. 90410
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Bahrain, Belgium, China, Egypt, Germany, Netherlands, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Objectives:
Istanbul Classical Arts Center is trying to preserve and protect arts such as Miniature, Bookbinding, Arabic Caligraphy, Marbling, Nacre, Turkish Tiles, Wood Shaping, Kāti’ (Paperwork), Illumination, Engraving, which are passed from ancestors to us in a proper manner. Art left a mark in the hearts of people with savings and valuable contributions of artists, training, project and cultural activities. By means of transferring the artistic heritage towards future generations, the NGO supports the education of arts at undergraduate and graduate level in Istanbul Küçük Çamlıca and supports artisans both financially and spiritually with various activities.
The Istanbul Classical Arts Center is an art consultant to many official, private and institutional organizations.
The aims of the organization are:
- To do art activities together with the artisans who produce qualified art works in the country and to prepare the environment in which they will perform their arts,
- To provide craftsmans with the possibility of a training center at the undergraduate and graduate levels,
- It has an art gallery where 1300 pieces of art can be seen together and purchased as a certificate, to make it ready for the preservation, development and spread of art
At the same time ;
- Doing decorations in places like mosque, small mosque, mansion, workplace, home
- Prepare publications, medias, collections,
- Working to be able to do all the work related to artists and to be ready is to open up the existing ones.
In order to fulfill the above objectives;
- Our 6-floor building;
- 230 person capacity conference hall, 5 separate classrooms in total,
- Photo studio,
- Art technology department,
- Meeting room and guest room,
It has a cafeteria and a terrace for 50 people and it is presented to the arts and art lovers.
İKSM is a venue where both craftsmen and art lovers can meet with craftsmen, benefit from their valuable accumulations and examine their works closely.

Activities:
EXHIBITION, SEMINAR, SYMPOSIUM AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
6 exhibitions and 6 seminars are held annually with the contributions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Municipality of Pendik, Üsküdar and Çekmeköy. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, TC. Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University, Pendik Municipality also are cooperating and contributing.
81 COUNTRY, 81 EXHIBITION AND 81 SEMINAR PROJECT
İKSM has not only lived in art lovers living in Istanbul, but also 81 art 81 exhibitions and 81 seminar projects with the effort of delivering art and crafts to all art lovers of our country.
HİLYE-İ ŞERİFE PROJECT
“Through our arts, which we have as humanity, we must be given a spiritual service to our society with our artisans. Competent craftsmen with precious, for the ages, arouse the esthetic feelings in humans, them, art, to reveal beauty to feed precious artifacts.”
A selective group of masters has prepared a 63 piece of valuable collection in the memory of Prophet Muhammed. The collection is named Hilye-i Şerife. This collection will be exhibited in several countries each year and will be translated to the foreign country’s language, 130.000 of collection book has been distributed in the concept of Hilye-i Şerife.
TURKEY'S FACE PROJECT
The projects that are carried out jointly with the official institutions are the ones that are prominent in terms of the historical, cultural and architectural texture of our country.
CLASSICAL ARTS COLLECTION
ART TALKS
“By arranging special days in our central building, we are able to meet with the lovers of our craftsmen, with their talents and with those who are devoted to this art.”
CULTURE AND ART ACTIVITIES
IKSM Cultural Art and Photography Tour, organized by the leading experts of culture and arts in the country, organized with the program and domestic and abroad.
EXPERT AND CERTIFICATE
Certificates and expertise of old and new classical works of art, plates, books, documents and Quran are made with a commission composed of the leading artists of the country.
MOSQUE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
TBMM NEW BUILDING DESIGN STUDIES
As a big step taken in the interior decoration, the art application work was carried out within the new building belonging to the Grand National Assembly where the nationality is represented at the highest level.
FACESIMILE AND PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES, DIGITAL PREPARATION OF ART, OUR WORKS
In İKSM, the symbols of old and new classical works of art are made. This mushaf, written by Mehmet Şekerzade, written by Şekerzâde Mehmet Efendi, who is in the bedrock of the calligrapher Ahmet Karahisar (H.875-963) and in the original Süleymaniye Library, -I was suppressed in Amire, Mushaf-i Şerifin, 16-page supervisor of Kaside-i Bürde was presented to the art lovers with a limited number of semi-public works.
CLASSICAL ART HISTORY
A sponsorship agreement has been made for 10 years and 10 volumes of Classical Arts Yearbook, which is about 550 pages and considered to be a long-term publishing life.
2013, 2014 and 2015 yearly books have been already published.
MURAKKA, PAPER, MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
DOCUMENTARY
THE BOOK OF ESMA-İ HÜSNA
A magnificent collaboration of hüsn-i hat and tezhib resulted a wonderful collection of art which is presented to the society.

Cooperation:
İstanbul Çamlıca Classical Arts Center was established by Hattat Zeki Yavaşi and Ali Osman Tobay in 2012. Since then, this field has made significant work in the country and the international arena. some of those İstanbul Çamlıca Classical Arts Center in 2012;
Exhibitions, seminars and courses were held abroad in countries such as China, Pakistan, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The organization also supports the leading organizations of the country in the field of culture and art and plays a leading role in the organization of the organizations. The NGO has a high level of experience in working closely with leading figures in the cultural and arts fields to fulfill its duties because it is an organizer of such events as jointly organized exhibitions and competitions.
6 exhibitions of classical arts and 6 seminars "Arabic Calligraphy" project were realized in Istanbul with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Pendik Municipality, in 2012.
During the period of 2013, 6 exhibitions of classical arts and 6 seminars "Illumination" project were realized in Istanbul with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Pendik Municipality, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, TC. Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Pendik Municipality contributed to the exhibition 7 Exhibitions 7 Seminars "Miniature" in Istanbul, in 2014.
In 2015, 9 exhibitions and 9 seminars "Marbling" project were realized with the contributions of Classical Arts Üsküdar Municipality in Istanbul.
In 2016-2017, Çekmeköy Municipality contributes to Classical Arts in Çekmeköy 7 Exhibitions 7 Seminars "Classical Arts" projemiz is realized.
Certificates are given to the artisans and art lovers who register and continue their programs with the leading names in the field of culture, art and science of our country.
EXPERT AND CERTIFICATE
A commission consisting of the leading artists of the country is cooperating for the certification and appraisal procedures of old and new classical art works, plates, books, documents, Quran.
81 COUNTRY, 81 EXHİBİTİON AND 81 SEMİNAR
Work with municipalities and governorships
"81 Exhibitions 81 Seminars" BURSA February 2014, RİZE April 2014, SAKARYA June 2014, SİVAS July 2015
Kansanmusiikki-Insituutti ry
Finnish Folk Music Institute [en]
Jyväskyläntie 3
69600 Kaustinen
FINLAND
URL: http://www.kansanmusiikki-instituutti.fi
Tel.: +358 40 358 8921

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Finnish) - No. 90407
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Finland

Objectives:
The purpose of the association is to raise awareness and promote understanding of Finnish folk music, folklore and folk art.
The association maintains the Folk Music Institute and a folk music museum in Kaustinen. lt actively safeguards and communicates information related to folk music by way of research, archiving, publishing, recording and education.
The association also upholds folk music ensemble Tallari in Kaustinen, who actively gives performances, and carries out research, recording and education activities.
The objective is to serve all lines of work in the field of folk music and folk dance in Finland.
Since the founding of the Folk Music Institute, the Folk Music Institute has been sustaining, reviving and promoting intangible cultural heritage phenomena related to folk music all across Finland. A special aim has been to advance the preservation of different local traditions as a living tradition.
The Folk Music Institute's mission to promote folk music is nationwide. The Folk Music Institute is located in Kaustinen, where the Finnish folk music tradition has remained particularly strong and alive. During the past few decades Kaustinen has become the center of folk music in Finland. This has provided the Folk Music Institute with an excellent environment for exploring, understanding and identifying the forms and patterns of one of the country's most significant local tradition, and thereby promoting the vitality of the various folk music traditions throughout the country.
Activities:
The Folk Music Institute carries out research, archiving, publishing, recording, education, museum and information activities in the field of folk music.
The Folk Music Institute's archive is one of the most extensive archives of folk music in Finland. The archive provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Finnish folk music over the past 50 years. Every year during the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, the Folk Music Institute records the local tradition and tradition bearers of different Finnish regions.
The Folk Music Institute also houses a library that serves students, enthusiasts and professionals of folk music and folk culture.
The Folk Music Institute produces studies that deal with Finnish folk music and its current phenomena. The research results have been published as theses, phonograms and press articles and, for example, in the context of exhibitions. The aim is for the research results to increase public awareness of Finnish folk music and to inspire educational and leisure activities related to folk music. In the spring of 2017, two full-time researchers are working for the Institute's Research Program.
The Folk Music Institute is the most significant publisher of folk music related books and albums in Finland. The main goals of the Institute's publishing activities are to increase knowledge of folk music and to produce and disseminate material belonging to the field. Publications include 130 recordings and 96 books. The Folk Music Institute edits and publishes the Folk Music magazine in cooperation with the Finnish Folk Music Association. The magazine is the only music publication on folk music in finnish language.
The Folk Music Institute participates in the nationwide folk music teaching and training planning and implementation at all levels from early music education to primarily and secondary schools, colleges, universities, and adult education. The institute participates in both formal and informal education. To achieve its goals, the Folk Music Institute organizes training events, both in cooperation with various communities and institutions and independently. The Institute also compiles and publishes educational material and participates in co-operative projects in the field of education.
The Folk Music Institute has incorporated the Näppärit method of early childhood music education into the basic activities of the Institute. The aim is to safeguard and ensure continuity of the local traditions and Näppärit method in the future. Näppärit is a method of teaching and music education that is based on folk music. lt was created by music educator Mauno Järvelä in the early 1980s. The activity has since expanded throughout the country and has attracted a lot of interest abroad as well.
The Folk Music Institute coordinates an average of fifteen weekend-wide Näppärit courses, directly employing 15 teachers annually with a total of 66 teaching days.
The staff members of the Institute participate in seminars in their professional field, as well as in the steering group, board and committee work in a number of cooperative organizations across the country. At the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, the Institute has a strong role to play in developing cooperation between various interest groups in the folk music field.
The Folk Music Institute manages the Finnish Folk Music Museum. The key objectives of the museum are to highlight the intangible cultural heritage of the Kaustinen region and to enhance its appreciation in the local population as well as with wider audience.
Cooperation:
The Folk Music Institute has a long history of cooperation with local communities, groups and individuals. Its objectives are directly related to the safeguarding and nurturing of the various players in the field of folk music and dance.
Locally, the Folk Music Institute acts as an interlocutor of the various associations and organizations in Kaustinen and supports their work. The aim of the institute is to cherish local folk art so that it will continue to be rich in the coming decades. This is done in close cooperation with local communities, groups and individual tradition bearers. The Folk Music Institute organizes lectures, exhibitions, concerts and seminars, and produces publications in Kaustinen. The aim is to forward the pursuit of leisure activities around local tradition and raise awareness of its importance.
The Institute strives to influence local cultural policy so as to take full account of the values of intangible cultural heritage.
Nationally, the Folk Music Institute seeks to increase the opportunities for local communities to pursue their own heritage. The Institute seeks to ensure the preservation of culturally diverse folk music and dance culture in the future as well. The work is done, for example, by endorsing phenomena related to various local traditions, individual tradition carriers such as "master folk musicians", or groups or communities organized around local tradition. The emphasis on the importance of cultural diversity is also strongly reflected in the publishing, exhibition and research work of the Folk Music Institute.
Kant in Vlaanderen VZW
Lace In Flanders - KiV [en]
La dentelle en Flandre asbl [fr]
Infirmeriestraat 5
3290 Diest
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.kantinvlaanderen.be
Tel.: +32 13 33 40 02

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90135
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1997
Budget: U.S.$35000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- 'Lace in Flanders' also promotes lace making as contemporary textile art

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Cataloguing and conservation storage

Main countries where active:

Belgium, Germany, Netherlands

Objectives:
The non profit organisation “Lace in Flanders” (Kant in Vlaanderen) was founded in 1997 with the purpose of safeguarding the craft of needle and bobbin lace making and related techniques. The association has officially been acknowledged by the Flemish Government as a representative for lace and the craft of lace making and as such acts as its spokesperson.
"Lace in Flanders" is an organisation being led by highly motivated volunteers, mainly (but not exclusively) women, driven by a will to preserve this precious and historic tradition.
The Organization takes measures, through formal and informal education, to ensure the continuation and revitalisation of all aspects of lace and lace making, this includes identification, documentation, historical research, storage, preservation, conservation and promotion.
Needle and bobbin lace making, and various related techniques, are traditional crafts which have been passed on from generation to generation. The craft of lace making in Flanders has been constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, and their historical background, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.
‘Lace in Flanders’ is coordinating, optimising and stimulating many initiatives concerning the endangered intangible cultural heritage of needle- and bobbin lace making and the various related techniques. The organisation encompasses the academies, schools, centres, local organisations, and individuals interested in the traditional craft of lace making and its wide variety of aspects.
The organisation has competence to support the efforts which need to be made regarding the scientific studies of lacemaking and the improvement of the quality of the working techniques. It supports the academies, schools and associations promotes their activities at home and abroad.
“Lace in Flanders” organises exhibitions at home and abroad as well as lace contests for youth and adults for the promotion of lace as a creative skill. It organises workshops and lectures. Studies and research with respect to lace are supported and encouraged. Members and stakeholders are informed through the quarterly bulletin “FILUM”.
Activities:
“Lace in Flanders” (Kant in Vlaanderen) treasures lace and lacemaking as an important intangible cultural heritage for Flanders, Europe and the World. The art of lacemaking is a valued craft with a long and important textile and social history. Starting simultaneously in Flanders and Italy in the early 16th C the craft has been passed down through the generations and has been, and still is constantly updated by designers and lacemakers . Despite industrialisation in the 19th Century this handcraft has spread throughout the world, and is still practised by thousands of lacemakers in many countries.
“Lace in Flanders” encourages and co-ordinates the study and the practice of all types of bobbin and needle lace, both traditional and contemporary. It stimulates contacts between lacemakers in Flanders and abroad in order to maintain and spread the old traditions, and to encourage contemporary creations.
According to its constitution “Lace in Flanders” aims to promote and co-ordinate the study, practice, and technical quality of bobbin and needle lace and related techniques, in both traditional and contemporary art creations.
Workgroups composed of highly motivated volunteers are active for the benefit of “Lace in Flanders”, its membership and stakeholders. To obtain its goals “Lace in Flanders” organises the following activities in both Flanders and abroad, covering a wide variety of topics concerning this valuable craft.
- History of lace and Lacemaking: “Lace in Flanders” maintains contacts with universities, research centres and lace experts in Flanders and abroad , aiming at extensive studies appertaining to lace history, and the spreading of the craft in various regions of the world. Reports of the research are published in a quarterly magazine ‘Filum’ which is sent to members.
The Organisation has a library, for the use of its members and researchers, with a large number of books and magazines relating to lace, lacemaking and other related topics.
- Education and Networking: “Lace in Flanders” is in contact with formal and non-formal educational establishments in order to revitalise the various aspects of the cultural heritage of lace. Lace Organisations are encouraged to provide courses and workshops for both adults and young people in order to spread the knowledge of the various and famous old Flemish lace techniques. Training programs in lace making techniques are organised for teachers, to guarantee the quality of the education provided.
Identification and conservation: many individuals, groups, churches and convents in Flanders own collections of valuable laces. “Lace in Flanders” is making a concerted effort to trace these collections, to support the owners with identification, cataloguing and providing information on storage, conservation and restoration.
- Contemporary Lace: Famous artists in contemporary lace are employed to lead workshops, courses and Lectures. Projects for contemporary lace design are provided to maximize the opportunity for international exchange and collaboration. Exhibitions of new creations are organised and have been staged not only in Belgium, but also in Barcelona, Spain; Kiskunhalas, Hungary; Minsk, Belarus; Vianen, The Netherlands and Cologne, Germany.
- Lace Museum: “Lace in Flanders” is managing its own Lace Museum in Sint-Truiden. The Museum was opened in 1970 in the historical building owned by the Ursaline Sisters. The Sisters have had a tradition of lace education for over a hundred years. In order to continue this tradition, and on request of the sisters “Lace in Flanders” provides lace education and workshops in this historical building. The museums display decorative lace pieces designed and executed by the sisters of the convent during the period of the revivs of lacemaking in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Communication: The journal ‘Filum’ is published four times a year containing many articles about the history of different types of lace and lace in other countries.
Cooperation:
“Lace in Flanders” has officially been acknowledged by the Flemisch Government as a representative organisation for the intangible cultural heritage of lace, lace making and related techniques.
Safeguarding programmes are the core business of the organisation. Therefore “Lace in Flanders” co-operates with museums (c), experts (b), national (a), and international (d) organisations.
a) “Lace in Flanders”” operates in close contact with FARO. Flemish interface centre for cultural heritag (FARO. Vlaams steunpunt voor cultureel erfgoed vzw).
“Lace in Flanders” participates in national events such as ‘Erfgoeddag’ (Heritage day)
“Lace in Flanders” collaborates with the education department of the Flemish Government in order to set up programs for lace making courses for teachers in formal and non formal education.
“Lace in Flanders” co-operates with church communities, convents and private collectors of lace and advises them about storage conservation and cataloguing.
“Lace in Flanders” organises demonstrations with practitioners in order to promote the intangible cultural heritage of lace. “Lace in Flanders” organises also seminars for lace schools, organisations, groups and individual practitioners of the craft.
Information and news-letters are sent to stakeholders by e-mail.
b)“Lace in Flanders” has close contacts with experts from lace, textile and fashion museums such as Musea Brugge; Bruges, Vlasmuseum, Kortrijk (Flax museum Courtrai), Lace and Costume Museum, Brussels; MOMU, Antwerp.
c) “Lace in Flanders” has set up projects with museums in Belgium:
- National Flax and Linen Museum
- International Lace Contest for adults: ‘Linum’ 2004
- International Lace Contest for youth : ‘In space’ 2007
- Brugge Museum
- Seminar : Lace History, Lace as inspiration for design
d) “Lace in Flanders” has also set up projects with similar organisations in European Countries:
- Generalitat de Catalunya: Lace exhibition with contemporary lace from artists in Flanders (exchange program with the University of Barcelona)
-“Lace in Flanders” is in contact the centre for needle lace making in Kiskunhallas, Hungary
- LOKK - National Lace Organisation in the Netherlands)
- Forum Alte Spitze - Germany (Forum for Vintage Laces)
- “Lace in Flanders” is in contact with the Catalan Association of Lace makers and aims at organising an exchange program between lace makers of both regions, Flanders and Catalunia.
Kenniscentrum Immaterieel Erfgoed Nederland
Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage [en]
Hoeferlaan 4
6816 SG Arnhem
NETHERLANDS
URL: http://www.immaterieelerfgoed.nl
Tel.: +31 026-3576113

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90233
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2015
Year of creation: 1992
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Netherlands

Objectives:
The main objective of the organization is stengthen popular culture and intangible heritage in het Netherlands. Our organization is subsidized by the Dutch government as the national institute for intangible heritage.
Activities:
Activities mainly center on promoting, inventorying, documentation, advising the Dutch government, reflection, strengthen local communities.

Additional information:

The Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur is a small professional organization. Most of the staff are professionally trained ethnologists/historians. The bureau is led by Ineke Strouken, a professional historian. We are a foundation which is subsidized by the Dutch government. The foundation is governed by a board.
The Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur has an advisory function to the Dutch government on all (policy) issues related to intangible heritage and folklore. As such we are subsidized by the Dutch government.
Our three main tasks are: promotion, raising awareness and strengthen local organizations and communities as bearers of local traditions and intangible heritage.
We organize theme years like ‘the year of tradition’, ‘the year of the circus’ and ‘the year of the intangible heritage’, as a way of raising awareness on special issues relating to intangible heritage.
In these theme years we cooperate with radio and television broadcasters. We organize with the help of our local organizations a broad array of activities, including manifestations, book publications, exhibitions etc. as a way of raising awareness.
We issue three magazines (Traditie is our popular magazine; Volkscultuur Magazine distributes news about our sector; Levend Erfgoed is the more scholarly review, with information and discussion about intangible heritage). Among the contributors/authors to our magazines are international renowned scholars like the Americans Simon Bronner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the Englishman David Hill and Dutch ethnologists like John Helsloot, Peter Jan Margry and Hester Dibbits.
We also have three websites in the air: www.nederlandscentrumvoorvolkscultuur.nl, www.volkscultuurplein.nl and www.jaarvanhetimmaterieelerfgoed.nl, this last website with information on our theme year of the intangible heritage. We document knowledge and information on Dutch culture and intangible heritage on our website www.volkscultuurplein.nl.
In cooperation with professional publishers we issue books about themes like ‘traditions in the Netherlands’, ‘carnival’, ‘circus’ etc. We also make travelling exhibitions on several subjects in the field of living heritage, which our local organizations can use in their local museums. For us it is a way to document these traditions.
As the Dutch government has indicated that the Netherlands will ratify the UNESCO convention on the intangible heritage, the Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur has made a start with inventorying intangible heritage in the Netherlands. Also we have started with a training program for local organizations and local communities on how to document and safeguard their intangible heritage.
Cooperation:
Mutual respect and cooperation with local communities is the basic rule and starting point for our organization.

Additional information:
We always cooperate with local communities and groups, for instance in our special theme years. In 2011 we have organized several expertmeetings for these local communities and groups with the intention of strengthening their capacities to manage and safeguard their intangible heritage.
Intangible heritage is interpreted as living heritage: living heritage of diverse groups and communities living in the Netherlands. This includes living heritage of local minority cultures as for instance the Frisians in the province of Friesland. But also the living heritage of ethnic minorities from for instance Turkey and Morocco who are living in the Netherlands.
The bureau is supported by a number of specialized experts from outside the organization. These experts are organized in so called knowledgegroups, who help and advise us on specialized subjects as ‘intangible heritage’, ‘local history’, ‘folklore’. ‘circus’ etc. These experts are asked by us to cooperate with us in these knowledgegroups because of their theoretical expertise on history or ethnology or because of their practical knowledge in the field, as bearers of tradition.
We have subdivided our field in a number of specialized areas, in total we support about 6000 (mostly) local organizations who work with intangible heritage.
We have a thorough knowledge on the diverse local groups and organizations in the Netherlands who you could describe as ‘custodians’ of traditions. These are mostly local organizations who organize popular feasts like for instance carnival or local processions or events which you could label as intangible heritage, for instance a religious procession or a local festivity. Also we are active in transmitting knowledge about intangible heritage to future generations. For this we have developed research manuals and educational projects, for instance on subjects as ‘traditions in daily life’ and on ‘children play and culture in the Netherlands’.
Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation - CHF
한국문화재재단
406 Bongeunsa-ro
Gangnam-gu
Seoul 135-874
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
URL: http://www.chf.or.kr
Tel.: +82-2-3011-2625

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90025
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021
Year of creation: 1980
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

India, Mongolia, Viet Nam

Objectives:
The Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation (CHF) was established, aimed at protecting and preserving Korea’s cultural properties, creatively enhancing, developing and utilizing its traditional lifestyle culture, and thereby promote the preservation and safeguarding of the national culture as well as the culture in Asia.
Since 1980, CHF has executed various projects that involve traditional ceremonies, arts, crafts, foods, performances, and exhibitions; diverse cultural experiences; educational and publishing activities; and tourism products, including the traditional wedding experience. CHF has conducted research projects involving excavation of cultural properties in order to continue and distribute the traditional culture of Korea as
widely as possible. Moreover, CHF has involved a number of projects for safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage among the Asia-Pacific countries.
Cooperation:
Promotion and Enhancement:
1- Living Human Treasures' showcases and Permanent Exhibitions
The Living Human Treasures' showcase in particular craft work, organized by CHF is held annually every May to June by inviting elderly holders of Intangible Cultural Properties (Living Human Treasure), in order to display their art work, and learn about the skill lineage of a given intangible cultural heritage. The permanent exhibitions designed by CHF is held all the year round at the Important Intangible Cultural Heritage Transmitters' Centre, to encourage and promote the creative activities of the ICH holders, inform the public about Korea’s Intangible Cultural Properties system by highlighting government-designated Important Intangible Cultural Properties, and expand the traditional craftwork base through experience programs for
elementary, middle, and high school students.
2- Regional Intangible Cultural Heritage Events
CHF organizes the intangible cultural heritage events in the local provinces of Korea to increase interest in Important Intangible Cultural Properties among local residents and thereby contribute to safeguarding of national culture, and to display the class and excellence of traditional Korean culture more widely.
3- Pung-ryu yard playing
The traditional art performances of intangible cultural heritage staged in the Important Cultural Heritage Transmitters' Centre, Korea Cultural House and Korea House are designed to preserve and promote our traditional culture every Friday all year round.

Transmission and formal or non-formal education
1- Field Investigation of Cultural Heritage
The program ' Field Investigation of Cultural Heritage' was initiated in 1987 in order to provide the general public chances to be interested in the cultural heritage and to have better understanding in the Korean culture. The members of Cultural Properties Committee designated by Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea provide guides and thorough lectures.
2- Korean Traditional Craft Architecture school
The Craft Architecture school was founded in 1995, aimed at education and transmission of skills and techniques of traditional handcraft art as well as fostering future generation. Currently there are about 14 courses such as Chimseon (needlework), Daemok (large scale carpentry), and dancheong (Architectural Colour decoration) so on. These courses are taught by experts who are nationally, municipally, or provincially
designated 'Living Human Treasures' in Korea.

Revitalization
1- Re-enactment of Royal Court Ceremonies
CHF has opened re-enacted events for the general public according to 5 categorized royal court ceremonies such as ceremonies for Opening and Closing the Royal Palace Gates and the Gate Guards Changing Shifts, the Royal Banquet for celebration the Joseon king Teongjo's 50th birthday, the Royal Wedding Ceremony and the Representation of the King's Enthronement Ceremony since 2002.
Kültürel Araştırmalar Vakfı
Cultural Research Foundation - KAV [en]
Bostanlı Mahallesi 2016/1 Sokak No: 11/10
Karsiyaka - Izmir

TURKEY
URL: http://www.kultur.org.tr
Tel.: + 90 552 247 5570

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90142
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Turkey

Objectives:
Article 3 and 4 of the By laws Foundatıon
The Foundation's purpose:
Article 3 - Investigation of Turkey's cultural richness, documentation, archiving and informing the public through various publications / the events are available to promote. Similar studies done on people, institutions, organizations and private entities such as national or international cooperation in the size of the time.
Foundation’s job:
Article 4 - to achieve the objectives of the Foundation inside and outside Turkey:
• does cultural researches. Collects written, visual and ethnographic materials. Creates archive or information data bank. Presents this accumulation in visual and digital environment. Makes all archived documents, buying-selling and rent operations. Makes press publication activities. Prepares
all kinds of cultural contents, audio (music) and visual (film) tapes and CD s. Cooperates with the other individuals and institutions who carries out this type of work. Develops and implements common projects (associations, foundations, universities, research center, etc..)
• Organizes scientific meetings, competitions, exhibitions, shows and similar events. Participates in similar meetings held outside of the foundation. Sets up science boards and expertise commissions. Organizes cultural activities like commemoration days, ceremonies, festivals, fairs, etc..
• Can provides scholarships to researchers, scientists and experts( domestic and overseas training, master, phd , etc.. )
• Presents the research datas, cultural heritages, through publication like newspapers, magazines, books, posters, brochures, etc.., to the information of the public.
• Promotes the Handicrafts, cuisine, theater, dance, music, etc.. as tourism concepts

Additional information:

Foundation of Cultural Researches, within the scope of its establishment, performs social works in order to constitute heritage awareness at a social level and take steps to protect the traditional values, which are exposed to a swift extinction due to the popular culture. Due to these facts, the Foundation continues to work ceaselessly since 2002.

Foundation of Cultural Researches collects its objectives of establishment under three titles. One of them is to carry out studies intending to take inventory of and archive Turkey’s intangible cultural values. Those studies are carried out by professional Folklore Researchers. Data is analyzed by professional academicians.

Secondly, based on the gathered materials the Foundation performs activities via publishing and promoting in order to keep the existent cultural values alive and pass them onto the next generations. Many activities such as rituals, children games – toys, national and international conferences, exhibitions, displays and festivals based on the culinary culture are performed intending to spread the intangible cultural heritage consciousness to all segments of society. Along with these activities, social networking via internet is provided to reach the target group.

Thirdly, Foundation of Cultural Researches establishes cultural bridges in order to develop mutual projects with the national and international institutions that perform similar studies to the Foundation; and to spread our heritage – worthy cultural richness to a wider group of people. (“Common heritage” themed projects were prepared in concurrence with Bulgaria, Greece and Bosnia – Herzegovina in 2009 and 2010. Interviews continue.)

Foundation of Cultural Researches specified its objectives in the deed of foundation (Article 3 and 4)

“The Foundation makes cultural researches, constitutes a data bank, an archive by collecting visual, documented and ethnographic materials and presents those accumulations via visual and digital means. It is involved in the press; prepares culture themed audible (music) and visual (film) cassettes and CDs. It cooperates and develops mutual projects with the institutions, which perform similar studies, such as natural and juridical people, associations, foundations, universities, institutes, academies. It organizes relevant scientific meetings, competitions, exhibitions, etc. and also participates in similar meetings organized apart from the Foundation. It establishes councils of science, commissions of specialization; organizes cultural activities such as memorial days, ceremonies, festivals, fairs and so on. It brings gathered cultural accumulations to the public’s attention via newspapers, magazines, books, posters and booklets.

Activities:
Culinary Culture Program (Research / Publication and Promotion Project)

• Hamsiname Broadcasting and Introduction Project, TR0401.06.01/BSGS/007 / Promotion of Cultural Rights ın Turkey, Broadcasting Support Grant Scheme (BSGS) (2007). This Project Was Supported by European Union.
• Publication and Introduction Project for Research on Georgian Cuisine Culture in Georgian, TR0401.06.02/CISGS/004 / Promotion of Cultural Rights ın Turkey, cultural initiatives Support Grant Scheme Programme (CISGS) / (2007). This Project Was Supported by European Union.
• Asure Documentary Movie Project (2008-2012) is continuing. (Kadiries and Armenians documentary movie was shot/ Others are continuing )
• Articles about Turkish cuisine for Kamil Koc Bus Monthly Magazine (April 2007- December 2008)

Rituals program (research / publication and promotion project)

• Forest of the children (Kure Mountains National Park / Natural and Cultural Life) Research Publication and Promotion Project (2002 - 2010)
• Natural and Cultural Heritage Dia Shows / LÖSEV Foundation / For Children with Leukemia (2002-2003 / one day a week during 3 months)
• Rituel / Anatolian Heritage / Research Publication and Promotion Project (2002 - 2012)
• Anatolia Tomb Culture / Research Publication and Promotion Project (2008 - 2012)

Toyhouse Program (Research / Publication and Promotion Project)

• Anatolia Toys Culture, Research and Publication Project (2002 / 2010)
• A Universal Toy; Spinning top, Research and Publication Project (2002 - 2011)
• A radio speech about "Traditional Children Toys" (2002)
• A "Traditional Toys" presentation in Ozel Bilim College (2005)
• A consultancy for " Toy Language" documentary , TRT Istanbul Television (2005-2006)
• A "Traditional Toys" Seminar for Gazi University, Department of Physical Education and Sport Master Students (2006)
• Anatolia Toy Culture / Multivision Presentation (2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009)
• A "Traditional Toys" Dia Show in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (2008)
• A consultancy for " Toy World " documentary (Ceren Gogus / Program Coordinator – Iz TV, March 2008)
• Articles about toys for Kamil Koc Bus Monthly Magazine (April 2007-July 2008)
• Spinning top Festival in Buyuk College (2008)
• For Children's Museum Association A prensentation about "Traditional Toys" and toy work department (2009)
• Datça Toy Festival (28 May 2006 - 2007) (KAV joined as the audience in 2008 and 2009 festival)
• For Children's Museum Association A prensentation about "Traditional Toys" and toy work department (January 2009)

Archive - Document

• Toy Collection : An Archive about Traditional Anatolian Toys (Toy Program) 245 real objects were collected in Turkey. They are different sizes and wood, metal, bone, feathers, glass, leather, textiles, hair, etc.. and they were made from Natural and processed materials. The spinning top, some part of toy archive, are the richest collection of Turkey and it is the unique collection among the world.
• Amulet Collection : An Archive about Traditional Anatolian Amulets (Ritual Program) 115 real objects were collected in Turkey. They are different sizes and wood, metal, bone, feathers, glass, leather, textiles, hair, etc.. and they were made from Natural and processed materials.
• Photograph : More than 100.000 dia-positive (Professional reversal film) and digital (RAW format) photos. This documents, negative film, framed dia-positive are registered in digital media.
• Video : 360 Hour Video Recording (720 * 576 / Pal / Documentary) is registered in casette and digital media.
• Audio : 240 Hour Voice Recording (Compilation / Culinary Culture - Toy Culture - Ritual) Casette/ Tape and Digital media is registered..

Additional information:

Activities of the Foundation of Cultural Research are performed under three main titles. These are: 1) Programme of Rituals, 2) Programme of Culinary Culture, 3) Programme of Toy House.

Activities that are performed under the Programme of Rituals:
Studies are being done in the areas that involve transitional periods of life (such as birth, marriage, and death), seasonal ceremonies, celebrations, festivals, folkloric beliefs, and similar implementations. This programme is managed by Folklore Researcher Doğanay Çevik.

Anatolian Grave Culture:
Project team: Associate Prof. Suavi Aydın, Kudret Emiroğlu and Doğanay Çevik.
Searching and taking inventory of the footprints of Anatolian traditional life in order to pass them on to the next generations are the primal level of this project. At the second level, it is planned to convert this documented research into a publication. This project started in 2002.

Multivision presentation titled “Ritual”: It is the photographical presentation of the rituals related to the Anatolian culture. Those photos were presented in Germany (University of Münster) and Holland (Eindhoven) for the first time. Then, it was presented in Ankara National Photography Days.

“Aşure”, a Documentary Film Project: In our point of view, aşure (wheat pudding with dried nuts and fruits) is one the most important contacts of Anatolia’s intangible cultural heritage. The shooting of this documentary film involving aşure ritual started in 2008.It still continues.

Activities that are performed under the Programme of Culinary Culture:

Food and beverage, required materials and equipment, techniques for their preparation; eating manners, special days, celebrations, ceremonies and similar implementations and beliefs that develop around the kitchen are studied under the Programme of Culinary Culture. This programme is managed by Folklore Researcher (department chief) Nihal Kadıoğlu Çevik.

A programme which is referenced by UNESCO, titled “Protection and Support of Cultural Rights” was carried out by European Union in 2006 – 2007. Under the programme regarding the protection of local languages, there had been a series of projects that were carried out in Turkey. Two of those projects were managed by the Foundation of Cultural Research.

One of them was a project titled “Georgian Culinary Culture”. This project was coordinated by Serpil Kadıoğlu, a volunteer member of the Foundation. Nihal Kadıoğlu Çevik, the coordinator of the Programme of Culinary Culture, edited the Georgian Culinary Culture book. The other project members were Göksun Yazıcı, İlker Özdemir, Senem Doğanoğlu, Yücel Demir. This project intended to search Georgian Language spoken in the kitchen and publish it. The formal code of this project is TR0401.06.02/CISGS/004 / (additional information: Georgian Culinary Culture book was sent to UNESCO at our first application)

Our second European Union assisted project is “Hamsiname Publishing and Promotion Project”. This project was managed by Bedii Engin Koş, a volunteer member of the Foundation. The other project members were Çağatay Engin Şahin, Emine Sevde Yazıcı, Cihan Yılmaz, Pınar Tavukçu, Şükrü Oktay Şahın, Ömer Usta, Soner Özdemir. This project is also a UNESCO referenced (UNESCO / Safeguarding endangered languages / References / Record Corresponding ISO 639-3 code(s): lzz number: 01372) documentary film in Laz language. The formal code of this project is TR 04 01.06.01 / BSGS / 007 (additional information: This documentary film was sent to UNESCO at our first application)

Another project that had been carried out within this documentary film project was the research of kitchen cultures related to the fishery in the traditional life of the people residing in the North of Turkey (Black Sea Region). After the research had been done by the Foundation, the book titled “Hamsi Kurban O Göze” was prepared and published by Heyamola Publishing (2008). Writers of the book are Nihal Kadıoğlu Çevik, Kudret Emiroğlu and Prof. Dr. Cemal Saydam.

Activities that are performed under the Programme of Toy House:

The primal mission of this programme is to do studies for establishing a national based “toy museum” and create projects in order to pass folkloric toys, as indicated in the context of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, to the next generations. This programme is managed by Folklore Researcher Ceren Göğüş.

Studies, such as making a research, taking inventory, collecting the samples of traditionally produced toys in Anatolia, and bringing those data to the public’s attention via publishing are being done since 2002. A book titled “Anatolia’s Toy Culture” is being prepared regarding those studies. The writers of the book are Associate Prof. Dr. Hülya Tezcan, Assistant Prof. Dr. Tosun Yalçınkaya, Cumhur Sönmez, Ömür Tufan and Ceren Göğüş.

Studies concerning creating awareness among the media, NGOs and educational institutions about the Anatolian toys, as intangible cultural heritage values, continue. Some of the institutions which we provided consultancy service and in which conferences and work – shops were organized are: Büyük Kolej, Özel Bilim Koleji, Gazi University, Anatolian Civilizations Museum, “Association of Establishing Child Museums, Kamil Koç magazine, TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) İstanbul, İz TV, etc...

By means of the Programme of Toy House we continue to study on creating awareness among children via festivals. “Datça Toy Festival”, which was prepared by our Foundation and organized by the Municipality of Datça in the years 2006 – 2007, was the first in its field in Turkey.

A Toy Exhibition was held in 2010 within the frame of International Children Theatre Festival in Ankara. At the end of this year, an exhibition as part of the game and toy symposium organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Research and Education, will be held. This exhibition provides children to play with the toys that are produced in the work – shops.
Cooperation:
Projects and connectted communities

• Asure Documentary Movie Project / Kadiries and Caferians and Alevis
• Hamsiname Broadcasting and Introduction Project / Laz
• Publication and Introduction Project for Research on Georgian Cuisine Culture in Georgian Project / Georgian
• Rituel / Anatolian Heritage / Research Publication and Promotion Project / An Exhibition - performances and published work to promote unique cultural identity and develop cultural dialogue about Alevis - Bektasi, Caferians and Jews, Armenians, Nusayri and Syriacs, the Mevlevi, like Kadiri groups..

Additional information:

We can define the cooperation groups as women, children and elders as part of the studies carried out under the Programmes of Ritual, Culinary Culture and Toy House, which are within the frame of the Foundation of Cultural Research study programme. We cooperate with public institutions, local municipalities, academic institutions, NGOs and press (magazines, TV, radio) when organizing projects and activities within the scope of the mentioned programmes. This cooperation is made by expert participation within the frame of taking inventory of the intangible cultural heritage values.

The Foundation cooperates with children aged 6 to 10 for the Toy Culture Programme, women aged 40 to 60 for the Culinary Culture Programme and elders involving religious people for the Ritual Programme, in the projects prepared and carried out by the Foundation. This group consisting of women, children and elders are the sources that are in the traditional culture and the makers and the conveyers of the intangible cultural heritage products. We prefer to organize mutual activities and cooperate with the public institutions, local municipalities and NGOs for activities like festivals, exhibitions, etc.

Along with these national projects of the Foundation, it endeavours to broaden the scope of cooperation by preparing projects with international partners. The Foundation continues for the last five years to take steps to create mutual projects with Turkey’s neighbouring countries.
L'Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore
The Folklore Studies Association of Canada [en]
CELAT, Pavillon De Koninck
1030 Avenue des Sciences humaines
Université Laval
QUÉBEC
QC G1V 0A6
CANADA
URL: http://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/
Tel.: 1 418 656 5510 ; 1 418 254 3907

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90360
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1979
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- théories et pratiques de patrimonialisations, politiques du patrimoine culturel immatériel et du développement durable

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- pratiques de sensibilisation et de mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel immatériel par différentes formes de médiation (centres d'interprétation, expositions muséales, ateliers, écoles d'été, sites web, applications mobiles, etc.)

Main countries where active:

Canada

Objectives:
L'Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore (ACEF) a pour objet de promouvoir
l'enseignement, Ia recherche, Ia pratique et Ia diffusion des connaissances en ethnologie et en
folklore au Canada (voir l'acte constitutif de I'ACEF ci-joint, point 8b). Les objectifs de I'ACEF
rejoignent en tout point les objectifs et l'esprit de Ia Convention pour Ia sauvegarde du patrimoine
culture! immaterial de 2003 de I'UNESCO. En effet, les champs de l'ethnologie (terme utilisé en
français) et du folklore (terme utilise en anglais au Canada) renferment les traditions orales, les
arts du spectacle, les pratiques rituelles et festives, les connaissances et pratiques sur Ia nature et
l'univers, les savoir-faire lies a aux pratiques artisanales et artistiques populaires. Elle vise, plus
particulierement, à encourager l'excellence dans l'identification, Ia documentation, Ia recherche, Ia
preservation, Ia transmission, Ia promotion et Ia mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel immaterial
(PCI).
Dans Ia plupart des universites et organismes patrimoniaux membres de I'ACEF, le domaine de
l'ethnologie et du folklore est divise en trois sous-champs, soit les traditions orales, les pratiques
coutumieres et Ia culture materielle. Les cours et les seminaires de 1 er, de 2e et de 3e cycles
enseignes dans les universites canadiennes s'inscrivent dans ces champs desormais identifies
comme ceux du PCI. Les membres de I'ACEF ont toujours eu un interet prononce pour
l'inventorisation du patrimoine culture! immaterial, par Ia constitution, Ia conservation et Ia diffusion
d'archives orales. Par exemple, plusieurs universites membres de I'ACEF dispensent des
enseignements en inventorisation depuis les annees 1950 et possedent des archives orales
remontant aux annees 1940. La notion meme de patrimoine immaterial preoccupe les membres de
I'ACEF depuis longtemps puisqu'a Ia reunion annuelle de 1988 ils avaient organise une seance
pleniere sur le patrimoine « intangible » (le mot utilise a l'epoque) avec Ia participation de plusieurs
chercheurs du American Folklife Centre de Washington (Alan Jabbour, Peggy Bugler, David
Taylor, Michael Taft). II avait ete question de reflechir aux potentialites de ce concept, nouveau a
l'epoque, pour le developpement de Ia discipline et, plus particulierement, pour accroltre Ia
participation des communautes dans Ia recherche scientifique. La recherche-action avait ete
envisagee comme une fa~on d'assurer un retour de !'information recueillie vers les porteurs de
tradition par Ia preparation d'expositions, Ia redaction d'articles dans les journaux locaux, Ia
participation a des emissions de radio et de television et !'organisation d'ateliers de transmission
des pratiques menacees. Depuis lors, Ia sauvegarde du patrimoine intangible et Ia participation
des communautes ont toujours ete des preoccupations de I'ACEF.
Activities:
Fondée en 1979, I'ACEF est Ia principale et Ia seule association nationale à but non lucratif au
Canada qui reg oupe des enseignants, des chercheurs, des professionnels et des praticiens du
PCI, de langue anglaise et française, de toutes les provinces et de tous les territoires du pays. Elle
est reconnue et soutenue par le gouvernement du Canada, grâce à une subvention de
fonctionnement reçue annuellement depuis sa fondation du Conseil des sciences humaines et
sociales du Canada. La subvention lui permet de financer ses opérations courantes (secrétariat,
envois postaux, téléphone, frais de deplacement des membres du bureau de direction, etc.) et
d'organiser chaque année un colloque. Elle est l'équivalent de Ia American Folklore Society
aux Etats-Unis et de Ia Société internationale d'ethnologie et de folklore en Europe de I'Ouest.
L'ACEF regroupe environ 350 membres individuels et institutionnels provenant de toutes les
provinces et territoires du Canada (voir liste ci-joint, point 8a). Depuis ses origines, l'Association
est composée d'enseignants et de chercheurs dans le domaine de l'ethnologie et du folklore, mais
aussi de professionnels (muséologues, médiateurs, gestionnaires, fonctionnaires) et de praticiens
(musiciens, conteurs, artisans, artistes, etc.). La plupart des membres de l'association, qu 'ils soient
enseignants, chercheurs, professionnels ou praticiens, possèdent une formation de 1er cycle,
souvent de 2e et 3e cycles, dans les departements d'ethnologie et de folklore d'universités
canadiennes, principalement de I'Université Laval, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Cape
Breton University, University of Winnipeg, I'Universite de Sudbury, I'Université Sainte-Anne et
I'Université de Moncton. ·
L'ACEF organise chaque année un colloque dans differentes villes et régions du Canada et
publie une revue biannuelle, Ethnologies, qui porte sur les differents domaines de l'ethnologie et
du folklore. Elle possède une cote A et reçoit un soutien financier du Conseil des sciences
humaines et sociales du Canada et du Fonds de recherche du Quebec, sociétés et cultures. En
2007, I'ACEF a organisé à Québec sa reunion annuelle, conjointement avec Ia American Folklore
Society, spécifiquement sur le thème des enjeux du patrimoine culturel immateriel. Ce colloque
international qui a reuni plus de 800 personnes de l'Amerique du Nord et de I'Europe a largement
contribué à sensibiliser les chercheurs et les décideurs politiques à l'intérêt du PCI, et plus
particulièrement, à l'élaboration d'une politique du PCI par Ia province de Terre-Neuve en 2009 et
a l'intégration du PCI dans Ia nouvelle loi de Ia province du Quebec sur le patrimoine, adoptée en
2012. Depuis lors, il y a chaque année au colloque de I'ACEF des séances et des
communications individuelles qui traitent des questions directement liées au PCI, comme les
pratiques d'inventorisation, Ia participation des communautés à Ia sauvegarde, les effets de
l'inscription sur les listes, l'usage du PCI dans les politiques du developpement durable,
l'exploitation des nouvelles technologies dans Ia transmission et Ia diffusion du PCI, les impacts du
tourisme sur le PCI, etc. D'ailleurs, le prochain numéro de Ia revue Ethnologies est consacré
exclusivement au thème des politiques et des pratiques du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Ce
numéro double regroupe 19 articles de spécialistes canadiens mais aussi internationaux sur Ia
question, notamment américains, français, anglais, suisses, islandais, brésiliens et espagnols (vol.
36, nos. 1-2 : http://www.ethnologies.ulaval.ca). Bilingue (anglais-français), Ia revue est publiée en
format papier et en version électronique. La version électronique est diffusée par Ia plateforme
Erudit indexée par Google et Google Scholar. Elle est egalement repertoriée par neuf autres
organismes d'indexation au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en France, en Allemagne et en Ecosse. La
revue reçoit en moyenne plus de 2 600 visiteurs par mois qui consultent plus de 8 300
pages, ce qui équivaut à près de 100 000 visites par année. La revue Ethnologies a un impact
majeur sur Ia réflexion critique, les politiques et les pratiques du PCI au Canada. Seule revue
d'ethnologie au pays, elle est lue et utilisée par tous les chercheurs dans Ia discipline (professeurs,
etudiants, professionnels et praticiens). Le nombre des abonnés électroniques ne cesse
d'augmenter et de s'elargir depuis 5 ou 6 années. Ajoutons qu'un membre de I'ACEF a developpé,
avec l'appui financier de Ia Ville de Quebec, une application mobile, Decouvrir Québec, qui met en
valeur le PCI de deux quartiers historiques de Ia Ville, le Vieux-Quebec et le Quartier Saint-Roch.
Cette application novatrice a été reconnue par plusieurs prix nationaux et un prix international
(http://www. viii e. quebec. qc. ca/cu lture patri moine/patrimoine/decouvrir quebec/).
Pour toutes ces raisons, I'ACEF est un organisme pérenne et reconnu dans le domaine du PC I,
possedant les compétences et les qualifications nécessaires pour agir comme organisation non
gouvernementale dans le cadre de Ia Convention pour Ia sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel
immatériel de I'UNESCO.
Cooperation:
L'ACEF entretient une longue tradition de collaboration et coopération avec les communautés de
porteurs de traditions. Tout d'abord, I'ACEF a toujours encouragé les professionnels et les
praticiens du PCI à devenir membre et à participer à ses activités. Près du quart des membres
actuels de l'Association sont des praticiens. Si I'ACEF est encore composée majoritairement ·
d'enseignants et de chercheurs, les praticiens participent activement aux réunions annuelles et ils
publient des articles et des comptes-rendus dans sa revue. Ensuite, comme indiqué dans le point
5 du présent formulaire, depuis ses débuts, les chercheurs de I'ACEF ont toujours été soucieux du
retour des résultats de leurs recherches vers les porteurs de traditions. La recherche-action a été
une des premières mesures envisagées pour assurer ce retour de l'information recueillie vers les
communautés par Ia préparation d'expositions, Ia rédaction d'articles dans les journaux locaux, Ia
participation à des émissions de radio et de télévision et l'organisation d'ateliers de transmission
des pratiques menacées.
Au cours des dernières années d'autres mesures ont permis d'accroître encore davantage cette
participation. Des écoles d'été et des ateliers de formation ont été organises dans différentes
régions du Canada pour renforcer les capacités des communautés en matière de connaissances
des politiques du patrimoine, d'inventorisation du PCI, d'inscription d'éléments sur les listes, de
mises en valeur et de diffusion du PCI par le biais de l'organisation d'ateliers, de foires et
d'expositions. Des efforts importants ont été faits pour numériser et mettre en ligne des fonds
entiers d'archives du PCI afin que les porteurs de traditions puissent y avoir facilement accès via le
Web. Des membres de I'ACEF ont réalisé avec les provinces de Terre-Neuve et du Québec des
inventaires multimédia en ligne du PCI (voir par exemple: www.irepi.ulaval.ca). L'ACEF a fait
également des démarches pour encourager les grands musées canadiens a contribuer a
!'identification, Ia documentation, Ia recherche, Ia préservation, Ia transmission, Ia promotion et Ia
mise en valeur du patrimoine culture! immatériel (PCI). Ainsi, l'Association des Musées canadiens
a organisé son colloque annuel de 2010 à Saint-Jean-de-Terre-Neuve sur le thème de Ia
sauvegarde du PCI et les musées. La Société des musées québécois a fait de même a son
colloque annuel de 2010 et I' Association des musées de I' Alberta a suivi en 2013. Pour donner
suite aux nombreuses idées nouvelles générées lors de ces rencontres sur Ia mise en valeur
muséale du PCI, le Musée de Ia civilisation du Québec a préparé une exposition multimédia très
interactive et participative en ligne sur le PCI par le biais du patrimoine alimentaire en 2013, avec
Ia participation d'un membre de I'ACEF. Cette exposition intitulée, Manger ensemble, permet aux
porteurs de traditions culinaires de contribuer a l'exposition en déposant des recettes
traditionnelles sur le site, en faisant des commentaires et en participant à un forum de discussion
sur Ia cuisine traditionnelle (http://mangerensemble.mcq.org).
La Enciclopedia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial A.C. - EPCI
Intangible Cultural Heritage Encyclopedia [en]
Caballocalco 28,
col del Carmen, Coyoacán
C. P. 04100, México, D. F.
MEXICO
URL: http://www.humanheritage.org
Tel.: +52 55 5339 1199

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90055
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2007
Budget: U.S.$500000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Through a collaboartive web site we´re doing an extensive inventory of those activities or items that belong to each domain and the individuals related to them as well, for thus our field of work contains the 5 main domains of the Convention. EPCI AC, realiza acciones de registro, salvaguarda y difusión para cada ámbito incluido en la Convención de 2003.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Through collaboartive web site´s tools, people from all the world can help us to deliver an extensive inventory of the intangible cultural heritage, this is a powerfull tool to promote and transmit the ICH, and revitalize it as well 90055 - La Enciclopedia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, A. C. A través de nuestro programa Enlaces Culturales, se investiga, identifica, promueve y transmite el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Objectives:
To research, safeguard and promote the group of expressions and knowledge that integrate the Natural, Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage of Mexico and the world. Understanding such as physical spaces, geographical, natural, and historical of cultural relevance; the knowledge, customs, representations, expressions, and techniques such as: native languages, traditional games, festivities, dances, music, and scenic expressions representatives of the local culture, handcrafts, designs, and unique products or those due to their worth shall be considered part of the Cultural Heritage that distinguishes each country. Some of our specific objectives are:
a) To foster, promote, develop, direct, motivate, manage, provide help, and apply schemes oriented to research, promote, conserve, protect, spreading out, and safeguard the Material, Immaterial and Natural Cultural Heritage of Mexico and the world.
b) To promote, manage and develop the Encyclopedia of Immaterial Cultural Heritage, as a media of information, documentation and spreading out of the group of customs, expressions, representations, knowledge, and techniques, inasmuch as natural and material geographical spaces wherein is manifested and preserved this heritage.
c) To promote and develop studies, projects, monitoring, census, and grants that shall benefit to the executors, specialists, and keepers of the group of customs, expressions, representations, knowledge, and techniques that integrate the Immaterial Cultural Heritage of the World.
e) To collaborate in actions of surveillance and control before the competent authorities that by any reason shall be involved in the norm of the activities inherent to the research, preservation, handling, promotion, and safeguarding of the Natural and Cultural Immaterial and Material Heritage of the world.
f) To provide services in terms of national and international technical consulting related to preserve, safeguard, and spreading out of the the Natural and Cultural Immaterial and Material Heritage
g) To create, develop, and spread out of publishing, studies, courses, seminars, assessments, expositions, study plans, and training programs, and specialized training in the Natural and Cultural Immaterial and Material Heritage
i) To get affiliated or grouped to other organisms and institutions national and international
Cooperation:
- Indigenous groups who we work with in Mexico are: Mixtecos and Zapotecos from Oaxaca;
- Purhépechas from Michoacán; Raramuris from Chihuahua; Tachiuines from Veracruz; ñah ñuh from Hidalgo; Mayas from Yucatan; and Nahuas from Guerrero, Morelos; Puebla and Mexico City.
- As well as non indigenous groups that have safeguard expressions, knoledges an techniques that can be considered in any domain of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- As an example in 1996 we make the first non indigenous team of traditional sport from the Purhepecha ball game, at that time there were only 4 active teams in Michoacan state, we work in Mexico City to conform a mixed team (women and men), giving women for the first time in the history of the game, the opportunity to participate, nowadays there are there are 26 teams, 12 of them are women teams. We have make an extensive work in revitalizing traditional sports and games with youngsters from indigenous and non indigenous communities; in schools and organizing tournaments. Our background in this field as non formally organized group, considers
participating in the World Festival of Traditional Sports and Games. as players in Bangkok 1996, Thailand, and Hannover 2000, Germany; and as promoters and reserachers in Busan 2008, Korea
As consultants to the ministry of education in 2003, we incorporated the teaching and practice of three traditional sports and games in the official curricula of middle school. And in 2008, we incorporated 18 traditional sports and games in the official curricula for K12 schools, wich is official in over 80,000 schools country wide.
We have formal relations with the International Elder Council, and with universities in several countries. And we have develop a Cultural and Tourism advisory branch, for the benefit and promotion of festivities and other non ritual expresions that due to the lack of experience will mostly fail or leave the organizers hopeless for the next event.
Lamar Kanuri Hutuye
Kanuri Development Association [en]
Alhaji Bukar Kuya House
Fezzan
Maiduguri
Borno State
NIGERIA
URL: http://www.unodc.org/ngo/showSingleDetailed.do?req_org_uid=16999
Tel.: +234 8113894736

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90171
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1992
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria

Objectives:
Towards finding solutions to problems relating to culture, environment, oppressions and under development of the Kanuri indigenous people of Africa. To work on cultural preservation indegnious issues as well as promotion tourism through promoting cultural artifacts, sites and the history of the Kanuri community as well as through documentation, research, oral tradition and expressions.
To educate the people of the semi-arid north-east of Nigeria on the implications of desert encroachment and the other environmental hazards that might be detrimental to their society.
To generate and implement short, medium and long term interventions that would address the problems of desertification and other arising environmental threats. To identify and explore un-harnessed environmental resources for the benefit of the society. To liaise and collaborate with relevant government agencies an non-governmental organisations to address the problems of the environment for the benefit of the society.
Activities:
Educating the Kanuri indigenous people towards cultural preservation, desert control, small scale industries, standing for their rights and the way forward in reviving their pastoral economy that is facing lots of challenges (including natural and man made). We just participated at the intergouvernmental committee on intellectual property genetic resources and folklore between 29th june - 3rd july 2009 organised by WIPO in Geneva Switzerland. The organisation has over fifty members, who are working on various experiences. Kanuri Development Association is a member of the United Nations conference of Non Governmental Organisation
Cooperation:
As part of our objective on cultural preservation and promotion we recently sponsored a research work on the archeology of Africa which waw published in the international journal of nautical archeology in 2008 and we are also having series of plans towards promotion the career culture through expressions and traditions
Les Forges de Montréal
227 rue Riverside
Montréal (Québec)
H3C 2H9
CANADA
URL: http://www.lesforgesdemontreal.org
Tel.: (+1) 438-386-9182; (+1)418-454-3293

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90472
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2000
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Australia, Canada, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Lykeion Ton Hellenidon
Lyceum Club of Greek Women - LCGW [en]
Lyceum Club des femmes hellènes [fr]
17, Dimokritou str.
10673 Αthens
GREECE
URL: http://www.lykeionellinidon.gr
Tel.: +30-210 3611042; 3628978

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90286
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1911
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)

Main countries where active:

Greece

Objectives:
Lyceum Club of Greek Women is a non-profit organization, founded in 1910. with main purposes:
a) to gather information regarding the Greek regional costumes.
b) to collect original research material.
c) to organize seminars and exhibitions on the subject of the Greek traditional costume.
Activities:
At the beginning of 1994 -following a request by the president of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Ioanna Papantoniou- the Lyceum Club of Greek Women became a permanent collaborator of the National Archive of the Greek Traditional Costume and offered to provide a permanent home for the Archive on the premises of its Museum of the History of the Greek Costume.
Cooperation:
The Lyceum Club of Greek Women has been promoting the traditional culture of rural Greece since its foundation in 1911.
After World War 11 systematic field research became the main approach for the collection of material and information concerning Greek folk life. Frequent visits to traditional communities ensure the accuracy of the results collected. Furthermore, these visits help develop a relationship and mutual respect between the members of the Club and the communities which share their traditions with the LCGW.
LCGW's 51 branches conduct research (on an on-going basis) on their regional traditions; they present their findings in the Club's publications and live performances.
Maasai Cultural Heritage - M.C.H
Maasai Cultural Heritage (MCH)
P.O. Box 499
10400 Nanyuki
KENYA
Tel.: (+ 254) 710 171 178; (+254) 722 663 090

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90183
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- We do recording of traditional knowledge from the elderly mostly on traditional medicine and plants. We use audio recording, photography and writing testimonies.

Main countries where active:

Kenya

Objectives:
Our Vision
Maasai cultural heritage envisions a world where the indigenous cultures, communities and diversity are recognized respected and protected against commercial exploitation and abuse.

Our Mission
MCH exists to facilitate strengthening, promotion and preservation of Maasai indigenous cultures and heritage in its diverse forms.
2. OBJECTIVES
1. To preserve, protect and promote Maasai culture through cultural education and cultural talks.
2. Promote recognition of and respect of Maasai indigenous people's culture by designing website and posting all cultural information.
3. Promote tolerance and understanding of the cultural spiritual and language diversity through traditional songs recording and information dissemination.
4. Enhance sustainable economic development drawing on the wealth of knowledge and experience of the Maasai culture to advocate against corruption and protect human rights.
5.To use the traditional songs to raise community awareness and education on productive health and HIV/Aids.
6. Establish a cultural museum and documentation center for storage and preservation of the cultural art fats and community research and database.
7. Enhance and uplift the economy of the Maasai people through livelihoods supports programmes and encourage advancement of their cultural practices that forms back borne of their economy.
Activities:
Maasai cultural heritage is a community based organisation formed by the community themselves and registered under the ministry of culture and social services. We are documenting taditional knowledge that exist within the elderly people which faces a threat of disapearance and develop community education programs for the youth to learn about it.we document and preserve our collections through digital recording and archiving them and avail them to the community through education programs. We also
help the community to develop their protocols inorder to reduce exploitation of their cultural resources. We also support youth to explore their traditional talents mostly in performing arts and women in artistic work by enhancing their indgenous knowledge on making unique genuine traditional artworkwe preserving all our collections to ensure that the future generation will get something to see as som of our heriage is
disapearing. The organisation being a community driven, it is working in ilngwesi community of the laikipia maasai who share the same culture, way of life and traditional tboos. The population of this community is approximate 15,OOO.the organisation is runn by local people from the same community who have skills in culture documentation and intellectual property management beside other speciality like in community
developmenUhere has been training programs participated by the two members of this community runing the organisation organised by world intellectual property organisation, a specialised UN agency on intellectual property issues in conjunction with center for documentary studies in duke university in north carolina and american folklore center. The two specialise on these skills from duke university and have been working in the community.
Cooperation:
The organisation works with a principle of preserving culture and respecting cutural diversity. We work in the community with total respect to their traditional governance system and also understanding and respecting community secrets. We carryout our programs according to the community way of life and time considering other factors like when they are available, drought seasons,what is their priority, what to be recorded and therefore our planning is based on the community timelines throughout the year.

We have recenty documented a community age group rights of passage an event that take place after every ten years that was the last for that age group and the future generation may not have that opportunity to perform this can of a ritual, so we document and preserve information and make them available to the community whenever there is need.
Maison de la Culture Yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem
Parizer Yiddish Tsenter Medem Bibliotek
29, rue du Château d'Eau
75010 Paris
FRANCE
URL: http://www.yiddishweb.com
Tel.: +33147001400

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French) - No. 90451
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Expositions

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Maison des Cultures du Monde
Institute for World Cultures [en]
2, rue des Bénédictins
35500 Vitré
FRANCE
URL: http://www.maisondesculturesdumonde.org
Tel.: +33 01 45 44 72 30

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90098
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2011; 2012; 2013
Year of creation: 1982
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Iceland, India, Morocco

Objectives:
La Maison des Cultures du Monde a pour objet de favoriser les échanges et les dialogues entre les formes d’expression et les identités culturelles des peuples du monde, et de promouvoir la diversité culturelle dans un contexte de mondialisation.
Elle fut créée en 1982 afin de répondre à la nécessité d'appliquer le principe de réciprocité dans les relations culturelles françaises avec le monde. La France, jusqu'alors soucieuse de son rayonnement, avait tissé un vaste réseau d'Alliances Françaises et de Centres culturels à l'étranger. Le temps était donc venu de la doter d'un espace ouvert sur d'autres horizons, d'autres civilisations.
La programmation de la Maison des Cultures du Monde a pour objectif de révéler et de protéger l'étonnante richesse de fêtes, de jeux, de rituels et de spectacles dans lesquels l'homme se met en représentation. L'accueil de manifestations étrangères, selon tous leurs modes d'expression et quel que soit leur milieu d'origine - profane ou sacré, savant ou populaire, professionnel ou non professionnel, lettré ou oral, traditionnel ou contemporain - ainsi que l'élaboration d'outils de diffusion, de documentation et de préservation (Centre de documentation sur les spectacles du monde à Vitré, collection de CD de musiques traditionnelles, revue Internationale de l’Imaginaire, base de données Ibn Battuta, projet de portail Internet consacré aux formes spectaculaires traditionnelles du monde…) contribuent à atteindre cet objectif de diffusion et de protection.
Les valeurs qui animent la Maison des Cultures du Monde et les objectifs qu'elle poursuit en matière de sauvegarde de la diversité culturelle sont identiques à ceux de l'UNESCO.
Activities:
FESTIVAL DE L'IMAGINAIRE : Créé en 1997, le Festival de l'Imaginaire concentre ses efforts dans le domaine des cultures du monde. Scène ouverte aux peuples et à leurs formes d'expression les moins connues ou les plus rares, le Festival de l'Imaginaire définit sa politique de programmation sur l'exploration, la découverte et la révélation en cherchant à susciter chez le spectateur une perpétuelle curiosité. Savants ou populaires, contemporains ou traditionnels, minimalistes ou sophistiqués, les spectacles du Festival de l'Imaginaire sont pour la plupart inédits en France. S'y côtoient de grands maîtres de la tradition et de jeunes artistes soucieux d'enrichir et de renouveler un art souvent séculaire. Le Festival est aussi un espace de réflexion. Expositions, colloques, tables rondes, conférences-démonstration, sont autant d'événements qui y sont programmés.
ÉDUCATION CULTURELLE : La Maison des Cultures du Monde invite chaque année les élèves à découvrir les patrimoines culturels du monde à travers une série de spectacles éducatifs dans le cadre du Festival. Cette approche ambitieuse de la diversité culturelle propose d’ouvrir les jeunes consciences à la découverte de l’Autre par un déchiffrement des formes plurielles de la créativité humaine.
L'ETHNOSCÉNOLOGIE : Née en 1995 à Paris sous l'impulsion de la Maison des Cultures du Monde en partenariat avec l'UNESCO (division de la culture) et l'Université Paris VIII, l'ethnoscénologie est une nouvelle discipline qui se propose de porter un autre regard sur l'immensité de l'expression humaine, par des présentations de spectacles doublées de l'étude des formes, sans souci d'échelle de valeurs ni d'exclusion . Plusieurs rencontres, colloques, séminaires, ateliers ont eu lieu depuis l'acte de naissance, à Paris, Cuernavaca (Mexique) et Salvador de Bahia (Brésil).
CENTRE DE DOCUMENTATION SUR LES SPECTACLES DU MONDE : Il abrite un fonds documentaire unique en son genre, qui concerne toutes les formes de spectacle vivant traditionnel, dans le monde entier. Fondé sur les archives de la Maison des Cultures du Monde et du Festival des Arts traditionnels de Rennes (1974-1983) créé et dirigé par Chérif Khaznadar, il comprend plus d'un millier d'ouvrages et revues, des usuels et des encyclopédies, 1.500 textes inédits (programmes de spectacles, mémoires, rapports, thèses…), 50.000 photos et plus de 2.500 documents sonores et audiovisuels.
La collection de disques INÉDIT : Elle est à la fois le reflet des découvertes musicales proposées par la Maison des Cultures du Monde (captation de concerts), un espace de publication pour des enregistrements de terrain réalisés par des ethnomusicologues et un lieu de sauvegarde de patrimoines musicaux menacés de disparition.
Cooperation:
JOURNÉES DU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL IMMATÉRIEL : La Maison des Cultures du Monde, en association étroite avec la Commission nationale française auprès de l’Unesco, organise depuis 2004 les « Journées du patrimoine culturel immatériel », réunissant pour des séances de travail et de réflexion les professionnels concernés par cette convention et soucieux de promouvoir la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. (voir annexe n 3)
CHEFS D'OEUVRE DU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL IMMATÉRIEL : Depuis sa création, le Festival de l’Imaginaire met chaque année à l’honneur les chefs d’œuvres du patrimoine culturel immatériel et permet ainsi à un public large et diversifié de découvrir la richesse des cultures et des traditions. En annexe se trouve une liste des principales formes spectaculaires programmées depuis 1997 et proclamées chefs d’œuvres du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l’humanité. (voir annexe n 4)
MISE EN OEUVRE DE LA CONVENTION : La Maison des Cultures du Monde a organisé du 28 au 30 janvier 2008 à Vitré la troisième réunion de l’organisme subsidiaire nommé par l’UNESCO pour évaluer les modalités de participation des communautés à la mise en œuvre de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel, ainsi qu’une réunion d’experts intercalée les 28 et 29 janvier. La réunion a été consacrée à la finalisation d’un document sur les modalités possibles de participation des communautés ou de leurs représentants, des praticiens, des experts, des centres d’expertise et des instituts de recherche dans la mise en œuvre de la Convention.
APPEL À PROJET : La Maison des Cultures du Monde a répondu à l'appel à projet lancé par la Commission Européenne, Euromed Héritage IV : « Contribution à la mise en œuvre de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans les pays partenaires méditerranéens », conjointement à l'Unesco, la Commission nationale Egyptienne pour l'Unesco (Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur), la Commission nationale Jordanienne pour l'Unesco (Ministère de l'éducation), le Ministère de la Culture du Liban et la Direction de la sauvegarde populaire de Syrie (Ministère de la culture). L’expérience et l’expertise de l'association seront mises à profit tout au long de l’action, contribuant à adapter la méthodologie au cas par cas en fonction des résultats et besoins identifiés à chaque étape de l’action.
PUBLICATIONS : La Maison des Cultures du Monde a édité plusieurs revues Internationale de l’Imaginaire sur le thème du patrimoine culturel immatériel : " Lieux et non-lieux de l'imaginaire (1994), "La musique et le monde" (1995), "La scène et la terre" (1996), "Jeux de dieux, jeux de rois " (2000), "Les spectacles des autres" (2001), et "Le patrimoine culturel immatériel - les Enjeux, les problématiques, les pratiques" (2004).
Maison du patrimoine oral de Bourgogne
2, Place de la Bascule
71550 ANOST
FRANCE
URL: http://mpo-bourgogne.org
Tel.: 03 85 82 77 00

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90272
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2008
Budget: U.S.$398656
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
Les objectifs de la Maison du patrimoine oral sont :

 L’inventaire, la sauvegarde, l’information et la mise en accès des fonds sonores, audiovisuels et écrit pour les musiques, danses traditionnelles et les littératures orales en Bourgogne.

 L’animation d’un centre régional de documentation spécialisé dans le patrimoine oral.

 La présentation, la valorisation et la transmission du patrimoine oral en Bourgogne à travers l’animation d’un espace d’interprétation en lien avec les maisons à thème de l’écomusée du Parc naturel régional du Morvan.

 La mise en réseau des actions territoriales autour du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Bourgogne par l’animation d’un centre régional d’information et de ressources.

 Le partage des compétences, la mise en réseau, la coordination et la réalisation d’actions de sauvegarde, de réappropriation et de valorisation du patrimoine immatériel en région et au-delà du territoire bourguignon.
Activities:
Jouer avec les sons, chanter, danser, s’immerger dans la langue du pays, écouter, observer, recueillir, raconter des histoires, goûter des saveurs, apprendre des gestes oubliés…, les communautés humaines se constituent autour de tels éléments sensibles, de bouche à oreille, de main en main, de corps à corps. C’est ce patrimoine culturel immatériel, transmis de génération en génération et recréé en permanence, qui nous procure un sentiment d’existence, de partage et de continuité dans un monde qui change et s’uniformise. Saisir et transmettre ces éléments, les reconnaître comme patrimoine d’humanité aux côtés des réalisations matérielles, architecturales, plastiques ou technologiques, voilà à quoi travail la Maison du patrimoine oral.
MPO : centre de ressources régional.
La Maison du patrimoine oral est un centre de ressources dédié au patrimoine immatériel, selon la définition de l’UNESCO. Sa fonction est d'être un catalyseur de projets, un lieu de référence, d’expertise, d’appui documentaire et logistique pour les communautés et acteurs du territoire dans le champ du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
Ces activités se déclinent en 4 missions :

1- Mission 1 : Inventaire, sauvegarde et mise en accès du patrimoine oral
2- Mission 2 : Recherche, expertise
3- Mission 3 : Mise en réseau des acteurs
4- Mission 4 : Pédagogie et transmission

Inventaire, sauvegarde et mise en accès du patrimoine oral

La Maison du patrimoine oral assure la mise en accès de ces collections par la mise en ligne d’une banque de données (http://www.patrimoine-oral-bourgogne.org) et l’animation d’un centre de ressources documentaires.
Ainsi se constitue au fil des années un centre de ressources unique en Bourgogne, qui participe au pôle associé FAMDT-BnF (http://www.portaildupatrimoineoral.org) et qui assure la coordination des travaux de sauvegarde de la mémoire orale dans le cadre du projet interrégional Massif Central (http://massif-oral.org).

Recherche et expertise scientifique
La Maison du patrimoine oral s’attache à valoriser les fonds constitués en apportant son appui pédagogique et logistique aux chercheurs, enseignants, étudiants, artistes professionnels et amateurs des différentes disciplines concernées par le patrimoine oral (musique, danse, chant, conte, langue régionale…).
La MPO apporte son expertise et accompagne les acteurs locaux dans leurs actions de sensibilisation, de prospection, de valorisation et de formation au patrimoine immatériel. Elle intervient en appui technique, pédagogique et logistique auprès des collectivités dans le cadre de projets de développement territorial.
La MPO, construit et anime des modules de formation à la collecte et à la valorisation des sources dans le cadre de projets territoriaux.

Mise en réseau des acteurs
La MPO s’attache à remplir une mission de centre de ressources et d’informations pour les différents acteurs du patrimoine oral (musiques, chant et danses traditionnelles, conte, langues, littératures orales) en Bourgogne. Elle contribue à la mise en réseau progressive des acteurs et opérateurs par la gestion d’un site Internet http://www.mpo-bourgogne.org, et au travers de projets artistiques fédérateurs.

Pédagogie et transmission
La MPO développe l’intérêt du public pour le patrimoine immatériel à travers son exposition permanente et l’organisation d’expositions temporaires, de conférences, la présentation de travaux de recherche et de projets artistiques en partenariat avec l’Ecomusée du Morvan (accueil de groupes, veillées à thème…).
La MPO intervient auprès d’établissements scolaires, sanitaires ou culturels du territoire, dans la conception et/ou la réalisation de programmes pédagogiques. Elle intervient comme prestataire dans certains modules de formation professionnelle autour du patrimoine oral.
Dans l’objectif de développer l’exigence artistique dans la pratique amateur, la MPO accueil et accompagne des projets artistiques dans les domaines des musiques et danses traditionnelles, du contes et des langues régionales.

Personnel
Pour mettre en œuvre son projet, la MPO a constitué une équipe de professionnels permanents ou missionnés :
Direction : Mikaël O’Sullivan (Licence d’ingénierie documentaire, Brevet d’animation, expérience professionnelle)

Administration : Guillaume Labois (Maîtrise de musicologie, formation professionnelle gestion administration)

Interventions spécialisées, animation :
- Marion Campay (Master d’Anthropologie de la danse, formation à la collecte de mémoire - CMLO)
- Simon Guillaumeau (musicien, animateur, technicien du spectacle)
- Evelyne Gaudin (DEFA, formation à la collecte de mémoire – CMLO)

Archivage – Documentation :
- Séverine Crochard (formation professionnelle à la gestion documentaire)
- Valérie Edern (Création de site Internet, formation professionnelle à l’archivage multimédia)
- Marie-Laure Labois (Diplôme de gestionnaire de l’information, EBD, Paris)

Expertise culturelle
Rémi Guillaumeau (conseiller technique à la DRJSCS, DEA d’anthropologie social EHESS)
Expertise artistique :
Raphaël Thiéry (Musicien, conteur, comédien, C.A. de musique traditionnelle)
Expertise scientifique :
Caroline Darroux (Thèse d’ethnologie)

ACTIONS REALISEES DEPUIS 1975
La MPO est un centre ressource coopératif auquel participe plusieurs associations. Les actions décrite cidessous ont été réalisées par celles-ci :
Association Lai Pouèlée, Union des groupes et Ménétriers du Morvan, Mémoires-Vives, Maison du
patrimoine oral.

COLLECTAGES - DOCUMENTATION:
1975 - 2011 : Enregistrements sonores de répertoires de musiciens, chanteurs, conteurs. Film de danseurs
traditionnelles. Films de pratiques vivantes en situation: bal, veillée, festival. Collectages de 300 heures d'enregistrements et 4000 documents (partitions, cahiers, ouvrages, photos).
1995 - 2004 : Constitution d'un fonds documentaire sur le patrimoine culturel immatériel en Morvan: archives audiovisuels, papiers, photographiques. Constitution d'un réseau de personnes ressources.
2004 - 2011 : Réalisation d'une mission régionale de sauvegarde des archives sonores: inventaire de 1500 heures, sauvegarde de 500 heures et mise en accès sur Internet de 250 heures de documents sonores et
film inédits sur le patrimoine culturel immatériel Bourguignon.

ACTIVITEE - REALISATIONS:
1979 - 2011 : organisation du festival « Fête de la vielle ». Accueil de 10.000 personnes chaque année. Mise
en valeur des musiques populaires régionale. Rencontre avec des musiciens de l'Europe.
1982 - 2011 : Réalisation de stages et d'ateliers réguliers de transmission et d'apprentissage: instruments,
langue, conte, chant, danse.
1991 - 2011 : « Cornemuse d'Europe» : organisation d'un festival et de plusieurs expositions
1995 - 2011 : Accompagnement de projets de territoire de sauvegarde et de valorisation du patrimoine
culturel immatériel: comunauté de commune de Luzy / Ecole de musique de Clamecy / Roche de Solutré /
Pierres en légendes / Mémoire des habitants du quartier de St Andoche / Mémoires minières.

EDITIONS:
1975 - 1978 : 5 disques 33T « Chanteurs et Musiciens de villages en Morvan» : publication de collectages.
1980-1985: 10 cassettes« Fete de la vielle en Morvan» : extraits de bal et concert d'une pratique vivante
d'instruments populaires (vielle à roue, cornemuse, violon, diatonique)
1983 : 2 livrets prédagogiques : « Danses du Morvan» et « Musiciens traditionnels en Morvan-Auxois» :
publication de récits de musiciens et danseurs
1991-1995: 2 compact-disc « Cornemuses d'Europe» : extraits de concerts de la manifestation.
1997 : 2 bullettins de l'académie du Morvan: « Musiciens» et « Contes et récits du Morvan»
1995-2008: 6 volumes (cassette et CD) collection « Ménétriers du Morvan» : sélection de collectages d'un
musiciens routinier remarquable.
2008 : Cahier scientifique. Entretiens de Bibracte. « Le patrimoine immatériel », De la collecte à la restitution.
2007 - 2011 : 3 volume (CD) collection « Mémoires Actuelles» : publication de collectages et de leur
réinterprétation.
Cf : fichier joint d'images de quelques une de ces réalisations.
Cooperation:
La Maison du patrimoine oral est le résultat d’une démarche de développement originale : mutualisation d’acteurs associatifs du patrimoine culturel immatériel, co-construction du projet avec les différents niveaux de collectivités et les services de l’Etat, mise en réseau à l’échelle régionale de pôles territoriaux. La MPO partager son expérience dans le domaine du développement territorial, avec des acteurs d’horizons multiples, culturels, sociaux, économiques, dans le respect de leur diversité.
La Maison du patrimoine oral est une coopérative d’associations fondées par différentes communautés, elle participe à la valorisation d’une image culturelle forte, collective, partagée et revendiquée. Elle est là pour apporter du sens et de la cohésion aux projets de valorisation des mémoires locales, du patrimoine matériel, des lieux d’histoire et de tourisme. Elle peut intervenir aussi dans la valorisation de toutes sortes de productions locales.
A titre d’exemples, elle apporte son expertise aux collectivités dans le cadre d’aménagements de sites touristiques : roches de Solutré et Vergisson, patrimoine industriel de la vallée de la Drée...
Dans le cadre de projets de territoire, la Maison du patrimoine oral intervient dans la formation des acteurs de la culture, du tourisme et du lien social : formations à la collecte, aux arts de la parole, à la connaissance du patrimoine ethnologique...
Un patrimoine immatériel vivant et partagé dans la convivialité contribue à l’attractivité du territoire. C’est un atout pour l’installation et l’intégration de nouveaux arrivants. Les inquiétudes engendrées par les mutations du monde contemporain peuvent conduire au repli économique, social et identitaire. Pour y résister, il est essentiel de rendre compatibles la valorisation d’un patrimoine de proximité, le développement de la cohésion sociale sur les territoires et l’invention de formes d’expressions actuelles et créatives, curieuses d’altérité.
Many Hands International
49 Thomas Street
Hampton
Victoria 3188
AUSTRALIA
URL: http://www.manyhands.org.au
Tel.: +61 3 9598 0635; +61 448 336 213

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90379
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Timor-Leste

Objectives:
The vision of Many Hands International (MHI) is a world in which the variety and richness of its myriad cultures is celebrated for the benefit of those cultures' communities and those outside of them.
The organization seeks to make a positive contribution to communities with whom it works by:
- Fostering cultural vitality through supporting cultural maintenance and opportunities for creative expression.
- Improving social cohesion through activities that engender health, well-being and co-operation.
- Stimulating economic development through skills, job and enterprise creation in the arts, crafts and culture-based tourism industries.
- Exemplifying environmental sustainability through sustainable project design and implementation.
MHI takes a cultural assets based approach to community development and believes that for many communities living in poverty or recovering from violent conflict, rebuilding cultural knowledge and practice is fundamental to achieving community health and wellbeing. The NGO supports cultural activities that contribute to cultural, social, civic, economic and environmental well-being. Through participatory and empowering processes, it assists communities to identify their cultural assets and to apply traditional knowledge in new and innovative ways to create economic and social opportunities.
MHI develops and implements projects that contribute to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Timor-Leste persuant to it's objective of fostering cultural vitality through supporting cultural maintenance and opportunities for creative expression. With support from its Australian Directors and other volunteers, MHI's Timorese staff: record and store ICH; promote community dialogue about ICH and its safeguarding; initiate and support cultural activities that safeguard ICH by incorporating elements in new forms of cultural self-expression, and; support communities to sustainably use ICH for livelihood development.

Activities:
MHI works in close partnership with communities, the State Secretariat for Tourism, Art and Culture (SETAC) and local and international NGOs to safeguard ICH in Timor-Leste, particularly in the district of Lautem. MHI's staff, Directors and volunteers have significant expertise in the cultural and international development sectors, including research and recording of ICH and the safeguarding of ICH through activities in the cultural, social and economic domains.
In 2017, MHI continues to expand the research of (and translate findings from) the Preservation of Endangered Forms of Fataluku Cultural Expression Project, which was funded by the U.S. Ambassadors' Fund For Cultural Preservation. The project used UNESCO-based ICH inventory forms and documents (in written and audiovisual formats) endangered elements of intangible Fataluku cultural expression in the five ICH domains. MHI shares this research through community presentations and its website and YouTube channel. MHI is developing an OMEKA site for its cultural research: this will provide greater ability to store and share current and future cultural heritage research with Timorese and international audiences.
MHI provides ICH safeguarding advice and services to SETAC and other organisations based on its own experience in research and project management in cultural heritage. In 2015, MHI was asked by SETAC to step in at short notice to take over the 'Connecting ancient rock art and contemporary cultural expression in Tutuala Project' mapping intangible cultural heritage practices associated with rock art sites using ICH inventory forms. In 2014, MHI partnered with SETAC on the UNESCO-funded project 'Protection and Promotion of Rock Art in the Lautem District: Using Potential World Heritage Sites to Enhance the Livelihoods of Local Communities and Strengthen their Cultural Identity'. MHI's role included working directly with communities and traditional custodians to: consult regarding public access to sites; gather information and local stories that could be used for interpretative signage for the rock art sites based on customary practices and oral traditions, and; co-ordinate workshops for key community members and stakeholders on cultural tourism and preventative conservation in preparation for establishing and promoting rock art tourism in the area.
MHI helps safeguard ICH by providing ongoing opportunities for young people and their communities to learn about, express and form stronger connections to ICH through the programs MHI runs out of the Lautem Cultural Centre (which MHI established with the Government of Timor-Leste in 2013). In the Youth Arts Program, students learn new visual and performing arts skills; they explore elements of ICH with elders and use these elements as inspiration, giving them expression through the creation of new works.
MHI's ability to integrate safeguarding activities across policy domains can be seen in its development of the Lautem Cultural Festival in collaboration with communities throughout the five sub-districts of Lautem in 2013. The festival received funding from AuAID to support the development of an economic base for social and cultural wellbeing, resilience and capacity within the communities of Lautem. The festival's theme was 'Protecting Our Endangered Cultural Heritage' and over 150 performers and craftspeople showcased their talents to an audience of over 4000 Timorese. Performers were asked to present elements of ICH in two different ways: as traditionally expressed and as a new work in a contemporary style. The festival was a great success, providing new cultural knowledge and inspiration to younger and older generations alike.
More information: www.manyhands.org.au/our_activities

Cooperation:
MHI collaborates closely with communities, groups and individuals that create, maintain and transmit ICH. The work is conducted in accordance with the principle of Indigenous peoples' rights to maintain, control, protect and develop their intangible heritage. All MHI activities are conducted in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and with respect for international conventions and guidelines, including: the UNESCO (2003) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, The Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions/Expressions of Folklore: Revised objectives and principles (WIPO 2006a), and; The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Revised objectives and principles (WIPO 2006b).
MHI believes that communities and individuals have a right to be involved in projects that are focused upon them and their culture. Projects respond to needs and opportunities identified by MHI staff in collaboration with community members. At the beginning of its projects, MHI identifies the people responsible for the cultural knowledge and/or practices involved and facilitates their direct involvement as appropriate. MHI encourages and supports cultural leaders, community members, community groups and local government to be involved in its work as collaborators and/or advisors. In the development of the Lautem Cultural Festival, MHI consulted broadly with the communities of Lautem and having gained support for the festival, established a 12-member organising committee and several sub-committees, each comprising cultural leaders, local government and community group representatives and ordinary interested community members. MHI built the committees' skills in project and financial management as well as festival programming and staging, and supported them to organise 150 performers and cultural knowledge holders from the five sub-districts of Lautem to showcase their local ICH at the festival. By respecting the communities and their ICH, and by supporting and guiding but not taking ownership, MHI strengthened its community relationships and supported ICH safeguarding.
Memória Imaterial Cooperativa Cultural CRL
Intangible Memory - Cultural Cooperative CRL [en]
Rua da Colectividade, n 4
Pereiro de Palhacana
2580-258 Alenquer
PORTUGAL
URL: http://www.memoriamedia.net
Tel.: +351 962619496; +351 918107756

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90307
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Life stories

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Portugal

Objectives:
The social objectives of the Memoria Imaterial CRL's activity are:
1) To study, identity, register, preserve and promote rural, maritime-fluvial and vernacular architecture heritages, along with the ancient know-how of handcrafting, popular art, traditional medicine, and oral literature in its ethnographic and anthropological dimensions, as well as to map out traditional terms and expressions, both collective and individual, by creating a bibliographic, phonographic and video collection of records;
2) To edit and publish bibliographic, phonographic and video records through hypermedia, multimedia and written media, namely in website, web-video, DVD, CD, CD-ROMs, book format and future platforms for multimedia contents;
3) To organize, create and produce public and private events to promote Portuguese and international intangible cultural heritage, such as performances, art-work installation, symposiums, conferences and seminars;
4) To organize and produce comprehensive workshops and training seminars on the aforementioned subjects (item 1);
Since 2008, Intangible Memory CRL has been collecting and promoting traditional/oral/popular culture through its Memoriamedia Project.
Memorimedia is grounded on the urge to identify, register, preserve and promote folktales, legends, proverbs and other forms of traditional and oral culture: the skills and knowledge of ancient artisans and the uses and rites prevailing in day-to-day professional, social and family circles.Produced material is uploaded on the website www.memoriamedia.net.
This operation uses the new media for the transmission of culture heritage which enables registration and distribution of significant moments of oral culture on line at a global scale in order to assure that it will be perpetuated through appropriation and transformation by a large public.
Activities:
In 2012, Intangible Memory CRL was recognised as a Public Interest Entity as per presidential decree, due to the "pursuit of significant cultural activities, namely recording, registering and publicizing the Portuguese intangible cultural heritage".
Amongst our 2012 activities and projects, we highlight
Identification and ethnographic recordings of Know-How:
Regional Gastronomy- Alenquer, Arruda and Sobral de Monte Agravo
Windmill of Sobral de Monte Agravo
Identification and ethnographic recordings of oral terms, expressions and traditions - Folktales,
Legends, Balladry and Traditional Songs of:
Beja, Cascais, Cabeceiras de Basto, Estremoz, Lisboa, Mertoia, Montemor-o-Novo and Vila Real.
Documentaries:
The Windmill/ the workings and procedures of windmills;
Campo Maior I the life and poetry of Rosa Dias, folk poet;
Montemor-o-Novo I the poetry and life stories of various folk poets;
Encontro Nacional de D. Roberto 2012/ performances and academic intervention of D. Roberto puppets, the traditional Portuguese form of Punch Judy puppetry;
Barrocal do Douro, mem6rias dos que ficam I enclave of modern architecture in the 1950's at
Barrocal;
Fome e fartura na tradivao oral/ produced in the framework of the Project "Feast and Famine in traditional folktales and daily living";
Cultura visual urbana e express6es de arte popular I interventions produced on the congress organized by the Centre for lntercultural Studies (Visual urban cultural and the expressions of
Popular Art);
Falas do mare do rio I interventions produced on the interdisciplinary congress "Parlance of the river and the sea".
Joint projects:
The Cante Alentejano- Traditional Singing from The Alentejo, Portugalinventory- making: design and implementation of a structural database for the research and promotion of the Cante Alentejano -Traditional singing from the Alentejo, Portugal.
Catalogue of Fables in Portuguese Literature w/ FCSH/FCT: a structural literary database for the research and promotion of fables found in Portuguese literature.
Adivinhario (Dictionary of Riddles) w/ FCSH and The Portuguese Music Museum: a structural literary database for the research and promotion of the Michel Giacometti's archive of collected riddles in Portugal.
Cooperation:
Intangible Memory CRL seeks to promote its produced knowledge among the academic community, but mostly within the civil society with whom it works. The cooperative goes out from what the groups and communities select as their intangible cultural heritage, does fieldwork and research on that given reality and draws up promotion and dissemination plans directed to different audiences, making sure that the results can be enjoyed by each social segment.
Aiming to create synergies and promote cross-cutting cultural heritages, Intangible Memory CRL has been establishing cooperation protocols throughout the country with numerous institutions, namely government associations and councils, local authorities, schools, museums, foundations, libraries, cultural groups, local development agents, and other non-governmental organizations.
Equally important is the promotion of open debate activities and the return of the developments and results to all populations studied. We highlight the work and methodology transversally applied to the MEMORIAMEDIA Project.
Museums Galleries Scotland - MGS
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Tel.: T: 0131 550 4100

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90257
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1964
Budget: U.S.$8094974
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Malawi, New Zealand, Rwanda

Objectives:
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) was founded as a charitable trust to promote, support and assist museums and art galleries in Scotland to improve their organisations and services. We work to improve activities such as preservation, conservation, presentation and publicising of human history; provide museums with funding, expert advice and assistance, to promote the dissemination of knowledge held in museums through education or research; and to encourage the use and enjoyment of museums by the public.
In 2004 MGS started to receive requests from museums for advice on how to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) often associated with their collections and communities. Many of the museums in Scotland are small community run organisations that also act as cultural hubs. The museums safeguard and promote the ICH of their communities as well as the material cultural of their collections.
In response to these requests MGS commissioned research on how ICH in Scotland could be safeguarded and the relationship of the ICH with the museum community and their collections. An inclusive definition of ICH in Scotland has been fundamental to the approach adopted. This embraces the diversity of cultures found in Scotland including that of migrant communities.
Safeguarding of ICH in Scotland is now recognised as an important issue due to the work of these projects, leading to questions raised in the Scottish Parliament and reference to work in government reports. MGS has been instrumental in the development of a Wiki style online inventory raising the profile and awareness of ICH in Scotland. MGS will be taking the Wiki forward and developing the inventory in partnership with the museums and their communities.
Much if MGS's work involves ICH practitioners as we provide funding and advice on projects such as the Scottish Fisheries museum's boat building and coastal rowing project which is re-invigorating the a tradition of inter-community regattas in Scottish coastal communities. Here communities build their boat using a kit developed by the museum based on a traditional design and then compete in the regattas, in its first year
10 new boats were launched.
Activities:
MGS is the representative body for over 360 museums and galleries in Scotland (the highest museums per capita than anywhere else in the UK) . Between them they are custodians of Scotland's material and intangible culture. These organisations are bridges between their communities and their collections, acting as cultural hubs. They are places where both the community and visitors can experience and participate in ICH practice. This could be through a Gaelic language meeting, a performance of Border Ballads or an evening of traditional Polish celebration.
MGS has directly funded events that both showcase some of this activity and promote more of it, stimulating ICH to be reinvigorated. A good example of this is a project carried out with Taigh Chearsabhgh on the Isle of Uist where an artist was commissioned to create new work inspired by the knitting traditions of the community and the Gaelic sayings. This project resulted in a renewed community interest in knitting traditions and the resurgence of knitting groups on the island.
The whole MGS organisation is involved in advising on the development of projects that are then funded through MGS.
More recent activities have been around research into how Scotland could start developing an inventory for ICH in a first step towards supporting the UNESCO 2003 convention. As outlined above MGS commissioned research from Edinburgh Napier University on how an inventory could be developed. MGS is a partner in an Arts and Humanities Research funded project to create the inventory.
A simple Wiki style inventory has been developed. Still in its research phase, this inventory will be handed over to MGS for further development in October 2011.
The ICH work has been led by the CEO of MGS who is also the founding Chair of the UNESCO Scotland Committee, part of the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC). The UKNC have provided funding for some of the development work for the ICH research and have been strong supporters in moving the UK Government forward towards ratification of the 2003 convention.
The MGS Research and Standards team have been managing the ICH Wiki partnership with Edinburgh Napier University and two members of staff have developed knowledge and expertise in this area. The Wiki partnership has also involved the Membership Development Manager who liaises directly with individual museums. The museum development team have expanded their expertise in this area through working on a
project 'Revisiting collections' which draws on intangible heritage to develop further knowledge around collections.
MGS staff are regularly involved in visits to museums to provide advice on project development as well as assessing funding applications. we have regular contact with community leaders and ICH practioners. For example we have a programme of support for Auchindrain Trust which is a centre for traditional practices such as 'dry-stane dyking' as well as recently hosting a 'gaelic waulking' of the cloth. Museums in Scotland use knowledge about ICH practices to open up the debate around identity and to explore the more challenging aspects of ICH. For example the Highland Folk Museum demonstrates ICH practices via its activity programme such as rag rug making, weaving, but has also worked with the Highland Gypsy Development Officer to carry out a project involving the young people from the Traveller community in the Highlands. They used the museums collection as a starting point for follow on work, a story telling project called 'Traveller Tales' - information about the cultural traditions of the travelling community is now
included in all Highland region school resources.
Initial contact with MGS is often as result of a request for development advice and a good example of this is Scottish Traditional Boat Festival who first became a member of MGS as the Festival and then developed a museum centre, the Portsoy Salmon Bothy which enables the organisation to make links with other ICH practitioners outside the existing annual events calendar. The museum is used as a venue to explore traditional music through hosting a weekly folk music club, and regular ceilidhs and connects to other ICH projects such as the Moray Firth Partnership's Gansey project. Another development project is the Shetland Textile Working Museum where the collection is managed by the Guild of Spinners, Knitter, Weavers and Dyers. It is currently being temporarily housed in Shetland Amenity Trust's Bod of Gremista museum and the Guild play a pivotal role in preserving and passing on traditional Shetland skills.
Cooperation:
MGS co-operates with the museum community and the ICH practitioners in a spirit of mutual respect. The charitable objectives for MGS are based on providing development support for museums and their communities in Scotland. In order to fulfil these objectives MGS staff are in constant dialogue with local museums and ICH practitioners. Scotland and MGS have chosen to adopt an inclusive definition of ICH as 'ICH in Scotland' rather than 'Scottish ICH' this embraces diverse migrant communities in Scotland. This is a collaboratively inspired and driven definition that is community centred and owned. It aims to be inclusive of all and accessible to all, unforced and uncontrived, celebrating community diversity and promoting community cohesion that puts heritage in the context of shared spacial and social identity. Reflecting this inclusive definition we have chosen a participative Wiki based approach to creating an inventory for ICH in Scotland. This approach means that individual ICH practitioners can create their own records describing their ICH practices within their communities. We are now encouraging ICH practitioners to populate the Wiki using the tutorials on You Tube as a guide on how to create records. The Wiki is still in its research phase, but MGS will be investing in the Wiki to make it more user friendly and to engage more ICH practitioners through a series of events planned for 2012.
MGS has a wide network of both museums and ICH practitioners and we promote and showcase their work through our publications and events. MGS also delivers an annual Festival of Museums, which this year had over 80 events all over Scotland, these events are often based on local ICH practices such as performance, storytelling, music or crafts. Future Festival of Museums will be specifically themed around 'living culture' and we are planning to hold an online competition for communities to vote for the ICH practice in Scotland, they will nominate for the World List when the UK ratifies the 2003 Convention.
Na Píobarí Uilleann
The Society of Uilleann Pipers [en]
Na Píobarí Uilleann
15 Henrietta Street
Dublin 1
IRELAND
URL: http://www.pipers.ie
URL: http://source.pipers.ie
Tel.: +353 1 8730093

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90283
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1968
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
he main object of Na Píobairí Uilleann shall be the promotion generally of Irish music and the music of the uilleann pipes in particular.
Towards that end the association may:
(i) Collect and preserve music for these pipes in any manner considered feasible by the Council;
(ii) Assemble materials and carry out research on the history of the pipes and pipers;
(iii) Issue from time to time a publication about piping and the affairs of the association;
(iv) Spread a knowledge of reedmaking and promote the making of pipes.
Activities:
Teaching – NPU run classes, accessible to all, on a weekly basis in our premises in Dublin, and time-to-time in locations throughout Ireland. We support classes in other countries through the provision of teachers and other resources.
Publications – NPU has a vigorous publications programme, including print and audio-visual materials. Since our foundation in 1968 we have published fifteen books, twenty sound recordings and eleven videos/DVDs. These are all devoted to promoting the playing, making or maintenance of the uilleann pipes. Several new items are published each year.
Website – Our online resource website ( http://source.pipers.ie/ ) already includes over 20,000 items, including music scores, films of performances, technical information, lectures, tutorials, sound files and images, all aimed at fostering understanding of our instrument, and excellence in performance. New material is added on a weekly basis.
Technical training – We have set up a dedicated, fully-equipped pipemaking training centre (PipeCraft, based in Clonshaugh, Dublin), and we are about to start full-time, three-year training courses designed to produce qualified pipemakers.
Performance – We conduct regular recitals of the finest performers of Irish music and song, small-scale on a monthly basis, and an annual showcase concert.
Museum – NPU maintain a museum of classic sets of pipes at our premises.
Building resporation – NPU has successfully restored a mid-eighteenth century Georgian house as its headquarters.
Cooperation:
NPU co-operates on a regular basis with the following groups:
* The Arts Council
* The Irish Traditional Music Archive (www.itma.ie)
* The Willie Clancy Summer School
* Brooks Academy (www.setdance.com)
* The Historical Harp Society of Ireland (www.irishharp.org)
* Pavee Point Travellers Centre (http://paveepoint.ie/).
Národopisná spoločnosť Slovenska
Ethnographic Society of Slovakia [en]
Klemensova 19
81364 Bratislava
SLOVAKIA
URL: http://www.nss.sav.sk
Tel.: 00421 2 52964707; 421 907754020

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Slovakian) - No. 90369
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1994
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Slovakia

Objectives:
The Ethnographic Society of Slovakia is a civic association registered in the Register of Associations with Confirmed Activity kept by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, Reg. Nr. WS/1-909/90-134-3 from 9.11 .2005. lt was created by transformation of the Slovak Ethnographic Society, which was founded in 1958.
Its members are ethnologists/ethnographers from various academic and non-academic institutions, museums, non-formal education institutions and other.
The main objectives are:
Information and communication function: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1554063938158607/
To publish works in the field of ethnology and related disciplines,
To conduct research of the intangible cultural heritage in Slovakia (including the culture of the minorities living in the area of Slovakia),
To collect and archive information related to various elements of ICH,
To organise meetings, symposia, lectures, excursions etc.,
To comment on the development of the safeguarding the ICH in Slovakia,
To promote the visibility of ICH in the wider public,
To disseminate the knowledge about the safeguarding the I CH.
The Ethnographic Society of Slovakia associates ethnologists from various Slovak institutions - academic, museum, educational and other. The main activities are research, education, publication, organizational and collecting activities.

Activities:
Ethnographic Society of Slovakia is a voluntary civic association grouping together graduates of Ethnology - scientific and professional workers as well as students of this field or related disciplines. lt is a society of people interested in preservation and cultivation of folk culture heritage. Intangible heritage is a vital part of it.
The Ethnographic Society of Slovakia organizes conferences, exhibitions, competitions and concentrates on formal and non-formal education.
Every three years, the society elects committee members and organizes a conference on topical issues at the General Assembly. For example:
Tourism and Regional Development
Ethnology of the city
Ethnicity and identity
History of Ethnology in Slovakia and Central Europe
Ethics of ethnological research
Protection and presentation of folk culture
The results of the conferences are published in the journal Ethnologické rozpravy.
The company cooperates with the Slovak Museum Society, participates every year at the workshops "Ethnography and the museum".
Cultural heritage has been collected and documented during filedworks and results of these activities has been published in the journal Etnologické rozpravy I Ethnological disputes.
The Society has mostly coordination function. lt works financially from members support and support from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (about 500 EUR) and grant projects. She participated in PHARE grants - Research in interethnic regions of Slovakia. The Society participates in projects of academic institutions and museums, especially in the form of co-publishing.
The company gives awards for the best publications, exhibitions and organizational activities.
Ethnographic Society of Slovakia has in Bratislava text and photo archive with thousands of units. NSS co-organizes yearly scientific conferences and once every three years General Assembly Meetings. lt also co-sponsors local cultural events and scholarly conferences related to folk cuture and cultural heritage.

Cooperation:
The headquarters of the Ethnographic Society of Slovakia is in Bratislava, but the same importance have its four branches: Západoslovenská (Western Slovakia), Východoslovenská (Eastern Slovakia), and two centres in Central Slovakia: Banská Bystrica and Martin. The activities of the branches focus on the mutual exchange of members of Society and the local communities, lecturers activities and cooperation in the area of formal and non-formal education. Through its decentralized structure many members of local branches are in touch with cultural activists and themselves also participate in regional traditional folk culture associations, choirs and dance groups. The local traditions are also being promoted by organizing cultural events in cooperation with the local branches of the NGO.
NSS members perform field research, participate in the organization of leading folklore festivals, festivals of ethnographic films, are members of editorial councils of expert ethnological journals, methodological councils and jurors in the field of folklore, are authors of publications with material and intangible cultural heritage, are members of expert committees.
From 1994 the periodical Etnologické rozpravy (henceforward ER) had been the continuator of the internal non-periodical bulletin Národopisné informácie/ Ethnological Information (founded 1969), published by the Slovak Ethnological Society (today the Ethnological Society of Slovakia- NSS) and the Ethnological Institute, SAV (today the Institute of Ethnology, SAV- ÚEt SAV). Later the Slovak National Museum in Martin became a further co-publisher of ER. ER performed the function of a professional journal and a guide for members, who were entitled to receive it free on payment of the yearly subscriptions. http://www.uet.sav.sk/?q=en/ethnological-disputes
The company cooperates with the Czech Ethnographic Society and PTL in Poland.
National Archaeological-Anthropological Memory Management Foundation
Johan van Walbeeckplein 13
Curaçao
CURAÇAO
URL: http://www.naam.cw
Tel.: 5999 462 1933; 5999 462 1934

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90229
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1998
Budget: U.S.$200000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- legilation

Objectives:
To disseminate knowledge about the cultural history and the cultural- tangible and intangible - heritage of Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, S1. Eustatius en St. Maarten and strengthen the cultural identity of their population in a Caribbean perspective.

It includes traditional tasks of a museum, like conservation and documentation of archaeological and anthropological collections, NAAM also works on cultural resource management through
• The identification of threatened locations and sites, its mapping, conservation and registering of collection, and digitizing
• Archaeological & anthropological research, with priority fOf oral history
• The production of educational materials for schools and training
• Advice and services to policy makers and professionals about safeguarding and the enrichment of our collective cultural memory and its legislation.

Safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage is an Integral part of the documentation of collections and the reconstruction of a fragmented memory.
Activities:
Actual projects of the NAAM foundation in relation to Intangible Culture Heritage are:
a.the safeguarding, digiti~ing and analyzing of the 1400 songs and stories collected in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century recollected by Paul Brenneker and Elis Juliana.
b. Related to this oral treasure is the need to continuing study of the creole language of Curacao, Bonaire en Aruba: the Papiamentu.
c. the documentation of religious afro Caribbean practice and rituals, With special attention to the ocho die or Yukan, rituals after the death).
d. The inventory of main maritime arChaeological sites through knowledge of local fisherman.
e. Documentation on the knOWledge and practices of the sound of Curacao, the cylinder piano. 'Ka" orgel', it's rhythmic instruments, the wirl in combination with the still very popular dance parties in the orchard.
f. Documentation of Living Human Treasures, with priority the persons who possess the knowledge and skills relating to the traditional agricultural practices of kunuku (conuco), musical instruments, especially ka'i orgel, talented tradition bearers and practitioners of the popular music of the Dutch Caribbean, and the spiritual leaders of Afrocaribbean
tradition.

Additional information:

NAAM's safeguarding measures aimed at ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage are:

Actual projects of the NAAM foundation in relation to Intangible Culture Heritage are:
1. From 2001, ongoing : Identification, documentation & research about origin, development and craftsmanship of local musical instruments. Examples: benta or mouth bow, chapi (hoe), banjo (2002), beku, ka’i orgel , steelpan ( 2005) are published in Papiamentu, English and Dutch in 3 local newspapers in the Series Cultural Heritage. Some are on the website www. naam.an. The articles are written by research journalists and/or anthropologists and submitted to experts of musical heritage. Idem: about traditions as the Masquerade (Bonaire), Ponum dance (St. Maarten).
2. Research & documentation of oral history. The history of slavery, its resistance and daily life on the plantation in the afterwards of slavery, title: History of Savonet, Western Curacao, narrated by habitant and descendent of enslaved Francisco Doran, written by anthropologist L. Weeber, final redaction NAAM, I. Witteveen (2003-2004). This material was used for the script making of an open air museum in Savonet, opened in 2010 with involvement of the local community.
3. Documentation & transmission of knowledge of craftsmanship: art of tin smith, fisher boat builder, aloe cultivators, and ceramics is transmitted in a line of school material, including 3 books and 3 manuals, CD’s and a wooden box with replicas. This wooden box resembles the boxes that were used in the old thatch houses to keep clothes. Education and heritage experts of the five islands did review the texts several times. It was in 2008 published and distributed in Papiamentu (Tempu Tempu) and Dutch (Van Tijd tot Tijd) for the pupils in Cycle 2 of Elementary Education of all the schools in Curacao and Bonaire.
4. Safeguarding through digitizing and analyzing of collections of Fundashon Zikinza, 1400 songs and stories collected in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century recollected by the (ongoing).
5. Identification and rescuing collections of oral history tapes, of former research in Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius, Bonaire. This is done with assistance of a free-lance audio-archeologist and anthropologist, living human sources, in cooperation with the heritage institutes of the mentioned islands (started 2008, ongoing till 2012)
6. Documentation & publications of Afro Caribbean religious practices and rituals. It resulted in an inventory of collection and songs (2005) and in an exhibition and publication Altá di Kòrsou (Altars of Curacao, 2009), written based on oral and written knowledge of local experts, in combination with lectures and articles in the newspapers.
7. Transmission of knowledge and revitalizing dance parties with ka’i orgel (pianola).
a.the knowledge and practices of the sound of Curacao, the cylinder piano, ka’i orgel, documentation, acquirement of ka’i orgel made by living human treasure, Serapio Pinedo (2003, 2004)
b.revitalizing the use of ka’i orgel with rhythmic instruments of African heritage, the wiri combination with the still very popular dance parties in the orchard in the rural part of Curacao (2006).
c.Honouring the Living Human Treasures of the ka’i orgel tradition (players and dancers) during an festive ceremony in the Central Bank, of the Netherlands Antilles.
Cooperation:
Working in small island community we do include in the activities of the Foundation the groups, cultural bearers of tradition and communities involved.

Examples: honouring the Living Human Treasures of the Ka'i orgel tradition Serapio Pinedo and others in the formal and inclusive ceremony in the Central Bank, activities with the trade~unions to honour first trade-unionist leaders. rescuing Places of memory of the Slave Route with the neighbourhoods involved. International Museum Day with the
colleagues museums and the community.

Additional information:

a. Honouring the Living Human Treasures of the ka’i orgel tradition (players and dancers) during an festive ceremony in the Central Bank, of the Netherlands Antilles (2005).
b. revitalizing the use of ka’i orgel with rhythmic instruments of African heritage, the wiri combination in the organisation of the very popular dance parties in the orchard (hofi) in the rural part of Curacao (2006).
c. Community participation in annual Museum Day in Curacao
d. Honouring Carnival Tumba compositor and singer with participation of former tumba kings and composers (february 2010).
National Youth Non-Governmental Organization ‘Student Ethnographic Association’ - NYNGO ‘SEA’
Рэспубліканскае маладзёжнае грамадскае аб'яднанне "Студэнцкае этнаграфічнае таварыства"
32, K. Chornaha str.
220012 Minsk
BELARUS
URL: http://set.ethno.by
URL: http://vk.com/ethno_by
Tel.: +375 17 28 05 015; +375 17 28 05 170

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90304
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Belarus

Objectives:
The objectives of NYNGO “SEA” are:
- to preserve, develop and contribute to the continuity of the Belarusian authentic cultural traditions;
- to preserve and revive the environment of the traditional ethnic culture, the Belarusian natural and cultural landscape;
- to overcome spiritual crisis in modern Belarusian society on the basis of the values of the traditional culture.
NYNGO “SEA” considers the traditional ethnic culture – knowledge, beliefs, customs, morality and other forms of the spiritual and material heritage which were acquired by ethnos during the independent development on their land – to be the highest value which shall be passed on from one generation to another and shall be the basis for the development of society.
Activities:
SEA takes an active part in the identification, preservation, promotion, transmission and revitalization of the Belarusian intangible cultural heritage on national level.
SEA has organized more than 20 ethnographic expeditions to the regions of Belarus and to the regions of neighbouring countries inhabited by Belarusians since 1998.
Cooperation:
Having begun conducting ethnographic expeditions SEA members realized their unity with the traditional culture and its bearers rather than being observers from outside. It is due to this understanding that communication without cultural and age-dependent barriers in a spirit of mutual respect and concern with both elderly people and rural youth has been achieved.
ICH bearers and SEA are interested in each other. We gain knowledge that helps us form our world view. They realize their cultural heritage value and their importance as bearers and teachers.
As a rule our relations with the local community set up during expeditions may continue in the following forms: subsequent visits; exchanging the records and photos; participating in local festive events or initiating revitalization of such events; organizing handicraft workshop or summer camp. While contacting with local communities we try to find their leaders who are interested in their cultural heritage preservation. In this case usually long-time cooperation is established.
So regarding local communities and authorities SEA nowadays appears to be a representative of public opinion of the necessity to respect and safeguard ICH and an active social figure able to initiate and support certain measures in this direction. The organization often acts as a medium between local communities interested in ICH safeguarding and experts who can give advise on it, between local authorities and experts, and sometimes between local communities and local authorities in case of conflicts.
SEA gets help from local authorities in researches on their territories and shares recorded materials sometimes together with ICH analysis and recommendations on its support. Since 2011 SEA have been carrying out public presentations of ICH at regional workshops for cultural workers and public discussions on issues of local ICH.
Norges Bygdekvinnelag
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women [en]
Pb.9358 Grønland
0135 Oslo
NORWAY
URL: http://bygdekvinnelaget.no
Tel.: (+47) 22 05 48 15; (+47) 970 86 879

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90395
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1946
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Mozambique, Norway

Objectives:
The objective of the Norwegian Society of Rural Women is to bring together women who recognize the importance of active rural communities and the primary industries. The Norwegian Society of Rural Women is a non-governmental organization with the objective of safeguarding women's and rural populations' cultural, social and economic interests and contributing to equality, democracy and Christian cultural heritage.
Food and food culture is the main area of expertise, and the NGO aim is to safeguard traditional Norwegian food and food culture heritage. The local produce that people have traditionally been able to access have formed the basis for the Norwegian food culture. Access to, and knowledge about local raw ingredients and seasonal food is important to safeguard the food culture.
It is especially important that tacit knowledge is transmitted through practical work in order for it to survive. Traditional food is food which is based on old artisanal traditions with techniques, customs and methods for storage. Artisanal traditions that have been passed down through generations. In Norway, the knowledge about traditional food has often been passed down from mother to daughter, but in line with other changes in society, this is hardly the case anymore. There are currently fewer people growing their own food, an increase in the consumption of ready-made food and less time for cooking in the busy daily life, while the different generations no longer live in the same house and the knowledge is therefore not necessarily passed down any longer.
The members of the organization work to safeguard food competence and food culture by way of courses and training. They also work to ensure that the school system, day-care centres, museums, farms, chefs and the media take responsibility and an interest in Norwegian food culture.

Activities:
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women has 13,500 members and 450 local groups throughout the country. The organization's activities of performing the practical craft of traditional food largely take place in the local groups. Cooking classes is one of the main activities, both the classes that are held internally and the classes open for others who may be interested. In order to reach children and youth, the organization's local societies also hold cooking classes in both day-care centres and at schools. Through approximately 900 classes and activities annually related to food tradition, old techniques and methods are passed down and the histories conveyed.
The organization's county and local societies have for several years worked purposefully to document and collect local recipes, techniques and histories. This has resulted in approximately 120 cook books.
One of the organization's current activities to impart knowledge and generate interest in Norwegian traditional food is the establishment of a national website with recipes and films displaying old techniques and methods for preservation and preparation of food. The website (www.norsktradisjonsmat.no), will be launched before the summer of 2017 and will contain more than 400 recipes for traditional food, which the local groups in the Norwegian Society of Rural Women have submitted. The website is especially targeting youth and young adults. In connection with the launch of the new website the organization will also collect more traditional recipes from the entire country, through a competition among the local groups.
The organization also works purposefully on measures to engage the local groups through various actions and projects.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women each year raises awareness about the use of one or several Norwegian food ingredients. In recent years, the organization has focused on oats, root vegetables, fruits and this year on useful wild plants. The use of edible plants in cooking is a knowledge in danger of disappearing and the objective of this action is for more people to become aware of the history, diversity and use of useful plants from the Norwegian nature. Last year more than 100 excursions and outdoor classes in "wild, edible plants" where arranged by our local groups.
One of the organization’s food projects is "Aksjon sunn matglede" ("Operation Healthy Enjoyment of Food"). During the project period 2013-2014, 250 cooking classes were held for children and adults jointly, with the objective of contributing to healthy food habits, increasing the enjoyment of food and enhancing practical knowledge about local food production and cooking among children and adults. With several generations present in the same classes, the practical transmission of tacit knowledge about traditional food was safeguarded. During the project period, the local societies received financial support to hold the cooking classes. The project is currently continued in the organization on a voluntary basis.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women believes that the local food traditions contribute to shaping the identity of both the local communities and their inhabitants. The members of the organization believe that it is important to safeguard not only for historical purposes, but also to further development, food innovation and new food products. They also see examples currently where knowledge of local produce and the old techniques are crucial for flavour and for local resources actually being used.

Cooperation:
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women places great trust in its members, who contribute to administering the food culture heritage. Their interest in and contribution to focusing on local raw ingredients and craft traditions are crucial for its maintenance. Seeing the joy and usefulness of food culture heritage encourages maintenance and active use. Each local community, farm and family have their own traditions.
Intangible cultural heritage can best be safeguarded if as many people as possible are familiar with it and practice it. The NGO has extensive experience cooperating with other organizations, businesses and groups.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women cooperates with other organizations and professional environments for the Norwegian porridge-cooking championship. The competition's objective is to raise awareness about porridge-cooking based on Norwegian grains. To market the event, articles were written about porridge as traditional food and the historical significance porridge has had throughout the ages, as a festive meal and in daily life. To maintain the traditions and experiment with new flavours are equally important.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women closely cooperates with the Norwegian Agrarian Association and the Norwegian Rural Youth. These organizations both work to maintain local production of food throughout the country. The NGO hosts many events jointly, and have mutual board representation centrally, locally and at the county level. The organizations thereby help each other and raise their issues in the respective organizations.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women’s local societies also cooperate with various societies and associations in their local communities, including historical societies. This is a way of putting food culture into a broader perspective, locally. The food heritage is also about food traditions in connection with celebrations, holidays, eras, identity and the local culture.
The Norwegian Society of Rural Women is a women’s organization which also works for other issues and with other NGOs. An example of this is the Norwegian Folk Art and Craft Association. Both organizations are interested in craft traditions such as bunad sewing, knitting and sewing. The societies cooperate with others regarding local exhibitions, courses and meeting spaces to create things together.
Norges Husflidslag
Norwegian Folk Art and Craft Association [en]
Ovre Slottsgate 2 b
0157 Oslo
NORWAY
URL: http://www.husflid.no
Tel.: +47 22008700; +47 91580781

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90308
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1910
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain

Objectives:
The Norwegian Folk art and Craft Association aims to preserve,maintain, develope and strengthen Norwegian folk art and traditional craft. We do this trough educational activities,publications and public activites such as exhibitions, contests etc.
For more than hundred years the organisation has been the main voluntary organisation in Norway which has inspired activities within the field of mantaining knowledge connected to traditional craft production.Our consultants working all over Norway, in every county, have for more than 50 years been the expertice on local craft tecniques and local knowledge about groups of producers and practitioners. Our consulens are working in a tight relation to our voluntary groups and also local and regional authorities.The headquarter of the organisation is placed in Oslo which make it possible to achieve contact with sentral politicians and through this promote actions in order to strenghten the focus on the importance of preserving and mantaining traditional craft as a knowledge and practical experience in ecucational programs, cultural programs for museums and as an inspiration and resourse in crafmanship production of today
The solid foundation underlying the work of our organisation is based on the voluntary work contributions within the local and regional membership devisions. These comunities contribute to the sthrengthening of social network, enabling the exchange mantainance and of handicraft skills within a large spectre of areas. The organisation is Norways largest organizer of adult training in folk art and handicraft. We offer about 3000 courses every year and aproxemately 15.000 people attend to our local and regional courses.
Activities:
Our organisation has three membership groups, single members which are 24.000 located in 377 local groups, 140 craft producers in smal private enterprices ,and 35 craft shops located all around the country.we also have a membership cathegory called "Young Crafters", at the moment they are 1700 indivdual members and the cathegory is increasing. We are a democratic organisation with a national board which are elected by the organisation on our General Assembly every second year. Our members pay an annual membership fee, this includes our magzine and various membership benefits. We have a very stabile and slowly increasing number of members.
The organisation has 28 employies of this are the Body of consultans counting 18 highly skilled proffessional experts on folk art and craft practitioners.Each and one of the is the link between their regional groups and activity and the sentral administration in Oslo.In addition to this we have three Advisory Committees within the field of woven handicraft, National costumes and Wooden Hancicraft.The administrative part of the staff consist of the editor and journalist in our magazine, technical and bookeeping resourses, ecucational adviser and Adminitrative Director.
Our publication, the magazine Norsk Husflid( Horwegian craft) goes automatically to all 24.0000 members,and to external subskribers.It is published with 5 copies per year.and has been published for more than 40 years.
Our main activity is to mantain and develope the knowledge about and the skill within taditional craft.We offer and stimulate to activities all over Norway for adults and youngsters. We have a division called "Young Craft" wich organize workshops, training courses, contests etc for children and youngsters to introduce them to traditional craft and the joy of making themselves.Through activity for craftsproducers we stimulate to both mantain old and traditional techniques and to innovate products in order to make awarenessof our craft herritage among people of today.
Once a year, on the first Saturday in 'September we arrange a nationwide "Day of Crafts" ( Husflidsdagen). On this day there are hundreds of local exhibitions, markets, "open house-day", a huge variation of arrangements where traditional craft and craftmanship are promoted.
Cooperation:
The organisation consist of 377 local and regional groups, the size of this may vary from 20 to 3000 members. We are in a constant cooperation with our groups through local projects, educational activity, contests,registrations for inventory lists, markets,public relation activityes. Our magazine, our facebook and homepage are our main communication channels with our members, in addtition to our regional consultants. In Norway we have a solid and regular cooperation with relevant NGOs such as the Centre for Intangible Heritage/Norwegian Craft Development at Lillehammer and the Norwegian Institute of bunads and folk costumes at Fagernes and especially in the summerperiode with many open air museums all over Norway.
On international level we are for about 75 years cooperating within the Nordic countries in a network "Nordic craft federation".Two times per year there are adminitrative meetings, every third year there are a Nordic craft conferrence where all members and local groups are invited.Every summer a family camp takes place with a lot of workshops, this is on rotation within the Nordic countries.Every second year a Nordic symposium for weaving is organized. All these activities aim to promote and mantain knowledge and pratcice in traditional crafts. All activities are kept on a non profit basis.
The Norwegian Folk art and Craft association is member of the European Folk Art and Craft Federation.The Federation has 10 national craft organisations (NGOs) as members.We have during the last 30 years been an active partner in several international projects and we have been involved in cooperation with one ore more of the other member countries in exchange of exhibitions, participating on international craft fairs and workshops with craftspersons from Norway etc.
We did also initiate an international project with craftsmen from the Northern African countries, this project was supported by the Norwegian Unesco Commision.
Norsk Forening for Fartøyvern
Norwegian Ship Preservation Association [en]
Øvre Slottsgate 2B
0157 Oslo
NORWAY
URL: http://norsk-fartoyvern.no
Tel.: +4724145170

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Norwegian) - No. 90448
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1985
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Denmark, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Norsk håndverksinstitutt
Norwegian Crafts Institute [en]
Maihaugveien 1
2609 Lillehammer
NORWAY
URL: http://www.handverksinstituttet.no
Tel.: +47 61 05 76 00; 61 05 76 03; 991 50862

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90022
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019
Year of creation: 1988
Domain(s):

- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Czechia, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
To protect, preserve, pass on and develop crafts as skills and knowledge, as expression and as a profession. NHUs aims to maintain and strenghthen crafts that are concidered to be rare and worthy of protection.
Activities:
1- Register of Craftsmen:
Since 1987 the NHU has been responsible fDr a national Register of craftsmen/women. Today the register of Norwegian Craftsmen/women is searchable on the web. It provides craftsmen and craftswomen with an excellent marketing channel and gives documentation of their activities/skills. The register secures historical important information about craftsmen/women.
2- Projects Concerning the transfer and documentation of crafts skills and knowledge:
Through a large number of projects we ensure that tradistional crafts are passed on. A particular emphasis is given to protecting crafts skills and knowledge which are in danger of dissapearing. NHU has developed a spesific competence building model to pass on actionborne knowledge. The model is based on the traditional master/apprentice relationship, where a master is responsible for training an apprentice. In the work we also have a person who is responsible for documentation to ensure that the craft skills
are documented for the future. NHU is also resopnsible for a number of projects outside Norway.
3- Secreteriat for rare and protected Crafts:
The main task of the secretariat for rare and Protected Crafts is to maintain, strenghthen and pass on crafts which lead to an apprenticeship sertificat. Finding enterprises which can provide teaching can be particularly challenging for crafts with few or old practiconers.
4- Craft scholarships:
NHU organize a tree years scholarsip scheme for craftsmen. The scholarship provides a possibility for in-depth training for professionals above the crafts and apprentice certificate level.
Cooperation:
One of the main tasks of NHU is cooperation and identifying practiconers of commmunities, groups and intangible heritage practiconers within a wide variety of endangered crafts. NHU has a policy of taking both male and female traditions into consideration and is at present looking into the possibility of identifying and strengthen crafts within traditional ethnic minorities. Through the whole history of NHU working with local communities and practiconers from the whole country has been the policy. Thus projects have been focused on both the coastal culture, the farming culture and the urban culture. Projects have been focused on activities connected with traditional activities in the nature (both inland and coastal) and a wide range of traditional handicraft.
Norsk Institutt for bunad og folkedrakt
Norwegian Institute of bunad and folk costume [en]
Tyinvegen 27
2900 Fagernes
NORWAY
URL: http://www.bunadogfolkedrakt.no
Tel.: 00 47 61 36 62 50; 0047 920 23 916

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: Norwegian/English) - No. 90384
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Domain(s):

- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Norway

Objectives:
Norwegian Institute of bunad and folk costume (NBF) is working to guard and promote the manufacturing and use of bunads (revitalized, regional costumes), as an expression of cultural identity and as a unique cultural heritage. Furthermore: A) NBF works to document the traditional folk costume through fieldwork, and to preserve the knowledge about these customs in terms of production, use and cultural context. B) All information and knowledge derived from fieldwork and interviews is to be made publically available, both at the institute itself and online. C) NBF shall work to research the history of the traditional folk costume, both theoretically and practically. Also, NBF works to research the revitalization of the traditional costumes, as seen in the extensive use of bunads throughout the 1900's. D) The institute aims to be a source of information and assistance to bunad-craftsmen, students and researchers in the field. NBF is frequently working to offer a variety of university classes, practical courses and informal training upon request. NBF works to promote the knowledge and use of bunad in a modern context.
The objectives for which NBF was founded are still very much valid today; to serve as a facilitator, nationally and regionally, to document existing material and to give advice and guiding based on research. The Institute has in recent years worked together with other NGOs to promote the use and knowledge of traditional costumes and bunads, for example by arranging the annual Bunad-Conference in August. Furthermore, the institute has since 2008 been heading a national network of textile museums. Here, the objective has been to increase the practical and theoretical knowledge of museum workers about textiles and costumes.

Activities:
From fieldwork during many years, an extensive, national archive has been established. As of 2017 it contains approx. 75 000 registrations of clothes, privately owned. These fieldtrips have a duration of five days, and there are about five or six such weeks through the year. Each fieldtrip is organised in close cooperation with local forces. Local associations prepare the fieldwork and talk to people that might have stored old clothes in their homes, usually farmers’ families. The owners bring their collections to a local venue, where the institute is ready to register the clothes. Usually the owners have their collections registered the same day. In some cases, it is necessary to return for fieldtrips in the same area several years. Each private owner signs an agreement to registration. Each item is photographed, and a description is produced detailing the fabric, colour, technique and cut. Any additional information from the owner is vital, so that knowledge about the garments and their history is preserved. Knowledge about how different parts of clothing has been worn together, their symbolic meaning, and information about the context in which they have been used, is important information. NBF often gives advice on how to preserve and take care of the old garments in private homes.
The archive is supplemented by photos, sketches, patterns and notes about material related to costume traditions from different districts. Additional sources include illustrations from artists, probate material, letters and other items that describe the old costume traditions. The archives at the NBF also include samples of fabrics, information on textiles, and detailed descriptions of sewing technique. The archives are publicly available.
Based on fieldwork, interviews and other studies, the institute gives both practical and theoretical classes on the subject. Craftsmen may be given advice and practical guidance, and even training according to their specific needs. The institute engages in local and regional safeguarding programmes, and contributes with their knowledge of traditional crafts and cultural history.
As a national institution, NBF plays an important role as a mediator and a counsellor to the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education.
Specific safeguarding activities include:
- NBF work with other NGO's to provide six weeks of practical training annually for young craftsmen and-women.
- NBF offers a week long training course for museum-employees every year, concerning cultural history and the phenomenon of traditional dress and the revitalization of bunad.
- NBF work together with University of Trondheim on six courses in the phenomenon of traditional dress and the revitalization of bunad, as part of their ethnology-progamme.
- NBF hosts the annual conference of bunad called "Fagdagane", every year in august, with four other NGO's. Last years conference had 140 participants, and aims to raise awareness and knowledge of traditional costumes and bunads.

Cooperation:
The purpose of establishing the Norwegian Institute of Bunad and Folk Costume (NBF) in 1947, was always twofold; to document and gather information from bearers of the traditional folk costumes, and to give advice and training to craftsmen producing bunad according to the tradition. This dual purpose has since then resulted in a continuing dialog between different groups or individuals and the institute.
The institute has from the beginning worked to establish public archives of registered clothing, photos and many other sources in addition to a collection of modern day bunads. That is why NBF travels around the country, to do fieldwork, to interview bearers and to visit places of traditional, small-scale production. The institute is therefore an important source for bearers, researchers and others to find materials and information concerning bunad and folk costumes.
In other words; the NBF has since the beginning been entirely depended on a good and respectful dialog and cooperation with knowledgeable individuals and communities. This relationship has been, and still is, inter-dependable. Usually the initiative to do fieldwork comes from these local groups, with a request to NBF for assistance. In such cases, a very fruitful cooperation begins, where NBF brings experience and equipment necessary for fieldwork. The community brings together bearers and people with collections of clothes and knowledge of the tradition. The owners will be given information about the institute and its work, then, the owner can decide whether the registration of each piece of clothing is to be public or classified. When the registration is over, the clothes are returned to its owner with information about storage and preservation. If the owners themselves are bearers of the tradition, or are very knowledgeable, they are interviewed and encouraged to share their knowledge further.
In addition to documentation work, research and training, NBF also hosts or participates in several seminars, courses or conferences every year. The services that NBF offers, big or small, may be open for anyone, or made especially suited for certain groups. For example, NBF has developed courses specifically aimed at bunad-craftsmen and -women, at museum-workers, at fashion-students or university-students.
Norwegian Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Norsk senter for folkemusikk og folkedans
Dragvoll Idrettssenter
7491 Trondheim
NORWAY
URL: http://www.folkemusikkogfolkedans.no/
Tel.: +47 73 55 70 03

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90086
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2009
Year of creation: 1973
Budget: U.S.$1143700
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- Knowledge about musical instruments, Giving expert advice to the public sector. Distributing grants to activity in the field

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Norway

Objectives:
Main aim: to promote, safeguard and secure transmission of Norwegian traditional music and traditional dance as expressions of cultural identity and carriers of unique qualities.

Objectives: To serve ail Iines of work in our field, to coordinate efforts and to improve output from available resources.

To offer representative expertise for public administration and ensure know-how among policymakers and administrators.

To document research folk music and folk dance and give on result from the work.

To promote enhanced knowledge about and understanding for folk music and folk dance and work for improved quality, participation and interest.
Activities:
The foundation (Rtf) is doing fieldwork, documenting traditional dance and music in cooperation with people in local communities. It has set up a web page which is meant to become an inventory of ICH in our field. It conducts research and publishes results.

Collected material is protected by being stored in the Rff archives and preserved through being made available and taught. It is promoted through teaching, and projects of various kinds including both participatory and staging activities.

Local projects for young people and specialised university courses are important measures for securing transmission and revitalisation. Rff supports organisations which are active in revitalisation, and has also its own projects.

The Expert Council and the Centre has followed discussions on safeguarding of folklore, later Intangible cultural heritage right since they were established in the early 1970's, particularly within the framework of UNESCO. The Director has been called upon several times to take part in UNESCO's work in different ways. The Norwegian folk music scene has also been concerned with the problems of copyright issues. The question has been discussed in conferences and meetings and with national organisations that collect
copyright money.
Cooperation:
The resource centre is conducting documentation, quite often at the request of local communities where traditional dance and music are practiced. Local practitioners then come to our institution to analyse and learn from collected material under guidance of our expert staff. Afterwards they can transmit the dances and music in the local community, consulting the old practitioners if they are still available. This practice is used
when local dance and music is known only by old people who do not practice any longer, so that young people have problems learning directly from them, it is particularly usual for traditional dance.
ONG L'Homme et l'Environnement
NGO Man and The Environment - MATE [en]
Lot 05 CT Météo Ampandrianomby
Antananarivo 101
MADAGASCAR
Tel.: +261 34 16 870 40

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: French) - No. 90246
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1994
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- habitat, plantes médicinales et collaboration avec les acteurs de la santé traditionnelle (tangalamena, renin-jaza…), pratiques de chasse, habitudes alimentaires...

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Madagascar

Objectives:
L'ONG l'Homme et l'Environnement a pour objectif de créer une dynamique économique pour permettre aux populations locales de se développer en faisant valoir leurs us et coutumes favorables à la conservation du couvert forestier.

Dans ses stratégies d'intervention, l'ONG L'Homme et l'Environnement vise donc à inventorier les pratiques culturelles et cultuelles compatibles avec la préservation de la biodiversité, et en favoriser la transmission et la valorisation au service du développement économique local et de la protection de l'environnement (valorisation de la pharmacopée locale et des savoirs traditionnels associés aux plantes, revalorisation des savoirs-faire locaux : architecture, artisanat : travail du bois, vannerie, tissage,…valorisation du patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel local à travers les programmes d'appui au tourisme communautaire...)

Cette approche part du constat que les vestiges forestiers malgaches ont très fréquemment ét préservés du fait de la persistance de systèmes de représentations et de pratiques : forêts sacrées, existence de fady (tabous), etc… dans le même temps, une valeur traditionnelle fondamentale dans la société malgache, le "fihavanana" (unité dans la diversité, entendue à l'échelle macro ou micro) se constitue comme un pilier pour le changement de comportement à la faveur de la restauration d'une relation équilibrée avec la nature.

A contrario, certaines pratiques traditionnelles ou valeurs vont dans le sens contraire de l'effort de conservation : maintien d'une pression démographique forte liée à l'importance d'avoir une famille nombreuse, pratique de la culture sur brûlis…mais leur persistance nécessite leur compréhension et un travail d'inventaire également précieux.

L'enjeu humain et patrimonial occupe donc une place stratégique pour la formulation de nouvelles approches en matière de conservation d'une biodiversité, dont la survie est très étroitement liée à notre capacité à préserver et valoriser la diversité culturelle qui lui est associée.
Activities:
Les principaux programmes et personnes ressources impliquées dans la connaissance et la sauvegarde / valorisation du patrimoine immatériel sont les responsables et équipes du pôle des interventions sociales - culturelles et gouvernance, du programme santé et éducation, ainsi que les équipes du programme d'appui au tourisme communautaire et développement de l'artisanat.

De fait, de nombreuses activités de l'ONG L'Homme et l'Environnement sont concernées par les enjeux de compréhension et valorisation des savoirs et pratiques traditionnels sur nos différentes zones d'intervention.

Dans le cadre de la compréhension de la relation homme-nature sur nos sites, de la valorisation des pratiques traditionnelles liées à la biodiversité et du programme d'appui au tourisme communautaire, plusieurs inventaires et réalisations ont abouti à :

- la construction de l'écomusée de la réserve expérimentale de Vohimana (qui a malheureusement été détruit dans un incendie en 2009), puis la construction début 2010 de l'écomusée de la réserve de Vohibola qui présente différents élements du patrimoine naturel et culturel de ces réserves, matériels ou immatériels. Concernant l'écomusée de Vohibola, nous avons coordonné toutes les études et inventaires, constitution de collections et enquêtes afin de réaliser la conception des supports, la scénographie des espaces et la médiation pour présenter diverses thématiques spécifiques au site : patrimoine naturel forestier et marin, rapports homme nature : pharmacopée et médecine traditionnelle - éthnobotanique, activités de pêche traditionnelle, "tromba" et célébrations rituelles - danse de transe et célébrations, histoire du rail et du canal des Pangalanes... l'Ecomusée de la réserve expérimentale de Vohibola compte quatre pavillons et a accueilli depuis 2010 plus d'un millier de visiteurs nationaux et internationaux.

- l'identification et la valorisation des savoirs relatifs à l'alimentation et à l'artisanat : inventaire des recettes et préparations culinaires traditionnels sur chacun de nos sites d'intervention, inventaire et connaissance des plantes alimentaires sauvages, rapport à l'objet et pratiques artisanales ;

- une collaboration de plusieurs années avec les artistes et acteurs culturels sur nos zones d'intervention pour une collaboration dans le cadre du programme d'appui au tourisme communautaire. un enregistrement de pratiques de faray (musique: percussion sur bambou, chants et danses traditionnels betsimisaraka a été réalisé en 2006 au titre d'archives mais n'a pas encore pu être mixé et valorisé aux fins de promotion de ces pratiques culturelles traditionnelles)

- la conception et la diffusion d'une exposition en France consacrée au rapport homme-Nature dans les forêts de l'Est malgache, et aux enjeux socio-culturels associés à la protection de la biodiversité ; Cette exposition, intitulée "Madagascar, des Forêts et des Hommes", a été présentée pendant une dizaine de jours dans la commune de Vitrolles (France, Bouches du Rhône), avant d'être présentée au Zoo de Mulhouse en Alsace ;

- l'édition d'un ouvrage consacré à la pharmacopée de la forêt de Vohimana, en collaboration étroite avec les tradipraticiens et les matrones traditionnelles de la réserve. cette démarche correspond à notre démarche systématique d'études éthnobotaniques et de collaboration avec les acteurs de la santé traditionnelle sur les sites pour l'identification des opportunités de valorisation de la pharmacopée locale dans le cadre d'une approche santé intégrée et de recherche de nouveaux débouchés pour les filières porteuses identifiées. l'expérience spécifique de l'ONG dans ce domauine lui a permis da contribuer au séminaire international organisé par le Cephyr et l'Unesco en avril 2011, à l'Ile Maurice, sur le thème de la "la production durable de plantes médicinales et la protection des savoirs des acteurs de la médecine traditionnelle dans les petits états insulaires du Sud Est de l'Océan Indien et de Madagascar". Cette participation devrait faire l'objet d'une publication sous l'égide de l'Unesco.

- la conduite d'un état des lieux du patrimoine culturel et architectural de la réserve expérimentale de Vohibola, qui a donné lieu à un atelier de restitution pour l'intégration des différents enjeux de conservation patrimonial dans la cadre de la formulation du cahier des charges de la futuyre aire protégée.

Pour faire face à la spécificité de l'approche humaine dans les stratégies de conservation de l'environnement, une convention de partenariat a été signée fin 2010 avec le laboratoire d'Anthropologie de l'Université d'Antananarivo : le laboratoire "Patrimoine - Transculturalités et Transformations sociales".

La collaboration vise l'élaboration, la mise en oeuvre et le suivi d'une approche anthropologique comme support de promotion d'un développement humain durable et pour la conservation de la biodiversité malgache, menacée de disparition à très court terme malgré des investissements massifs réalisés sur ce sujet pendant les dernières décennies.

• Objectifs

1. Mieux comprendre les mécanismes identitaires, systèmes de perception du patrimoine et voies d'action pour la gestion intégrée du patrimoine naturel et culturel par une serie d'enquêtes et études de cas.

2. Proposer une méthodologie d'intervention pour la formulation de politiques de gestion durable des ressources naturelles :
- intégrant l'action culturelle et l'approche patrimoniale comme levier de sensibilisation et de changement de comportement par l'adoption de nouvelles pratiques, favorisant l'émergence d'une « culture de la durabilité»
- Favorisant systématiquement la conduite d'état des lieux participatifs pour les actions d'inventaire touchant au patrimoine, et l'information des populations concernées pour une prise de conscience de la valeur du patrimoine naturel et culturel, matériel ou immatériel

3. Communiquer, créer un réseau d'acteurs, partager et diffuser les résultats.
Cooperation:
Depuis 2002, l'ONG L'Homme et l'Environnement intervient auprès de la communauté (autorités locales légales ou traditionnelles, tradipraticiens et matrones traditionnelles, groupement et association formels ou informels - tourisme, artisanat, femmes) pour les accompagner dans la formulation et la mise en œuvre de leur projet de conservation et de valorisation du patrimoine naturel et culturel, et la promotion du bien-être et du progrès social sur ses sites d'intervention.

Sur chacun de ses sites d'intervention, l'ONG accompagne et soutient les projets communautaires de valorisation du patrimoine portés principalement :

1- par les associations de tradipraticiens ("tangalamena" et matrones) sur ces sites, pour la valorisation de la pharmacopée locale, la reconn aissance et la protection des savoirs traditionnels liés aux plantes. ces groupements sont actifs sur les trois sites de Vohimana, Vohibola et Ambanja et comptent généralement plusieurs dizaines de membres disposant d'un bureau élu, qui est l'interlocuteur désigné de l'ONG pour la formulation des politiques d'intervention et la mise en oeuvre des programmes d'activités.

2- par les comités de gestion des futures aires protégées de Vohimana et de Vohibola- constituées en fédération des différentes associations locales actives sur les réserves, notamment dans le cadre des programmes de valorisation de filières issues de la biodiversité et du programme d'appui au tourisme communautaire (formulation concertées des cahiers des charges de protection et de valorisation du patrimoine naturel et culturel local).

3- par les directeurs d'établissements scolaires et membres de la cellule éducation sur ses sites d'intervention, de même qu'avec les "clubs des jeunes" sur ses sites d'intervention, pour tout ce qui concerne les aspects éducatifs, transmission des savoirs et préservation du lien intergénérationnel.

Constatant les problématiques inhérentes à la formulation et la conduite de projets en milieu forestier/ rural en gestion communautaire (difficulté d'accès aux communications, ilIétrisme et non maîtrise de l'écrit et des langues étrangères pour la rédaction de projets, besoin en accompagnement dans la mise en œuvre des projets / activités, maîtrise insuffisante des contextes réglementaires et techniques liés aux projets... ), le partenariat entre l'ONG et les associations ou groupements locaux (formels ou informels) s'établit de la façon suivante :

- assistance administrative et technique de l'ONG auprès des porteurs de projets, pour la formulation, le renforcement de capacités pour la mise en œuvre des activités,
- accompagnement pour la recherche de partenaires technique et financiers pour la mise en œuvre des projets.
- appui à la promotion des activités, recherche de débouchés et création des outils de communication nécessaires.
Organe de l'Associationnisme culturel catalan
Ens de l'Associacionisme cultural catala (auparavant Ens de Communicació Associativa)
València Street 558 6 1
08030 Barcelona
SPAIN
URL: http://www.ens.cat
Tel.: 0034932691042

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90318
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- L'associationisme culturel est une forme d'organisation sociale trés répandue dans la société catalane. c'est une réponse concrète de la société civile aux besoins de formation, de croissance personelle et de travai communautaire en assumant et en développant la culture populaire et traditionnelle catalane en partant de ses multiples facettes et thèmes

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Le soutien aux associations qui regroupent les porteurs et les personnes qui réalisent ce patrimoine culturel immatériel.

Main countries where active:

Spain

Objectives:
Le premier objectif de l'ENS DE L'ASSOCIACIONISME CULTURAL CATALÀ est de faire connaître le patrimoine culturel immatériel catalan. Grâce à l'incorporation, en 2012, de la Confederacin d'Agrupacions de Cultura Tradicional Catalana (Confédération d'Associations de
Culture Traditionnelle Catalane), l'ENS réunit actuellement 27 fédérations culturelles et représente 3 335 organisations et 178 500 personnes engagées dans les différents aspects de la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel.

Un autre objectif de l'ENS est d'encourager, dans le domaine scolaire et pédagogique, la connaissance de la culture populaire et traditionnelle en tant qu'héritage du passé et patrimoine sur lequel nous devons veiller et que nous devons transmettre aux générations futures. En outre, l'ENS représente un espace d'échange de connaissances et d'expériences entre les associations engagées dans la promotion de la culture populaire et traditionnelle et un instrument pour les projeter plus efficacement dans l'ensemble de la société.
L'une des valeurs ajoutées qu'apporte l'ENS est de créer un espace unique de débat et de réflexion autour du fait associatif de la culture populaire et traditionnelle afin de l'adapter aux temps nouveaux et de pouvoir ainsi maintenir sa force, sa vitalité et son héritage tout en contribuant à la cohésion sociale.
L’ENS a aussi, parmi ses objectifs, celui de construire un espace de relation avec ces institutions publiques et privées afin de permettre au monde associatif de la culture populaire traditionnelle catalane d'obtenir de plus en plus de considération et de mieux rayonner.
Activities:
Débats sur le territoire: il s'agit d'un processus de débat et de réflexion sur le fait associatif culturel et populaire préalable à la création de l'ENS. En fait, ce dernier est né des propositions de ces DÉBATS réalisés parmi 18 fédérations de culture populaire.
(http://www.ens.cat/edicions/debats-al-territori-el-moviment-associatiu-catala-debat-gener-2003-
abril-2004)
1er Congrès de l'associationnisme culturel catalan (2007- 2008), qui s'est centré sur les relations intergénérationnelles, la communication, l'immigration et l'éducation/formation.
(http ://www .ens. cat/edicions/memoria-del-1er -congres-de-lassociacionisme-cultural-catala).
Appel d'offre de bourses d'études sur la culture populaire et traditionnelle.
Cours de formation sur la communication et la gestion des organismes de culture populaire et traditionnelle.
L'ENS en tant que membre du Conseil de l'Associationnisme et du Volontariat de Catalogne, du
Conseil d'Orientation du Département de la Culture de la Generalitat (Gouvernement autonome de la Catalogne), de la Commission de Suivi du Protocole festif de la ville de Barcelone, du Conseil municipal d'Associations de Barcelone et du Conseil d'Orientions de contenus et de programmes de la Corporation catalane de Medias audiovisuels, apporte sa connaissance et son expérience dans l'élaboration et l'application de la législation concernant le patrimoine culturel immatériel.
En outre, il édite les publications suivantes :
TORNAVEU, associationnisme et culture (www.tornaveu.cat), publication bi-mensuelle sur support électronique, adressée à un collectif de 15 000 abonnés
CANEMÀS, revue de pensée associative, semestrielle sur support papier (http://www.ens.cat/canemas). Il s'agit d'un espace de réflexion et de débat en profondeur et sous forme d'essai sur tout ce qui touche la réalité et l'action de la culture populaire et traditionnelle comprise d'un point de vue large et transversal.
Il gère le portail culturel de XARXANET (www.xarxanet.org) et le fonds éditorial de la revue VIA
FORA! (1984- 2001) (http://www.ens.cat/viafora).
Tous les organismes membres de l'ENS regroupent des pratiquants et des chercheurs dans les différents domaines du patrimoine culturel immatériel et réalisent de nombreuses activités de sauvegarde de ce patrimoine. L'ENS les renforce et les rend visibles. Par exemple, les séances de travail sur le monde des Castellers (tours humaines) réalisées au cours de l'Université catalane d'été 2011, la Foire aux associations du Onze septembre. De maniére périodique et habituelle, en tant qu'Agence de Communication de la Culture populaire et traditionnelle, l'ENS réalise des tâches professionnelles de communication et de diffusion dans les différents domaines journalistiques et de communication du pays. Entre autres, il publie sur Internet un calendrier des activités de culture populaire organisées par les organisations auxquelles il représente
(http://www.agendaens.cat/).
La Confederacin d'Agrupacions de Cultura Tradicional Catalana, qui a adhéré à l'ENS en 2012, organisa, en 2010, en collaboration avec le Centre UNESCO de la Catalogne, le 3ème symposium sur la Promotion et le rayonnement de la Culture traditionnelle catalane et la 1ère Journée sur la Culture traditionnelle, l'Administration locale et les Institutions qui inclurent des conférences de présentation de la Convention du Patrimoine immatériel. La même année, ils organisèrent aussi la Journée éducative de la Culture traditionnelle catalane, adressée aux écoles.
Cooperation:
Les membres de l'ENS DE L'ASSOCIACIONISME CULTURAL CATALÀ travaillent et exercent leurs activités dans leurs différents domaines, mais ils le font aussi, et c'est là l'un des objectifs atteint par l'ENS, en collaboration mutuelle. Jusqu'à la création de l'ENS, chacun des collectifs travaillait pour lui, sans créer de relation synergétique avec d'autres collectifs de la culture populaire et traditionnelle. Sa création lui a permis d'amorcer la création d'espaces de travail commun. Ainsi, il est de plus en plus fréquent de vivre des activités où les géants, les castellers, le bestiaire de fête, les fanfares, les chorales, le théâtre amateur, les groupes de danse traditionnelle ("esbarts") partagent des espaces et des fêtes. Il faut souligner que cette caractéristique ne se produit pas seulement dans les activités et expressions artistiques mais existe aussi dans le domaine de la réflexion et de la discussion. On débat, on analyse et on fait des propositions sur le futur modèle de travail et d'expression artistique de la culture populaire et traditionnelle sous ses diverses facettes thématiques et en tant qu'instrument qui aide à la cohésion sociale.

On trouvera ci-dessous les 27 fédérations membres de l'ENS comme preuve de sa diversité et complémentarité thématique: la Federacié de Cors de Clavé (Fédération des choeurs de Clavé), la Federacié de Grups Amateurs de Teatre de Catalunya (Fédération de groupes de théâtre de Catalogne), le Moviment Coral Català (Mouvement Choral Catalan), la Federacié Catalana de Societats Musicals (Fédération catalane de sociétés musicales), la Federacié Sardanista de Catalunya (Fédération de sardanes de Catalogne), la Fundacié La Roda (Fondation la Roue), I'Agrupacié de Colles de Geganters de Catalunya (Groupement des bandes de Géants de Catalogne), I'Agrupament d'Esbarts Dansaires (Groupement d'associations de danse traditionnelle), le Gran Orient de Catalunya (Grand Orient de Catalogne), I'Agrupacié del Bestiari Festiu i Popular de Catalunya (Groupement de Bestiaire festif et populaire de Catalogne), la Coordinadora de Trabucaires de Catalunya (Coordination des tromblonneurs de Catalogne), la ederacié Catalana de Pessebristes (Fédérations catalane de constructeurs de crèches), ADIFOLK, le Moviment Laie i Progressista (Mouvement laïque et progressiste), la Fundacié Paco Candel (Fondation Paco Candel), la Coordinadora de Pastorets de Catalunya (Coordination des "pastorets" -représentation théâtrale populaire de la naissance de Jésus-), la Federacié de Diables i Dimonis de Catalunya (Fédération de diables et démons de Catalogne), le Secretariat de Corals lnfantils de Catalunya (Secrétariat des choeurs d'enfants de Catalogne), la Coordinadora de Centres d'Estudis de Parla Catalana (Coordination des centres d'études catalanophones), la Federacié Catalana de Catifaires (Fédération catalane des tapis de fleurs), la Coordinadora de Colles de Gegants i Bestiari de Ciutat Vella de Barcelona (Coordination des groupes de géants et bestiaire de la Vieille ville de Barcelone), I'Associacié Catalana de Puntaires (Association catalane de denteliers et dentelières), la XarxaAteneu, les Casals Joves de Catalunya (Maisons de jeunes de Catalogne), la Coordinadora de Bali de Bastons de Catalunya (Coordination de la danse aux bâtons de Catalogne) et la Federacié de Colles de Falcons de Catalunya (Fédération de groupes de "faucons" de Catalogne).
Organisatie voor Gemeenschapswerk NAKS
Cultural and Community Organization NAKS [en]
Thomsonstraat 8, Paramaribo
SURINAME
URL: http://www.nakssuriname.com
Tel.: +597-499033; +597 8626804; +597 4321296

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90444
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1947
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Curaçao, Netherlands, Suriname

Organisation pour la promotion des médecines traditionnelles - PROMETRA
PROMETRA International [en]
Cité des Chercheurs, Bel-Air, Immeuble EVA, n 93,
Dakar, BP: 6134 Dakar-Etoile
Dakar
SENEGAL
URL: http://www.prometra.org
Tel.: 33-832-28-50

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90010
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1996
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- savoirs thérapeutiques traditionnels – savoirs virtuels – voyance – phénomènes paranormaux – parapsychologie – métapsychologie – manifestations pratiques spirituelles

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- initiation aux savoirs endogènes, organisations annuelles de cérémonies spirituelles communautaires, création d’associations de dépositaires de savoirs traditionnels avec obligation de transmettre ces savoirs à des disciples

Main countries where active:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Togo, Uganda

Objectives:
PROMETRA International est autant un organisme de recherche culturelle, de pratique médicale et de diffusion scientifique qu’un instrument panafricain d’intégration et de relations internationales à travers la revalorisation des médecines traditionnelles, des religions anciennes, des savoirs endogènes et de la spiritualité universelle. PROMETRA International a 23 représentations à travers le monde dont 17 en Afrique et jouit depuis 2004 d’un Accord de Siège qui lui confère une reconnaissance diplomatique au Sénégal, pays abritant son siège. Les activités menées par PROMETRA International obéissent à un objectif général qui consiste à promouvoir les médecines et traditions africaines et à tisser des liens entre les cultures de par leurs diversités à travers le monde. Les objectifs spécifiques se résument comme suit :
- oeuvrer à la valorisation des savoir et savoir-faire traditionnels,
- aider à la mise en place des moyens de protection des savoirs traditionnels,
- tisser des liens et créer des réseaux entre toutes organisations, associations, institutions ou structures oeuvrant dans le sens de la réhabilitation des cultures et civilisations indigènes en Afrique et dans le monde,
- mener des études socio anthropologiques sur les savoirs traditionnels, les ressources génétiques et le folklore,
- cultiver des relations de partenariat avec les leaders des communautés de base fondées sur la confiance réciproque,
- organiser et former sans les déformer en agents IEC les leaders spirituels, chefs de culte et tradipraticiens de santé des communautés de base, afin qu’ils jouent pleinement leur rôle en leur sein,
- aider les gouvernements à adopter des stratégies qui prennent en compte les savoir et savoir-faire traditionnels dans les politiques de développement durable.
Activities:
PROMETRA International bénéficie d’une expérience de plusieurs années d’organisation et de mobilisation des dépositaires de savoirs et de savoir-faire traditionnels, pour la réhabilitation des valeurs de la civilisation de l’Afrique, de sa diaspora, et celle des humanités en général. En dehors de son antenne basée aux USA, toutes les représentations nationales de PROMETRA International établissent des relations de partenariat, de respect mutuel et de confiance réciproque avec les dignitaires de la culture et de la sagesse des groupements communautaires de base qui ont été organisés en associations. PROMETRA International est aujourd’hui le porte parole de ces structures organisées. En matière de sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel, des liens existent avec les temples des savoirs oraux et initiatiques de plusieurs grandes aires de spiritualité africaine, regroupés autour de personnalités charismatiques tels les babalawo, les bokonon, les kponhinto, les saltigi, les sanusi, les vodunon, etc. Au niveau de l’OMPI (Organisation Mondiale pour la Propriété Intellectuelle), PROMETRA International est membre du Comité intergouvernemental pour la protection des savoirs traditionnels, des ressources génétiques et du folklore. Au niveau de l’OAPI (Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle), PROMETRA International est membre, personne ressource et consultant pour tout ce qui concerne les savoirs traditionnels, les ressources génétiques et le folklore. PROMETRA International a publié un ouvrage intitulé « Protection des Droits de Propriété Intellectuelle – Guide Pratique ». Ces différentes compétences font que PROMETRA International est régulièrement consulté par l’ARIPO (Organisation Régionale Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle), l’OMS (Organisation Mondiale de la Santé), l’UA (Union Africaine), etc., dans des domaines multiples relatifs aux savoirs traditionnels. Par exemple, l’Organisation Islamique pour l’Education, les Sciences et la Culture (ISESCO) a confié à PROMETRA International, l’élaboration d’une étude sur le développement du savoir et du savoir-faire traditionnels dans les pays africains. Quinze (15) brevets d’invention ont été octroyés par l’Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) et cinq (05) par l’Organisation Mondiale pour la Propriété Intellectuelle (OMPI). Au plan culturel, spirituel mais aussi par devoir de mémoire pour une connexion spirituelle universelle, PROMETRA International coordonne une activité importante intitulée « Voie du Souvenir et de Connexion Spirituelle ». Cette initiative vise à panser les plaies de l’esclavage enfouies dans la mémoire collective. Le point focal de cette activité est le site historique de Ouidah au Bénin, sur lequel PROMETRA International a réalisé des oeuvres protégées et des stèles (la Porte du Retour, la Mère Afrique…). Au plan de l’édition, plusieurs ressources ont été mobilisées pour la protection, le développement des savoirs endogènes. Des ouvrages écrits et audio visuels sont diffusés pour davantage outiller les acteurs pour la sauvegarde des savoirs et savoir-faire traditionnels, des savoirs méconnus ou négligés qui relèvent prioritairement du patrimoine immatériel propre au génie africain et qui servent le développement durable. Outre l’animation d’un Site Web de promotion des savoir et savoir-faire traditionnels, un partenariat avec les multi nationales de la radio et de la télévision (Antenne 2, France 5, TV5, BBC, Africa N 1...), a permis la réalisation de documentaires pour une meilleure sensibilisation de l’opinion sur l’importance du rôle des savoirs endogènes pour le développement durable de l’Afrique.
PROMETRA International a mis au point un manuel pédagogique dénommé FAPEG (Formation d’Auto Perfectionnement des Guérisseurs). Cet outil a pour but de former les tradipraticiens de santé sans les déformer, sans leur apporter des connaissances exogènes pour la prise en charge des problèmes de santé liés à la survie de la mère et de l’enfant, à la planification familiale naturelle, au VIH/SIDA, au paludisme, à la malnutrition et autres affections endémiques ou endomo-épidémiques en Afrique.
Cooperation:
PROMETRA International a des expériences multiples, multiformes, pluridisciplinaires, multisectorielles et spécifiques par rapport à ses représentations nationales et aux groupes ethniques selon les pays concernés. Voici quelques cas de figures illustrant les relations avec les praticiens du patrimoine culturel immatériel de pays pris à titre d’exemples.
- Au Sénégal
Le Xoy est une séance de voyance publique traditionnelle que PROMETRA International organise chaque année avec les Saltigi grands maîtres voyants de l’ethnie seereer. Pratique immatérielle de très haute portée, le Xoy permet de combattre les épidémies, de sauver les récoltes, les invasions multiples et d’aider à un rendement très élevé de la production agricole. Il permet aussi de ramener l’harmonie et la paix au niveau des relations sociales.
Le Ndëpp est une ethnopsychiatrie de groupe qui donne des résultats positifs pour le traitement des maladies psychosomatiques en usant de la danse, du rythme, de la transe.
- Au Bénin
Le Kuvito est une expérience qui permet la communication avec les ancêtres.
Le Zangbeto permet de faire des expériences de phénomènes paranormaux et de transmutation.
Le Bokonon pratique le FA qui est une science qui étudie 256 forces spirituelles.
Le FA permet la divination individuelle, collective ou nationale avec un impact sans partage sur la santé, l’agriculture, la paix et le développement.
Le Kponhinto et le Vodunon sont des dignitaires qui par des expériences immatérielles, communiquent avec la transcendance.
- En Afrique du Sud
Les Sanusi ont la possibilité de lire l’histoire à travers les pierres, les objets gravés et les pièces de métaux précieux, de lire l’histoire des ancêtres et d’utiliser les informations pour les soins mais aussi et surtout pour amener l’harmonie entre les vivants et les morts.
Pacific Traditions Society
POB 189
Anahola H1
96703

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
URL: http://www.vaka.org
Tel.: 808 93 68 462

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90425
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1988
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- traditional wayfinding and navigation

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- publishing, museum displays and educational presentations

Main countries where active:

Solomon Islands

Patrimoine du Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque
10, Rue Saint-Moustier
7130 BINCHE
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.museedumasque.be
Tel.: +32 64 23 89 31

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90329
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 1975
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Belgium

Objectives:
Le Musée international du carnaval et du masque à Binche a été créé dans le but de présenter des collections de masques, accessoires et costumes, limitées au départ au folklore local, et très vite étendue aux traditions masquées mondiales, dans le but d'approfondir les connaissances sur les origines et les rôles fondamentaux des traditions masquées. La collecte et la conservation des pièces, de même que leur étude scientifique, leur présentation et leur diffusion auprès du public sont les objectifs principaux du musée, qui à travers ces activités, participe à mettre en valeur et approfondir les connaissances du patrimoine immatériel de l'humanité.
Activities:
Les activités du musée sont centrées autour de l'acquisition, la recherche, la conservation et la présentation au public des pièces de collection.
Cooperation:
La politique d'achat du musée s'accompagne généralement de visites et recherches de terrain, ainsi que d'entretiens et de témoignages oraux, effectues par l'équipe du musée ou par l'intermédiaire d'un chercheur. Dans les deux cas, l’esprit de respect mutuel est prédominant avec les communautés, les groupes et les individus qui sont à l'origine de la production des traditions masquées étudiées. Le fondateur et premier directeur du musée, Samuei Glotz, ainsi que les deux directeurs qui lui ont succédé (Michel Revelard et Christel Deliege, actuelle directrice), ont toujours été des membres très actifs de la Commission pour le Patrimoine Oral et immatériel auprès de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles influant sur une politique d'acquisition respectueuse des communautés concernées.

L'accord des populations organisant les festivités masquées est toujours demande quant à l’entrée de leur patrimoine au musée. On peut citer notamment l'exemple des lndiens Ticuna (Amazonie, Brésil). C'est un chercheur indépendant Daniel Devos qui, connaissant des indiens Ticuna depuis 1984. fut l'intermédiaire avec le Musée. Pour preuve des relations établies avec le musée par l'intermédiaire de Monsieur Devos. Pedro. !e chef du village des Ticuna, confia au musée une série d'objets ainsi qu'un courrier pour que le musée les expose avec leur accord.
Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Polish Ethnological Society - PTL [en]
Société Polonaise d'Ethnologie - PES [fr]
ul. F. Joliot-Curie 12
50-383 Wrocław
POLAND
URL: http://www.ptl.info.pl
Tel.: +48 71 375 75 83

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90188
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1895
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Poland

Objectives:
Shaping conditions for the development of anthropological interests of members, popularization and support of anthropological knowledge in society.

The Society achieves its aims by:
1. Conducting researt:h and gathering materials and data concerning Polish folk culture and other peoples' cultures
2. Organizing meetings, symposia, lectures, tours related to its field of interest
3. Expressing its opinion on the status and needs of traditional and contemporary folk culture and current directions of activities in this area
4. Publishing activity in the field of ethnology and related sciences
5. Creating and maintaining collections and archives
6. Disseminating knowledge about the need for protection and conservation of ethnographic objects and cultural heritage
7. Popularizing knowledge of folk cultures
8. Liaising with other associations, scientific institutions and organizations in the country and abroad, about the same or similar nature.
Activities:
Polskie Tawarzystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Association (PTL afterwards) is a society of people interested in preservation and cultivation of folk culture heritage. Intangible heritage is a vital part of it. Cultural heritage has been collected and documented during fieldworks and reuslt of these acitivities has been published in the form of thousands of articles that appeared in assocation's official yearly journal "Lud" (Folk) - 93 volumes were published - hundreds of books. One of the most impressive
achievments is a publication of Collected Works of Oskar Kolberg who gathered folk songs, legends, myths and fairy tales in todays Poland, Western Ukraine and Belarus, Lithuania, Eastern Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Romania and the Balkans. So far 86 volumes has been published (62 under auspieces of PTL). Intangible heritage is systematically documented and published in Association Series
such as "Ethnograpfic Archives", "Folk Literature", "Ethnological Works", "Cultural Heritage" and "Ethnographic Works and Materials" (see below). Most members of PTL are professional ethnologists and anthropologists trained in collecting and preserving intangible cultural heritage. More than two hundreds members among work in academic institutions dealing with folk traditions.

PTE is a meber of the World Council of Anthropological Associations

Members of the Board of the Society (2008 - 2011):
Professor Michal Buchowski - President
Associate Professor Grazyna Karpinska - Vice-President
Dr. Malgorzata Michalska· Vice President
Associate Professor Teresa Smolinska - Vice President
Dr. Jerzy Adamczewski - Secretary General
Dr. Hubert Czachowski - Deputy Secretary-General
Or. Anna Weronika Brzezinska - Treasurer
Dr. Magdalena Rostworowska - Deputy Treasurer
Professor Derota Simonides
Dr. Andrzej Stawarz
Associate Professor Jan Adamowski

Recent activities:
PTL organizes yearly General Assembly Meetings and scientific conferences. The last one, 87th meeting took palce in the city of Wroclaw and the topic of the conference was: "Poles Beyond Their Homeland on the Threshold of XXI Century: Various Faces of the Polish Identity". It also co-sponsors local cultural events and scholar1y conferences related to folk cuture and cultural heritage.

List of publications:
Periodicals:
LUO - published since 1895
FOLK LITERATURE - since 1957
LODZ ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES - since 1959

Publication series:
"Ethnographic Works and Materials" - since 1934, ed. 36 volumes
"Ethnological works" - since 1947, ed. 21 volumes
"Atlas of Polish Folk Costumes" - since 1949, ed. 38 volumes
"Archives of Ethnography" - since 1951, ed. 49 volumes
"Library of Popular Science" - since 1958, issued 14 volumes
"Library of Exiles" - since 1991, ed. 23 volumes
"Comments to the Polish Ethnographic Atlas" - Since 1993, were more than 8 volumes
"Library of the Folk Literature" - since 1995, ed. 4 volumes
"Cultural Heritage" - since 1996, ed. 4 volumes
"Complete Works by Oskar Kolberg" - from 1968 to 1998, ed. 82 volumes
Cooperation:
PTL is in direct touch with local activists and folk culture practitioners thanks to it decetnralized
structure. Many members of local branches are cultural animators and participate in regional folk culture associations, folk song choirs and dance groups. They also preserve local traditions by organizing cultural events and passing down folk heritage to schoolchildren and young generation. Local PTL groups convene public lectures addresing folk culture and issues directly related to the preservation and transmition of intangible cultural heritage. Performing this task demands constant cooperation with local people, educational and political authorites as well as cultural organizations.

Membership: 697 (including 202 academic scholars)
- 18 local branches (Bialystok, Bielsko-Biala, Bytom, Ciechanow, Cieszyn, Gdansk,
Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Mszana Oolna, Opoczno, Opole, Poznan, Torun, Warszawa,
Wrodaw, Zamosc, Zielona Gora);
- Library of J. Czekanowski, Wrodaw
- Scientific Archives, Wroctaw
- Centre of Ethnographic Documentation and Infonnation, Lodz
Routes Nomades
chez Claire Marcadé
23 D, rue Châteaugiron
35000 Rennes

FRANCE
URL: http://www.routesnomades.fr
Tel.: +33(0)2 43 76 19 65; +33(0)6 21 35 53 01

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: French) - No. 90371
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

France, Mongolia

Objectives:
L'Association Routes Nomades est née de la rencontre d'un ethnomusicologue français et un détenteur de tradition du khöömii (chant diphonique) mongol. Avec la finalité de contribuer au vivre-ensemble à travers la favorisation du dialogue interculturel et la promotion de la diversité culturelle, Routes Nomades a pour but de faire connaître, promouvoir, valoriser et transmettre la musique traditionnelle mongole, et plus largement la culture mongole en Europe. Ces objectifs sont mis en œuvre par l'organisation d'événements culturels et scientifiques (concerts, conférences, rencontres, projections ...), des activités de la médiation culturelle (stages, ateliers, cours sur le khöömii et la culture mongole), le conseil artistiques pour la musique mongole, ainsi que la production d'éditions (disques, DVDs ... ). Les missions de Routes Nomades s'inscrivent pleinement dans la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel, l'encouragement à la création artistique ainsi que l'échange académique dans la recherche ethnomusicologique de l'aire concernée.
Depuis sa création en 2006, l’association maintien une fréquence moyenne d'activité annuelle entre 1 et 3 tournées avec des musiciens invités (2 à 12 artistes). Ainsi, elle a déjà organisé plus de 100 concerts de musique traditionnelle mongole, 60 stages de chant diphonique et 80 ateliers autour de la culture mongole en Europe et ailleurs (France, Suisse, Italie, Allemagne, Pologne, Norvège et Maroc}. En 2017, nous avons publié notre 3e disque sur le chant diphonique mongol - une première anthologie sur cette technique vocale, qui a reçu des distinctions médiatiques comme ffff de Télérama, Sélection album par Le Monde, Bravo de Trad'Mag, Coup de Coeur de l'Académie Charles Cros et 'Top of the World' par Songlines.
L’association conseille aussi pour des projets liés au chant diphonique pour différentes structures, allant du Théâtre de la Ville-Abesses, en passant par le Festival de Fès des musiques sacrées du monde jusqu'au théâtre équestre Zingaro-Bartabas.
Routes Nomades a pour but de la promotion, la diffusion, la production, la direction artistique, l'édition (disque, DVD, livre) et l'organisation de tournées dans le domaine du spectacle vivant incluant musique (musiques traditionnelles, world ou actuelles, et autres selon nos envies), la danse, le théâtre et les arts plastiques, ainsi que l'organisation d'événements divers (soirées thématiques, festivals, concerts, conférences, stages), le conseil artistique et la sous-traitance dans ces mêmes domaines.

Activities:
Avec ses activités liées à la recherche et la dissémination du chant diphonique mongol, l’association est au cœur de la sauvegarde de cette technique vocale grâce aux mesures de transmission, documentation, promotion, mise en valeur et protection. Depuis 8 ans, son Directeur artistique (Johanni Curtet, l’ethnomusicologue spécialiste du chant diphonique mongol), enseigne cette technique vocale en Europe. Premier étranger à avoir soutenu une thèse sur le chant diphonique mongol, il est engagé à faire connaître le khöömii dans sa forme traditionnelle mongole, et non à travers ses dérivés du mouvement New-Age, comme le chant harmonique, le yoga du son etc.
La dernière production de l’association, le disque « Une Anthologie du khöömii mongol » marque ses convictions et engagements concrets dans la sauvegarde du chant diphonique. Coproduit avec le label Buda Musique, ce double disque contient un livret de 46.p en trois langues (français, mongol, anglais). Réalisée dans le but de créer un outil pour la transmission du khöömii, le disque s'inscrit comme document majeur inédit servant l’esprit de la Convention de 2003. En présentant la tradition du khöömii dans toute sa diversité et contemporanéité, l'Anthologie manifeste aussi un engagement contre la muséification et la folklorisation de cet élément du PCI. Afin d'assurer la viabilité du khôômii, ce patrimoine vivant, nous nous sommes donnés pour objectif de revitaliser l'aspect rural et traditionnel du khôômii - supplanté par sa tonne spectaculaire ; de rendre accessible au public les enregistrements issus des archives sonores (souvent inaccessibles); de promouvoir le respect de la propriété intellectuelle des détenteurs du khöömii ; de favoriser l'équité entre ceux-ci face à toute forme de hiérarchie, de réputation et de valeur sociale. Cette édition contribue à combler l'absence d'une documentation permettant un regard d'ensemble sur la pratique du khöömii, des premiers enregistrements existants aux créations actuelles.
Commencé en 2011 et sorti en janvier 2017, ce double disque montre, de la manière la plus large, toutes les facettes de la pratique passée et contemporaine du khöömii en Mongolie. Dans le détail, le corpus d'enregistrements couvre la diversité de la tradition dans son ensemble: son rapport à la nature, les divers styles et techniques diphoniques, le répertoire des différents instruments d'accompagnement, l'évolution de la pratique sur trois générations, les sensibilités rurales et urbaines, les innovations ...
Il s'agit d'un travail de passion, d'une aventure humaine partagée par Johanni Curtet et Nomindari Shagdarsuren, impliqués ensemble dans l'élaboration du dossier de candidature de l'Art traditionnel du khöömii mongol pour l’inscrire sur la Liste Représentative du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel de l'Humanité à l'UNESCO en 2010.
Au cours de la recherche de terrain en Mongolie, Johanni Curtet a réalisé des enregistrements de chants longs rares de la région de l'Ouest, notamment la province de Khovd. Regroupés en deux cassettes, ces enregistrements sont publiés par l'Académie des sciences en Mongolie, en accompagnant le livre "Les 35 chants longs chantés par Monsieur Shagj" et distribués gracieusement auprès de la communauté et les lieux de transmission.
Représentante de Routes Nomades aux États-Unis, Sunmin Yoon, Professeur associée à Montclair State University et University of Delaware, et spécialiste de l'urtyn duu (chant long mongol) a constitué une documentation exhaustive sur les détenteurs de la tradition, couvrant les régions du centre, du sud, de l'est et du nord pour ses recherches. Un projet d'édition de ces matières pour les disséminer auprès des communautés, groupes et individus relatifs est en cours.

Cooperation:
L'association Routes Nomades est fondée sur la relation humaine et le dialogue interculturel dans le respect mutuel. Ses activités liées à la recherche, à la production et la diffusion des connaissances sur le khöömii sont toujours basé sur l'échange entre le chercheur-apprenti-diphoneur et le diphoneur-détenteur de tradition.
Depuis 2006, nous avons organisé des activités de sensibilisation du public sur le chant diphonique, la musique traditionnelle et la culture mongole en y impliquant les détenteurs du patrimoine. Ainsi, un réseau de passionnés du khöömii s'est créé en France, suivant les activités des musiciens invités chaque année.
Dans la mise en œuvre du projet du disque « Une Anthologie du khöömii mongol » nous avons voulu montrer la richesse passée et présente du khöömii mongol de façon exhaustive à travers la recherche ethnomusicologique et une implication large des détenteurs du khöömii dans le projet. Cette idée est réalisée à travers les longs et nombreux voyages dans les provinces de Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii, Uvs, Bayankhongor, Zavkhan, Övörkhangai, ainsi qu'Oulan-Bator et ses alentours, pour rencontrer l'ensemble des détenteurs actuel de la tradition, issus des divers groupes ethniques à l'échelle de la Mongolie : anciens, grands maîtres, hommes, femmes, élèves, pasteurs nomades, solistes professionnels, ensembles traditionnels nationaux, fusionnels, ethno-rock ...
Ainsi, le projet de l'Anthologie a été présenté à tous les participants, y compris les familles des diphoneurs défunts, présentés dans les archives sonores, afin d'obtenir leurs consentements libres et éclairés. Par conséquent, nous avons respecté la propriété intellectuelle de chaque participant. Cela fait partie des principes de l'éthique du projet.
La réalisation d'une anthologie du chant long mongol est en projet. Nous avons la volonté de créer en Mongolie et pour la musique traditionnelle mongole un modèle discographique toujours en lien avec la communauté concernée et dans le respect de sa propriété intellectuelle.
Rupayan Sansthan (Rajasthan Institute of Folklore)
Paota B/2 Road
Jodhpur
INDIA
URL: http://www.arnajharna.org
Tel.: 9414136361

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Hindi) - No. 90459
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1965
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

SAVE Foundation (Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe) - SAVE Foundation
Sicherung der landwirtschaftlichen ArtenVielfalt in Europa
Neugasse 30
CH-9000 St. Gallen
SWITZERLAND
URL: http://www.save-foundation.net
Tel.: +41 71 222 74 1

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90123
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1993
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Traditional agricultural eco-systems (TAES) and their traditions and practices

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- STAKEHOLDER NETWORKING, POLITICAL LOBBYING, PROVIDING INFORMATION/PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

Main countries where active:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland

Objectives:
SAVE is the abbreviation for "Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe".

SAVE is a pan-European umbrella NGO established to preserve and promote genetic, cultural and historical diversity in farm animals and cultivated plants in Europe in cooperation with its local country members. SAVE especially aims at breeds of farm animals and cultivated plants that are threatened by extinction.

The above objectives are pursued via:
• an adequate organizational structure comprising a Board of Directors, a Project Commission and a Council of Cooperation Partners;
• information, including collection and dissemination of information such as:, - international and national legislation and treaties with regard to rare breeds of farm animals and cultivated plants international and national funding programs and logistical assistance collection and transfer of know-how
• the monitoring of the state of the endangered breeds and cultivated plants seeking, locating, evaluating and regular stock inspections of remnant populations of rare breeds and varieties of cultivated plants (by the Monitoring Institute) installing an early warning system to signal need for action when and where necessary
• single projects, rescue operations. SAVE will take action when needed in cooperation with the country partners and/or initiate conservation measures (normally on-farm) where local organizations are lacking or can’t cope with the task. In the long term SAVE will hand over these projects.
• lend logistical and other types of support to organizations in general and to specific conservation projects in particular for national and regional activities.
• promotion of existing endangered breeds and cultivated plants. this includes
• public relations and raising awareness for the need to preserve the genetic resources through the www.save-foundation.net website, publication of the SAVE eNews, press / media-releases, etc.;
• promoting and elaborating studies with regard to rare breeds and cultivated plants;
• lobbying towards international organizations and governments (FAO, EU, …), and through its members, towards national governments and organizations;
• participating at / organizing conferences, seminars,
• support for in situ / on-farm projects in different European countries.
• networking and encouraging cooperation of European partners such as NGO’s, universities, government bodies, nature reserves, active in the field of agro biodiversity
• raising finances to realize these projects.

Additional information:

Biodiversity is not only about wildlife, it is also about the richness of agricultural breeds and seeds. Agricultural biological diversity (agrobiodiversity) is everything - from soil bacteria through to cows and apples, including forests, rivers and wild plants - that provides our food, fibre and fuel resources. Over thousands of years humans have worked together with natural processes, selecting and developing animals and crops to provide food for a growing population. Within this process, traditions and cultural events (harvest festivals, transhumance e.g. in the Alps) and intangible knowledge were passed on since agriculture began through the generations and were closely connected to the specific animal breeds and plant varieties of the regions.

Today this agrobiodiversity is greatly endangered because the farmers are endangered, the environment is endangered and traditions are endangered. The loss of traditional autochthonous breeds and varieties within the modern environment of high performance and depleted biodiversity has led to a loss of farmers' traditions and agro-eco-systems, subsequently leading to a loss of the intangible knowledge needed for in-situ/on-farm
consevation.

SAVE Foundation stands for the safeguarding of autochthonous breeds and plants, within their unique human systems. Our work for the conservation of traditional agricultural systems is widely anchored and ranges from research and scientific work, through stakeholder networking, to identifying and documenting traditional knowledge and supporting and promoting its conservation. The stakeholders also range widely from
government ministries and international organisations, through research institutes, to NGOs and small scale farmers and breeders. SAVE acts as a representative of NGOs and farmers/breeders and strives to ensure that their voice is heard and their needs are met.

We aim for sustainable conservation in the area the breeds and varieties were developed, seeing them as a piece of cultural heritage intricately bound to the traditions and practises of the region. Except for in emergency situations, we discourage the removal of material to other areas. The breeds and plants are an essential part of the intangible cultural heritage of the area. The SAVE Foundation restricts its activities to
Europe but is in contact with organisations conducting similar work around the world.

Additional information 2:
Biodiversity is not only about wildlife, it is also about the richness of agricultural breeds and seeds. Agricultural biological diversity (agrobiodiversity) is everything – from soil bacteria through to cows and apples, including forests, rivers and wild plants – that provides our food, fibre and fuel resources. Over thousands of years humans have worked together with natural processes, selecting and developing animals and crops to provide food for a growing population.

This extremely successful enterprise has been the basis of all other human endeavours. Agriculture has provided both nutrition and time – time that was previously used on hunting, gathering and constantly moving in search of new food. The increased resources allowed humans to invent new technological processes, develop ways of organizing communities and resources, to build the wonders of the world, to think, to travel, to write music and books, and create great art.

An inextricable link lies between human culture and agrobiodiversity. This is taken into account in all agrobiodiversity conservation activities. Conservation of the cultural heritage of humans is important as not only languages and customs are endangered but, also their land use systems and traditional farmers’ knowledge, traditions, feasts, clothes etc. These latter aspects are directly related to the work of the SAVE Foundation and are an integral part of all our projects. Conservation of (agro)biodiversity is not only a domain for scientists, it is a place for the expression of culture – through practical knowledge, language, stories, myths and legends, customs and food specialities. This fact has been long recognised at SAVE.

SAVE Foundation stands for the safeguarding of agrobiodiversity, within unique human systems. Our work is widely anchored and ranges from research and scientific work, through stakeholder networking, to identifying and documenting traditional knowledge related to rare breeds and plants and supporting and promoting its conservation. The stakeholders also range widely from government ministries and international organisations, through research institutes, to NGOs and small scale farmers and breeders. SAVE acts as a representative of these NGOs and farmers/breeders and strives to ensure that their voice is heard and their needs for grassroots development are met.
Activities:
Biodiversity is not only about wildlife, it is about also the richness of agricultural breeds and seeds. Today both wildlife and agro-biodiversity are endangered. This agrobiodiversity is essential for our food security. Agrobiodiversity is endangered because many old breeds have been replaced by high performance breeds, which produce more meat and milk. Old species of plants are replaced by high yielding crops. This process was considered economically necessary but has lead to the critical endangerment of many traditional breeds. Some breeds have even become extinct, others have only a few living examples still in existence.
Even though many of the old breeds and varieties are not as productive as their modern counterparts, they possess qualities such as high fertility, hardiness and resistance against harsh weather conditions and disease, all of which could be very important in a changing economic and climatic situation. The traditional breeds and varieties have been adapted over generations to satisfy the needs of farmers and the conditions of their local environment. They are not only genetically interesting, they also hold a value as a piece of cultural heritage.
Many of the breeds and varieties that we support the conservation of are deeply rooted in the culture of the society that keeps them. We aim for sustainable conservation in the area the breeds and varieties were developed, seeing them as a piece of cultural heritage intricately bound to the traditions and practises of the region. Except for in emergency situations, we discourage the removal of animals to other areas, seeing the breeds as being part and parcel of the intangible cultural heritage of the area. This can be particularly observed in the case of the Karakachan or Walachen people and animals but it is, also, true in many other parts of the world. Even in so-called developed countries customs and traditional produce and practice is bound to the traditional farming systems, plants and animals. The SAVE Foundation restricts its activities to Europe but takes an interest in similar work of other organisations around the world.
In order to conserve endangered breeds and seeds even in only small populations, it is necessary to act before it is too late. In many countries in Europe, there are organisations supporting and promoting the conservation of Agro-Biodiversity. The SAVE Foundation, founded in 1993, acts as a European umbrella organisation for these organisations. It promotes and coordinates activities to conserve endangered breeds of domestic animals and cultivated plant varieties. The SAVE Foundation also acts practically, in areas where there is, as yet, no national organisation in existence. The SAVE Foundation and its Partners make up the European SAVE Network. The Monitoring Institute was founded in 1995 with the aim of providing a scientific foundation for the work of SAVE. The Monitoring Institute collects data, both historical and from the present. It also assesses conservation work, raises the alarm where conservation work is lacking and facilitates crossborder monitoring of old and endangered rare breeds and cultivated plant varieties.
Please see the SAVE Website (www.save-foundation.net/english/projects.htm) to see a list of our current projects

Additional information:

SAVE Foundation has been working since 1993 on many different levels to achieve the objectives of successful on-farm conservation. As has already been outlined in section 5, this work is multi-faceted. The need for a more systematic approach to documenting traditional knowledge was especially discussed at the Conference "Alpine Convention and Agrobiodiversity" which was organized in collaboration with the Alpine Convention
and SAVE-Monitoring Institute in May 2008 in Bozen, Italy. This idea was followed up by SAVE with the feasibility study for "Alpine Knowledge" (see below).

The last 17 years of networking organisations and stakeholders working towards the same goals has led to SAVE accumulating a large amount of practical experience concerning traditional knowledge within agriculture. The recognition that cultural and social aspects are essential parts of a holistic approach to conservation was behind the decision to recruit a social scientist to the team in 2006. The accreditation from UNESCO is an important step towards fully integrating the concept of protecting intangible knowledge into our work programme.

The current SAVE staff team comprises of:
Hans-Peter Grunenfelder, graduated as engineer from ETH (Zurich) with an MSc in rural development. In 1995 he received the Chorafas-Prize from the Swiss Academy of Natural Science for his outstanding work for the in-situ-conservation of rare breeds and seeds.

Waltraud Kugler, graduated as geographer and landscape ecologist. She has managed SAVE projects since October 1994. Since November 2000 she is responsible for the direction of operations for the SAVE-Monitoring Institute in St.Gallen.

Elli Broxham, graduated in Environmental Policy and International Development. She has managed various SAVE projects including the project Continuous Monitoring in the Alps. She has been with SAVE since 2006.
Ulrich Donath, Biology graduate from the ETH (Zurich) and a qualified GIS-application developer, he worked in several fields of ecology on the interface to data processing systems. He has been with SAVE since 2008.

Many of the breeds and varieties that we support the conservation of are deeply rooted in the culture of the society that keeps them. They provide a basis and integral part of life, language, beliefs, nutrition and land management that has been tried and tested over thousands of years in the hands of millions of people. Traditional knowledge played an essential part in many past projects of SAVE e.g. conservation of the Karakachan animals, an integral part of their nomadic lifestyle, and the Kalofer goat, the hides of
which a part of the traditional carnival costume, in Bulgaria. Much has also been achieved, in order to support conservation, in networking stakeholders in areas where political borders divide cultural identities.

Current activities which aim to safeguard and promote intangible knowledge include: Arca-Net - Arca-Net profiles places where traditional livestock breeds and cultivated plants can be experienced first hand. It contains over 500 publicly accessible places in 43 countries. A map with all the locations and categories of the centres makes searching in specific regions or countries in Europe easy. As is fitting for a serious portal, criteria
for inclusion are in place. The basic criteria for inclusion can be found on the Arca-Net website under the menu point 'Guidelines'
The next project phase will see seminars and workshops for to exchange knowledge and experience and to promote regional and international networking. A development of didactic materials for ark centres is also planned. http://www.arca-netinfo.

Alpine Knowledge - The knowledge about plant cultivation, animal husbandry, breeding, use and product manufacturing from rare breeds and varieties is being lost with the elder generation. Sometimes the knowledge is lost faster than the breed or the variety. If thisknowledge falls into oblivion, in-situ / on farm conservation becomes difficult. Collecting the traditional knowledge of the Alpine Circle is of special importance, within the
continuous monitoring of the situation of the Alps. The idea to collect the knowledge about rare autochthonous breeds and varieties is very new and innovative. Until now, only few efforts were undertaken to systematically collect traditional peasant knowledge of this kind. SAVE has started a one year feasibility study for collection and documentation of traditional knowledge in the Alps to find the best way of collecting and
handling the data.
The study includes:
• Development of an information platform that people can contribute to
• Development of a system to collect knowledge from different sources
• Development of categories and content.
As a result of the feasibility study, a following project will be launched to extend the project, perhaps also to other regions, such as the Balkan region or the Carpathians.

Additional information 2:

SAVE Foundation has been working since 1993 on many different levels to achieve the objectives of successful on-farm conservation. As has already been outlined in section 5, this work is multi-faceted. The need for a more systematic approach to documenting traditional knowledge was especially discussed at the Conference “Alpine Convention and Agrobiodiversity” which was organized in collaboration with the Alpine Convention and SAVE-Monitoring Institute in May 2008 in Bozen, Italy. This idea was followed up by SAVE with the feasibility study for “Alpine Knowledge” (see below).

The last 17 years of networking organisations and stakeholders working towards the same goals has led to SAVE accumulating a large amount of practical experience concerning traditional knowledge within agriculture. The recognition that cultural and social aspects are essential parts of a holistic approach to conservation of traditional agriculture was behind the decision to recruit a social scientist to the team in 2006. The accreditation from UNESCO is an important step towards fully integrating the concept of protecting intangible cultural knowledge into our work programme.

The current SAVE staff team comprises of:
Hans-Peter Grünenfelder, graduated as engineer from ETH (Zürich) with an MSc in rural development. In 1995 he received the Chorafas-Prize from the Swiss Academy of Natural Science for his outstanding work for the in-situ-conservation of rare breeds and seeds.

Waltraud Kugler, graduated as geographer and landscape ecologist. She has managed SAVE projects since October 1994. Since November 2000 she is responsible for the direction of operations for the SAVE-Monitoring Institute in St.Gallen.

Elli Broxham, graduated in Environmental Policy and International Development. Member of the European Society for Rural Sociology. She has managed various SAVE projects including the project Continuous Monitoring in the Alps. She has been with SAVE since 2006.

Ulrich Donath, Biology graduate from the ETH (Zürich) and a qualified GIS-application developer, he worked in several fields of ecology on the interface to data processing systems. He has been with SAVE since 2008.

Today agrobiodiversity is greatly endangered because farmers are endangered, the environment is endangered and traditions are endangered. Many of the breeds and varieties that SAVE supports are deeply rooted in the culture of the society that keeps them. They provide a basis and integral part of life, language, beliefs, nutrition and land management that has been tried and tested over thousands of years in the hands of millions of people.
Traditional knowledge played an essential part in many past projects of SAVE e.g. conservation of the Karakachan animals, an integral part of their nomadic lifestyle, and the Kalofer goat, the hides of which a part of the traditional carnival costume, in Bulgaria. Much has also been achieved, in order to support conservation, by networking stakeholders in areas where political borders divide cultural identities.

Current activities to record intangible knowledge:

Arca-Net – Arca-Net profiles places where traditional livestock breeds and cultivated plants can be experienced first hand. It contains over 500 publicly accessible places in 43 countries. A map with all the locations and categories of the centres makes searching in specific regions or countries in Europe easy. The next project phase will see seminars and workshops for farmers to exchange knowledge and experience and to promote regional and international networking. A development of didactic materials for ark centres is also planned. http://www.arca-net.info.
Alpine Knowledge - In 2006 it became clear to us that farmers’ knowledge was rapidly being lost with the elder generation and, although the recording of it has always been a part of our project work, it is now essential to focus our attention on recording as much as possible before it disappears. To this end, the concept of the “Alpine Knowledge” project came about. This project is now in a pilot phase with first results of the feasibility study expected at the end of 2010. As a result of the feasibility study, a following project will be launched to extend the project, perhaps also to other regions, such as the Balkan region or the Carpathians.

SAVE aims for sustainable conservation in the area the breeds and varieties were developed, seeing them as a piece of cultural heritage intricately bound to the traditions and practises of the region. Except for in emergency situations, we discourage the removal of material to other areas, seeing it as being part and parcel of the intangible cultural heritage of the area. The SAVE Foundation restricts its activities to Europe but takes an interest in similar work of other organisations around the world.
Cooperation:
SAVE has been cooperating with European stakeholders for the conservation of agrobiodiversity since the establishment of the foundation in 1993. This cooperation is reflected in every project listed on the website http://www.save-foundation.net/english/projects.htm
Furthermore, SAVE is now developing a concept for collecting, storing and disseminating traditional farmers' knowledge, primarily from the mountainous regions of Europe. Knowledge about farming with, use of and products from traditional agrobiodiversity can be lost very quickly as older generations die out and younger generations are more interested in modern cultures. There are many attempts made to save the actual genetic material through gene and seed banks or other forms of ex situ conservation. However, there is very little emphasis placed on gathering and storing the knowledge that goes together with each plant variety and each animal breed. Without this knowledge, any conservation efforts are doomed to long-term failure. Domesticated animals and plants are inseparably bound to humans for their survival; likewise, the cultural heritage of rural areas is bound to the plants and animals that are part of the traditional agricultural system.
The project in development will assess the feasibility of collecting and storing traditional knowledge in a way that is publicly accessible. This project is new and innovative in the sector of agrobiodiversity, experience and knowledge from other sectors will be sought to provide the optimal solution. The pilot phase of this project will be undertaken in the Alpine region. Once the methodology has been established, the project will be expanded and transferred to other areas where traditional farmer’s knowledge is in danger of being irretrievably lost and forgotten.

Additional information:

SAVE has cooperated with European stakeholders for the conservation of agrobiodiversity and traditional agro-eco-systems since its establishment in 1993. SAVE has 19 network members who act as partner organisations. They are all NGOs representing memberships of farmers/breeders and other interested stakeholders - each
partner is represented in the Council of Cooperation Partners, meeting annually to discuss the work of SAVE and to give direction to its future. This cooperation is an essential part of our work and is reflected in every project. It is vital to successful project implementation that all stakeholders affected are drawn into the process. SAVE has become known for this inclusive practice. Each year the SAVE Annual Meeting gives
stakeholders from all over Europe a chance to network and exchange information, this experience is enhanced by the inclusion of the 'International Agrobiodiversity Seminar' into the SAVE Annual Meeting. This seminar will take place for the 4th time in 2010 and give 11 guest speakers a chance to outline the work in their countries for the benefit of other participants in the spirit of exchange of knowledge and ideas. Additionally in 2010, SAVE has already held a successful workshop on conservation of sheep and goats in Greece, giving practical advice for improving conservation efforts for flocks that are, for example, a fundamental part of the livelihood and tradition of the Sarakatsani nomads, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Balkans. SAVE will run a
workshop at the 1st Forum Carpaticum in Krak6w, Poland, 15-17th September 2010 workshops aimed at better engaging and networking stakeholders in the region. One further planned workshop for 2010 will take place in November within a conference on Biodiversity and Land use systems in Europe. On this occasion the Alpine Knowledge project (see 6c) will be presented in a keynote speech and Alpine stakeholders will be
invited to present their work on conservation of both agrobiodiversity and traditional farmers' knowledge.

Through these actions, it is possible for SAVE to respectfully cooperate with groups and individuals who work with and for intangible heritage in the form of traditional farmers' knowledge.

Additional information 2:

SAVE has cooperated with European stakeholders for the conservation of agrobiodiversity and traditional agro-eco-systems since its establishment in 1993. Since the beginning of the Foundation, farmers and their communities have always been fully included in all our projects as active partners for conservation. This spirit of mutual respect has led to successful conservation activities that combine the knowledge of farmers and scientists – not only do all stakeholders take an active part in the projects, through the activities, the intangible knowledge of farmers is recorded and disseminated helping to preserve it for future generations.

SAVE has 19 network members who act as partner organisations. They are all NGOs representing memberships of farmers/breeders and other interested stakeholders – each partner is represented in the Council of Cooperation Partners, meeting annually to discuss the work of SAVE and to give direction to its future. SAVE has become known for its inclusive practice. Each year the SAVE Annual Meeting gives stakeholders from all over Europe a chance to network and exchange information, this experience is enhanced by the inclusion of the 'International Agrobiodiversity Seminar' into the SAVE Annual Meeting. This seminar gives guest speakers a chance to outline the work in their countries for the benefit of other participants in the spirit of exchange of knowledge and ideas.

Additionally, in 2010, SAVE has held a workshop on conservation of sheep and goats in Greece, sharing practical advice from and to farmers for improving conservation efforts for flocks that are, for example, a fundamental part of the livelihood and tradition of the Sarakatsani nomads, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Balkans. In November 2010 a workshop will take place within a conference on Biodiversity and Land use systems in Europe. On this occasion the Alpine Knowledge project (see 6c) will be presented in a keynote speech and Alpine stakeholders will be invited to discuss their work on conservation of both agrobiodiversity and traditional farmers’ knowledge.

Through these actions, it is possible for SAVE to respectfully cooperate with groups and individuals who work with and for intangible heritage in the form of traditional farmers’ knowledge.
Sekretariat Nasional Perkerisan Indonesia (SNKI)
Indonesian National Kris Secretariat [en]
JI. Danau Limboto No. C2/96
Pejompongan
10210 Jakarta
INDONESIA
Tel.: +62 21-5734382

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90284
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Indonesia

Objectives:
During the drafting of the nomination file of Indonesian Kris, community members called for establishment of a national Kris institution. This call was included as Section (g) 1.7.2 of the Action Plan for Safeguarding, Revitalization and Development of the Culture of the Indonesian Kris. Thus representatives of 15 paguyban associations of Kris enthusiasts, educational institutions and museums, gathered together in friendship and mutual respect at Vredeburg Fort Museum, Yogyakarta for the 2nd National Kris Seminar, and on 12th April 2006 witnessed by government officials, declared the establishment of SNKI (Indonesian National Kris Secretariat).
The Declaration stated the Objectives of SNKI: To facilitate communication and collaboration between paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts, educational institutions. Individual Kris enthusiasts and experts, in order to safeguard, revitalize and develop Kris culture and to interact with institutions of the central government and international institutions. The objectives of SNKI are further detailed:
1.To endeavor to safeguard, revitalize and develop Indonesian Kris as a cultural heritage of our Nation and as an oral and intangible heritage according to the 3rd UNESCO Proclamation.
2. To safeguard and facilitate the activities of pagyuban kris associations all over Indonesia.
3. To endeavor to carry out documentation and dissemination of information both in printed form as well as through electronic media, regarding all aspects of Kris all over Nusantara (Indonesia), which is referred to as Kris science or krisology.
4. To organize exhibitions, festivals, exchange of information, consultation among those who like and give attention to Kris, Kris craftsperson both on a national and international level.
5. To coordinate efforts to develop human resources in the field of kris
6. To facilitate the Action Plan for the Protection, Revitalization and Development of the Culture of the Indonesian Kris.
7. To communicate and collaborate with government (including across Ministries/Departments) and private institutions and individuals on a national and international level (e.g. UNESCO) to advance Indonesian Kris culture.
8. To endeavor to unite the vision and mission of Indonesian Kris culture.
9. To carry out activities which are deemed necessary to advance Kris culture in Indonesia.

Activities:
The competence of the paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts which are members of SNKI is that they have studied Kris intangible cultural heritage mostly through informal training in discussion among themselves, and by reading books and magazines about Kris. Many of them are collectors of Kris. Some are Kris master-craftsmen (empu), or makers of the accessories of the Kris. The universities which teach Kris culture and museums possess more scientific knowledge of Kris, and are making a concerted effort to transmit kris culture to younger generations.

Activitiess of SNKI, 2006 – 2011

1. SNKI was declared in Yogyakarta on 12th March 2006 at the 2nd National Kris Seminar at Vredeburg Fort Museum in Yogyakarta.
2. Subsequently Articles of Association and By-Laws were drawn up and adopted in April 2006.
3. The Board of Executive Management for 2006 – 2011 was established by decision No. 01/V/SNKI/2006 dated 2nd May 2006 and held regular meetings.
4. The Secretary-General of SNKI, assisted by the members of the Board of Executive Management, has regularly guided and assisted paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts and Kris craftspersons in many areas. Initially, SNKI was declared by 15 paguyuban associations, educational institutions and museums. Now SNKI has grown to include 71 paguyuban associations, educational institutions and museums. (See documentation)
5. SNKI has published a cultural magazine called “Keris” (Volume 1 to Volume 26). This magazine has elevated respect for Kris culture in the eyes of the public. SNKI assisted the publication of a magazine called “Pamor”, published by Paguyuban Panji Nusantara. This magazine increased public awareness of Kris culture.
6. SNKI participated in a Seminar on Kris in the Scientific Perspective, organized by the Centre for Research and Development of Culture at STSI Surakarta (Arts University) in 2010. The seminar resulted in publication of a book entitled Kris in the Scientific Perspective, containing essays by some 12 experts, including from SNKI. This book fulfills a desire by community members to develop “krisology” as a science.
7. SNKI participated in an exhibition and seminar entitled “Keris for the World” at the National Gallery, Jakarta, 3rd-8th June 2010. This event was opened by the (then) Minister for Culture and Tourism, and succeeded in increasing public and media awareness of Kris intangible cultural heritage.
8. SNKI has supported the development of a Kris studies curriculum at STSI (now ISI) arts university in Surakarta and also informal training in Kris intangible cultural heritage at traditional schools of Kris culture (sanggar). This has helped to strengthen transmission of Kris cultural heritage, particularly to the younger generation.
9. From 2006-2010 SNKI participated in many exhibitions and seminars on Kris, in Jakarta and on other places all over Indonesia.
10. SNKI has given many interviews on Kris to the press and media, which has enhanced public awareness of Kris cultural heritage.

Recent SNKI Activities 2011-2012

1. Madiun. Exhibition and Seminar on Kris. 2011
2. Competition on Aesthetics of Kris, Sept 2011. Yogyakarta.
3. Samarinda. Establishment of paguyuban association of kris enthusiasts , Samarinda, East Kalimantan, March 2012
4. Pekalongan. Dedication of Tosan Aji Kris Museum, Februari 2012
5. Semarang. Discussion on interpretation of the symbolism of the dhapur (form of the kris blade) and pamor (damascene pattern on the kris blade), March 2012
6. Special Exhibition of Kris Hilts Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, May 2011
7. Exhibition of Bugis (South Sulawesi) Kris, Jakarta, Desember 2011
8. Exhibition of Kris from Sumatra, Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Theme Park (TMII), Jakarta.
9. Karang Anyar. Dedication of Brojo Buwono museum and kris forge, May 2012
10. Salatiga, Training for Profession Certification of Kris Craftspersons.
11. MOU of collaboration between SNKI and TMII, Friday, specifically related to guidance of the Museum Pusaka Kris Museum at TMII, 26th May 2012
12. First Congress of SNKI 18th-20th April 2011. Report of Board of Executive Management 2006-2011, Amendment of Articles of Association, Drafting of Work Plan, Election of Executive Management Board for 2011-2016. Exhibition of kris.
13. Kirab Keris – Kris Parade, April 2011, Surakarta, Central Java, from the office of the Mayor of Surakarta, to the Pura Mangkunegara Palace.
14. Candi Ceto ancient temple, Karang Pandan. Jamasan Keris (ritual and bathing of kris. Many members of Pasopati paguyuban association were present
15. Kris Adoption Paguyuban Association, founded at Sukoharjo, Central Java.
16. Formation of Task Force and Think Tank of SNKI, April 2012.
17. Establishment of National Kris Foundation to support activities of SNKI. May 2012
18. Kris seminar at Ministry of Culture and Tourism, September 2011
Cooperation:
SNKI was established as part of an Action Plan to safeguard Kris cultural heritage, by the collective desire of 15 paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts, educational institutions teaching Kris cultural heritage, and museums exhibiting Kris from communities from all over Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara Barat Provinces, who had gathered together in a spirit of friendship and mutual respect to attend the 2nd National Kris Seminar. The Declaration of SNKI was witnessed and facilitated by relevant government officials from the (then) Department of Culture and Tourism, on 12th March 2006 in Vredeburg Fort (Museum) in Yogyakarta. Since its founding, SNKI has tried to carry out the safeguarding activities of Kris cultural heritage as suggested by Kris community members, as reflected in the Action Plan, and has always involved these paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts in all activities for safeguarding Kris intangible cultural heritage.
Since that time, through ongoing interaction with Kris community members all over Indonesia, SNKI has grown and developed, and now includes some 71 paguyuban associations of Kris enthusiasts, educational institutions dealing with Kris, museums exhibiting Kris, and social networks of Kris enthusiasts. SNKI has also developed networking with paguyuban associations and Kris enthusiasts beyond Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara Barat, namely from Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi islands. Interaction with Kris enthusiasts has recently developed through social networks via mobile phone communication. These social networks were officially made members of SNKI and participated actively in the 1st SNKI Congress in Surakarta in April 2011.
Since its inception, SNKI has interacted continuously with all these communities related to Kris cultural heritage on an ongoing basis, by holding regular meetings, seminars, exhibitions, and by regular communication.
Sekretariat Nasional Pewayangan Indonesia
Indonesian National Wayang Secretariat - SENA WANGI [en]
Gedung Pewayangan Kautaman
First Floor Jalan Pintu I TMII
13560 Jakarata Timur
INDONESIA
URL: http://www.senawangi.com
Tel.: +62-21 877 99 388; +62-812 8306 11 66

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90297
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 1975
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection

Main countries where active:

Indonesia

Objectives:
Vision :
In the effort to conserve and develop wayang, the vision of SENA WANGI is the desire
To make wayang one of the pillars of national culture. For this purpose, the art of wayang should become a vehicle and mouthpiece of culture in order to uplift the quality and standard of humanity.
Mission :
• To establish its role as a body for the conservation, preservation and innovation of the art of wayang
• To develop the art of wayang in accordance with the challenges of the present age
• To increase the appreciation of society with regards to the arts of wayang especially among the younger generation
• To spread within society the philosophical values and moral messages contained in wayang arts in the life of the people
• To apply principles of management, including communication and collaboration with institutions or individuals both within Indonesia and overseas, in developing wayang art
• To create an institution of critique of wayang arts.
Programme :
The strategic program of SENA WANGI involves four basic program, namely formulation and establishment of policy for conservation and development of wayang ; research and development; documentation and information; and overseas connections.
• Formulation and establishment of policy for conservation and development of wayang
• Research and development of wayang, both classic and innovative
• Documentation and information about wayang through Indonesia Wayang Database Centre (PDWI) and its website
• Development of organization, bodies and traditional schools of wayang (sanggar)
• Seminars and other meetings
• Development of human resources involved in wayang, namely artists, expert and lovers of wayang
• Development of critique of wayang
• Maintenance of good connections with international organizations, foundations, and experts.
Activities:
ACTIVITIES Over the Past 5 years (Summary)
Organization
• Has Increased the capacity of the organization and its committee members in carrying out their duties, supported by a full time office staff.
• Has carried out ongoing close and effective collaboration with government bodies and ministries (eg. Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.) as well as private organizations and private individuals both within Indonesia as well as overseas, for instance by organizing Friends of Wayang to support wayang safeguarding activities
• Has supported the declaration of an organization dedicated to safeguarding of wayang orang, called PEWANGI (Union of Wayang Orang and Traditional Theatre), on 31st October 2010.
Research and Development
• Research done regarding critiques of wayang, the noble values contained in wayang, and development of wayang along with the challenges of the age
• Development of classic wayang as well as new innovations
• Conservation and development of rare styles of wayang eg. Wayang Palembang, Wayang Banjar, Wayang Beber, etc. saving these styles of wayang from possible extinction.
• Prepared materials and documents for the declaration of Philosophy of Wayang as a science at Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, on 30th March 2011.
• Has collaborated with universities such as ISI Surakarta, Gajah Mada University, regarding research on wayang.

Documentation and Information about Wayang
• Research and Documentation done regarding all existing types of wayang found in Indonesia (estimated to be more than 60 types or styles)
• Development of PDWI (Indonesian Wayang Database Centre). PDWI is a multimedia database containing information regarding all aspects of wayang. This electronic data center is accessible both nationally and internationally. (http://www.pdwi.org ) PDWI is located in SENA WANGI office, and contains and extensive library and audiovisual archive on all aspects of wayang. Students and researchers often take advantage of the database which is open to the public daily through 10 computer terminals provided.
Publication
Has published a number of books regarding wayang, including philosopy of wayang, printed and audio-visual teaching materials on various styles of wayang, Encyclopedia of Wayang, manuscripts of books on wayang, a wayang journal, upgrading and publication of the wayang magazine “ Cempala” and others.
Appreciation of Wayang
• Has motivated wayang organizations especially PEPADI ( Indonesia Puppeteers Union) traditional schools of wayang (sanggar), as well as private and governmental bodies related to the field of wayang art to organize performances of wayang
• Has organized periodic festival of wayang. Indonesian Wayang Week, which has been held once every 5 years since the founding of SENA WANGI. Various wayang festivals and performances are held annually or biennially.
• Has organized performances of wayang especially produced for broadcast media ( a TV program including wayang performance, called “Cempala”, and other programmes, film, video, etc).
International Collaboration
In 2005-2007, SENA WANGI collaborated with UNESCO for the execution of an Action Plan for Safeguarding Indonesian Wayang. The programme consisted of creation of written and audio-visual teaching materials of 15 styles of Indonesian wayang, and guidance and assistance to 15 sanggar (traditional schools of wayang) as a pilot project for safeguarding wayang by transmission especially to younger generation. This programme notably succeeded in safeguarding and developing two styles of wayang which were at that time severely endangered and on the verge of extinction; namely, Wayang Palembang (South Sumatra Province) and Wayang Banjar (South Kalimantan Province).
In 2006, SENA WANGI pioneered and motivated the formation of the ASEAN Puppetry Association as one form of ASEAN collaboration in the social and cultural field. ASEAN Puppetr Association was declared by representatives of puppetry communities from all 10 ASEAN nations present at the First ASEAN Puppetry Festival 2006 in Jakarta, organized by SENA WANGI in Jakarta.
• In 2009, SENA WANGI pioneered the establishment of the Indonesian National Centre for UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionette ), and has continued to collaborate closely with UNIMA since that time.
• SENA WANGI has participated in various festivals, meetings and other international events related to wayang/puppetry eg. Hanoi, Vietnam, Phillipines, Malaysia, Hungary, India. etc.
• SENA WANGI has established and maintained collaboration and communication with puppetry artists and experts in the field of puppetry in many countries.

Cooperation:
Indonesia has at least 60 styles of wayang, each having its own community. The number of wayang dalangs (puppeteers) is at least 5000, supported by musicians and singers. There are 350 sanggar or informal schools of wayang, spread all over Indonesia, as well as wayang organizations. The largest among them is SENA WANGI’s sister organization, the Indonesian Dalang’s Union or PEPADI. Since its founding, SENA WANGI has coordinated and interacted with these wayang organizations, as well as schools and communities with the purpose of developing communication, mutual respect and collaboration among all these elements and communities.
SENA WANGI has been active in developing wayang through the field of formal education by creating curicula and helping to create infrastructure. Wayang is now accepted as a field of study at 1st degree, masters and doctoral level at Gajah Mada Univesity in Yogyakarta. Curricula for wayang studies were developed by SENA WANGI.
SENA WANGI organized a support group called “Friends of Wayang” to raise ongoing support from the corporate sector (social responsibility) and other charitable groups and individuals, in order to fund activities for safeguarding of wayang cultural heritage.
SENA WANGI regularly organizes seminars, workshops and discussions, bringing together wayang experts, artists, wayang enthusiasts as well as government officials, to discuss wayang as well as how to safeguard wayang and transmit wayang cultural heritage to future generations.
SENA WANGI inspired and executed the creation of a puppetry organization on the sub regional level: ASEAN Puppetry Association (APA), held the first ASEAN Puppetry Festival in 2006, and has supported and participated in subsequent APA meetings and festivals. The purpose of APA is to promote mutual respect, safeguarding and exchange of information and cooperation in the field of puppetry on the subregional level (ASEAN), on the basis of “friendship through culture”
SENA WANGI organized an Asian Wayang Meeting in collaboration with China and India (Yogyakarta, 15-16 December 2008), to promote regional cooperation in wayang safeguarding
SENA WANGI has interacted with and supported traditional craftspersons who make wayang puppets and instruments of the gamelan orchestras which accompany wayang.
SIMBDEA, Società Italiana per la Museografia ed i Beni Demoetnoantropologici
Italian Society for Museum and Heritage Anthropology - SIMBDEA [en]
Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino
Piazetta Antonio Pasqualino 5
90133 Palermo
ITALY
URL: http://www.simbdea.it
Tel.: 0039 91 32 80 60

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90031
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2001
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- other
- Digitization projects for audiovisual and sound archives Supporting museums in transmitting and promoting heritage to young generations Supporting local and national administrations in safeguard and promotion projects by acting as consultants for projects in museums and archives

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
The focus of the organization, since 2001, is on:
a) safeguarding and promoting traditional tangible and intangible heritage traces and documentation stored in museums and archives.
b) promoting a deeper understanding of this heritage and of cultural diversity through museum exhibitions and activities (learning activities within museums, seminars, lessons, conferences, creation of museum exhibitions, temporary and permanent).
c) training museum professionals to act for the safeguard and promotion of traditional heritage with deeper awareness of its implications and an ethnographic approach.
Main themes of these 7 past years of activity have been: intercultural issues within museum exhibitions and learning tools in museums, preservation of heritage in museums, museum professionals training, promotion of tangible and intangible heritage in local and national contexts through museum exhibitions, research projects, meetings and congresses, seminars and courses in various universities.
SImbdea also aims at creating a national community of museums and archives, who are the expression of local communities and who work locally and on national iniziatives also, to safeguard and promote local heritage.
Activities:
Simbdea began its activities in 2001, with the creation of an Associazione Culturale (Cultural Organization, a type of association belonging to the non –profit sector) with over 50 founding members. During the years, the number of members has reached over 200 people all around the country, including teachers, researchers and students from the museum studies area, museum and archive professionals, museum directors, education specialists, ethnomusicologists, ethnologists, researchers of local folklore, other local organizations who deal with preservation of heritage issues, and local administrations.
The Organization is active therefore both locally, which allows it to monitor local contexts throughout the country, but also on a national level, by promoting discussion and research about the most important and urgent issues related to heritage in all its forms and how museums and archives contribute in safeguarding and shaping the knowledge of heritage for the public and civil society. One important instrument of Simbdea’s dissemination policy is the periodical AM-Antropologia Museale, which was created in 2002 and deals with museums and heritage from different perspectives, raising many different issues and hosting interviews and contributions from both museum professionals, academics, and policy makers.
But Simbdea has also promoted or supported its local branches in organizing events for discussion both in academic contexts and within communities who exist around local museums: congresses, seminars, festivals, debates.
Since 2001 Simbdea has also carried out research and produced documentation about material culture and intangible heritage stored in ethnographic museums all over the country, mostly in projects involving the exhibition of new museums or the renovation of existing ones, but also working in projects for the training of museum professionals to safeguard and promote this specific type of heritage.
Simbdea’s training courses have regarded mostly the cataloguing of ethnographic heritage: both material culture and intangible heritage (catalogue cards type BDM – for objects- and BDI – for intangible heritage, according to the national Italian cataloguing standard for ethnographic heritage).
Another activity carried out by Simbdea has been aimed at connecting museums both on a regional and on a national level by working sometimes on behalf of regional administrations, as in the project DEMOS, when the Region Lazio requested Simbdea to monitor all ethnographic museums in the Region and implement a network. But Simbdea has also worked independently, by organizing annual regional meetings in different regions to create occasions for museums to meet and discuss common issues and create local networks. In some cases this activity has lead to the formation of spontaneous networks, as in the case of the network of museums “Rebel” in Lombardia.
On a national level the work of Simbdea has been to create during the events organized, and through its web site, a community of museums, in order to share knowledge, have opportunities to discuss ideas and plan common initiatives. The initiative “National day: Museums for intangible heritage” which Simbdea has organized in 2008 for the Ministry of Culture, is an example of Simbdea’s national network at work: more than 370 museums all over the country took part in this initiative that was entirely dedicated to museums and intangible heritage.
For a more detailed list of Simbdea's activities, we have attached a brief curriculum to our application.
Cooperation:
The Organization’s activities are deeply rooted in the Italian local context, although many activities have also been carried out in partnership or in collaboration with national organizations and institutions (Italian Ministry of Heritage, Icom –Italy). Simbdea has collaborated with local administrations and communities in a number of projects, and works in the direction of putting communities at the centre of research and to involve them at many levels in the activities linked to the everyday life of ethnographic museums. Museums become thus the physical place where tangible elements of the local cultures are stored and displayed, and communities can meet. Putting communities in connection with their heritage through museums, but also archives, is the main aim of all events organized in museums that are in Simbdea’s direct and indirect network. Therefore, all activities organized by the Organization’s members in the museums they work in or with, like exhibitions, presentations of publications about local heritage, concerts of traditional music, research campaigns, reinforce continuously the relationship between people and their territory, enhancing their sense of being a community.
Simbdea has participated and organized a large number of activities in this direction: the most recent project we are promoting is centred on rural Tuscany and sharecropping culture , the “year of the Mezzadro (sharecropper)” .
In collaboration with the Region Tuscany and in partnership with local organizations, Simbdea is working on planning a whole year of events/exhibitions/meetings dedicated to the promotion of knowledge of the rural heritage of Tuscany tied to the sharecropping system, values and culture. A large digitization project of sound and audiovisual archives containing information on all supports about rural culture in Tuscany, is currently being planned and will be intertwined with all the initiatives in order to promote culture through preservation practices. In this project, the communities are represented by all museums, archives (public and private) local organizations who will participate and are planning joint initiatives with Simbdea for 2009.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 2001
Washington DC 20010
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
URL: http://www.folklife.si.edu
Tel.: +1-202-633-1141

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90391
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1967
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- foodways

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- developing a research-based ecological approach to cultural sustainability

Main countries where active:

Armenia, Bhutan, China, Ecuador, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Spain, United States of America

Objectives:
As the largest museum, research, and education complex in the world, the Smithsonian Institution is well known for its collections of more than 154 million objects. The Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is the institution's leading force for safeguarding the diversity of intangible cultural heritage. The current strategic plan of the center outlines three major objectives. Each objective is built on the foundation of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, an effort actively engage by the center by promoting greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education, and community engagement:
- Expand understanding of diverse living cultures
The center bridges research and practice; seeks to enrich knowledge of intangible cultural heritage, creativity, and diversity; and uses that knowledge to provide engaging, practical trainings for the next generation of intangible cultural heritage professionals. Our research efforts are paralleled by our commitment to strengthen the stewardship, accessibility, and impact of intangible cultural heritage collections.
- Invite public engagement in cultural practice and exchange
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage uses multiple methods of public engagement - the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and over 100 million annual visitors to our digital platforms – to spark discovery, support sharing, and deepen knowledge about intangible cultural heritage.
- Champion cultural vitality and sustainability.
The center promotes the widespread recognition of the value of traditions, supporting not only their preservation but also their long-term sustainability. Our ecological approach to cultural sustainability means that we work with communities to holistically assess the status of intangible cultural heritage and collaboratively develop trainings and other project-based activities to foster supportive conditions to sustain heritage in line with the community's own long-term vision.

Activities:
Each of the Center's core departments - the Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Cultural Sustainability Initiatives, Research and Education, and Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives – plays an important role in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2017, the Center's Festival department produces the annual research-based Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Each year, the Festival brings more than 200 tradition bearers from the United States and around the world to share their music and dance, storytelling, craftsmanship, foodways, knowledge systems, and oral traditions with hundreds of thousands of visitors. The Festival plays an important role in the research, documentation, and promotion of intangible cultural heritage. For example, in 2013, the One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program highlighted thirteen communities from around the world to share their efforts to revitalize and maintain their most important cultural practices.
As the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. Folkways provides online access to tens of thousands of audio recordings and hundreds of video features from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives of the Center, as well as collections from partner archives including the International Library of African Music at Willard Rhodes University in South Africa, the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute for Indian Studies in India, and the Aga Khan Music Initiative for Central Asia. In addition, the Center offers tools for teaching, in-depth feature articles, and individual subscriptions. The label provides unparalleled access to seldom heard voices of people from all over the world. In 2014, we also began to distribute the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music. Folkways plays an important role in the documentation, research, preservation, promotion, transmission (through formal and non-formal education), and, at times, the revitalization of intangible cultural heritage.
Cultural Sustainability Initiatives is the newest department of the Center, building on a research-based ecological approach to cultural sustainability and working with communities to identify interventions to strengthen the sustainability of their traditions. In China, the work carried out by the Center with ethnic Tibetans supports language documentation and training, intangible cultural heritage documentation, and artisan craft documentation and development. In Armenia, the Center launched the first international fellows program at the Smithsonian, in partnership with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Using this ethnographic research as a foundation, the Center is piloting an innovative model of community-based tourism that keeps representation and revenues in the hands of communities and tradition bearers. Specific cultural sustainability initiatives are grounded in documentation and research, but they play an even more critical role in providing solutions for enhancement, transmission, and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage.
Finally, Research and Education and the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives are essential and fundamental components of the Center's work. In particular, the Rinzler Archives play a critical role in preservation of intangible cultural heritage. lt contains the Frances and Moses Asch Collection, recognized by UNESCO as Memory of the World in 2015.

Cooperation:
As outlined in the Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Center maintains that communities should have the primary role in safeguarding their own intangible cultural heritage. The work carried out by the Center is rooted in the principle of cultural democracy - the exercise of the right of free expression by diverse individuals and communities as they document, preserve and share the cultural traditions that matter most to them. Most of the Center's research is community-driven, community-based, and relies on the collaborative participation of local stakeholders. Recognizing that cultural heritage should not be subject to external judgments of value or worth, this approach is vital to ensure that the community's culture is respected and the Center's values are upheld. The nature of this work requires that the Center staff members maintain strong, long-standing relationships with both individual tradition bearers and organizations around the world. This network enriches the Center's scholarship, programs, and projects.
Principles of community engagement and mutual respect are applied in each of the Center’s areas of work. The Festival programs are conceptualized in direct and mutual collaboration with participants – each program has a curator from the Center and a curator from the community. The Center engage directly with each tradition bearer participating in the Festival, working toward a shared vision for their experience, which includes not only providing a platform for their work but attention to critical details like lodging, transportation, meals, and adequate rest. The staffing swells to nearly 250 people during the Festival, including a team of participant coordinators, interns, and volunteers to ensure a positive and successful experience for participating tradition bearers.
For Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, artist rights and royalties are central. Folkways staff spend a significant amount of effort ensuring that artists are compensated fairly and in compliance with contracts. In 2016, we paid more than $600,000 in artist royalties.
Finally, Cultural Sustainability Initiatives are driven by community-identified objectives, and grounded in community-based research. Each activity has a local partner counterpoint and the Center focuses significant effort on providing broad and equitable access through the creation and distribution of local language materials.
Società Geografica Italiana Onlus
Italian Geographical Society Onlus - SGI [en]
Société Géographique Italienne ONLUS [fr]
Via della Navicella, 12
Palazzetto Mattei, Villa Celimontana
00184 Roma
ITALY
URL: http://www.societageografica.it
Tel.: +39.06.7008279

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90064
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1867
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
La Société Géographique Italienne n’a pas de but lucratif ; elle a exclusivement une finalité de solidarité sociale. Son objectif est le progrès des sciences et des connaissances géographiques et pour cela la SGI:
a) favorise le progrès des études géographiques en particulier la connaissance du territoire, du paysage et de l’environnement, et la sauvegarde de ce patrimoine. Entre autres, elle promeut la diffusion en Italie d’une culture géographique en étant elle-même initiatrice, dans ce but, de réunions publiques, conférences, excursions, voyages d’études, projections, colloques, tables rondes, etc.
b) promeut et favorise toutes études concernant la connaissance du territoire national et des autres régions de la Terre, en particulier celles où les rapports économiques, culturels et politiques sont, ou pourrons devenir, plus étroits avec l’Italie ou l’Europe.
c) Elargit les fonds de la bibliothèque et de la cartothèque pour y rassembler et conserver les principaux parmi les périodiques et les publications de caractère ou d’intérêt géographique, en réalisant un service de documentation scientifique dans le domaine de la géographie et de la cartographie.
d) Publie et distribue à ses associés un Bulletin comprenant des écrits originaux et des informations complètes en matière de faits et publications qui intéressent le progrès de la géographie et des connaissances géographiques ; la SGI peut aussi publier des monographies comme des mémoires scientifiques, des journaux de voyage et de mission, etc. ;
e) Entretient des relations avec les autres Sociétés Géographiques, avec d’autres entités culturelles nationales et internationales, avec des organismes de recherches de l’Administration publique et particulièrement avec ceux qui poursuivent des buts scientifiques dans le domaine de la géographie, comme l’Institut Géographique Militaire, l’Institut Hydrographique de la Marine, etc., avec lesquels la SGI pourrait avoir des rapports de collaboration et coordonner son activité par des accords spécifiques.
f) Confère des titres de mérite. Toute activité différente de celles qui caractérisent les ONLUS est interdite.
Activities:
Institution sous la tutelle du Ministère du Patrimoine (Ministero dei Beni culturali) et d’autres organisme institutionnels,
La Société Géographique Italienne (SGI) a comme mission, la production d’une culture géographique dans sa signification la plus étendue. Cela devient encore plus important lorsqu’il s’agit de produire de la culture en utilisant et valorisant les documents rares, sinon uniques, conservés dans ses archives (cartothèque, photothèque et bibliothèque).
Les activités de la SGI sont, donc, nombreuses et très diversifiées, mais toujours concernant le « territoire » ou la géographie d’une manière plus générale : environnement, patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel, cultures et traditions populaires, anthropologie, artisanats, oeno-gastronomie, etc.
Comme l’affirme son Statut, l’objectif principal de la SGI est le progrès des connaissances géographiques, soit du point de vue de l’approfondissement, de la mise à jour et de l’innovation, soit du point de vue de la diffusion de la culture géographique et de la conscience environnementale.
Le patrimoine conservé dans le siège de la SGI est mis à la disposition du grand public et représente en soi une première action de divulgation de la connaissance géographique. Avec ses 300.000 volumes, la Bibliothèque de la SGI représente une des collections spécialisées parmi les plus importantes d’Italie et dans le monde entier. A cela s’ajoute la cartothèque avec plus de 50.000 pièces modernes et des centaines de pièces allant di XIVème au XIXème siècle, avec les deux fonds, le Fondo Antico de la Bibliothèque et le Fondo Orientale, une précieuse récolte de cartes chinoises et japonaises.
Toujours dans le but de la diffusion des connaissances géographiques, la SGI organise des rencontres publiques (colloques, séminaires, tables rondes, cors de formation continue et initiale, conférences, présentations de publication, etc.). La SGI travailleavec beaucoup d’autres associations et son siège prestigieux héberge nombreusesinitiatives organisées par d’autres institutions proches des disciplines géographiques.
Une initiative « diplomatique » de grande envergure a été celle fonder une SociétéGéographique Européenne, EUGEO, avec les association géographique d’autres paysde l’Union Européenne et dont le siège officiel est à Rome, dans le Palais Mattei. Cemême siège héberge aussi la « maison de Géographie », siège du secrétariatpermanent de l’Union Géographique international, organisme international déjà reconnu
par l’ONU et l’UNESCO. Les réseaux des connaissances, contacts, initiatives culturelles est désormais planétaire et la SGI en est le point de référence international. La diffusion de la connaissance géographique envers un public le plus étendu se fait aussi par l’activité éditoriale de la SGI. La doyenne des revues italiennes de géographie (une des plus anciennes au monde) est le « Bollettino della Società geografica italiana », né à la fin du 1868 et qui contient informations géographique de niveau mondial. Avec cette publication périodique, nous devons citer une collection de monographies scientifiques, « Le Memorie della Società Geografica Italiana », à laquelle nous devons ajouter nombreuses monographie hors collection. Le but de ces publications est de répandre les résultats de la géographie scientifique italienne et internationale et permettre une confrontation parmi les spécialistes et les chercheurs.
Nous pouvons conclure en rappelant toutes les activités d’étude, recherche, information, coopération que la SGI exécute et gère sur le terrain dont la liste, même partielle, serait trop longue.
Cooperation:
Parmi les nombreuses expériences de coopération en cours, nous en signalons ci contre les principales :
1. projet de restructuration et réorganisation d’une école et d’un centre sur la biodiversité en Ethiopie (plateau d’Ankober) ;
2. coopération internationale sur des thématiques sociogéographiques pour le territoire de l’Havane;
3. Accord cadre avec le Cercle des Affaires étrangers pour la divulgation des activités de coopération de la SGI;
4. Accord Cadre avec le Ministère des affaires étrangères pour des activités générales sur des thèmes de coopération et exchanges culturels;
5. Accord Cadre avec le Ministère des biens culturels pour des activités de coopération concernant le patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel;
6. Accord Cadre avec la Région Latium, avec l’adjoint à l’environnement et coopération entre les peuples, pour des activités de coopération;
7. Accord Cadre avec ENEA (agence nationale pour l’énergie et l’environnement) ;
8. Accord Cadre avec le Ministère de l’éducation national, l’Université et la Recherche;
9. Participation à plusieurs programmes communautaires sur des thèmes de la coopération internationale.
Société française d'ethnoscénologie - SOFETH
Centre Français du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel (CFPCI)
Prieuré des Bénédictins
2 rue des Bénédictins
35500 Vitré
FRANCE
URL: http://www.sofeth.com/
Tel.: 0622071619

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90314
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

France

Objectives:
L'ETHNOSCÉNOLOGIE est née en 1994 à Paris sous l'impulsion de la Maison des Cultures du Monde en partenariat avec l'UNESCO (division de la culture) et l'Université Paris VIII.
L’ethnoscénologie étudie les pratiques performatives et spectaculaires des divers groupes et communautés humaines du monde avec le souci premier de tempérer sinon de maîtriser toutes formes d’ethnocentrisme.
Elle se situe dans le courant de nouvelles recherches associant l’anthropologie des mondes contemporains et l’étude en esthétique théâtrale. La spécificité de l’ethnoscénologie se justifie par ses exigences épistémologiques et méthodologiques. Elle propose des problématiques et des méthodes spécifiques pour l’approche des pratiques spectaculaires humaines et des arts performatifs considérés dans leurs contextes.
L’ethnoscénologie a donc pour fondement les Arts du spectacle et de la performance, élargis à l’étude des phénomènes de l’action et de la perception des pratiques performatives et spectaculaires (rituel, théâtre, danse, jeu, pèlerinage, procession, transe, possession, chamanisme, construction scénique d’une identité singulière ou collective, etc.).
Ces recherches s’appuient sur une documentation relative aux investigations des anthropologues, ethnologues et ethnomusicologues sur le rituel, la fête et les différentes sortes de cérémonies. La transdisciplinarité est nécessaire pour cerner au mieux la complexité de l’objet étudié.
Les objectifs de la Société Française d’Ethnoscénologie sont les suivants :
Promouvoir la recherche théorique et pratique, et l’enseignement dans le domaine de la discipline,
Développer les échanges d’informations scientifiques, techniques et artistiques à l’échelle nationale et internationale entre les personnes, les services et les disciplines apparentées qui sont préoccupés de problèmes afférents à ce champ d’étude,
Diffuser, sous toutes formes les résultats qui intéressent les progressions concernées dans les divers domaines relevant de l’ethnoscénologie,
Participer à toutes les activités qui relèvent des divers domaines de ce champ interdisciplinaire, tant en recherche qu’en enseignement et en application.

Activities:
Bilan d’activité de la SOFETH
Organisations de colloques et conférences
• Partenaire et co-organisatrice du VIIIe Colloque International d’Ethnoscénologie : Esthétique, corporéité des croyances et identités. Du 21 au 23 mai 2013 à la Maison des Cultures du Monde, Université de Paris VIII, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord.
• Encontro Internacional Máscaras, Carnavais e Comunidades - Colloque International Masques, carnavals et communautés, 24-25 avril 2012, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Comissão científica (comité scientifique et d'organisation): Daniela Amoroso, Deolinda Vilhena, Evani Tavares, Lúcia Lobato, Luiz Cláudio Cajaíba e Sérgio Farias (UFBA), Nathalie Gauthard (Nice Sophia Antipolis)
• Carnavals : Circulations, transformations et contemporanéité. Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice (SOFETH, CIRCPLES, Formation Erasmus Mundus, Carnavals sans frontières) les 21 et 22 octobre 2011.
Liste des intervenants : Pr. Armindo Biao (Université de Bahia-Brésil), Pr. Luc Charles-Dominique (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Pr. Jean-Pierre Triffaux, (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Blodwenn Mauffret (Université de Paris 3), Laure Garrabé (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-RS – Brésil), Sylvie Perault (CERCPCOS), Ghislaine Del Rey (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Annie Sidro (Historienne du Carnaval).
• « Ethnoscénologie : objets, nouveaux terrains et approches transversales ». Journées d'Etudes de la Société Française d'Ethnoscénologie (organisation N. Gauthard et B. Muller): 24 et 25 juin 2010 Musée du Quai Branly (présentation et résumé : http://sofeth.over-blog.com/article-journees-de-la-societe-fran-aise-d-ethnoscenologie-sofeth-52359053.html)
Liste des intervenants : Bernard Müller (IRIS), Pr. Amos Fergombe (Université d’Artois), Pr. Sylvie Chalaye (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Gérard Toffin (CNRS), Pr. Sylvia Paggi (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Caterina Pasqualino (CNRS), Pr. Jean-Marie Pradier (Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Pr. François Picard (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), Pr. Jean-François Dusigne (Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Christophe Apprill (Chercheur MUSMOND), Stephen Wright (théoricien de l’art indépendant) + doctorants du laboratoire d’ethnoscénologie.
• Journées d’études en Ethnoscénologie : Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis UFR LASH – Laboratoire RITM en collaboration avec l’Université de PARIS VIII – EA Scènes et Savoirs et la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord – Laboratoire d’Ethnoscénologie. 11 et 12 juin 2006
Liste des intervenants : Pr. Jean-Marie Pradier (Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Pr. Marina Nordera (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Pr. Luc Charles-Dominique (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Mahalia Lassibille (EHESS), Sylviane Pagès (Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Roberta Collu (Institut Catholique de Paris) + Doctorants Scènes et Savoirs (Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis) et RITM (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis).
Publication en cours :
• Fêtes, mascarades et carnavals. Circulations, transformations et contemporanéité, (dir. Nathalie Gauthard), Editions L’Entretemps, à paraître 2014.

Cooperation:
La SOFETH compte parmi ses membres d'honneur Chérif Khaznadar, Président du Comité culture et communication et Vice Président de la Commission Nationale Française pour l'UNESCO
Président de la Maison des Cultures du Monde - Centre français du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
Elle collabore avec la Maison des Cultures du Monde, un partenariat est en cours avec le Centre Français du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel de Vitré
Elle compte parmi ses membres d'éminents anthropologues et ethnologues (Nicole Revel, Gérard Toffin), de jeunes chercheurs en ethnoscénologie travaillant sur le PCI ainsi que des praticiens de la scène.
Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras Enstitüsü Derneği
Institute for Intangible Cultural Heritage [en]
Gazi Mah. Çakir Sok. No:21
5-A Yenimahalle
Ankara
TURKEY
URL: http://www.sokumenstitusu.org.tr
Tel.: (+90) 312 213 15 14; (+90) 312 202 14 54; (+90 )505 233 68 52

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Turkish) - No. 90400
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2012
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Turkey

Objectives:
As it is stated in the second article of Regulations of the Institute, the NGO is determined to research and conduct training activities within the context of oral traditions and expressions, preforming arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, traditional craftsmanship which are described in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and also other cultural conventions of UNESCO. To explain it inclusively, the Institute aims to contribute to the idea of safeguarding cultural heritage by sustaining it within the context of The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Institute seeks to contribute to processes of safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in national and international levels, possess the experience of transforming the aims and spirit of the Convention into action, collaborate for experience sharing and heritage management and eventually get involved in the implementation process of the Convention in Turkey. The Institute aspires to carry out researches on safeguarding and transmission of cultural heritage, organizing seminars and training programs, establish an archive and share materials with public by the help of publications, organize applied activities as part of sustainability, develop projects in cooperation with national and international associations, foundations and institutes which are academic and focus on culture such as universities, ICH museums and Turkish Folklore Research and Application Centers. Moreover, the Institute aims to provide civil and academic consultancy for the files presented on behalf of Turkey for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and encourage active participation of civil society in the policies of safeguarding of cultural heritage and the implementation process of policies.

Activities:
The Institute carries out regular activities in different categories to attain its goals, particularly in line with the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. These activities can mainly be classified as exhibitions, festivals and celebrations, workshops, scientific meetings and performing arts.
Photograph exhibitions on Turkish elements in the Representative List, idioms, public spaces generated by tradition help to represent, safeguard and illustrate key aspects of intangible cultural heritage bringing tangible and intangible heritage together. And these exhibitions are one of the examples of collaborative tendency of the Institute as it works with universities, NGOs, private sector, UNESCO and related government agencies.
Festivals and celebrations, which are organized in cooperation with Ankara Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, include new year celebrations related to tradition, rituals connected to traditional calendar, religion and mythology, national celebrations, season's greetings and some other traditional gatherings. They have been organized in a way that would encourage active involvement of groups and communities with the academic support of the Institute.
Workshops with diverse themes (toy, traditional ointment, spoon puppet, marbling workshops etc.) give weight to living heritage performed by people. These experience sharing activities, which enable young people to experience heritage elements at first hand by "touching" and "making", create difference in emphasizing the "process" by demonstrating the stages of traditional creation, the key role of traditional knowledge in safeguarding.
Scientific meetings are the organizations which would contribute directly to the richness and development of applications and revitalizations clustered around different forms of intangible cultural heritage. These meetings which are organized in coordination with NGOs and universities can also create opportunities to find and disseminate new ways for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Besides, these organizations may help universities, NGOs and local authorities to have a voice in the preparation process of national nominations and proposals for Representative Lists.
The Institute values performing arts with the participation of minstrels, meddahs, storytellers, masters of Karagöz, etc. as they stand on one of the most effective parts in the transmission of heritage to the next generations. In coordination with Ankara Intangible Cultural Heritage Musuem, the Institute has organized many activities with masters including international ones. The arrangement of these kinds of activities around performing arts may well serve to promote sustainable transmissions of heritage in new contexts and support performers to keep their heritage alive.

Cooperation:
The Institute has organized many joint events and activities to date with the involvement of transmitters of tradition such as minstrels, meddahs (public storytellers), taletellers, toy and puppet masters, etc. Being aware of the importance of masters for transmitting the heritage to the next generations, its members have been trying to provide a convenient environment for transmitters of tradition with the help of workshops, performing arts activities, festivals and celebrations. As the Institute is closely connected with Ankara Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, it has the opportunity to bring together transmitters of tradition with students, children and other visitors of the museum. So children or students visiting the museum experience tales, Karagoz, Ebru, etc. at first hand and learn more of traditional knowledge.
The Institute believes that, the right to participate in cultural heritage and the right to administer and transmit this heritage is principal. Social dialogue might be empowered enabling people directly to be a part of some organized initiatives which aim to designate social and cultural conditions of their habitat and future. The Institute, embracing this perspective, gives academic support for the activities of these museums emphasizing the need to involve communities, groups and practitioners. Also, the Institute helps these museums academically to coordinate and plan their activities for the visits of private and state schools, mostly primary and elementary students.
Starpnozaru mākslas grupa SERDE
Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE [en]
Atmodas iela 9
LV-3456 Aizpute
LATVIA
URL: http://www.serde.lv
Tel.: +371 29 81 71 80

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90356
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Objectives:
The Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE is an NGO, which seeks to develop the regional and international collaboration between different cultural fields, organizations and professionals. SERDE’s activities create dialogue between arts, science and education, which includes organizing residencies, workshops, expeditions and publishing thematic notebooks, among other things. Developing regional and international cooperation among culture and arts organizations and individuals from various sectors are also in the core of SERDE’s activities.
Since 2005, SERDE organizes fieldworks and expeditions to document practices, skills, stories in different communities in Latvia. Since 2008, SERDE has collaborated with the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO, organizing several folklore studies and expeditions for UNESCO-associated school teachers and youngsters. All the documented materials later is publishes in the SERDE's series of books «Notebook of Traditions».
SERDE is one of the more visible NGO in Latvia who organizes residencies for artists and culture workers, produces various culture events and works in the culture heritage field. SERDE's residencies centre is located in the historical centre of Aizpute – one of oldest town of Kurzeme, and the centre's building complex (~1500 m2) is an unique example of wood and red-brick architecture in Latvia built in the 18th century. The residency centre was started in collaboration with Aizpute municipality and State inspection for Heritage protection of the Kurzeme region with the aim to protect and restore this unique house complex.
SERDE is a co-founder and member of the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations for Contemporary Culture and has a good network among and with other contemporary art and culture organizations in Latvia.
Activities:
SERDE has three Members of the board – the Chairman of the Board is Uģis Pucens who is ceramic artist and restorer and practically develops SERDE's historical house complex research and restoration processes; Vice chairman is Jānis Zvirgzds-Zvirgzdiņš who is sculptor and sculptor teacher in art college and has works as co-restorer in SERDE. The Member of the board Signe Pucena is the researcher of the traditional culture, artist and producer who is responsible for international affairs and programs.

SERDE has active members – researchers Ieva Vitola and Una Smilgaine, artists Kārlis Alainis, Mārcis Bendiks, Māris Grosbahs, Egons Baranovs, manager Ance Ausmane and restorers Jānis Tolpežņikovs, Ingus Briedis, Didzis Golubovs, Armands Ausmanis.
SERDE members Ieva Vitola and Signe Pucena was involved in Latvian expert group on 2014, for Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and in the framework of Subsidiary Body prepared the resolutions about the nominations for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. SERDE members Ieva Vitola and Signe Pucena had worked in experts commission in the State Culture Capital foundation and was involved in the development of Latvian Intangible Cultural Heritage Law.

On 2005 SERDE artists began to collaborate with researchers of folklore and traditional culture in response to the perceived loss of important living practices and memories. This activity included fieldwork/expeditions to rural areas of Latvia to investigate traditions—maintained from generation to generation—and to collect stories about recent history still preserved in living memory. The gathered materials were published by SERDE in a ‘Notebook of Traditions’ book series (currently 14 books although the process is ongoing) in which two distinct themes emerge: the preservation of living practices and the preservation of stories/ memories.
'Preserving living practices' includes memories and practical skills referring back to the day-to-day Soviet Era in which consumer products were not readily available and had to be home-produced or collected from nature. As research objects we chose vodka and beer production, pig slaughtering, and foraging in the forests and meadows (this includes traditional medicinal knowledge). We included contributors from different rural areas in Latvia, all of whom were active practitioners of specific skills passed down from parents or grandparents and preserved throughout the Soviet Era.

The 'Preserving stories' books are dedicated to memories gathered from various communities. A principle theme here relates to the Second World War, for example the 'Narratives about Jews in Aizpute' were gathered from people who were children and young adults in Aizpute at the time of the Holocaust. 'Closed Zone' is a collection of memories of inhabitants of seaside villages which were military zones and closed to the general public. Another book deals with the experiences of an Old Believers community and 'Suiti Stories' is themed around the Latvian refugees who escaped to Gotland in Sweden.

The principal method employed by SERDE is fieldwork/expeditions, inviting specialists of folklore/living culture, artists and students to the chosen rural areas. The folklore specialists compile questions and organize the interviews whilst artists document the environment, processes and people. The gathered audio interviews are later transcribed and together with colour photo documentation are designed by artists and printed in book form. Public events are held to celebrate the book publication including a presentation of the book and additional hands-on workshops with reconstruction of old recipes or storytelling events in which the local community are invited to publicly recount their personal stories. Our experience shows that workshops often attract visitors who also wish to share their knowledge and a younger generation who are eager to learn, hence a transfer of knowledge and preservation of skills continues to take place.

SERDE believes its preservation practices are important and vital because knowledge is slowly disappearing for a variety of reasons such as new regulations and laws concerning food and drink production, the development of consumerism in Latvia and generational change. Activities like fieldwork and expeditions which culminate in presentations and workshops for the community in which the knowledge was gained “safeguard the intangible cultural heritage” and “raise awareness at the local, national and international levels of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage..” (UNESCO)

SERDES's creative and innovative approach to cultural heritage work was recognised with the Latvian Folklore Grand Prize in 2007 and local history nomination on 2015 of national poet Imants Ziedonis foundation “Viegli”.
Cooperation:
SERDEs experience in the preservation of intangible culture heritage is based on close collaboration with communities and individuals who are willing to share their stories and skills. Usually the community members we find with the help of local history museums, local libraries, interest clubs or local history enthusiasts. After each research what was done in certain community, SERDE organizes the public event to present the gathered and published material. These events usually strengthens the community members and raises positive energy.
In national level SERDEs activities in culture heritage field is supported and patronize by State Culture Capital foundation (support for documentation, publications and workshops) State inspection for Heritage protection (patronize for restoration), Latvian National Commission for UNESCO (expeditions with UNESCO schools; Baltic Way stories), Latvian National Culture centre (collaboration for the methodology guidelines for beginners in cultural heritage preservation).
Internationally SERDE's projects and performances what is strongly connected with Latvian traditions was shown in art and culture festivals in Finland (Helsinki “Kiasma” and Tampere “Herbologies-Foraging networks”), Germany (Duisburg “ISEA” and Berlin “Ueber-lebenskunst”), Switzerland (Friburg “Belluard Bollwerk” and Bern “Auawirlieben”), Sweden (Oland “Art&Agriculture;” and Stockholm “Supermarket Art Fair”), Lithuania (Klaipeda “Šakotis” and Nida “ResArtis meeting”) and Estonia (Tallin “Art Depo”).
Stowarzyszenie Serfenta
The Serfenta Association [en]
ul. Przykopa 2/5
43-400 Cieszyn
POLAND
URL: http://www.serfenta.pl
Tel.: +48 507 933 191

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Polish) - No. 90373
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other

Main countries where active:

Czechia, Norway, Poland

Objectives:
The organization was established in 2006 for the promotion and development of culture, art and protection of cultural goods and tradition. lt's a leading institution in the field of basketry studies in Poland, but works actively also in other countries - primarily in Czech Republic and Norway. Its main activities are regional, national and international projects dedicated for the basket making. The base is always the ethnographic research led by anthropologists and craft instructors with the use of research questionnaire. The specificity of the work of the association is interviewing artisans during their work, what at the same time enables studying the different technical skills and sharing them with the students of workshops. The results of the conducted research is documentation in the form of books, documentary and instructional films, conferences and exhibitions.
The most important international project was Viva Basket! realized in 2014/15 with two Norwegian institutions, which led to the comparison of the situation of the cultural heritage of both countries. Since 2011, the organization was engaged in a national discussion about implementing UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Poland. The Serfenta Association has the Polish National Commission for UNESCO Certificate of Appreciation that was given in 2015.

Activities:
The Serfenta Association exists so that basketry could live. Since 2009, the organization leads ethnographic basketry research in Europe. In years 2009-2011, it realized two national projects - "On the basketry trail of the Vistula River" and "On the basketry trail of Poland" where the most important goal was to document the work of Polish basket makers. Both projects finished with a set of documented interviews, a set of documentary and how-to-do films, the popular-science publication "On the basketry trail of the Vistula River" and the exhibition "Let it weave". The publication was released a second time in 2016 with English summaries. Within these projects, the institution organized also science conferences for the society focused around the craft theme with the cooperation of Institutes of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from The University in Poznań and Cieszyn.
The biggest and the most important international project was Viva Basket! Basket weaving as a living tradition in the context of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, realized with two Norwegians institutions in 2014/2015. The ethnographic research in both countries dedicated for the basketry was realized. The effects was: the exhibition "Viva Basket!", the publication "Viva Basket! Why do we weave?" and a set of films. Additionally, Serfenta, Sore Skogen and Sunnhordland Museum organized an international conference and outdoor weaving in Cieszyn (2-8.08.2014). There were 15 guests invited from all over the world from the basket making society - Carlos Fontales (Spain), Andrea Magnolini (Italy), Gaura Mancatadipura (Indonesia), Jette Mellgren (Denmark), Bernard Bertrand (France) and many others.
In 2015, Serfenta was invited to take part in the 3rd World Festival of Willow and Weaving in Nowy Tomyśl (Poland), where the exhibition "Viva Basket!" was shown and the international forum "Social Face of Basketry" was realized. For the forum guests such as lndrasen Vencatachellum (France), Shimul Vyas (lndie), Frances Potter (South Africa), Hildigard Mufukare (Zimbabwe) and Sara lbrahim (Ethiopia) were invited. During the meeting where discussed the values of the craft - basketry in particular - what makes the craftspeople create? Lecturers from all over the world were brought with their working ideas and projects as selling african baskets abroad (The New Basket Workshop, Lupane Women's Centre), sustainable tourism or using design to strengthen the position of the craft.
In 2016/2017, the organization is engaged in Polish project dedicated for Lucimia village in central Poland, where the skills of weaving special type of the willow basket called "kabtctcok" are still alive. The activity will be finished with the preparing of the documentation of the inscription of those skills for the Polish List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The Serfenta Association cooperates with cultural institutions - National Heritage Board of Poland, Polish Ministry of Culture and Cultural Heritage, Polish Commission for UNESCO and Universities - Institutes of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Cieszyn and Poznań. The Association is also cooperating with The Fine Art University in Cracow, where it organizes workshops with students of Faculty of Industrial Forms and where it uses design to bring craft to the wider audience.
The basketry workshops for children, adults and seniors are a very important activity in the organization.

Cooperation:
The Serfenta Association takes part in the meetings of the National Heritage Board of Poland for institutions active in intangible society in Poland. The chairwoman of the organization was invited a few times as an expert during workshops organized by this institution (2014, 2015). During the project "Viva Basket! Basket weaving as a living tradition in the context of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage" (2014/15), the Association was engaged in Polish - Norwegian discussions on development and supporting the intangible cultural heritage in both countries. For this purpose, the Association organized the international conference Viva Basket! in Cieszyn (7-8.08.2014). Until this moment, it stays in touch with its Norwegian Partners and with another, Norwegian Hand craft Organization - Norges Husflidslag. One year later - in 2015 - Serfenta was invited to take part in the 3rd World Willow and Weaving Festival in Nowy Tomyśi (Poland), where the Association prepared another international meeting - Forum "Social Face of Basketry", what was the possibility to gather all basket making society together.
In 2015/16, Serfenta was engaged in preparing another international cooperation with the basketmaking society in Europe, especially with Germany, what completed with the exhibition of Serfenta's exhibition "Viva Basket!" and basketry straw workshops during the basketry festival (37. Korbmarkt) in Lichtenfels, in Germany in 2016.
In the moment Serfenta is realizing the national project "Preservation and Promotion of Polish Traditional Basketry" with the local community in Lucimia, central Poland. lt is dedicated to skills of making special type of willow basket called "kablacok". Within the project there are meetings with basket makers and local authorities of Lucimia and the main goal is the inscription of the skills connected with "kablqcok" on the Polish List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Stowarzyszenie Twórców Ludowych
Association of Folk Artists [en]
ul. Grodzka 14
20-112 Lublin
POLAND
URL: http://www.kulturaludowa.pl
Tel.: +48 81 532 49 74; +48 22 553 16 35

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Polish) - No. 90372
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1968
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Poland

Objectives:
The aim of the Association is to cultivate and safeguard intangible cultural heritage, with a special focus on the traditions of folk culture in all fields and types of folklore; to popularize the manifestations of folk art, to provide care for folk artists, to represent them and to collect and manage the entrusted rights of association or regulations resulting from the Polish Copyright Act. To accomplish the above mentioned goals, the Association undertakes the following activities:
- Provides inspiration and assistance to the awareness-raising activities on the role and meaning of contemporary folk art emerging from tradition and on the achievements of folk culture, as well as takes care of the values of this work and secures its continuation;
- Presents folk artists and works to the public through shows, workshops, exhibitions, fairs, meetings, and various forms of cooperation with institutions involved in the safeguarding and dissemination of folk art in Poland and abroad;
- Makes efforts to publish the works of folk culture in the fields of literature, fine arts, music, and other disciplines; and organizes its own publishing initiatives on the role of intangible cultural heritage in forms of books, periodicals, and flyers;
- Extracts and stores applications, fairy tales, folk legends, songs, chants, and customs; collects and secures literary, folklore and folk art, creating specialized associations for this purpose;
- Facilitates the provision of necessary tools and raw materials for its members;
- Protects the copyrights of folk creators.
The activities of the Association are conducted in the spirit of mutual respect between diverse groups and communities as well as between heritage bearers and experts.

Activities:
The Association of Folk Artists operates in the following main areas relevant for the 2003 Convention and the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: documentation of intangible cultural heritage; promotion, dissemination and awareness-raising; as well as publishing.
- Documentation of intangible cultural heritage
The Association has conducted works related to running national data bases of folk creators and rural artistic groups since 1998. The databases are verified and updated annually. At present, the databases run by the Association contain more than 12,000 records. Each record depicts an artist, a craftsman, a band, or a group. The database covers such fields of knowledge and skills related to intangible cultural heritage as: weaving, lace-making, embroidering, pottery-making, painting, sculpting, braiding, blacksmithing, woodcarving, toy-making, paper and tissue decorating, constructing folk musical instruments, as well as amber-crafting, horn-crafting, silverware-making, plastering, saddle-making, bell-founding, and others, including ritual arts. In the field of intangible cultural heritage, it also includes singing, ritual, theatrical, and satirical ensembles, as well as song and dance groups and bands. The database is thus an element of fostering knowledge about regional culture and its characteristic products and creators.
- Promotion, dissemination and awareness-raising - examples
*The Folk Art Fair in Kazimierz Dolny (49 editions), which takes place during the Festival of Folk Bands and Singers (50 editions), is one of the oldest and most prestigious national festivals that presents the contemporary folk culture in Poland. Annually, it brings together over 100 artists that represent different regions of the country. The unique atmosphere enables direct contact and transmission of knowledge and skills between artists and recipients.
*Administering the Web portal Kulturaludowa.pl, which was created as a centre for updated information about widely understood folk culture and intangible heritage.
*The Academy of Folk Art, which is an educational project designed in the form of a series of workshops taught by folk artists from all over Poland that present their skills and knowledge. Every year, five workshop thematic blocks are organized. They cover various traditional creative disciplines. The workshops are attended by 90 organized groups (about 1500 people in total). The meetings are led by the folk artists - members of the Association; the workshops are accompanied by thematic exhibitions that introduce traditional artefacts.
*The Scene of Tradition, which is a group of activities designed to popularize and disseminate musical intangible cultural heritage among children and adults. It enables the performers of the older and younger generations and the laureates of numerous festivals and awards to meet and perform together.
*The Jan Pocek Literary Contest (45 editions), which is the most important Polish national competition for folk writers, poets and storytellers of various age groups, organized annually since 1972. Around 100 writers participate in the contest each year.
- Publishing activities - examples
The Association is the only entity in Poland that has been systematically publishing individual authors' volumes and anthologies of folklore writing since 1976, and in line with the criteria of philological editing. 'Twórczość ludowa' (Folk Creativity) is the only Polish nationwide magazine devoted entirely to contemporary folk art and intangible cultural heritage, its challenges, achievements, and problems. For over 31 years, the magazine has garnered numerous readers and associates and has become a bridge between creators of folk culture, researchers, and culture animators. Two volumes of the magazine are published annually.

Cooperation:
The Association cooperates with diverse communities, groups, and individuals in different ways that are aimed at raising awareness and the transmission of knowledge and skills in the field of intangible cultural heritage, specifically folk culture.
These forms of cooperation include:
- organization of workshops, seminars, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, presentations, fairs, and dance meetings, during which all bearers can meet and teach their skills and thus transmit their knowledge to all interested parties. A special focus is put on the young generation in this regard;
- dissemination and popularization of the creativity of folk creators at home and abroad;
- administrative and organizational assistance in diverse procedures related to obtaining grants and scholarships by individual creators;
- publication of folk literature and documentation of folk artefacts, by means of close cooperation with folk creators.
These forms of cooperation are conducted as closely as possible to the bearers themselves, via the 22 local branches of the Association that operate throughout the country. They are active and dynamic platforms that base their activities on an unbiased social action in the field of intangible cultural heritage. Branches of the Association are catalysts of regional activity; their members take part in various themed events, initiating many projects that are relevant for the local and regional communities, groups, and individuals. Their contribution to cultivating the aforementioned intangible heritage in line with regional traditions plays a significant role in applying the bottom-up approach in the safeguarding of intangible folk heritage. Their activity has thus largely enabled the preservation of folk culture in Poland. One of the basic aims of the Association is also to provide care and assistance to the regional branches in their operations, as it is through their active involvement in the safeguarding actions that many communities, groups, and individuals are able to transmit, document, and develop their intangible cultural heritage.
Taitoliitto/Käsi- ja taideteollisuusliitto Taito ry
Finnish Crafts Organization Taito [en]
Kalevankatu 61
00180 Helsinki
FINLAND
Tel.: +358 40 7525 160; +358 40 505 0944

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Finnish) - No. 90436
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1913
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Tamil Nadu Rural Art Development Centre
101, Jawans Building, West Veli Street,
625001 Madurai
Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Tel.: +91- 866 700 59 07; 91-98 42148423

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90068
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2009
Year of creation: 1987
Domain(s):

- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

India

Objectives:
Objective of the Organisation:
a) To promote and develop the rural folk arts.
b) To ensure and protect the original form of the folk arts of Tamilnadu, and develop the same by involving the community, groups and individuals.
c) To protect the traditional art forms from alterations and modifications of modern era.
d) To develop and to preserve Tamil culture through the folk arts.
e) To raise awareness through cultural programs at local, regional and national levels of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage and ensure the cultural appreciation in the country.
f) To promote Tamil folk arts by conducting certificate and diploma courses, among schools and college students.
g) To conduct cultural events, seminors and youth festivels among students and enhance their participation in developing folk arts as a skill.
h) To promote literature on folk arts.
i) To promote Tamil rural folk arts among the people of other Indian states.
j) To start and promote the rural folk arts institutions.
k) To safeguard the intangible cultural heritage.
l) To work for the welfare of the folk artists and help them to avail the existing facilities in the region.
m) To participate in the national level competitions and cultural programs and get the recognition of the talented artists from government and cultural organisations.

Activities:
The organization was founded by the highly motivated youth who worked for the institutionalization and proper recognition of the filed of education as folk art in Tamilnadu with an objective to impart cultural skills to young boys and girls in an educational environment in a formal school setting. In his endeavor, he received fullest cooperation and support from the district administration and named after Tamilnadu Rural Arts Development Centre headed by the Commissioner of Madurai Corporation. Prior to this, it was functioning as a non registered body in the name of “Institute of Folk Arts and Dances” since 1987. Then it got its legal registration in the year 1991 and it is the first institution with proper syllabus on folk arts in its kind.
During those days, it was imparting “Master Craftsman Training” course which was then converted as institutionalized Training on a particular Trade “Folk arts”. This paved a way to coin a course curriculum and imparted with a certificate and diploma through the government sponsored programs called TRYSEM by DRDA. Thus it has started with a vision to impart trainings on folk arts and later developed its area of functioning with conducting Festivals and seminars on folk subjects regularly and participate in programs of local, state and national levels.
BROAD CLASIFICATIONS OF OUR ACTIVITIES:
1.TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.
2.CONDUCT FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS.
3.PARTICIPATE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS.
4.EXTEND AND FACILITATE TO OBTAIN WELFARE FACILITIES / AWARDS TO THE FOLK ARTISTS.
5. ORGANISE THE FOLK ARTISTS TO PROTECT THE ART FORMS.

Major activities:

1. Conducting certificate courses and trainings on folk arts among village youths on the folk arts on the land of Tamilnadu.
2. Disseminate and make aware of the public on intangible cultural heritage of Tamilnadu i.e. the folk arts of the land through festivals and seminars.
3. Recognize the folk artists through awards to encourage their talents on intangible cultural heritage of Tamilnadu.
4. Help the individual artists to obtain the grants and aids to procure music instruments and art materials.
5. Extend and help to get the welfare facilities available from the government such as “ house patta” i.e approved free land to construct house, free music instrument, art materials, identity cards, membership subscription to welfare board, loan facilities-bank linkages etc.,
6.Train the aspiring individuals on the folk art and help them to earn their livelihoods ( obtained certificate of appreciation for this initiatives from the district collector).
7. Conduct part time training programs to school and college going students on folk arts and thereby imbibe them with cultural consciousness and involvement.
8. Participated every year since 1994 in national Communal Harmony and national integration- cultural programs organized by Government of India with folk artists consisting 25 in a team and received awards every year.
9. Take the culture of Tamilnadu to different states of India since 1990.
10. Participated actively with 1250 artists in South Asian Federation Games in the year 1995 at Chennai and performed the folk arts during opening and closing ceremony which was appreciated by the government.
11. During the 8th World Tamil Conference at TANJAVUR, we participated with 1000 artists and disseminate the folk arts of Tamilnadu.
12. We participate regularly the Inter State Cultural exchange program at national level and take our folk art to different levels which in turn protect the dying and intangible folk arts of the nation.
13. This art could be developed only when those artists are protected with a regular livelihood as they does it as a traditional trade and occupation. In order to keep these artists with the same interest, we have had initiated many other welfare services which has been discussed at the above points and thus retain the growth and interest in the minds of the artists.
Through these activities, we ensure and protect the intangible cultural heritage of Tamilnadu and develop the sense of responsibility of every Indian and culture lovers as a whole.
Cooperation:
Its experiences cooperating with communities, groups, and intangible cultural heritage practitioners;
Since its formation as a rural folk art development centre, it has been doing many Yoeman services to the traditional folk artists and their family especially while organize them under one roof and promote them in a climate where there is a gap between modern arts and traditional arts. In fact most of these traditional arts such as “OPPARI” which is a folk song that will be sing on the occasion of death in rural villages. The organization’s head Mr. Somasundaram ( KARAGAM ) dancer whose educational background and experience in working with these artists and the folk art, realized the need for document it as it could not be gathered once the old aged singers’ life time. Similarly, he has the vision to develop the folk art as a educational branch of Tamil folk lore, he gave much importance to the protect the intangible folk arts and culture from the influence of modern life style. It is a very precious art and it has to be protected and kept informed and imparted to those of the youth whose interest is also on the lines with the national interest. His experience while organize, work with and facilitate the role as an artist, mentor, developer and promoter, he feels that he has had done a considerable contribution to the art through his NGO which is exclusively work for the cause. The CBOs (member organizations of folk artists of different parts of Tamilnadu) that are developed and promoted by him are the best examples of his work in the field which in turn directly and in some aspects indirectly promoting the intangible cultural heritage of the Tamil folks. The organization which is widely accepted by the particular community people who are the so called folk artists of various kind as a promoter, protector and educator whose personal social and cultural life is predominantly affected by lack of education in 99% of the cases and ignorance of the social life. These artists are in need of constant help for their personal ( in their respective art ) socio-economic and political life as they are from lowest strata of the community and lack leadership. Our intervention to empower them in self sustenance and make aware of their children on importance of education and their traditional art which is giving rebirth to the intangible cultural heritage of the land. Our artist are always very cooperative and member of our Tamilnadu Rural Art Development Centre since its formation and ever growing in numbers in Tamilnadu. Thus, the art and its originality will be taken to next generation too through our education, training and continuous support to the folk artists.
THAAP
THAAP
43-G, Gulberg III,
Lahore
PAKISTAN
URL: http://www.thaap.pk
Tel.: 042-35880822; 0092-321-5124436

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English) - No. 90367
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2011
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Autres: education

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Pakistan

Objectives:
THAAP has established 4 sub-sets to focus on the many areas of interest to the organization and has grown its operations in a short time by separating its various interests and giving each due focus. These sub-sections and corresponding objectives are listed as follows:
THAAP Conference: an Avenue for Intellectual and Creative Discourse
THAAP Safeguading Culture Heritage: for Community based Interventions
THAAP Crafts: A Marketing Window
THAAP Publications: for dissemination.
The purpose of THAAP endeavor is exploring, strengthening and extending the rich culture and cultural expressions in art and architecture as well as promote the historical and cultural understanding of Pakistan in general and Punjab as well as Kalash in north of Pakistan in particular.
THAAP aims to reassess and revisit history and create scholarship and knowledge of the old and recent history from the people's perspective and disseminate to a wide audience.
THAAP believes that Culture is intrinsic to individuals and communities and integral to the human condition. It links culture to the inalienable rights of individuals and communities and at the core of development and poverty alleviation strategies.
THAAP endeavors to create a nexus between the cultural assets of communities, both tangible and intangible, and their economic development. It appreciates that the safeguarding of cultural assets can only be achieved if linked to economic opportunities and livelihood for communities.
The preservation and conservation of the rich heritage of Pakistan in both its tangible and intangible form is of special focus to the organization's mission. This includes both archaeological remains and the numerous historic and architectural sites spread in different parts of Pakistan, as well as the rich craft traditions and the many forms of intangible expression.
The continuing quest for ideas and the creative impulse has been an inherent part of civilization; the human condition and the thread woven in the past continues in the present, finding new ways of expression, giving new meanings and discovering new directions.
THAAP strives to safeguard ICH through the laters integration in education and learning.

Activities:
THAAP registered as a Not-For-Profit Section 42 Company with the Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in 2011; however, before this formal registration THAAP came into existence in 2006 and was actively involved in the cultural mapping projects in the three districts of South Punjab. THAAP is headquartered in Lahore and maintains a field office in Bahawalpur.
THAAP in collaboration with UNESCO, is carrying out Community based Inventory in all 3 Kalasha valleys Mumuret (Bumburet), Biriu (Birir), and Rukmu (Rumbur), for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage under the framework of the Convention 2003 since 2015.
This current project stems from an approximately year long interaction with the Kalasha community through a project funded by the Canada Fund For Local Initiatives (CFLI) implemented in the Kalasha Bumburet Valley between November 2015 and March 2016.
The methodology for the inventory of the intangible cultural heritage, Community Based Inventory form and the database that has been developed by THAAP has been adopted by the Government of Pakistan and is in use nationwide.
The element chosen and sent through the Government of Pakistan for inscription on UNESCO's list of ICH in need of Urgent Safeguarding i.e. "Suri Jagek: The Kalasha Meteorological and Astronomical Practice of Observing the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Shadows" was to be researched upon further and a list of potential ICH elements to be submitted the USL or the Representatives List of Humanities was to be prepared.
THAAP has successfully completed an assignment for PSDF in district Rahim Yar Khan and Vehari through the "Skill for Market 2014-15" Project. This pertained to the Safeguarding of the Embellished fabric traditions of South Punjab and the empowerment of women.
In 2012 THAAP, participated in another Safeguarding of ICH in South Punjab. THAAP partnered with USAID's Entrepreneurs Project of 'Strengthening of Hand Embellished Fabric Value Chain in South of Punjab." Under this project THAAP has been operational in 4 districts of South Punjab and has gained valuable experience of working with 5000 women embellishers belonging to diverse communities. Under this project THAAP has successfully established 100 Centers (44 in Bahawalpur, 23 in Multan, 17 in Lodhran and 16 in DG Khan) each having 50 women embellishers working under a female sales agent and a master trainer.
In terms of achievements THAAP has successfully trained and empowered more than 10,000 artisans through its works in South Punjab resulting in nearly 70,000 indirect beneficiaries and about 120,000 people made aware of the nexus between culture, social and economic development as well as benefits of capacity building.
THAAP's Project in December 2011 was "Promoting Cultural Industries for Poverty Alleviation in District Bahawalpur", a UNESCO-Dutch Funded project, which also involved training women in the Disaster prone area of Cholistan in marketable skills based on the traditional crafts of the region through creation of collectives called' Sanjhok'.
Between 2011 and 2014, THAAP has also been involved in a safeguarding activity related to the integration of ICH in education in FATA and Khyber Pakhtunwa as an implementing partner for the Asia Pacific Pilot project carried out in 4 countries.
In 2009-10 THAAP team provided critical inputs in the UNESCO-Norway funded Project "Mapping of Cultural Assets in Districts Multan and Bahawalpur", and later in Vehari, and developed a database which includes the villages where special skills of craft-making is available.

Cooperation:
THAAP has vast experience of working with ICH tradition bearers and practitioners and has sustained a strong bond with many men and women over the years through commitment and connectivity with local communities. Some of these ICH bearers came into contact with THAAP researchers/experts and cultural professionals through various Safeguarding Projects that THAAP has been either a part of, or, has generated through its own initiatives. THAAP also maintains a database of TBs which is a useful resource to connect TBs to potential opportunities. In its field office in South Punjab, THAAP also has an information desk for assisting the South Punjab TBs to access livelihood enhancing avenues such as exhibitions and other events of economic significance. THAAP is currently involved with ICH activities in the Kalasha Valleys of Khyber Pukthankhawa. This connection has led to Community Based Inventorying (CBI) led by the community with the assistance of THAAP staff. The methodology, instruments and systems developed for CBI by THAAP have been adopted nationwide through the aegis of the Federal Government. These joint efforts by the community and THAAP have also resulted in the development of a dossier; prepared for one element's inscription on the list of ICH in need for Urgent Safeguarding. THAAP also plays an advocacy role for TBs and ICH communities in an effort to highlight their problems and promote special skills and knowledge under the custodianship of the tradition bearers.
The Association for Cultural Equity
425 E. 25th Street
Suite 1000
New York
NY 10010
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
URL: http://www.culturalequity.org
Tel.: 212-268-4623

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90455
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1981
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Repatriation of ICH, training in archival practices and field research

Main countries where active:

Bahamas, China, Greece, Grenada, Haiti, Italy, Romania, Spain, Sudan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda - CCFU
Makerere Hill
off Batavia Road
P.O. Box 25517
Kampala
UGANDA
URL: http://www.crossculturalfoundation.or.ug
Tel.: +256 393 294 675/7

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90274
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018
Year of creation: 2006
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- other
- Traditional knowledge and practices in respect to development and good governance.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Uganda

Objectives:
In the local Ugandan context where culture is often dismissed as music, dance and drama and of no other relevance to development, the Cross-cultural Foundation of Uganda has deliberately chosen to focus on positive aspects of culture. CCFU is premised on the belief that positive aspects of culture can be harnessed to bring about social and economic transformation. Our mission is, therefore, to promote the recognition of culture as vital for human development that responds to our national identity and diversity.

The Foundation has employed three key objectives to achieve this mission:
1. To stimulate the generation, documentation, analysis and use of culture, with a focus on its contribution to sustainable development and a positive perception of culture.
CCFU identifies, researches and documents experiences that illustrate the value of culture in development work. These cases investigate the significance of cultural resources (such as values, principles, practices, systems, knowledge and skills of cultural resource persons) and their contribution to sustainable development. The Foundation also carries out training and reflection events to stimulate an appreciation of culture by development partners interested in integrating culture in their thinking and practice.
2. To support efforts to address issues of tolerance and managing difference amidst cultural diversity to foster harmonious co-existence.
CCFU promotes pluralism and respect, perceiving each culture as being of equal value and importance and therefore deserving in equal opportunity and consideration in the political, social and economic spheres.
3. To protect, promote and development our tangible and intangible cultural heritage for present and future generations.
Cultural heritage is of intrinsic value to a people's identity. It consists of practices, rituals and other forms of expression, systems and structures that are informed by a people’s worldview based on cultural values, principles and beliefs.

Thus, the thrust of CCFU’s work is to promote, protect and develop intangible cultural heritage and to trigger discourse on its relevance in present day development.
Activities:
In November 2010 CCFU launched 4 case studies compiled into one publications: ‘Culture in governance: does it work?’ with an accompanying DVD. These cases examine the interface between traditional and state governance systems, and highlighting the role of cultural leaders (clans, council of elders) in local governance. The first case focuses on “Protecting rights to land, our most precious resource” by codifying and documenting traditional land tenure principles and practices. The second case focused on “Traditional and modern conflict resolution mechanism” while the third case captured the experiences of a council of elders or “Isaazi” speaking out against corruption, and finally, the fourth case study examined the role of the Alur Chiefdom in managing conflicts in fishing communities. These cases all illustrate the significance of intangible heritage in relation to contemporary development challenges. These cases bring the number of published works by the Foundation to 22, with the others focusing on Language, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Social Protection, Widows’ and Orphans’ rights, among others).

Under our Promotion of Cultural Heritage programme, CCFU, with support from UNESCO Regional office (Nairobi) has supported 21 community museums and cultural centres throughout the country by mapping the existing initiatives and their needs. Over the past three years, individual community museums have been facilitated to develop and implement plans to improve their museums and received support in the form of technical advice, publicizing and marketing the community museums through the production of publicity materials, showcasing these museums at a national exhibition, and establishing linkages with policy makers, tour agencies, the media, and other stakeholders. These museums exhibit both tangible and intangible heritage through their collections that range from artefacts, tools, literature, to craftsmanship in bark clothe making, traditional salt processing, iron-smith, and art, among others.

Personnel
The Cross-cultural Foundation of Uganda acts as a catalyst to promote an understanding of development, as seen through “cultural lenses” and deliberately chooses to maintain a small staff complement.

1. Ms. Emily Drani, the Executive Director of the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda, (an MPhil. candidate in Development studies, majoring in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Development Studies, Ghana) and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human & Social Sciences (majoring in Public Administration with Communication Facilitation), University of South Africa. Emily has over 12 years professional experience in development work with specific emphasis on public administration, research and cross cultural communication and studies. Her experience includes development programme design and planning, coordination, resource mobilization, and networking at national, regional and international levels. Her work involves overall programme supervision, strategic planning, research, training, documentation, communication, monitoring and evaluation.

2. John De Coninck holds a PhD from Sussex University in UK. He works as a researcher and policy advisor at CCFU. He has over 30 years professional experience, much of it acquired in Uganda. John has been involved in the development and implementation of a number of initiatives involving Civil Society Organizations in policy development, strategy reviews, participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation, and research on wider civil society issues. He has also been actively involved in a number of research initiatives on poverty reduction policy. His work involves organizational development support, policy formulation and advice, editing, providing methodological support in research and training.
3. Ssekamatte David, currently working as the Cultural heritage Manager at CCFU, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree of Arts in Social Sector Planning and Management of Makerere University. He has competence in cultural promotion having been a music and language teacher in Ugandan schools as well as designing cultural festivals and competitions. David has expertise in results based management, monitoring and evaluation, program design and management, training of community groups, programmatic and financial reporting and management, HIV/AIDS programming and Counselling, Program Evaluation and team building.
4 . Mr. Fredrick Nsibambi (MA. Economics & Administration of Cultural Heritage Catania University, Italy; Dip. Museums & Heritage Studies-University of Cape Town, South Africa; B.A. Tourism, Makerere University). Mr. Nsibambi has been providing technical support to cultural heritage projects at CCFU. Fredrick work with the Foundation includes i) Support to Community Museums ii) Coordinating a Coalition for heritage Conservation and Development. He acquired his experience from previous work with a traditional institution in preservation of Kasubi Tombs, a UNESCO heritage site.

The Foundation is not a membership organisation but over the past couple of years, CCFU has coordinated a Support Group with approximately 200 members from civil society, government, the media and academia interested in promoting cultural heritage.
Cooperation:
Under our Culture in development work, which involves research and documentation, CCFU works closely with partner organisations that are operational in different districts of Uganda. Through a consultative and participatory engagement, discussions on the aspect of intangible heritage to research and document is discussed, and a memorandum of understanding is signed outlining scope of work, roles, responsibility, timeframe, dissemination and ownership of communication outputs. CCFU plays a facilitating role, while the partners determine what information should be documented, which key informants should be interviewed and captured in filming, in case of visual recording. On completion of draft documents, the partner organisations validate information generated in print and film before final communication outputs are produced.

The Community Museums were engaged through a similar progress in determining what aspect of their museums they would like to improve and publicize. The initiators had a choice to participate in the specific programme activities for instance some initiators chose not to print individual brochures but opted for sign posting. In establishing linkages and forging strategic partnerships with potential funders and supporters, the initiators of community museums retain full autonomy, ownership and benefits of their museums.

In both cases, the selected partners received a small grant included in the memorandum of understanding, which includes a clause to address dissatisfaction by either partner. Organisations involved in research and documentation were responsible for field research, community consultations and development of draft reports based on their findings, while the community museum initiators had the liberty to develop and implement plans to improve their museums.
Traditions pour Demain
Traditions for Tomorrow [en]
Tradiciones por la Mañana [es]
10A Promenade John Berney
1180 ROLLE
SWITZERLAND
URL: http://www.tradi.info
Tel.: +41-21 8252331

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: French) - No. 90007
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 1986
Budget: U.S.$300000
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- systèmes traditionnels de gouvernance, éducation bilingue-interculturelle, communication

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- mise en réseau de communautés détentrices du PCI; sensibilisation par des actions de communication (publications, presse, expositions) au rôle et à l'importance de la tradition dans le développement durable

Main countries where active:

Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru

Objectives:
Patrimoine culturel immatériel de peuples et de communautés rurales, notamment autochtones.
• Accompagner moralement, techniquement et financièrement des projets de terrain de valorisation d'expressions de la tradition dans de multiples domaines de la culture populaire.
• Participer à la sensibilisation des Etats, organismes internationaux et structures non gouvernementales sur la défense des expressions culturelles traditionnelles comme moteur de développement durable. Conseiller ces instances dans la mise en oeuvre de politiques de sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel.
Activities:
a) Sauvegarde des cultures traditionnelles en Amérique Latine : accompagner par un soutien moral, technique et financier des projets et programmes de valorisation des expressions de la culture traditionnelle de peuples et communautés amérindiennes et également afro-américaines. Dans ce sens, et depuis sa création en 1986, Traditions pour Demain a soutenu et accompagné plus de 400 projets dans une douzaine de pays d'Amérique latine, auprès d'une soixantaine de différents peuples autochtones et de minorités ethniques. Ces projets touchent:
• les croyances et les rituels
• les systèmes d'organisation et de pouvoir
• les expressions culturelles telles que la musique, la danse, le théâtre, la tradition orale
• les savoirs (médecine traditionnelle) et les langues
• la communication et l'éducation bilingue interculturelle
• la mise en place de structures locales et régionales pour la promotion du patrimoine culturel
b) Sensibilisation en Amérique latine : programmation, exécution et diffusion d’activités de sensibilisation sur les questions liées à la dimension culturelle du développement, à l'importance de la culture populaire. Dans ce domaine, Traditions pour Demain collabore avec des organisations gouvernementales et non gouvernementales, nationales, régionales et internationales, et des organisations de peuples autochtones
dans les pays où elle est active: participation à des fora, des colloques, des expositions, des séminaires et des conférences en milieu académique et professionnel.
c) Sensibilisation au niveau multilatéral : collaboration avec les Etats et les organisations régionales sur les questions relatives à la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel et à la diversité des expressions culturelles, notamment des populations avec lesquelles l'organisation collabore ; contribution à la définition des normes juridiques et opérationnelles internationales, régionales et subrégionales concernant les thèmes précités et apporter son soutien à la mise en place de politiques culturelles au plan
national. Au plan multilatéral, Traditions pour Demain est principalement présente à l'UNESCO, avec qui elle entretient des relations formelles depuis 1992, à l'OMPI, et avec l'ONU dans le cadre de son statut consultatif ECOSOC. Concernant l'UNESCO, l'organisation intervient auprès du Secrétariat au siège, des Commissions nationales, des réseaux de clubs et écoles associées et aussi des bureaux hors-siège sur des actions plus spécifiques.
Cooperation:
Traditions pour Demain depuis 1986 collabore excusivement et de manière directe avec les communautés locales en milieu rural. La pratique des centaines de micro-projets à budget modeste, conçu et menés par ls communautés directement, que Tradition pour Demain a soutenu, lui ont permis de développer une expérience dans le travail avec les communautés et les praticiens du PCI. Chaque initiative a pour objectif la revalorisation très concrète d'une forme d'expression du PCI. Selon les cas elle s'étende de un à cinq au cours desquels la relation avec la communauté est permanente (échanges d'informations, rapports d'activités sur les initiatives, visites d'évaluation, organisation d'échanges entre communautés). La spécificité de l'organisation est la collaboration étroite avec les communautés, leurs autorités ou représentants, et toujours sur leur demande plutôt que du fait d'une initiative de Tradition pour Demain.
Trung tâm Nghiên cứu, Hỗ trợ và Phát triển Văn hoá (A&C;)
Center for Research, Support and Development of Culture - A&C; [en]
No 12, lane 847
Hong Ha street
Hoan Kiem Dist
Hanoi
VIET NAM
URL: http://www.acartculture.org.vn
Tel.: + 84 91 55 71 159

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90131
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Evaluation Body mandates: 2012; 2013; 2014
Year of creation: 2005
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Australia, Cambodia, China, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Objectives:
The Center for Research, Support and Development of Culture, abbreviated A&C;, an organization whose objectives is research, consultancy, support, development and coordination for cooperation between individuals, arts organizations, communities and counterparts in arts and cultural sectors. The Center operates as “extended arms” of Vietnam’s culture and arts sectors for the development of arts and culture.
One of the Center's primary objectives is to work with other professors, reseachers, managers, commnunities and institutes in researching, safeguarding cultural heritage. Not only aims at preserving cultural heritage, the Centre also attempts to develop and revitalise the cultural heritage in comtemporary time by promoting its new forms of creativity of cultural heritage.

Activities:
One of A&C;'s recent projects is the project of researching and collecting cultural heritage of people and commutnities in human ecological environment of Thai Nguyen Province. In this project, the center carried out researches relating to this theme and organised intensive training courses on methods and techniques of researching, collecting and safeguarding cultural heritage to the staff of The Museum of Ethic Minorities' Cultures of Thai Nguyen province. In addition the Center has coordinated a project of developing arts and cultural management curricula at MA and BA levels, including the compiling of heritage management curriculum to teach for students at a lot of universities in Vietnam, such as Hanoi University of Culture and Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture. The Centre plays an important role in co-ordinating the "Summer school" training courses in Museums management for leaders of Vietnam museums.
To carry out the safeguarding intangible heritage objective, the Center has some experts in the field of cultural heritage such as:
Prof. Nguyen Dinh Quang PhD
Prof. Nguyen Van Huy PhD
BA. Le Ngoc Thuy
Asso.Prof.Le Hong Ly PhD
Asso.Prof. Ngo Duc Thinh PhD
MA. Tran Hau Yen The
MA. Do Thi Thanh Thuy
MA. Nguyen Thi Anh Quyen
PhD. Bui Quang Thang
The Centre works closely with the staff of Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and staff of Hanoi University of Culture, Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture to conduct training activities in cultural heritage management.
Cooperation:
Up to now, the Centre had 4 year working experience in researching, organising training courses and promoting cultural heritage in Vietnam. The Center work in a close collaboration with a wide network of managers, practitioners and communities in the field of cultural heritage. It aims at supplying local communities, groups and practitioners with knowledge and skills on heritage management and involve them in safeguarding cultural heritage in their daily life.
By holding courses on heritage management, the Center had hand over usefull knowledge to participants who came from different communities and cultural institutions over the conutry. But the important thing is that, all of them are key people, who will apply the course knowledge on their work. Beside holding the courses, on the fact, the Center also together with local comunities, groups and practitioners caried out activities such as research, collecting, conservation, promotion, restore, etc, intagible cultural heritage. Through those works, both the Center and comminities, groups and practinioners had opportunities to exchange skills, mutual respect and developing parnership relation which will be develop futher in the future.
Udruga hrvatskih amaterskih kulturno umjetničkih društava u Bosni i Hercegovini
Association of Croatian Amateur Cultural Clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina - UHAKUD [en]
Rodoč b.b.
88 000 Mostar
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
URL: http://www.uhakud.ba
Tel.: +387-63 548 851

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2014 (Request: English) - No. 90293
Decision-making meeting: 5.GA - 2014

Year of creation: 2001
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Traditional cooking, traditional games for children and adults, non-formal education

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objectives:
Care to preserve original national costumes, requisites, instruments, customs, music, dance and the overall folk creativity; Stimulation, protection, promotion and supervision of the work of cultural clubs- members of the association; Care for and participation in organizing social events and competitions; Organizing the education of professional workers, activities on the programme of professional work and the care for these programmes; especially stimulating and promoting the involvement and activism of children and youth.
The practice of the programme of the festivals of authentic folklore groups (10 local festivals and one on state level every year), which according to the Regulations include stage presentation of the customs, traditional handicrafts workshops, traditional cuisine, exhibitions and a roundtable at which the representatives of the associations, which are participating in the festival, discuss the presented programmes with experts from various fields. The minutes, audio and visual recordings of the manifestation and all programmes are archived afterwards, what makes this association a centre which documents the status of intangible cultural heritage on the field, the number of holders of certain elements of heritage and which monitors the status of the elements and the interest of local communities for preserving certain elements.
Annual plan predicts the needs for informal education of particular groups or persons, in order to improve programmes or preservation of elements which are most endangered. The association organizes seminars in cooperation with experts and educational institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Activities:
Each member association which has an authentic folklore group in its composition participates in the organization of the festival, researches the customs in their area, every two years obligatory presents a new programme on the stage- a stage presentation of a different custom from their area. Documentation on the research and the customs are delivered to the UHAKUD association in Bosnia and Herzegovina. If the local group needs a professional assistance for the realization if its programme, it will require the involvement of experts of certain profile through the mediation of UHAKUD association.
When presenting the customs on the stage at festivals of authentic folklore groups the coordination of the customs, dance, costumes, music and language is monitored, as well as the equipment on stage which also needs to be coordinated with the time and space from which the custom originates. The groups are trying to present all elements as authentic as possible. The Board of Experts takes minutes, and after the festival discusses with the leader of each group about all elements of the programme on the stage. The minutes that are delivered by the Board of Experts afterwards, also contain recommendations for further work of the groups on certain elements.
In addition to such a stage performance of the customs, parades are also a part of the festival, together with traditional handicraft workshops, traditional cuisine, and traditional social or sport games for adults and children. The records are kept in the same way for all elements of the festival. The Board of Experts consists of competent persons, whether they are employed as expert associates from BiH institutions, or are volunteer members of certain associations. All events are followed by the press, radio and TV stations. We have several journalist associates who are regularly monitoring our activities for the purpose of promotion and documenting.
Cooperation:
The association is the union of local groups. The founders are local communities who want to preserve, transmit their cultural heritage to new generations and to promote it. The initiative for all activities comes from local communities -the holders of the elements of intangible cultural heritage. This association serves to those local communities. Average citizen has a high level of awareness for the importance and necessity for preservation of intangible cultural heritage. The association has no employee, all services are done voluntarily, without compensation. That is why on the level of administrative bodies there is no other interest than contribution to the realization of the objectives that are set by the Assembly of the Association. The respect for the local communities and individuals, who are the holders and transmitters of the elements of intangible cultural heritage, is woven into the system of the work of the association.
Across implementation a special project of preservation of traditional Konjic woodcarving (2009-2011, project supported by MDGF Programme Culture for development), we assured agreements by: Konjic Municipality, Museum of woodcarving "Mulicev rekord", owners of local woodcarving shops, tourism Boards and woodcarvers, independent if they were employed in someone of shops or not.
Udruga Kuća o batani-Casa della batana
Association House of Batana [en]
Obala P. Budicin 2
52210 Rovinj
CROATIA
URL: http://www.batana.org
Tel.: +385 981688367

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90457
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Unione Nazionale Pro Loco d'Italia
Italian Network of Pro Loco Associations - UNPLI [en]
Piazza Flavio Biondo, 13
00153 Roma
ITALY
URL: http://www.unpli.info
Tel.: +39 06 99 22 33 48; + 39 06 58 12 946; +39 328 3894658

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90211
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1962
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Italy

Objectives:
UNPLI with 5.500 Pro Loco associations registered (the frist Pro Loco was born in 1881), is the only national landmark of these associations with about 600.000 members.

(art. no. 2 - UNPLI's Statute)
UNPLI is a no-profit association and can exercicse any activity or provide itself with any structure to realize its purposes in range of cultural, environmental,t ourist, ecological, natural, social, and in range of solidarity, voluntary work, and youth policy according to European Community's advices.

UNPLI with its central national structure:
a. ccordinates all its peripherals structures;
b. implements all of the enterprise for Italy's promotion and development in every department, including information and tourism welcome.

UNPLI in its central structure, within its peripherals structures realizes:
a. coordination for all of Pro Loco's activities;
b. representation of Pro Loco towards State institution and all of the associations working on an international, national, regional, provincial and municipal level;
c. protection of Pro Loco's interests;
d. information, consultancy, technical support for Pro Loco associations also with its proper communication and information media.

UNPLI is composed by regional and provincial Committees. It's headed by a National Council composed by 30 components representing Pro Loco from every Italian region. Pro Loco associated to UNPLI can manage club for its members.
Members can join Prol Loco through UNPLI card, a card which also let owners have some important national and regional conventions. UNPLI and Pro Loco's governing board, thanks to specific training projects financed by Department for work and pensions, have a constant support which is very important for the increase of this movement.

UNPLI is the second italian asociation for the number of volunteers management. Every year more than 1000 volunteers work in Pro loco's associations carrying out projects about territory promotion and the immaterial cultural legacy protection.

UNPLI works for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage with many national projects. UNPLI cooperates with schools, local authorities, educational and reserach organizations in order to build a network of good practices in the safeguarding of Italian Intangible cultural heritage. UNPLI is the italian association of more than 5.500 Pro loco (latin, meaning "for the place") associations. Many Italian towns and small cities have a Pro loco, a civic membership organization, that works with local authority, schools, university and tourism officials to devise ways to enhance the town and attract visitors. Since the birth of first Pro loco in 1881, this kind of associations also worked for the safeguarding and promotion of the cultural aspects linked to the town or the entire region. The safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage is tightly linked to UNPLI's objectives. Pro loco associations are well distributed on the whole italian districts where there are still many living traditions and often they are the safeguarding and the sustainable promotion of the cultural aspects of these towns.

Every year UNPLI organizes training courses for the volounteers of the Pro Loco associations in order to improve their capacity of management.
Activities:
UNPLI departments
Young policy and school - Mr Angelo Lazzari
Information technology and legal assistance - Mr Mauro giannarelli
Cutlure and territory - Mr Fernando Tomasello
Organization, programming, SIAE - Mario Barone
Social Clubs, marketing and conventions - Mr Sebastiano Sechi
Civil Service and training - Mr Mario Perroti
Library of Civitella d'Agliano - Mr Marco Pacella
Publishing, Information, Europe - Mr Claudio Nardocci
The President is Claudio Nardocci.
Secretariat: Mrs Francesca Faviere - Mrs Edi Florian - Mr Valerio Bruni
Project manager: Mr Gabriele Desiderio
Collaborators: Mr Riccardo Ponzi - Mrs Laura De Meis - Mr Luca Caroselli - Mrs Alessandra Alpini.

The staff that works on the intangible cultural heritage is leaded by Gabriele Desiderio, with a degree in contemporary history at "La Sapeinza" in Rome. He's the responsable of the projects on the intangible cultural heritage. He worked with many anthropologists in order to go in to more depth in the knowledge of the cultural heritage. He has a great experience for working on field with many visits in all the italian regions. Luca Caroselli and Riccardo Ponzi are technicians with more than 4 years of experience in filming, photograpy and editing images.

In the last 7 years, UNPLI worked for the safeguarding of intangible heritage with different national projects("Aperto per Ferie" and "Sos Patrimonio Culturale Immateriale". the last project of UNPLI is "Abbraccia l'Italia" under the sponsorship of the Italian National Commission of UNESCO, which objectives are: safeguarding the italian intangible cultural heritage; ensuring respect for the intangible cultural heritage of the communities, groups and individuals ooncerned; raising awareness at the local, national and international levels of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage. UNPLI founded a unique Library in Italy (Bibliomediateca di Civitella d'Agliano) in which is collecting documents (book, dvd, cd, etc.) and interviews about the italian intangible cultural heritage. The personnel is composed by 8 persons. The projects are followed by a staff
composed by 4 person that make the following activities:
a. In according with the regional committee, select the italian localities (at least one for each region)
b. the staff visits the localities in order to: make to intangible cultural aspects of the territory; take pictures of the people, of the tools and the manufactured products; collect all the material (book, cd, dvd) produced by the inhabitants on their own cultural heritage (rites, traditions, events, songs, proverbs, legends)
c. the staff cooperates with the local schools in order to promote researches about the local traditions
d. make aware the local authorities about the great importance of the intangible cultural heritage and promote.

UNPLI created an on-line database where is cillecting interviews and documents about all the domains of the italian intangible cultural heritage. The link is the following http://www.youtube.com/user/ProgettiUNPLI. The website of the project is: www.abbraccialitalia.it
Cooperation:
The national federation of 5.500 Pro Loco associations is a great resource for the collection and the safeguarding of the italian cultural intangible heritage.

UNPLI makes coordination between the Pro Loco activities for the safeguarding of the intangible heritage and promote the networking and the exchange of best practices beetween the localities involved in the national project activites.

The field in which UNPLI is working are the identification, documentation, research, preservation, protection, promotion and transmission through formal and non-formal education (as indicated in the Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage) especially for traditional musics (popular and religious), knowledge about nature and universe (with farmer and people living in peripheral communities), traditional medicine, handcrafts and languages.

UNPLI works closely with local cultures because Pro Loco associations are well ramificated on the whole national territory.

UNPLI is ccoperationg also with Universities, municipalities and local authority in order to raise awareness of the importance of the intangible cutlural heritage. UNPLI always worked in a spirit of mutual respect with communities, groups and individual. the reason of this way of working is due to the nature of Pro Loco associations that are expression the local communities. In every town where Pro Loco exists all the population
is involved in the organization of events or rites. UNPLI improve and support the Pro Loco activity for the promoting and safeguarding of rites, traditions, events and handicraft through its national projects. Every Pro Loco involved in these national projects are invited to cooperate with the loca lauthorities and the other associations of the territory and to involve the individuals in their activities. UNPLI aims to share the questions from its research on intangible cultural heritage management and policy implementation thus making its experience available for the development of pioneering porjects.
vzw Het Domein Bokrijk
The Domain Bokrijk [en]
Bokrijklaan 1
3600 Genk
BELGIUM
URL: http://www.bokrijk.be
Tel.: +32 11 265 300

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90203
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1958
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

Belgium

Objectives:
The Domain Bokrijk houses a large open air museum. Bokrijk is the museum in Flanders where in a 1-to-1 scale peasant houses from all over Flanders in open air are shown, preserved and studied. Through its unique collection of buildings, objects, churches, chapels, interiors, tools, its knowledge about crafts, rituals and practices in daily life and historical fauna and flora the museum wants visitors to experience what it could have meant to live in the countryside in what is now called Flanders. Through interactive means and media (theatre, music, word, images) and in an appealing and understandable language the museum aims to confront people living in the 21st Century with the way in which a former rural society - its people, dwellings, and daily practices - has gradually changed by showing them the cradle of the present. Moreover the museum wants to tease and wonder a culturally diverse public, to have them rethinking their own lives and memories and to make them sensible about the relativity of past, present and future. The museum aims to keep and upgrade the innovative methods it works with to achieve this mission for a socially and culturally diverse public.

In short, the Domain Bokrijk including the Open Air Museum Bokrijk aims a culturally and socially diverse public to appreciate, enjoy and understand the cultural (both tangible and intangible) and natural heritage since 1500 on the countryside in what is now called Flanders by collecting, preserving, protecting, researching and valorising aspects from the culture of daily life.
Activities:
The Domain and the museum has over the years, from its opening in 1958, created a substantial pool of knowledge on local building traditions, materials, techniques, crafts, tools, rituals and building and crafting practices in Flanders. This knowledge has been tested and proven in daily practice in the museum. There are three groups of personnel that are actively involved in these forms of intangible cultural heritage: Marc Jansen and Kristien Ceyssens, respectively head and architect to the technical department; Jef Brebels, Johny Lowet, Raoul Putzeys amongst others, respectively carpenter and wagon maker, thatcher, cooper and allround restoration worker; Raf Schepers, head of collections, and Hilde Schoefs, curator, who research the history of crafts and craftsmanship and the rituals and practices concerned.

The museum participates since several years in the work of the Interface Centre for Living Heritage (www.sle.be). In concreto this means the museum and domain of Bokrijk help preserving rare breeds of local historical livestock as sheep, cows, pigs, horses, goats, turkeys, …by breeding new genetic offspring. The person responsible for this program is Frank Libens, head of fauna to the technical department since 1996.

The Domain and the museum organised in 2010 the 29th edition of its Dialect- and Street Theatre Festival. Frank De Roeck, cultural worker and musician, is responsible for this programme. On Whit Monday a selection of traditional forms of street theatre are performed in their respective dialects by local groups from all over Flanders. Together with quality music groups, that bring a historical repertoire on replica’s of historical music instruments and in confrontation with more recent artistic performances these traditional performances are given a stage to present their work to a large, and socially and culturally diverse public. It is every year more difficult to attract quality performances rooted in traditional practices as these performances are partly looked upon as old fashioned and out of time. The museum considers it to be its role to safeguard these performances by giving them an annual stage.

The Domain and museum is known for its original and replica installations of historical games and play as for example archery, playing skittles, curling, 'struifvogelen', 'bikkelen', ... and for its array of regional and historical parlour games. Visitors can not only try for free parlour games and sports, they can also take the challenge to compete in teams in some of these historical games guided by a trained museum guide.The person responsible for installing this diverse programme in the museum during the last decade is Bea Vaes, head of the educational cell, who previously won her spurs working for what is now Sportimonium, the museum of sports and games (www.sportimonium.be).

Luc Frenken, historian, is responsible for the 1st person living history in the Haspengouw part of the museum. He researches food, clothes, habits, micro and macro history and brings this together in daily performances.

In 2009 the museum started together with FARO. The interface centre for cultural heritage in Flanders and other local organisations in Flanders in partnership with Alan Govenar (Documentary Arts inc, Dallas) an exhibition called 'Treasures in/from People', which will travel around Flanders in 2010-2011 accompanied by public activities (see below). It opened in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris April 2010. In the exhibition we try to translate the meaning of the concepts 'intangible heritage' and 'living human treasures' as defined by UNESCO in the 2003 Convention to the visitors. Americans from the National Heritage Fellowship are portrayed next to Flemish people who are passionate about their knowledge, practice or skill.
The kick-off of the above mentioned exhibition and tour is on July 18th 2010 when the museum organises the first edition of 'Passion & Tradition. Living human treasures in Flanders'. This day the visitors can watch demonstrations, performances, skills, … from passionate and skilled people concerning intangible heritage all over the museum. People can not only watch, but are actively invited to ask questions, to give it a try themselves in free workshops, to discuss the Convention in a debate, … A special link is made to the USA, as guest country.

On July 19th 2010 the museum organises together with FARO an international colloquium titled ‘Visibility, Awareness, Dialogue. Learning from elsewhere: the USA’. Guest speakers that day are Barrey Bergey (director of Folk and Traditional Arts, National Endowment for the Arts), Peggy Bulger (director of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) and Alan Govenar.

Hilde Schoefs, curator, who previously worked for FARO as researcher and member of staff responsible for oral and intangible heritage, has taken the lead for these interconnected initiatives.
Cooperation:
The Domain and Open Air Museum of Bokrijk has a longstanding tradition of collecting, sharing, preserving and staging intangible heritage with and by both communities and individual practitioners.

The museum started in 2008 'Learning from the Past' where skilled craftsmen teach their skills and their knowledge on wagonry making, cooping and thatching amongst others in a one to one learning trajectory with a pupil. This form of life long adult learning is supervised by the Personnel Department of the Province of Limburg.

The museum shares its diverse knowledge on intangible cultural heritage forms and practices actively within a broader community of open air museums (AEOM, www.aeom.org), that meets yearly. Next to these official meetings the museum holds close contacts with several open air and other museums, to share knowledge, as for example in 2009 with the Open Air Museum of Arnhem, het Huis van Alijn, Sportimonium, and the Open Air Museum Kommern. In 2010 the museum was host to two delegates from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture making a study on the ratification of the Convention and the manner in which different countries, ministries and cultural heritage organisations try to implement it and translate it to the public.

As stated below 6c the museum offers yearly on Whit Monday a stage to performing groups of street theatre from all over Flanders. This is the only occasion where street theatre performances from different regions and different sorts are shown together.

Also mentioned below 6c is the first edition of the museum festival 'Passion & Tradition. Living human treasures in Flanders'. This day the visitors can watch demonstrations, performances, skills, … from passionate and skilled people concerning intangible heritage all over the museum. Individuals and groups that will share their expertise that day are amongst others Frank Degruyter (expert narrator), Guy Vandecasteele (expert puppet making), Magda Vaes (expert in breast feeding advice), the ladies from Kant in Vlaanderen (lace making), the Steltlopers van Merchtem, the ‘krulbollers’.
Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed
Workshop intangible heritage Flanders [en]
Atelier patrimoine immatériel Flandres [fr]
Sint-Jakobsstraat 36
8000 Brugge

BELGIUM
URL: http://werkplaatsimmaterieelerfgoed.be/
URL: http://www.immaterieelerfgoed.be
Tel.: +32 473 38 19 07

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90186
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2020; 2021; 2022
Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- Project initiatives involving the community and civil society, networking and sharing expertise

Main countries where active:

Belgium, South Africa

Objectives:
Workshop intangible heritage Flanders as an organisation inspires and realizes vivid projects concerning cultural heritage and a contemporary approach of our collective intangible heritage. It aims to interact strongly with people in its projects, going to schools, youth centres, diving into the city life or the neighbourhood. Heritage education, diversity and public sensitisation are the most important dimensions in our mission. Workshop intangible heritage Flanders always tries to realize projects in a young, experimental and graphical attractive way so to function as an eye-opener for people who usually aren't involved into heritage themes.

As an acknowledged and subsidied organisation bij the Flemish Government, tapis plein NGO invest its expertise in networks in the professional heritage field as well as spreading heritage methodology in the civil society.
Activities:
Workshop intangible heritage Flanders every year realizes laboratory/experimental heritage projects in which civil particpation in heritage themes is the central goal. The focus or theme of these initiatives is always depending on the specific context (partnerships, locality, ... ) and on new challenges in the heritage field or society. Tapis plein this way realised during the 7 past years diverse neigbourhood projects, oral tradition projects, as well as wide travelling workshops and exhibitions UN-TOUCHABLE (2005-2007; on the theme of the UNESCO convention of ICH) and 'Never Enough' (2007-2009; on the phenomenon of collecting as a democratic heritage practice done by thousands of people in Flanders and about). In 2009-2010 our biggest project is Quartier Bricole, an ambitious project setting up shops, workshops, exhibitions, markets, ... all on the theme of 'rooted design' or: contemporary craftmanship with roots in traditional techniques, knowledge and forms.

In 2010 tapis plein vzw is also an active partner in the UNESCO project with FARO and Documentary Arts starting from the photographical and documentary work of Alan Govenar "Visibility, awareness and dialogue", whch was exposured in the UNESCO 'salle des pas perdus' in april 2010. For the Flemishg part of this project tapis plein NGO will be working with lots of partner organizations from Belgium and from Central-Europe (Croatia, Tsjechia) realizing masterclasses, public events, exhibition, etc.

The personnel of tapis plein are masters in art history, ethnography and graphism, and all have educational training above.

Next to the specific projects, tapis plein NGO travels around Flanders in its role as expert center for methodology on active and civic participation, helping and inspiring lots of museums, archives, local policies and more, to make up heritage practices that are participatory and enhancing democratic and community engagement of/for heritage.
Cooperation:
As described above (6), this makes up the very heart of the work of tapis plein NGO. We are in every project and every process of sharing experiences, driven by the principle that heritage is and should be a mirror of our diverse contemporary society and we are always looking for ways in which this spirit of mutual respect and diversity can be encorporated, enhanced and be shared in public initiative.
West Africa Coalition for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (WACIPR) - WACIPR
No. 4, Otokiti Street off Uwelu Road
P. O. Box 4228
Benin City
NIGERIA
Tel.: (+234) 805 255 9526; (+254) 803 715 5488

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90217
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2004
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

Objectives:
The objectives of the West Africa Coalition for indigenous peoples Rights WACIPR include
1. Authentication: The NGO continually seeks and advocates that the traditional knowledge and folklore of
the over one hundred and forty - seven indigenous communities in which it executes its mandate, are authenticated to belong to the communities.
2. Cultural Protocols: Establishing procedures including legal protection to prevent the abuse of the rich cultural heritage of the indigenous people.
3. Communal Ownership: The cultural Heritage of indigenous communities are jointly owned and does not belong to individuals and as such there must be collective agreement and consent to access
traditional knowledge and folklore.
4. Non Expropriation: The indigenous communities desire to guard against the removal of items of folklore and traditional knowledge from the places of origin. The communities see their folklore as testimony of the origin, past and spiritual tie to their progenitors. They fear that they might be destroyed and diluted.
5. Poverty alleviation: Some aspects of folklore and traditional knowledge are transformed into arts and
perfonnances which are marketed to alleviate4 poverty in the indigenous communities. Hence there is need to guard against infringement on copyright.
Activities:
The West Africa Coalition for Indigenous peoples' Rights WACIPR has recently been involved in the following activities-
1. Preservation of languages facing danger of possible extinction in many indigenous communities in Nigeria and Sierra Leone
2. Compilation of Traditional Pharmacopoeia based on traditional knowledge
3. Establishment of local orchaestra and conservatoire to preserve the cherished ancient music and dances steps of the indigenous communities.
4. Documentation and staging the age-long festivals of the indigenous peoples which are their renowned cultural heritage
5. Lobbying for legislative protection of the cultural heritage of indigenous communities based.

WACIPR is a coalition of indigenous groups and people with many affiliating communities with the aim of promoting their cultural and social well-being. Its membership spreads across Nigeria, Sierra-Leone and Liberia. The NGO has been well represented in many local, national and international floras including the Working Group on Indigenous Populations the United Nations permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues UNPFII.

Membership is open to all indigenous communities and people who often bring in their vast experiences in the preservation propagation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage.

Members and personnel of the disorganization has attended several trainings and workshops/seminars in-situ and ex-situ. The members include Historians, Anthropologists, Musicologists Archaeologists, Linguists, Theatre Artists Volunteer Researchers and Documentation experts Some members are also knowledgeable in oral tradition.

Additional information:

Our indigenous peoples are truly traditional who strongly and jealously maintain their oral folklore which they see as expression of their cultural heritage and survival amidst the ubiquitous challenges of acculturation and assimilation from the ethnic majorities. The local dialects are constantly under the siege of mass culture that are imported and of dominant language groups. To check the threat of obliteration, the West Africa Coalition for Indigenous People’s Rights WACIPR has recently taken the following steps.

1. Agitation for the inclusive and use of mother tongue as language in primary school curriculum in schools located in indigenous communities. This was part of the interventions made by WACIPR at the 5th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues UNPFII in 2006 and at the 23rd session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations WGIP in 2005.

2. WACIPR has also prepared a memo to the Edo state Government of Nigeria to establish community radio station(s) in indigenous people’s communities to sustain preserve and propagate their culture through its programmes.

3. WACIPR recently volunteered to provide translators, and artistes to local television and radio stations as a way of preserving the endangered dialects of the indigenous people.

4. The organization is also compiling almost forgotten words in some indigenous dialects for future generations.

5.WACIPR has a vast archives of old indigenous folk songs, visuals of festival dance steps, recitals etc. It stages cultural festival competitions among indigenous communities every three years. The last festival competition was held in 2008. The event is an occasion the participating communities look forward to with enthusiasm.

Safeguarding Traditional Pharmacopoeia
The organisation has been able to bring trado-medical health providers to agree to release information on ancient traditional knowledge on the use of curative plants. The knowledge was passed to them informally by their forebears and hither to kept secret in the respective families, is now being documented to preserve it from the threat of going into oblivion. The vast knowledge of the curative vascular plants which have been identified is systematically classified.

WACIPR is in the process of botanical propagation of the vascular plants to safeguard sustainable use for the future generations.
Cooperation:
WACIPR as a community - based organisation represent the interest of the over one hundred and forty-seven communities who expect it to advocate their cultural rights, lobby for legislative protection of their cultural heritage.

The NGO in collaboration with the indigenous communities have set up customs repositories in various settlements and villages. All transactions with people andorganisations on behalf of the indigenous communities are carried out on Mutually Agreed Terms approved by the authorities of the communities. For example, the NGO made a statement on behalf of the communities atz the fifth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on indigenous Issues in 2005, in New York.

Several exhibitions of Traditional Cultural Expressions have been organised to display the cultural heritage of the indigenous communities and peoples through the active participation of artists and practitioners.
World Crafts Council AISBL
44a Pentonville Road
Islington
London N1 9BY
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
URL: http://www.wccinternational.org
Tel.: 020 7806 2523

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90435
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1964
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Bangladesh, Chile, China, France, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

World Ethnosport Society
Visku iela 13-13, Riga, LV-1057
LATVIA
URL: http://ethnosport.org
Tel.: +3712953090;+797742572552

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90478
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- other
- Traditional Sports and Games

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

World Martial Arts Union - WoMAU
세계무술연맹
380-700, Namhangang-ro 26
Chungiu City
Chungcheongbuk-do
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
URL: http://www.womau.org
Tel.: 82-43-852 7955

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2010 (Request: English) - No. 90024
Decision-making meeting: 3.GA - 2010

Year of creation: 2002
Budget: U.S.$500000
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Traditional games; security and safety skills

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Republic of Korea

Objectives:
The World Martial Arts Union pronounced the following shared cognition about martial arts that motivated its founding members to create the organization.
- That countries have particular martial arts with unique forms and features which originated and evolved through the ages in response to the particular security needs of the people concerned, and that such martial arts, an important cultural heritage of the people, share in forming their national character and outlook.
- That martial arts, originally in the past age various combinations of the combat skills and fighting technique for self-defence and survival, are today practiced for and applied to a wide range of peaceful uses, such as physical fitness, recreation, self-defence, law enforcement action and competitive sports, and contribute in a significant way to the promotion of peace and security of the society as well as the well-being of the people.
- That an international union of the martial arts will provide to the world martial arts community an institutional center long since needed for its members to better orgarnize their efforts at contributing to the world peace by promoting friendship between peoples through martial arts and by spreading worldwide its underlying values of peace and justice.
- That the Chungju World martial Arts Festival, the annual event at Chungju, Korea since 1998 is better be provided with an institutional support framework to ensure its continued growth, significantly making contribution to transmitting and conserving traditional indigenous martial arts of the various countries and peoples.
The World Martial Arts Union thus has it as its principal objective to promote understanding and friendship between different cultures( martial arts ), which is conducive to cultivating a more peaceable atmosphere and environment through out the world.
It is further believed that traditional martial arts of individual country or nation is a valuable part of cultural heritage not only of that particular country or nation concerned.
Such martial arts is shared cultural heritage of us all worthy of our joint efforts for its preservation and transmission.
Therefore the Union stipulats in its charter the following four(4) specific undertakings:
1. Collection, exchange and dissemination of Information and material.
2. Organizing study and research activities such as seminars and conferences.
3. Organizing or sponsoring demonstration or exhibition events.
4. In connection with annual Martial Arts Festival, providing administrative and technical assistances to the member organizations with a view to facilitating their participation.
Activities:
- Since its creation in 2002, the World Martial Arts Union has organized, the yearly event of demonstrative performances of martial arts of the various countries and peoples, the Chungju World Martial Arts Festival.
- 2002 (30 country teams)
- 2003 (35 country teams)
- 2004 (30 country teams)
- 2005 (15 country teams)
- 2006 (15 country teams)
- 2007 (16 country teams)
- 2008(27 country teams), to be slated for 2 – 8 october, 2008
- Annual general assembly of members in October every year, since its inception in 2002, where members deliberate the ways and means how better to effect the Unions objectives:
- Building up reference archives for world martial arts at its Secretariat
- Operating the information website, www.womau.com
- Planning to offer what will be called Martial Arts Leadership Seminar, which is to be conducted as a condensed fellowship program for about 4 weeks, twice a year.
- Desirous of taking part in the UNESCO`s ICH program and doing its possible parts in the UNESCO`s ICH work, we attended UNESCO`s ICH Intergovernmental Committee meetings at Tokyo(3 to 7 September 2008) and Sofia(18 to 22 February 2008), and the ICH safeguarding Convention general assembly in Paris (16 to 19 June 2008).
Cooperation:
As is presented under item 6c above, the WoMAU works closely with its member organization in the various countries. All of its member organizations are of group of martial arts practitioners and many of them are recognized masters in their respective martial arts.
The administration and the citizenry of the host city of our Union, that is the locate of the Secretariat, are extremely supportive to the activities of our union.
For its work, the WoMAU is getting some financial support from the Korea Foundation and technical assistance from the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of Korea.
Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks (ZDH)
German Confederation of Skilled Crafts [en]
Mohrenstraße 20/21
10117 Berlin
GERMANY
Tel.: 49 30 20619-0; +49 30 20619-335

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/German) - No. 90413
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1949
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- political advocacy

Main countries where active:

Germany

Objectives:
ZDH is the umbrella organisation of the craft trade sector in Germany representing nearly one million craft enterprises employing some 5.36 million workforce and an annual turnover of 544 billion Euros, i.e. some 7.7% of the national gross value added, facilitating some 27.3% of the national vocational education and training (VET). The primary goal of ZDH is to promote the development of the craft trades sector in every respect and to constantly improve the strategic framework for them. The two main focuses of ZDH are promotion of the trades through a broad range of measures and to secure and continuously develop VET. Regarding VET, ZDH develops public regulations for vocational training and exams, which are carried out by the chambers of craft trades. By their politic-economic responsibilities and activities, ZDH secures a sustainable development of traditional craft trades and the constant transfer of their skills.
ZDH's goal is to advocate craft trades interests towards economy, politics, society, science and culture and to represent the democratic German craft trades organisation on federal German and EU levels both through their membership in UEAPME (European Union of Crafts and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) and through the ZDH office to the European Union in Brussels.
ZDH's members are the 53 German chambers of craft trades (public bodies), and 48 central craft trades associations. ZDH closely collaborates with chambers, associations, industry and agriculture, and the federal government.
With its emphasis on traditional craftsmanship as one of the five domains of ICH in the Convention, the ZDH promotes the public understanding of manual work processes, craftsmanship and manual know-how, tacit knowledge, craft training and VET in general. Attention is being drawn on craft trades culture and heritage as an expression of human development and heritage of mankind. Thus it supports an understanding of the craft trades in general. In this respect, the Convention covers a range of objectives, which the organised craft trades and ZDH in particularly have been pursuing for decades.

Activities:
By constantly developing the VET system and securing regulated examination, ZDH and the German craft trades organisation provide the basis for a sustainable transfer of knowledge and skills in the craft trades. With an image campaign started in 2008 featuring more than a hundred craft professions, ZDH and the German craft trades organisation contribute significantly to raising young people's interest to take up an apprenticeship in the craft trades.
ZDH maintains a national network of heritage advisors facilitating communication between heritage administration and craft enterprises. ZDH is also working as a communication hub for the German CVET (continuing VET) centres for heritage skills and trades associations and initiate the development of heritage CVET curricula.
Since the 1990s, ZDH, in collaboration with German National Trust (DSD), organises the federal award for craft trades in monument preservation (Bundespreis für Handwerk in der Denkmalpflege) specially designed for craftspeople and private monument owners to promote traditional heritage skills. The award is carried out in two federal states yielding some 100 winners each year.
ZDH is involved in the European Centre for Heritage Crafts and Professions with its extensive experience in conducting international classes since 1978. Classes target painters and decorators, stucco plasterers, metalworkers, carpenters and joiners, stone masons and sculptors, gilders and bricklayers providing both theory and vast practical training. The international classes make sure that participants learn, practice and exchange skills in a cross-language way with handwork and skills put in the centre. Opportunity of both informal cross-language and cross-trades exchange in the workshops in the evenings is fully exploited. The international classes broaden young craftspeople's horizons sensitising them for skills diversity.
Since 2007, ZDH has promoted the ratification of the UNESCO ICH-convention towards the federal German government, at the same time sensitising chambers and associations for the issue, building up a network of ICH experts inside the German craft trades organisation. Since ratification in 2013, ZDH, as a member of the expert committee of the German Commission for UNESCO for the ICH on federal level, provides professional expertise for the craft trades sector.
Through their ICH network inside the craft trades organisation, ZDH has helped to identify rare craft skills and supported their applications for inscription in the national inventory (see 7). ZDH and the German craft trades organisation have also supported the UNESCO nomination with substantial safeguarding information on the craft trade of blueprinting/blue-dyeing.
ZDH initiated a transdisciplinary research, documentation and transfer project on the innovation potential of traditional craft skills with Universities in Gottingen and Cologne (OMAHETI). Results will be integrated into the new heritage CVET curricula to empower craftspeople to revitalise rare skills as a sustainable business model.
Vis à vis the national committee for the preservation of monuments (DNK), state heritage organisations and other stakeholders of monument preservation as well as of the German culture council, ZDH promotes the importance of traditional craft skills for restoration and conservation of buildings and museum objects in order to safeguard the ICH related to monuments.
To improve the strategic framework for traditional craftsmanship and heritage skills at European level too, ZDH communicates, as a member of the European Association of crafts, small and medium enterprises (UEAPME) as well as through its Brussels office, the ICH issue for craft trades conservation and heritage skills, promote exchange and mobility and secure the support of the European craft trades associations.

Cooperation:
As head organisation of all craft trades in Germany, ZDH supports craft trades communities in order to improve conditions for their transferring of knowledge and skills. Therefore, ZDH promotes the idea of safeguarding ICH throughout the German craft trades encouraging applications of rare craft trades and communities for the national inventory and supporting safeguarding measures such as exhibitions of the craft trades galleries at the chambers or activities in the course of the European Artistic Craft Days (JEMA). These measures help promote the expertise, skills, craftsmanship and quality of diverse craft trades towards the public.
ZDH has specific experience with craft trades communities in supporting their proposals for the national German inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage like:
Thatchers' craft (listed 2014): ZDH support cooperating with Zentralverband des Deutschen Dachdeckerhandwerks and Reetdachdecker-lnnung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern;
Vogtland musical instrument making in Markneukirchen and surrounding area (listed 2014): ZDH support cooperating with Handwerkskammer Chemnitz;
German Bread Culture (listed 2014): ZDH support cooperating with Zentralverband des Deutschen Bäckerhandwerks;
Journeymen's Wanderings on the road (listed 2014): ZDH support cooperating with Conföderation Europäischer Gesellenzünfte;
Indigo blue-dyeing (listed 2016): ZDH support cooperating with several chambers of craft trades for a documentation of safeguarding measures;
Basket making (listed 2016): ZDH support cooperating with Bundesinnungsverband des Deutschen Korbmacherhandwerks;
Scraffito techniques in Hessian timber-framed houses (listed 2016): ZDH support cooperating with Beratungsstelle für Handwerk und Denkmalpflege Fulda;
Painting, setting and gilding techniques of church painters (listed 2016): ZDH support cooperating with Fachgruppe der Kirchenmaler, Restauratoren und Vergolder in Bayern.
In March 2014, ZDH culture unit provided consultative input to the conference "Crafts Economy and Crafts Culture - Creating sustainability for the crafts: Learning from others" organised by Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur en lmmaterieel Erfgoed (VIE), Utrecht.
As a member of the advisory board to DENKMAL trade fair Leipzig, ZDH initiated the invitation of Norsk Handverksinstitut to support the appearance of Norway as guest nation in 2016. NHI with its extensive experience in knowledge and skills transfer projects in the craft trades were able to emphasise the role of ICH for monumental heritage preservation in Europe.
Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα 'Β. Παπαντωνίου'
V. Papantoniou Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation - PFF [en]
1, Vassileos Alexandrou str.
21100 Nafplio
GREECE
URL: http://www.pli.gr
Tel.: +30-2752-028947

Next report due 2021
Renewed in 2017 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90107
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 1974
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Historical evolution of costume, its social economical and other aspects. Music & Dance as functions, pre-industrial technology, textile conservation as well as the connection between children, games and toys.

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Fieldwork Documentation

Main countries where active:

Greece

Objectives:
The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation "V. Papantoniou" (PFF) has been compiling, arranging, preserving and publishing different elements of the Greek and foreign folk culture which is an important part of the intangible cultural heritage. The foundation wishes to stress the connection between anthropology and cultural studies, in order to project the aspects of contemporary social reality. A collection involves things, but the actual process of collecting presents relationships, between people as subjects,
and between things as objects. So we come to the fact that the things we choose to collect represent our perspective of what is important to be maintained for the next generations. The operation of the PFF is beneficial on different levels and this reflects its varying goals. First, among the museum's main goals is recording, the study of contemporary Greek culture in all its expressions, and the contribution to the scientific community through grants, publications and exhibitions. Another goal is the influence of the broad public through efforts to promote the importance of the documentation of folk culture. This field comprises of two sections, the first being the local community that gradually understands the importance of the historical and ethnological artefacts that could be donated to the museum, so that they are safeguarded for the next generations. The contribution of the local community can be separated in two equally important sectors, the objects and their experiences provided as oral testimonies. The second section concerns visitors, Greek as well as foreign, who experience the local heritage in a simple and interesting way during their free time. Additionally, one of the Foundation goals is training its personnel on subjects relevant to its collections. The most important contribution is its educational role that will
help future generations to experience, evaluate, maintain, and finally enjoy their very own cultural heritage.
Activities:
Research Center:
The PFF's programmes of scientific activities include projects being conducted throughout Greece with the objective of recording and studying the folk culture, costume, music and dance, pre-industrial technology, children and children's toys.

National Traditional Costume Archives:
In 1989 the PFF in collaboration with the Museum of Greek Folk Art as part of the Ministry of Culture set up a research team, which, in the same year, started a pilot project on the study of the particular features of costumes in the border areas of Epirus. The main goal of this collaboration was to
establish a data bank and a research center.

Photographic Archives:
The photo and sound archives cover mainly all field work carried out by the PFF.

Collections Department - "The Aristeides programme":
The foundation's collections now number over 27,000 artifacts, covering all fields of study relating to contemporary Greek culture with emphasis on ethnography, fashion, and children. In order to improve the management of the collections, the "Aristeides" programme for electronic documentation was created and designed from the outset on the basis of the expertise of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation.

The Library:
The library focuses mainly on museology, ethnology, costume study, theatre and the child as well as history and art. Today, it has 10.250 book titles and 250 periodicals.

"Stathmos" The Children's Museum:
In October 1989, the PFF opened the first in Greece museum devoted to childhood. The museum, housed in the old railway station in Nafplion, consists of the old train depot and the station platform granted to the PFF by the Municipality of Nafplion. A part of the PFF collections related specifically to children is displayed and its educational programmes are aimed at: a) schools and organized groups, and b) the children of the Argolide.

Conservation Center:
In April 2000 the PFF started a Conservation Centre at Plapouta & Riga Palamidi street in Nafplion. It was donated by the "Stavros S. Niarchos" Foundation. The PFF was the first institution in Greece to establish a textile conservation department - since 1975.
Cooperation:
The PFF has organized many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, trying to maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage. The most important of which are the following:
-Nafplion 1981, the exhibition devoted to the production, elaboration and use of natural fibres in Greece mid 19th to mid 20th c. was the starting point of the interest in museology shown by all the small and many of the large museums in Greece. the pff won the European museum of the year
main award (EMYA) for that exhibition.
-Brussels 1982, Europalia - "Three cycles of Iife"
-Athens 1985, Athens cultural capital of Europe, "Greek costumes and jewellery, past and present"
-Dallas, Texas 1990, Salute to Greece (year devoted to Greece), "Greek Costumes"
-Dallas, Texas 1990, Salute to Greece (year devoted to Greece), "Children's drawings/Karagiozis"
-Athens 2004, Cultural Olympiad, "Ptychoseis = Folds + Pleats, Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion"
-Nafplion 2006, permanent exhibition, "The Greek Town, Nafplion 1822-1922"
-Nicosia, Cyprus, act. 2007 - Jan. 2008, "From Nafplion to Nicosia, The Collections of the PFF", Leventis Municipal Museum
-Nicosia, Cyprus, act. 2007, "6 Universal Greek Fashion Designers"
-Limassol, Cyprus, Dec. 2007 - Jan. 2008, "TO DRESS" Towards a Costume Culture Museum, Evagoras Lanitis Center.

The PFF publishes two original scientific journals, Ethnographica and Endymatologica as well as other publications that were connected with local communities and tried to maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage. (see enclosed list of publications)
As a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the PFF has organized the following conferences and meetings.
1. Meeting of the Work Group of the ICOM Costume Committee (1981).
2. Museums and School (1981).
3. Meeting of the ICOM Costume Committee held as part of the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the PFF.
4. Meeting of the International Committee for Education & Cultural Action (CECA) (1988), organized jointly with the Greek Section of ICOM.
5. Three-day seminar devoted to Museum andSchool for teachers in the Argolid (April 1990), organised jointly with the Ministry of Education, the Greek Section of ICOM, and the British Council.
6. Meeting of the ICOM International Documentation Committee (CIDOC) (annual meeting) (October 1990), organised jointly with the Greek Section of ICOM).
7. 17th symposium of the ICTftt International Council of Traditional Music, Work Group, jointly organized with the ICTM Experts in Ethnic Dance International Work Group.
8. 53rd annual meeting of the ICOM International Committee on Costume (1999).

Additionnal information:
The PFF experiences, cooperating with communities, groups and intangible cultural heritage practitioners, resulted of a research project that ran over the whole of Greece. Its aim was the documentation and study of folk culture, music and dance, pre-industrial technology and children games. The results of the research were published in the special scientific journals “Ethnographica” and “Endymatologica”. The “Essai sur la chanson populaire Grecque” by the distinguished Ethnomusicologist Samuel Baud-Bovy, was published with an introduction by Fivos Anoyianakis, while a double LP with music from South Italy and Sicily, was released as the result of a research project carried out by Lambros Liavas and Nicos Dionysopoulos. The research project in Cyprus was presented in a box set of 7 LPs and a textbook. Music supervision was made by the ethnomusicologist Fivos Anoyianakis. The whole research project was prepared by Alecos Iacovides. Exhibitions aim to maintain and transmit intangible heritage. (Brussels, EUROPALIA, Three cycles of life, Dallas, Texas, Salute to Greece, Children’s drawings/Karagiozis, Nafplion, The Production, Elaboration and Use of Natural Fibres in Greece, Athens, Athens Cultural Capital of Greece, Greek Costumes and Jewellery, past and present etc.)
Objects and artifacts are also considered parts of the intangible heritage when associated with those communities which recognize them as part of their cultural heritage. The PFF collections comprise objects associated with birth, christening, school puppet and shadow puppet (“karaghiozi”) figures, toys, costumes, as well as the fine art, design and engravings. The aim of this collection was to compile information about currently active oral history projects focused on objects, artefacts or projects including an oral history element. As the acquisition of items is made on a personal level, the complete fashion collections by Yiannis Tseklenis, the Fani Kazes collection of dolls in Greek local costume, the Yiannis Metsis archives and the history archive of Takis Mavros are among an individual’s most intimate possessions.
The PFF does not focus on performing arts; however in 2006 the PFF decided to decorate the internal of “Stathmos” (childhood museum) with the artwork of children under the guidelines of artists. The PFF also focused on the revival of social practices, rituals and festive events. Initially the programs included Greek dance lessons presented by locals to perform the acquaintance with the Greek Folk Music and traditional dress. Additionally, adults and children participated in games and pastimes. Then, the activities extended to the folk festivities: carols and bread-making at Christmas, maypole dancing and flying kites at Carnival, baskets with eggs and small ring-shaped biscuits at Easter etc. Finally the PFF collaborated with traditional craftsmen like the Shadow Puppet Theatre players Michopoulos and Yiannis Kokkoris.
This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment; it provides them with a sense of identity and continuity.
Πολιτιστικο Εργαστηρι Αγιων Ομολογητων
Politistiko Ergastiri Ayion Omoloyiton [en]
Anchialou
1080 Lefkosia
CYPRUS
URL: http://www.politistiko-ergastiri.org
Tel.: 00357 22256782

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90265
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Cyprus

Objectives:
The main objectives of the organization are the folowing:
1. To research, preserve and promote cultural traditions of Cyprus and to contribute to the development of cultural and intellectual life both in Cyprus and elsewhere, through the exchange and dissemination of information, through its activities.
2. To develop ties with other similar organizations in Cyprus and abroad with the aim of promoting further the protection of cultural heritage.
3. To implement activities in the following areas: a) research, data collection and inventorying of elements of traditional dancing and music of Cyprus, b) organise and present performances of traditional music and dancing, c) organise seminars, lectures and conferences on the topic of traditional music and dancing, d) create a collection of traditional costumes from Cyprus.
4. To implement programmes and activities with the aim of informing and sensitizing the general public on issues of 02cultural heritage.
5. To provide both theoretical and practical training to individuals interested in promoting the aims of the organisation.
Activities:
Our organisation operated at first as a local community dancing workshop. Its aim was to gather youngsters and adults and transmit traditional dances of our region based on material gathered through research. What distinguished us, from other dancing schools or groups was our persistence on following the methodology of learning and performance of dance of a traditional society of our region. Our efforts were enhanced by organising workshops with experts in the field. Our work gradually attracted more and more youngsters and adults and especially families who found a space of expression, personal and social development. After the chance of presenting our work in Cyprus and overseas there was a need in getting involved with more subjects as traditional music and costume, and theatre expression.
Our performances insist on presenting traditional dancing keeping its form, feel, movement and look according to findings of research. Youngsters and adults have the chance of experiencing, either through video or interviews but also by meeting, traditional dancers and musicians.
For serving the above-mentioned activities, Politistiko Ergastiri has collected a number of video and audio recordings concerning dance and music of Cyprus through small-scale research. The material is shared with our members, presented, advised for guidance in our learning and performing of dance and music. Youngsters and adults are also encouraged to learn traditional music instruments with the financial help of Politistiko Ergastiri. Our performers are members of our dancing and theatre groups. No one is excluded, all participate according to their abilities. Our performers are not professionals.
Latest important performances of Politistiko Ergastiri are:
Representing Cyprus at "Dans le cadre de la manifestation Le Patrimoine Culturel Immateriel Au carrefour des cultures" 3rd December 2007, maison de l' Unesco, Paris" where Politistiko Ergastiri presented traditions and dances of a traditional cypriot wedding. The dancing group consisted of 30 members from the ages of 9 to 58, of a 20 minute duration and was set up with the use of research material gathered for the subject of traditional weddings and their customs.
"Σήμερα Γάμος γίνεται" (Today we have a wedding happening…..) 7th July 2008, a presentation with our local neighbourhood presenting traditions and dances of a traditional wedding. This was a longer version of the previous presentation (110’) and about 60 performers took part. Within this presentation we had the chance to make comparisons with customs of traditional weddings and dances from regions of Asia Minor and Greece.
"Ο Κυπρής τζιαι ο Νουφρής" 11th of April 2010, Pallas Theatre in Nicosia (Kypris and Noufris) was a dance and theatre performance set up for the youngsters of our group. The scenario is based on a traditional fairy tale which was adjusted to the needs of the performers (56 performers aged from 6 to 22). The fairy tale takes spectators on a travel in space and time and dances.
" O κύκλος της ζωής" (The cycle of Life). 23rd -24th of June 2010. Dances, customs following the cycle of life, from birth to death. A presentation of about 105' travelling us through time, memories of childhood, growing up, falling in love, work, marriage, sorrow, death.
In-between Politistiko Ergastiri has been involved in European learning projects enhancing the expertise of its members concerning cooperation in the local but also international field and valorisation of our work.
Grundtvig SOCRATES, PARTNERSHIP PROJECT. “CHOICE: Cultural Heritage, Origins, Innovation, Collaboration in Europe”, 2007-2008
Hosting and implementing:
Youth In Action Exchange: Body Language - Let's Communicate. November 2007, involving children with hearing impairment.
Youth in Action Training Course TCP CY2008 " European Neighbourhood" May 2008 on European Citizenship"
Youth in Action Training Course CY-43-02-2010 "CAPTIAN CULTURE" on Intercultural learning"
Coordinating:
Gruntvig, Life Long Partnership CY-GRU-MULPART-2010-14 "QUALITY IN LEARNING AND TRAINING -Qu.I.L.T" 2010-2012
Partner in:
"OCARINA" Culture Programme (2007-2013)/Budget 2011- Cooperation projects (Strand 1.2.1) Ref.no-513659-CU-1-2011-PT-culture-vol121, concerning the preservation of traditional music, musicians, musical instruments and dance.
Our members consist of young children, youths and adults. There is an annual membership fee which provides them the chance of being informed about activities and events.
Our dance experts (6) are teachers who have long experience in learning, teaching and performing. They have been involved in teaching since the establishment or our Workshop and in research concerning traditional dancing since 1990. The element of "learning and teaching dances the traditional way" as an intangible cultural element has been their concern throughout the years.
Our music teachers have experience in traditional music teaching and performing. Each teacher has his expertise concerning traditional musical instruments. Their work is based on offering experience and performance opportunities for the learners.
Cooperation:
Politistiko Ergastiri was established because of the community. Using traditional dance and music as a tool, which was well known to its founders, a community of families was created (literally parents and children of the same family are all involved in activities). This community is open to any person that wishes to participate with a very low cost of membership fee (25 euro per month).
Dance teaching is provided once a week in specific times so all members of the family can participate on the same day making it a family/community weekly event. Teaching follows the traditional way of teaching -showing and repeating with minimal analyzing. Members participate in a "panygiri" (festive day) each Tuesday. No one is excluded and everyone participates in the yearly performances. We have also hosted hearing impaired persons.
Performances are organised with the local community and especially with the local church. Dancing performances, traditional games, neighbourhood events (European day of Neighbours) are organised and implemented by Politistiko Ergastiri.
Our history of 12 years has been fruitful, having children from the age of 7 growing up as members of Politistiko Registry. We are pleased to see them already continuing our work as teachers in the dancing groups but also performing in their cities of studies (ex. Athens, London).
While taught dancing, our members are encouraged to be actively involved in the creation and setting of presentations under the scope of respect to tradition and heritage. For us the dance is as important as the way of learning the dance and the quality of the result and performance. This applies of course to other expressions of culture, such as music and costume.
An important step to ward the enhancement of our work is the recent rental of a renovated 1898 mansion in the heart of our neighbourhood. The Centre has become the core of our activities and the cultural centre of our neighbourhood. Although the cost of the rent is quite high, the centre is an important part of our development as a cultural organisation, as we can now easily host our collections of costume, research material but also organise and create educational programmes concerning traditional dance, music and costume as the one already developed for the ages of 9 to 13. The Centre is named "Στης Ευθαλίας το Αρχοντικό" (at Efthalias mansion). It has already been offered to local schools for classes and by next year it will be open to schools around the city.
Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα Ομίλου Πειραιώς (ΠΙΟΠ)
Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation - PIOP [en]
6 Angelou Geronta Str.
105 58 Athens
GREECE
URL: http://www.piop.gr
Tel.: +30 210 3256922; 3256923

Next report due 2023
Renewed in 2019 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90287
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1981
Domain(s):

- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Greece

Objectives:
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) is a non-profit institution that aims to:
1. Safeguard, record, and promote the traditional craftsmanship and technology of Greece.
2. Inform the public on the need to respect cultural identity, local craftsmanship and the environment, by implementing exemplary methods.
3. Raise awareness on craftsmanship, by creating and operating thematic museums that safeguard and promote the traditional know-how on the production of local products.
PIOP realises its statutory goals by conducting research on traditional craftsmanship and technology, inventorying their remnants, and disseminating the results by any available means, mostly in the Museums Network, such as lectures, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, publications, etc.
Fernand Braudel’s notion on technique (“tout est technique”) epitomises the inner course of PIOP’s work, urging us to embrace a holistic appreciation of non-material heritage. Though PIOP is devoted in the safeguarding of traditional craftsmanship and technology, it is our core belief that technology can be considered as a living process, granted that people’s key role in the creation and enhancement of any technological development is acknowledged. PIOP’s orientation towards the safeguarding of intangible heritage is highly supported by the Foundation’s threefold activity axes.
1. Research: research programmes are conducted, to safeguard local craftsmanship production that characterizes each region, and marks its cultural identity (e.g. mastic gum production on Chios island, olive-oil production in Sparta and on Lesvos island, marble-crafts on Tinos island, etc). Intangible heritage is safeguarded by emphasizing in testimonies and oral traditions, in order to reveal the context in which each productive activity is born.
2. Museums: the Museums Network creates the tangible shell where intangible heritage is safeguarded and transmitted. Under the scope of empowering local communities by activating sustainable development in the Greek regions, PIOP organizes cultural public outreach activities in the museums. These events are usually focused on placing the living expressions of intangible heritage in contemporary everyday life: craftsmanship presentations, oral history and testimonies, dance, music, story-telling, etc.
3. Publications: PIOP publishes a number of series that record and promote the intangible traces of the communities’ collective memory.
Activities:
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) is the first cultural institution in Greece that is solely dedicated to the safeguarding and enhancement of traditional craftsmanship and technology. Since the national cultural policy prioritizes the safeguarding of ancient and medieval cultural heritage, contemporary craftsmanship is a neglected domain of material culture in Greece that needs to be fostered. To this end, PIOP created a management model that enables collaboration between the public and private sector, ensuring thus the undertaking and realisation of joint cultural activities.
Since its foundation, PIOP has completed more than 40 interdisciplinary research programmes, inaugurated seven thematic technological museums in the Greek regions and published more than 130 book titles. In addition, more than 30 temporary exhibitions have been presented in the Museums Network, while numerous educational activities, seminars and workshops have been organized, with the participation of the local communities. PIOP also participates in national and international scientific fora, mainly in the domain of traditional technology.
Though dedicated to the safeguarding of the tangible remnants of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship, PIOP aims strongly to valorize the intangible cultural heritage that craftsmanship relates to. Hence, special attention is drawn to the documentation of oral tradition and testimonies, social practices, nature and the environment, etc, in order to ensure that the results of research over a certain craftsmanship remain within the context that created the craftsmanship itself.
The appreciation shown in the intangible context of local craftsmanship is the key-notion of all PIOP’s public outreach activities; aiming to enhance safeguarding, based on extensive interdisciplinary research, transmitted in a non-formal way, supported by the local communities and producing cultural added value and sustainable development through the preservation of intangible heritage.
The Foundation’s activities are relatively assigned to the according departments: research and valorization, museums, historical archives, library, photographic archives, technical services, publications, administrative and accounts department. PIOP's central services employ 34 staff members, all of them highly skilled and specialized in cultural management, while a further 24 belong to the Museums Network across Greece.
The Research and Valorisation Department conducts research programmes and organizes scientific events for the inventorying, safeguarding, promotion and enhancement of traditional craftsmanship and technology. The department also organizes working meetings, addressing issues of traditional craftsmanship, aiming to record and inventory the history of basic Greek products.
The Museums Department is in charge of the creation and management of the Museums Network, as well as of the supervision of each museum-related activity, such as public outreach events, temporary exhibitions, educational programmes, museum publications, etc. To the present, the Museums Network comprises seven museums, where special effort is put in implementing innovative museological methods when exhibiting intangible heritage. The creation of the Museums has been financed by E.U. Programmes (European funding and national funds) and by the Piraeus Bank Group, and their functioning is financed by the Piraeus Bank.
PIOP publications include 130 titles, organized in the following series: - Monographs (results of the conducted research programmes), Translations (classic handbooks on industrial archaeology and the history of craftsmanship), Reprints (rare old Greek publications on the history of the Greek economy and industry), Conference Proceedings (proceedings of workshops organized by the Foundation), Cultural Guides (museums guides, etc), Industrial Heritage Records (records and plans made of domestic manufacturing units) and Periodicals (dedicated to the promoting of traditional craftsmanship and technology).
The Historical Archives Department gathers and organises the historical archival material of the Piraeus Bank Group as well as the archival material of bodies and individuals directly connected with the business activities of the banks and companies of the Group, and makes it available for research.
The PIOP Library is divided into two sections: a) the Special Library of the Historical Archives' Department. Its collection totalizes approximately 15,000 Greek and foreign titles and b) the Central Library, which has around 5,000 books and periodicals; its reserves are constantly expanded, with an emphasis on topics relating to: the history of technology, museology, folklore and material culture, ethnology and anthropology, and economic history, as well as new technologies concerning research on culture.
The Photographic Archives manage the photographic/archival material produced and used by the research programmes, museums and exhibitions, publishing activities and scientific events. It comprises a variety of media, while its thematic sections cover subjects that are in general related to Greece's traditional craftsmanship and technology: sericulture, olive cultivation, architecture, hydraulic installations, medicinal plants, tanning, basketry, metalworking are some of the subjects on which rich photographic material is available.
Cooperation:
The PIOP’s Museums Network is created in the Greek provinces, in order to promote and safeguard traditional craftsmanship in situ. Within the scope of empowering local communities by supporting sustainable development, PIOP implements a model collaboration scheme between public and private sectors. Hence, the museums created actually belong to the local authorities (mostly municipalities, prefectures, etc), whilst PIOP is responsible for their creation and operation. It is for the implementation of this management model that PIOP has been awarded the Europa Nostra 2012 Award on category 3 - Dedicated Services.
Nevertheless, community involvement is established in earlier phases of PIOP’s work: during research precedent to museum planning, through the recording of oral history and testimonies; during the preparation of permanent exhibitions, by constant consultation on the creation and documentation of collections; during exhibition setting-up, when local know-how is indispensable for the accurate and vivid recreation of traditional craftsmanship. And finally, when the museum is finally open, local practitioners and bearers of intangible heritage are eager to involve and participate in public outreach events –often organized by the local communities themselves-, in the museums premises.
On the other hand, in the framework of PIOP’s educational and public outreach policy, non-formal education activity is undertaken. Educational material regarding traditional craftsmanship is published and widely distributed, targeting not only to schools, but to families, as well. Furthermore, hands-on events are commonly organized, giving us the opportunity to involve youth in the safeguarding and promotion of traditional heritage, and, most important, to urge teachers to integrate intangible everyday life practices in the school curriculum.
Last, these efforts are scientifically supported by fostering vocational training activities (seminars, workshops, etc) targeted to teachers, scientists and/or the broader public, whilst PIOP’s personnel is often invited to teach about the measures and policies it implements for the safeguarding of traditional craftsmanship. In this framework, PIOP is often invited to participate in national and/or international joint-collaboration projects.
PIOP’s publications are freely distributed to school and university libraries. Due to its specialized publishing policy, PIOP has created several books of reference, which are integrated in the university curriculum.
Европейска Асоциация на Фолклорните Фестивали - ЕАФФ
European Association of Folklore Festivals - EAFF [en]
47 Nikola Gabrovski str
5002 Veliko Tarnovo
BULGARIA
URL: http://www.eaff.eu/en/
Tel.: +359 (62)621541

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90338
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Evaluation Body mandates: 2020; 2021; 2022
Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- All forms of authentic folklore arts.

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization
- other
- Popularization of the traditional folk arts through the modern channels of information - television and internet.

Main countries where active:

Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czechia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, North Macedonia, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Objectives:
The aim of the EAFF is the safeguarding and spreading of the traditional folk arts of the European nations through festivals and modern Information Technologies.
This aim is achieved by organization of festivals, seminars, forums and other public events; publishing of printed materials; production and distribution of television products. All these - presenting the traditional folklore arts.
Also by creating and maintaining contacts and collaborating with organizations and groups with similar goals in the country and abroad; broadcasting on air and online of audio and television products of the traditional folklore arts.
All of the above is done inline with the values, aims and objectives of UNESCO and with the hope that the we will find the right way to preserve and build on the wisdom of our ancestors, brought to us by the folklore arts.

Activities:
The European Association of Folklore Festivals (EAFF) has been established in year 2007 in the ancient capital of Bulgaria – Veliko Tarnovo.
Its main purpose is to preserve, develop and make popular the folklore of the European nations by organizing festivals and using the modern television, computer and other information technologies.
The European Association of Folklore Festivals achieves its activities mainly through the festivals of the Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” and through the worldwide Internet Television “Euro FolkTV”.
The basic feature of the festivals from the Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” is the complete filming with professional TV equipment of all the performances together with making different audio and TV products.
At the Musical Feasts “Euro Folk” festivals that have been held so far 6,000 groups with more than 120 000 participants from 17 European countries have taken part.
The European Association of Folklore Festivals operates in cooperation with televisions from Bulgaria and Europe, with folklore ensembles, groups, municipalities, community centres, schools and other organizations of cultural activities.
As a result of these activities the EAFF has generated significand video and audio libraries, containing priceless records of traditional arts. The Association also supports an online television, trasmitting costantly authentic folklore performances.
Additionally the EAFF serves as a contact point for its members - different folklore event organizators and arts performers and provides them a single point of contact through its website.

Cooperation:
Since its establishment, the EAFF activities for preserving and spreading the folklore arts have constantly increased. Thousands of folklore groups from different municipalities, community centers, cultural clubs, amateur art groups from all around Europe have been given the opportunity to present their performances and to be seen by the live audience at the festivals and to be recorded and broadcasted via television and Internet.
Significant part of the presented performances are unique authentic songs, dances and rituals, that have been kept unchanged for centuries and are exposing the values and the believes of our ancestors.
The EAFF have organized and participated as an official patron in a number of events – festivals with participants from different municipalities, supported by the Chairman of the Parliament, by Mayors and municipal councils, by NGO’s and the relevant groups from the community.

Иттиҳодияи ҷамъиятии Кӯҳҳои Помир
Public Association Kuhhoi Pomir (Pamir mountains) [en]
31/1, Shotemurov street, apt # 50 A
736000 Khorog
Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast
TAJIKISTAN
Tel.: +992 93 500 45 96; +992 55 015 77 99

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Tajik) - No. 90403
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2014
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- revitalization

Objectives:
Pursuing socio-civic, educational, legal, spiritual, cultural, environmental, economic and charitable purposes, the Association has been actively involved in the democratic social reform, in strengthening the principles of democracy, in supporting civic initiatives to maintain and enhance the spiritual and cultural values of the mountains, the identity of its population, the resolution of various conflicts, natural risks and disasters, economic and political issues that hinder sustainable ( balanced ) development of mountainous Pamir, combining local intellectual potential, material and financial resources, organizational capacity. Association for the protection of biodiversity and bio culture of local ecosystems, conservation and restoration of nature, cultural and historical heritage of mountain communities, public physical and spiritual health, sustainable use of local resources, environmental and biological safety, struggles with comparative inequalities that exist in the mountain communities and mountain families, represents the interests of mountain communities of GBAO in public, government, international organizations and institutions of the Republic of Tajikistan and world, encourages preservation and revitalization of cultural and spiritual heritage of mountainous population, creation of feeling of respect toward traditional spiritual and moral values, protection of tangible and intangible culture of mountainous population, participate in the transfer of the national traditional knowledge to the new generation.
Within these objectives Association performs the following tasks:
- helps government and local authorities in decision-making in the manner prescribed by law, represents and defends its rights and legitimate interests, as well as other citizens in government, local authorities and public associations, covers the activities of the Association in the media.
- establishes effective and useful contacts on Scientific, research, training and agitation works with Tajik National Park "Pamir Mountains", reserve Zorkul and other protected areas of Pamirs, with state and non- state institutions in the region and beyond it, nature-oriented organizations, and public organizations involved in the protection of biodiversity, bio culture of environment and traditional culture of the people and other organizations, agencies which deal with issues of nature protection, culture, history, social and economic life of Pamirs, participates in achievement of joint projects with them, lighting historical, economic and cultural role of Pamirs in the Silk Road.

Activities:
Public Association "Kuhhoi Pomir" contributes to the preservation and revival of the cultural and spiritual-historical heritage of the mountaineers and the creation in the society of an atmosphere of respect for traditional spiritual and moral values, the protection of the material and non-material culture of mountaineers and participation in the transfer of traditional knowledge to the new generation. "Kuhhoi Pomir" participates in the protection of civil, national, cultural, historical and property rights and other public interests of the population of the Pamir mountain regions and conducts activities in the field of education, science, culture, art, education, environmental education, biodiversity protection, spiritual development of the individual, as well as in the protection of the environment, which has historical, cult, cultural and natural monuments.
To help preserve and revive the cultural, spiritual and historical heritage of the mountaineers and create an atmosphere of respect for traditional spiritual and moral values in the society, protect cultural, historical literary and natural monuments of the region, transfer it to a new generation, carried out several projects that are somehow connected with the protection of material and non-material culture of the Pamir mountaineers.
Leading field research in the Pamir regions and carrying out various activities among the population, educates the national self-identity in the young generation, will continue the process of restoring the national traditions of the mountain population to singing, music, cooking, house-building and architecture, national ceremonies, holidays, handicrafts, agriculture, livestock, Gardening, processing of trees, hunting, folk medicine, weaving, folk craft and creativity, culture of life.
The project of the public organization "Kuhhoi Pomir" for studying, researching, reviving and transferring traditional knowledge on hunting wild animals in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan was carried out for the first time. On the territory of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) or the Pamir, certain knowledge, practices, customs and rituals associated with the traditional hunting of local indigenous people - the Shugnan, the Vakhans, the Ishkashim, the Rushans and the Kyrgyz, were distinguished and documented according to the linguistic, cultural and biological Diversity. Respondents were old-timers and traditional culture bearers. Experts gathered for the collection of the material, for which a special seminar was held and a special questionnaire was compiled. All collected information was collected, processed and qualified in content and subject matter. Attention was paid to identifying petroglyphs depicting hunting scenes and proving the antiquity and indigenous identity of the Pamir peoples to their present places of penetration and to collecting oral materials about holy places associated with wild hoofed animals, folkloric works about the sacredness of the Pamir Nakhchira (goat) and arhar ( Ram) and a Snow leopard.
The collected traditional knowledge of Pamirians in hunting was released in the form of a separate book entitled "The Cult and the Culture of Hunting in the Pamirs". The book includes about 60 rare photographs associated with the conduct of civilized hunting. The book was distributed free of charge to members of traditional hunting clubs in the Murghab, Ishkashim, Roshtkala, Rushan districts, jamoat leaders, libraries, the Khorog University, the Museum, the Pamir Biological Institute and the Institute of Humanitarian Sciences of the Academy of Sciences, scientists, specialists, researchers.
Public Association "Kuhhoi Pomir" worked in collection and documentation of the national holiday Navruz in the provinces of Vakhan, Shugnan, Zebak of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Specialists of our organization were sent to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to study the rituals of Navruz in some mountain provinces of this country. The collected information was published as a book in Tajik, Dari and English.
Public organization "Kuhhoi Pomir" by the decision of the National Commission of the Republic of Tajikistan for UNESCO in Dushanbe on July 27, 2015 for active participation in the implementation of social, civil, educational, legal, spiritual, cultural, ecological, economic and other charitable purposes in the territory of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of the Republic of Tajikistan, was admitted to the membership of UNESCO Clubs.
The main goal of the UNESCO Clubs movement, which first emerged in the Republic of Tajikistan in 2011, is the dissemination of UNESCO values and ideals around the world, the promotion of international understanding, cooperation and global peace.

Cooperation:
The organization works with four pilot remote areas. With the aim of establishing more effective cooperation with cultural practices, traditional knowledge holders, with communities living in remote places, it created folk wildlife clubs in GBAO villages, namely, in the Barvoz village of Roshtkala, Siponj of Rushan, Zong of Ishkashim and Rangkul of Murgab districts. There is no analogue of such a club in the republic yet. The clubs were created on the basis of the collection of voluntary members from among local experts in traditional knowledge. The main goal of the clubs is to revive, preserve and spread the biocultural heritage, traditional knowledge of the environment, and promote the preservation of the heritage of intangible culture.
A unique wildlife festival in the Pamirs was organized by the clubs' strength, the first environmental education and cultural event dedicated to the protection of wildlife, which in Tajikistan was for the first time. Local people thanks to the festival had the opportunity to relax, enjoy songs, dance, talk about the beauty of nature, about music, literature, traditions, remember the ancestors and bless God for the rich nature. Within the framework of the project, visitors to the festival were offered free of charge several types of local traditional hunting dishes.
The festival became a good occasion for the revival and transfer of hunting song and dance folklore. Revived and performed a huge number of songs, dances, dances, which were shown to the huge public of the festival. The folk singers who participated in the revival of these folk works have an idea to create a folklore group that performs exclusively hunting songs and dances.
Within the framework of the project, about 25 songs and dances, dances related to hunting and hunting in the Pamirs were collected, processed, revived and performed for centuries among the Pamir peoples. In the collected folklore, a tone is sounded for protecting the environment, promoting people's careful attitude to living nature and using its resources. Through the festival, there were revived sets of folk games related to the attitude to nature. During the preparation for the festival it was found out that the ethnic Tajiks of the Pamirs have preserved a huge number of imitative, creative, imitative, story-role, mobile children's games coming from historical traditions. Many of these games are related to hunting, which bring up in children respect for the environment, animals, their protection and safety.
Public Association "Kuhhoi Pomir" intends to further work on the collection, documentation and video filming of these games.
All these works were conducted with the communities and the organization was able to attract a huge number of local residents to its high-quality execution.
МИД - Македонско Истражувачко Друштво
MID - Macedonian Research Society [en]
Kej Dimitar Vlahov br. 15
1000 Skopje
NORTH MACEDONIA
URL: http://www.mid.org.mk
Tel.: 389 70 311 502; 38971330 192

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90218
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

North Macedonia

Objectives:
MID as NGO was established in 2003, but some members started conducting ethno-astronomical researches in Republic of Macedonia back in 1982 and are still active. From the beginning, primary objective of terrain researches was collecting from people all their believes, names, rituals and images related to stars, constellations, planets, Sun, Moon, comets, meteors. Also, myths about Earth and Cosmos creation and rules about world's functioning. Simultaneously, researches included collection of all "people's knowledge" about the atmosphere such clouds, rain, hail, thunder, wind,seasons, etc.

Knowledge and practices concerning nature and Universe in line with Paragraph 2, Article 2 of the Convention are form of manifestation of the intangible cultural heritage.

Researches 28 years ago started in different social system of former Yugoslavia, but even than, young researchers were organized in type of organization similar to nowadays NGOs. In 1984, manager of the researches, Mr. Gjore Cenev, with his study about ethno- astronomical knowledge of Macedonian people, presented on the VII National Convention of Yugoslavian Astronomers, raise the interest of scientific
audience. Consequently, Declaration was made these types of researches to be organized for other nationalities living in former state. In coming years, our instructors were sent in Serbia, but also their researchers were made members of teams already working in Macedonia. In 1986, invited by Polish Academy of Science, Mr. Cenev, visited Poland and in town Bjaliistok conducted ethno- astronomical researches. Afterwards, already know social changes occurred in Eastern Europe countries including former state, due to what organizational establishment and research dynamics changed.

In 2003, in accordance with the laws of Republic of Macedonian MID was established as national NGO. Its membership consists of, beside the Manager of the ethno-astronomical researches, numerous volunteers that continued with researches and publishing results. Organization's objectives in time grow and now along with researches and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage there are other types of
actions, which lead to discovery of the Megalithic Observatory Kokino. Today it's on UNESCO's Tentative list of the World Cultural Heritage. Entire cultural heritage is considered as basis for harmonization and development of the civic society in Macedonia.
Activities:
As a result of the work performed by all our members, MID - Makedonskoto istrazhuvacko drushtvo, has qreat number of information and documented materials linked with the knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe as intangible cultural heritage of Macedonian people. This is also result of visits and researches made in more than 140 villages on the territory of Republic of Macedonia
and interviews with more than 2000 elderly inhabitants. Today MID's members are people that in the past, but even nowadays, are active and part of all actions related to collection, documentation, safeguarding and publication of obtained results. Recently following activities has been performed, relevant for the safeguarding and protection of the knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe as important part of the intangible cultural heritage of Macedonian people:
- The first Star Map of Macedonian people completed and published;
- In cooperation with the Planetarium at the Youth Cultural Centre from Skopje, financed by the Ministry of Culture of R. Macedonia, the book "Sky over Macedonia" by the author Mr. Gjore Cenev was published;
- In cooperation with the national television A1, documentary show "Stars over Macedonia" - 30 minutes in length was completed and broadcasted. The show was rebroadcasted on several occasions on the above-mentioned TV channel;
- 20 editions of the magazine "Vselena" ("Space") has been edited and published, each containing article from the ethno-astronomy field. This magazine was recognized and recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Macedonia to be used in primary and secondary schools as additional teaching tool;
- Publications of scientific papers and participation on international scientific conferences dedicated to the area of interest, especially at those committed to comparative analyzes made on the intangible cultural heritage of other nations;
- Introduction of specially designed syllabuses from the ethno- astronomy filed in the lectures organized at the only Planetarium in Macedonia, as important segment of the informal education of students and citizens in the country;
- In cooperation with the National Postal Services of Macedonia, series of post stamp has been designed, finalized and published all presenting people's images of star constellations. The stamps were published as part of the activities within the European serial of stamps dedicated to the astronomy and its contribution in the development oft he culture, all part of the celebration of 2009 as International Year of Astronomy;
- Initializing activities related to the nomenclature of the Solar System objects' regions and landscape, as part of the International Astronomical Union's nomenclature, all linked with the names, gods and mythology found in Macedonian people's cosmogony;
- Initiating activities for including Star map of Macedonian people on UNESCO's Representative list of intangible cultural heritage;

MID's activities are performed within the allocated and organized teams, encompassing competent members for each of the above-mentioned activities. Mr. Gjore Cenev is one of our the most eminent member, active in the area of collection, documentation, safeguarding and publication of the entire knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe as important part of the intangible cultural heritage of Macedonia people. Mr. Cenev is physician and astronomer, who had organized all research activities in this domain, which have started in 1982. He is also the author of the first systematized and published Start map of Macedonian people, of the book "Sky over Macedonia", as well as the most of scientific papers where he has published and analyzed all original information collected from the inhabitants of more than 140 villages, all related to the ethno-astronomy, cosmogony and ethno- meteorology of Macedonian people. In the research activates, as well as in the popularization of the ethnoastronomical data special contribution is provided by members Mr. Vancho Stojkoski and Mr. Marjan Nikolovski, who are at the same time lecturers at the Planetarium. In the analysis of the medieval old- Slavonic written materials special contribution is provided by Ms. PhD Katica Trajkova, and in the development of the documentary materials evident efforts are done by Mr. Ljupcho Ilievski, professional photographer. Great contribution in the international affirmation of the MID's work is due to the efforts done by Ms. Snezhana Damjanovska, B.A in English Language and Literature, as well as the journalists Ms. Lidija Janchovska and Ms. Valentina Atanasovska. In the international exchange of researchers, special contributions is provided by Mr. Blagoja Petrushevski. In addition, vast experience in terrain researcher is possessed by our members Mr. Dime Madzovski, Mr. Daniel Anastasov, Mr. Aco Tanevski, Ms. Elizabeta Nestorovska and twenty other ours members.
Cooperation:
Members of MID - Makedonskoto Istrazhuvachko Drushtvo, in a role of individuals and organized within the association have established cooperation with great number of institutions, organizations and individuals working and having links with the collection, documentation, scientific study, publication and affirmation of the intangible cultural heritage. In that direction we can mention some of our experience, such as:
- researches in the ethno-astronomy filed have stared in cooperation with the Planetarium at the Youth Cultural Centre in Skopje;
- methodology for terrain researches has been defined with the support from the Folklore Institute "Marko Cepenkov" and Macedonian Ethnological Museum;
- researches has been carried out in cooperation with the local self-governments of more than 140 villages all over Republic of Macedonia;
- researches and documentation of the data have been performed in collaboration with about 2000 elderly inhabitants of Macedonian villages, as direct bearers and transferors of the knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe as part of the intangible cultural heritage of Macedonian people;
- exchange of researchers and methodology was performed with the Association of young researchers and Astronomical Association "Rugjer Boshkovikj" from Serbia;
- cooperation was established with PhD Dimitar Kolev and Ms. Veselina Kolevaresearchers in the area of ethno-astronomy from Bulgaria;
- cooperation with the National Postal Service of Macedonia during the publication
of the post stamp's serial;
Общественный фонд 'Рурал девелопмент фанд'
Public Fund 'Rural Development Fund' - RDF [en]
Geologichesky Street 11
Office 1
720005 Bishkek
KYRGYZSTAN
Tel.: +996 (312) 590828; +996 (770) 330106

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Russian) - No. 90441
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Kyrgyzstan

Ұлы Тағым Қоғамдық қоры
Uly Taghzym Public Fund [en]
Общественный фонд 'Ұлы Тағым' [ru]
Mira Ave. 51 a-21
Zhezkazgan city
Karagandy region
KAZAKHSTAN
URL: http://ww.ulyheritage.kz
Tel.: +7 778 3555888

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Russian/Kazakh) - No. 90434
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1985
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Kazakhstan

Фондация Созопол
Sozopol Foundation [en]
50 Milet Str.
8130 Sozopol
BULGARIA
Tel.: +359 894 568 521; +359 886 839 977

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Bulgarian) - No. 90389
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Implementation of the necessary-inherent, specific, well positioned and identifiable, economically proven, efficient and effective measures to promote the elements of intangible cultural heritage through the development of multimedia works and publication of the messages, information in specialized media outlets

Objectives:
Sozopol Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that exists for 14 /fourteen/ years. It was founded and functions to operate in public benefit. Through the implementation of its activities, the organisation aims to achieve the following objectives:
Making efforts for preservation and promotion of intangible and tangible cultural heritage.
Promote awareness of society to protect the tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Introduction of best practices and innovative methods in pursuit of these objectives in line with the already established ones over the years.
Promotion of national values - material and spiritual with the mechanisms of international cooperation, supporting cross-border cooperation for the benefit of the people and the development.
Cooperation with similar organisations in carrying out activities to respect to the socio-cultural authenticity of communities, protection of their material and spiritual heritage, preserving traditions and values and support intercultural understanding and cultural interaction.
Establishment of constructive partnerships with organisations from neighboring countries in order to promote cross-border cooperation in the field of preservation and promotion of intangible and tangible cultural heritage and promoting cultural exchange and sustainable development.
Cooperation with the competent international governmental and non-governmental organisations active in the field of cultural heritage, conservation of nature and ensuring an accessible environment for people with disabilities.
Supporting social integration and personal development of people with specific abilities.
Achieve educational and educative effect through information systems for environment and cultural heritage for the benefit of people and nature.
Assistance for the preservation and promotion of national traditions.
Socialization of cultural and historical sites for their positioning in leading tourist destinations and discover opportunities for spiritual and material enrichment of the population.
Among the priorities of the Foundation is to promote active cooperation and coordination of NGOs from Eastern Europe /part of the defined fourth region of UNESCO - Europe and North America/.
As an NGO, official partner of UNESCO and a member of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in two consecutive two-year terms, from 2012 to 2014 and from 2014 to 2016, Sozopol Foundation is actively working to implement the objectives and priorities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Activities:
Sozopol Foundation achieves its objectives by carrying out activities related to protection of cultural heritage. Some of the activities are: protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage; organization of cultural events; carrying out activities to promote spiritual values of the civil society and the achievements of culture and art; participation in projects with Bulgarian and foreign organisations; organizing congresses, festivals, publications and other materials with similar organisations in the country and abroad, etc.
Some of the developed and implemented by the Foundation projects for the preservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage are:
- Protection and promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in Europe – celebrating the 1150th anniversary of the Great Moravian mission of Cyril and Methodius
The project aims to increase awareness of the population to Bulgarian language and cultural heritage by marking the 1150 anniversary of the mission of the brothers Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia.
The project was approved for funding under the UNESCO Participation Programme 2012–2013:
Training seminar for students regarding the mission of St. St. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs and co-patrons of Europe.
Promotion of the activities by publications in mass media and relevant materials;
A closing conference at the National Palace of Culture, Sofia.
- Fire Rituals and Symbols – United in Diversity
In 2009, the ritual is included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. The implementation of the project is funded under the UNESCO Participation Programme 2014–2015.
The aim of the project is to acquaint the general public with traditions in honoring the fire cult associated with the history of all peoples and with its rituals and symbolism in Bulgarian folk beliefs and ritual practices, with an emphasis on the cultural phenomenon nestinarstvo.
- Creation of centre for art, local crafts and traditions in the Old Sozopol
The main objective of the project is to create conditions for sustainable socio-economic and cultural development. Among the headline objectives can be highlighted also: presentation of cultural, historical and natural heritage, as well as training people of all ages and ethnicity for the importance of conservation of heritage. The project was funded by the European Union under the European Fisheries Fund.
- Sozopol – preserved cultural heritage and cultural identity through the ages
As a result of the project implementation in Sozopol was created Ethnographic museum with exhibitions both indoors and outdoors. In the museum, through revitalization of exhibition spaces and usage of interactive technologies, are exhibited objects of high cultural value. The project was funded by the EEA Financial Mechanism with leading financial contribution of the Kingdom of Norway.
Currently Sozopol Foundation is implementing project “Kukeri ritual in Bulgaria and Serbia – Cultural tradition of two neighbouring nations”. The project implementation is of great importance to preservation of the traditions in Southeast Europe, since on December 2, 2015, within the 10th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the folk festival "Surva" was inscribed in the Representative List the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. For the importance of inclusion of this element in the Representative List of UNESCO speaks that it consists of all expressions that bear witness to the diversity of intangible cultural heritage. The project is funded by the UNESCO Participation Programme 2016-2017.

Cooperation:
As an official partner of UNESCO, Sozopol Foundation is in contact with several international organisations to establish partnership and cooperation. The NGO has signed memorandums and agreements on cooperation with international organizations, few of which are CFPA, CIOFF BG, etc. The Foundation works with the National Commission for UNESCO - Bulgaria and the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage under the auspices of UNESCO. The Foundation organized jointly with the Secretariat of UNESCO and the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in 2014, in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria and in Sozopol, the oldest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, UNESCO World forum on the topic: „Role of youth for the safeguarding of cultural tangible and intangible heritage”. Representatives from more than 50 Member States of the Organization discussed educational opportunities of youth for and through cultural heritage, as well the use of cultural heritage for sustainable development.
Sozopol Foundation works together with Spiritual Mirror Association. Both organisations have built constructive partnership in the development, implementation and maintenance of the stability of a number of projects:
- Exhibition of the exposition "Let be light", presented at the headquarters of UNESCO, "Segyur" Hall, in June 2013. The exhibition was opened by Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO.
- Exhibition of exposition "Let be light" and "The symbols of Bulgarian identity", presented at the International Forum of NGOs to UNESCO: “Role of youth for the safeguarding of cultural tangible and intangible heritage”, 2014.
In the 2017 the organisations have developed project “The cultural heritage of Bulgaria - possession of the generations”. The project aims to contribute to raising awareness both among the Bulgarian population and among foreign guests with activities for promotion of the rich intangible cultural heritage of Bulgaria.
In carrying out its activity the Bulgarian NGO is working with experts in the field of intangible cultural heritage as prof. Lozanka Peycheva, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, docent Nikolai Vukov, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and other experts.
Центр розвитку 'Демократія через культуру'
Development Centre 'Democracy through culture' [en]
34-b, Predslavynska Str.
03150 Kyiv
UKRAINE
Tel.: +38 096 4621961

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Ukrainan) - No. 90421
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

ხელოვნების საერთაშორისო ცენტრი
Georgian Arts and Culture Center [en]
7 Niko Nikoladze str.
0108 Tbilisi
GEORGIA
Tel.: +995-322 931 335; 995- 599 506 448

Next report due 2023
Accredited in 2018 (Request: English/Georgian) - No. 90390
Decision-making meeting: 7.GA - 2018

Year of creation: 1995
Domain(s):

- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- development of institutional base, capacity building, creation of economic bases, awareness raising, advocacy on state level for integration into existing state policies

Main countries where active:

Georgia

Objectives:
GACC mission is: Preservation, promotion and sustainable use of Georgian Culture and Cultural Heritage; Supporting development of Georgian crafts and cultural industries; Fostering the studies of Georgian Culture and support the integration of Georgian scholars in international scholarly work; Strengthening economic viability and self-sustainability of cultural institutions, culture based small and medium businesses, and individuals working in the field of arts and culture; Fostering the international relations and cultural exchange; Educational activities in the field of culture; Innovative approaches to exhibition activities. To achieve these goals GACC runs 4 main programmes: (a) Cultural Industries & Heritage Crafts Development; (b) Safeguarding of Georgian Cultural Heritage; (c) International Initiative for Georgian Cultural Studies; (d) Exhibitions and Gallery Activities.
Cultural Industries & Heritage Crafts Development programme’s primary focus is safeguarding and development of Heritage Crafts, as an integral part of Georgian Intangible Cultural Heritage. The programme is dedicated to preserve heritage crafts traditions, ensure their transmission from generation to generation, to raise awareness of Crafts traditions preserved on the territory of Georgia as an intangible heritage within youth and wider society locally and internationally, to create the institutional and economic base for its sustainable development. GACC acts for the recognition of cultural heritage and heritage crafts among it, as an important agent for the preservation of cultural diversity, mutual understanding and social inclusion as well as force for sustainable economic development. GACC project "Heritage Crafts Initiative for Georgia" won EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2017.

Activities:
GACC works in the field of safeguarding Georgian Heritage Crafts since 1995. In 2012-2016 the centre, in frames of EU funded projects implemented the consistent measures and reached the significant positive shift in the field of preservation the heritage crafts in Georgia. The process involved:
Elaboration of study methodology and provision the countrywide studies of the Heritage Crafts sector in all 3 Caucasus states: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan; The study was the first inventory of Heritage Crafts sector for these states. It provided detailed baseline information on legislative, institutional, economic aspects, also deeper analyses including demographic characteristics, industrial structure, market analyses, system of transmission of knowledge etc.
Elaboration of development strategy and recommendations for Georgia regarding organisational structure, legal base, educational system, awareness raising and commercial development of the sector.
Practical steps to ensure the safeguarding and development of Georgian heritage crafts which included measures within 5 main clusters:
- Institutional developments and building capacity of Heritage Crafts actors including establishment and capacity building of Heritage Crafts Association, educational and training programmes for the crafts actors, small grant scheme for improvement of technical base of crafts sector etc.
- Advocacy and awareness raising campaign of Heritage Crafts: trainings of local authorities, roundtable meetings with state and non state actors to advocate inclusion of cultural industries and heritage crafts in the relevant strategic documents, programmes; provision of conferences and seminars concerning safeguarding of intangible heritage; media campaign to raise awareness and ensuring visibility of Heritage Crafts and local masters, establishment of contest “Craftsman of an Years” to promote the notable Georgian Craftsmen, advocated establishment of national system similar to UENSCO "Living Human Treasures".
- Creating opportunities for informal education in crafts for representatives of young generation, with the special focus on rural areas and endangered crafts fields. Project offered small grants to crafts makers to transform their workshops into an education centres. 21 workshops across the country were renovated and equipped to ensure hands-on training and passing of traditional skill from older generation to youngsters (each workshop trained from 5 to 10 apprentices, with total 150 people). These centres continue their function as educational hubs, where the number of beneficiaries will increase each year.
- Safeguarding of endangered crafts traditions through the documentation, awareness raising, revealing problems and support in revitalization of techniques. Measures also included informal education as mentioned in section (c).
- Fostering economic potential of heritage crafts: market development through establishment of Tbilisi International Summit of Crafts and Design “EthnoFest”, supporting establishment of the net of museums shops, training modules in product development and business skills for crafts actors, creation of crafts business manual etc.
In 2016 GACC efforts in the transmission of Heritage crafts skills to the new generations and public awareness activities were awarded EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2017.

Cooperation:
GACC treats the heritage crafts of indigenous communities, groups and individuals as a valuable part of Georgian and world's culture and contributes to the safeguarding and development of their traditional heritage.
Understanding the importance of local communities and individuals for the safeguarding intangible cultural heritage GACC maintains close contact with different communities and groups living in Georgia. It has more than 600 crafts actors among them IDPs, household women and other vulnerable groups. During the sector study GACC conducted face-to-face interviews to reveal the existing problems and to identify variation of needs from one region or technology to another. Center systematically conducts the round table and consultation meetings with crafts actors in different regions of Georgia to better reflect the local needs. Center cooperates with indigenous communities for creation new product lines, implementation joint projects and exhibitions, supports grass-roots initiatives It also offers crafts community members the organisational platform for the implementation of joint actions targeted local needs and constrains. At the same time GACC includes crafts actors in the stirring committees of ongoing project with the view of bringing the knowledge of local situation and local expertise into the ongoing actions.
GACC also actively cooperates with Heritage Crafts Association, which is the only membership body in the crafts sector in Georgia.
Հազարաշեն Ազգաբանական հետազոտությունների հայկական կենտրոն ՀԿ
Hazarashen Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies [en]
15 Charents Street
0025 Yerevan
ARMENIA
Tel.: + 374 10 556896

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Armenian) - No. 90431
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1997
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other

Main countries where active:

Armenia

الأمانة السورية للتنمية
Syria Trust for Development [en]
Trust syrien pour le développement [fr]
Syria Trust for Development
Bab Sharqi
Muhammad Zuheir Shamas Eddine Avenue
Damascus


SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
URL: http://www.syriatrust.sy/
Tel.: +963 11 473 1300

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90251
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2015; 2016; 2021; 2022
Year of creation: 2007
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Traditional cooking and food heritage

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Syrian Arab Republic

Objectives:
The Syria Trust for Development empowers Syrians from all walks of life to play an active role in building and shaping their society. Syria’s future depends on its people; therefore, The Trust seeks to encourage individuals and local communities to be agents for positive change. This mission is reflected through the work of five divisions with the following focuses: learning, rural development, research, and culture and heritage.
In conformity with the spirit of the convention, The Trust plays a key role in preserving intangible heritage through Rawafed, its cultural project. Rawafed’s mission is to empower Syrians to use their creativity and their cultural resources to improve their quality of life and to affect positive change in their community by providing them with tools and training, and by working with partners to promote an enabling cultural environment.
Rawafed’s objectives:
• Cultural players, communities and institutions empowered to play a vital role in the activation of the cultural sector to stimulate the social, economic and human development of their communities
• Key development players and influencers see culture as an important pillar of development, and are using tangible results, new information and networks to integrate culture into local and national planning
• New and emerging cultural organisations play an active role in the development of the civil society sector using effective frameworks and models to strengthen the role of civil society in Syria
Rawafed works to achieve these objectives through initiatives that use a range of components including capacity building, networking and partnerships, and research, including tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Rawafed is particularly concerned with raising awareness about the value of the latter as it is often neglected in Syria and the public sector (in the cultural field) focuses heavily on historical sites.
It is also important to note that many Trust’s divisions indirectly benefit and further the preservation of Syria’s intangible heritage. For example, the Village Business Incubator (implemented by Firdos, the rural development division) promotes rural women’s participation in the labour market by supporting their small enterprises, including traditional handicrafts inspired from Syria’s history and its coastal areas (Afrin).
Activities:
Rawafed, the Cultural Project of the Syria Trust for Development, works to achieve its objectives through two main programmes, Incubating Culture and Arts and Investment in Cultural Resources. While the former works towards building an enabling environment for cultural institutions by supporting cultural players to develop their capacities, it is through the latter that Rawafed is actively involved in safeguarding Syria’s intangible cultural heritage.
Investment in Cultural Resources contributes to the creation of an enabling environment for individuals, community-based groups and organisations to launch a long-term investment in cultural resources (including natural and food heritage, craftsmanship, traditional performance and social practices, oral traditions). The programme aims to raise communities’ awareness of the value and potential of local cultural resources, develop their capacities to invest in these and to promote their unique heritage, and enhance dialogue with decision-makers and partners. It has developed a number of tools to identify and document resources and to engage with and activate community members.
Between 2009 and 2011 the programme undertook a pilot participatory cultural mapping project in the Wadi Al Nadara region in Homs governorate. As the first initiative of its kind in Syria, the project started out by building the capacities of the local research team. Throughout the mapping process, a data base of cultural resources was built with the aim of documenting local resources – mostly intangible – and defining development opportunities using these resources. A mapping toolkit to be adapted for wider replication has been drafted. A series of booklets providing detailed documentation of ten intangible cultural resources is being published.
The research moreover identified a number of projects to be implemented to safeguard local heritage, such as the importance of water springs in the region under study. A project is currently underway to renovate some of the existing springs to be used as outdoor educational museums showcasing their historical, natural and communal significance.
One important aspect of Rawafed’s work is to advocate for greater participation of local communities in cultural planning, and to ensure the latter takes Syria’s cultural diversity into consideration.
Personnel concerned with intangible cultural heritage:
Nada Osman Alaeddine – Rawafed Director: Since 2007, Nada has played an integral role in the inception and development of Rawafed. She has nearly 20 years of academic and practical experience in culture, business and development, both in Syria and abroad. At Rawafed, Nada has worked diligently with her team to create cultural development programmes with long-lasting impact. She holds a number of professional cultural management qualifications and has participated in several UNESCO workshops, including on managing heritage sites, on cultural mapping and on the economic impact of heritage.
Shaza Kandakji – Programme Manager Investment in Cultural Resources: Shaza has extensive experience in the field of creativity and management. She has previously worked for the IOM and UNICEF, and was Project Coordinator for the British Council’s Creativity and Governance programme (2004-2007) and Regional Project Manager for the Creativity Programme (2008-2010), where she was responsible for coordinating projects across the MENA region. Shaza has managed the Investment in Cultural Resources programme at Rawafed since 2010. She participated in a UNESCO workshop on intangible cultural heritage in Cairo.
Maya Shurbaji – Programme Officer Investment in Cultural Resources: Maya has a strong background in cultural management, and holds a Masters in the subject from the Open University of Catalonia in Spain. She has extensive experience in administration as well as community outreach, which will be invaluable to the ongoing development of both the programme and the community projects.
Nadia von Maltzahn – Research and Development Manager at Rawafed: Nadia joined the team in January 2011 to head the Research and Development unit, having completed her PhD on Cultural Diplomacy between Syria and Iran at Oxford University. She is responsible for directing Rawafed’s research needs, and is preparing a project to assess gaps in Syria’s governance of culture, in which cultural diversity will be emphasised to ensure that intangible cultural heritage and other forms of cultural expression are integrated into Syria’s long-term strategic planning and cultural policies.
Cooperation:
Rawafed, the Cultural Project of the Syria Trust for Development, consulted and worked closely with members of local communities to ensure their engagement with and participation in the programme throughout its work in Wadi Al Nadara. Throughout the research phase, local community representatives have been trained in research methods, and people in the 39 villages of the region have been engaged in the planning and design of the mapping process. Through participatory research, eleven specialised studies were conducted on religious landmarks, herbs, music, architecture, food, festivals, poetry, trees, historical landmarks, daily life objects and ethnic doctrines.
Between January and March 2011, Rawafed conducted a series of workshops in Wadi Al Nadara in order to activate community members to invest in their local cultural resources and be active citizens. Initiatives coming out of these workshops include a project to revive traditional handicrafts in the region that are in danger of dying out. The project aims to create opportunities for older and younger generations to interact as they work together to ensure traditional skills and handicrafts are passed on through training and awareness campaigns. Another initiative is to activate one of the village’s cultural centre, to reinforce the crucial role such a centre can play in the revitalisation of the lives of community members. This initiative aims to breathe life in the centre through activities such as poetry evenings, considering the richness of popular poetry in the region’s culture but lack of opportunities to publicly recite it and pass it on to younger generations.
The project to preserve and restore water springs in the region is implemented with the full involvement of local communities, who will eventually be managing the outdoor museums. These springs are an integral part of the region’s identity, with water sources taking on mythic proportions in traditional stories, poetry, literature and folklore handed down from generation to generation.
In addition to local communities, Rawafed works closely with both local and national decision makers, as well as the private sector, in order to stimulate development in planning processes in Syria in the culture and heritage sectors and advocate for local cultural planning.
الجمعية السعودية للمحافظة على التراث
Saudi Heritage Preservation Society - SHPS [en]
Riyadh
SAUDI ARABIA
URL: http://www.shps.org.sa
Tel.: 00966114030954; 00966562979935

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Arabic) - No. 90473
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2010
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Hosting Saudi chapters of b oth ICOM and ICOMOS

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization

الجمعية المصرية للمأثورات الشعبية
Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions (ESFT) [en]
47 Soliman Gohar Street
Dokki, Giza
Cairo
EGYPT
URL: http://www.esft.info
Tel.: (+202) 376264409; (+202) 37626702

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90182
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020
Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Egypt

Objectives:
The Objectives of Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions include cultural and scientific services. It provides technical and intellectual assistance to Folklore students and the traditional bearers of the intangible cultural heritage in the form of training and safeguarding. The Society, also provides different organizations and governmental agencies with informations related to intangible cultural heritage whenever necessary.
The Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions aims at raising the awareness of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage in strengthing the Egyptian identity and need for safeguarding our heritage. The Egyptian Society for F'olk Traditions collaborates with Archives of ICH for preparing a database for the compilations of the lCH of Egypt with a special attention to the traditional elements that are in danger and need to be
safeguarded.
Activities:
The Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions is engaged in the following activities.
a. Lectures and presentations.
Weekly meeting for members to attend IBctures related to the field of intangible heritage
b. Traditional festivals and celebration.
Participating in national and local Egyptian Festivals and documenting them.
c. Research Activities
1.Collecting, documenting, protecting and safeguarding the Oral Epic Al·sirah Al-Hilallyyah for hundred and fifty recording were collected accompanied by photo and videos from fifty poets. This project recieved
UNESCO award of Sheikh Zayed Ibn Nahian as a Master Piece of the oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity In the year 2003.
2. Collaborating with the National Council for Women In documenting the Art of Tally in upper Egypt. In addition to participating in training 360 girls on Art of Tally. The Egyptian Society published a book entitled
The Mahing of a Traditional Artist as an outcome of this research.
3. Collecting and safeguarding tradltlonal festivals witlh collaborations with Culture Unit of the UNESCO in Cairo within the framework of the Netvvork of Traditional Festivals of the Mediterrean.
4. The Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions provided the Modernization Centre of Ministry of industry with a survey of all the traditional crafts in all of Egypt. We supplied the center with information on 365 traditional craft.
5. The Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions compiled a photographic portpholio on the cultural diversity of The Egyptian tangible and intangible heritage.
6. The personal and members of the Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions are professors, students, experts in Folk Traditions from the fields, anthropology, sociology, applied arts and social and cultural research.
(the society included 180 members) the society include also folk poets, singers. story tellers, craftsmen end traditional artists.
Cooperation:
In our process of collecting and documenting the ICH we respect and safeguard the practionors identity and their ownership of the material coflected according to the norms of the intellectual property right
(IPR). We also support and invite traditional practitioners to participate in exhibitIons in Egypt and abroad to exhibit their products.
We facilitated means for traditional artists to join and participate in exhibitions in Egypt and abroad (France and Italy). Traditional singers and dancers join celebrations of the Society and Archives.
الجمعية الموريتانية للمأثورات الشعبية
Association mauritanienne pour les traditions populaires (AMTP) - AMTP [fr]
Jamiya Mauritania Lil Mathourat Chaabiya
Dar Naim H 5468
NOUAKCHOTT
MAURITANIA
Tel.: 00222 46 90 09 00

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: French)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: French) - No. 90343
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2011
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- other
- enregistrement

Main countries where active:

Mauritania

Objectives:
Collecte, protection, classification et valorisation du patrimoine populaire mauritanien
Activities:
Les activités en matière de sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel concernent avant tout les domaines suivants:
- rites et savoir,
- coutumes et traditions,
- littérature populaire,
- métiers et industrie traditionnelle
باغ پارسی میراث زنده
Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage - PGILH [en]
No. 6, 3rd floor, Salamas Sq., Golha Sq., Jalal Al-e Ahmed Exp. Way
1431753133 Tehran
IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
URL: http://www.pgilh.org
Tel.: +98 21 88 35 13 40

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Persian) - No. 90433
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2011
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Museum affairs (including conventional, ICH, ethnographic, virtual, site museums, as well as ICH parks and ICH villages); investigating and developing cultural tourism; providing legal and policymaking advisory services)

Main countries where active:

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

جمعية البحث في تاريخ و تراث الشرق المغربي
Association Recherche Histoire et Patrimoine de l'Oriental Marocain - ARHPOM [fr]
Dhar Lamhalla Lazaret
Lotissement Mouhoub
Rue A5n 21 1er étage
Oujda BP 644
MOROCCO
URL: http://www.arhpom.org
Tel.: +212661829468; +212663853511; +21253674128

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: French/Arabic) - No. 90470
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1998
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other
- Sensibilisation des agents gouvernementaux et erritoriaux et des citoyens aux enjeux de sauvegarde de leur héritage

جمعية التراث النوبي
Nubian Heritage Society [en]
15 Manofy ST
Abdeen
Cairo Governorate
EGYPT
Tel.: 00202-23902313

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English) - No. 90446
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 1980
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

श्रेए हनुमान व्यायाम प्रसरक मन्दल्
Shree Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal [en]
Hanuman Vyayam Nagar
Amravati-444605
Maharashtra
INDIA
URL: http://www.hvpm.org
Tel.: +91 721 2574819

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90321
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

সাধনা - উপমহাদেশীয় সংস্কৃতি প্রসার কন্দ্রে
Shadhona - Center for Advancement of Southasian Culture [en]
House 5, Road 27, Block J
Banani
1213 Dhaka
BANGLADESH
URL: http://www.shadhona.org
Tel.: 8801713040814

Next report due 2025
Accredited in 2020 (Request: English/Bengali) - No. 90420
Decision-making meeting: 8.GA - 2020

Year of creation: 2002
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- other
- traditional martial arts

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Bangladesh

世界中医药学会联合会
World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) - WFCMS [en]
World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies
Room 505, Building A, Wealth Garden
No. 19 Xiaoying Street, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101

CHINA
Tel.: 0086-01-58650240

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90239
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Year of creation: 2003
Domain(s):

- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education

Main countries where active:

China, France, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa

Objectives:
The objectives of WFCMS are to promote the exchange and cooperation among the Chinese Medicine societies as well as the collaboration between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other medicines worldwide, to strengthen international academic exchanges of TCM, to improve the professional level of TCM personnel, to inherit and develop TCM, to accelerate the process of its modernization and globalization, and to push it forward into the mainstream of medical and health care systems in various countries so as to make greater contribution to the health of mankind.
Activities:
1. WFCMS actively takes part in the research work for the protection of TCM culture. For instance, WFCMS has been participating in a project named Research on the Academic Thinking and Medical Experience of Eminent TCM Senior Doctors for inheritance, which documents and preserves clinical experience of more than 200 TCM doctors; a bunch of bilingual basic nomenclatures of TCM, including Chinese-English, Chinese-French, Chinese-Spanish and Chinese-Portuguese, have been published (or are to be published) containing more than 6000 terms. Part of them use Chinese pinyin as their terms, which better facilitates the preservation of TCM culture and further promotes its continuance and development. Since 2004, the annually held World Congress of Chinese Medicine is an influential event of WFCMS. TCM practitioners and experts who show great interests in TCM culture gather together to exchange ideas on inheriting and developing effective therapies, preserving tratidional medicine theories such as acupunture theory, and human-nature harmony theory etc, to name a few.

2. We have set up the specialty committees that are related to the preservation of TCM culture including the Specialty committee of Acupotomology, the Specialty Committee of TCM Pharmaceutics, the Specialty Committee of Chinese Characteristic Diagnosis and Treatment and Specialty Committee of Pulse Manifestation. The establishment of those specialty committees provides platforms for professionals in relevant fields to safeguard, and improve TCM culture. Members of the special committees are recruited with strict selection criteria covering their degree, professional title, and clinical experience etc. Therefore, WFCMS's capability to inherit and preserve TCM culture is enhanced.

3. Member societies of WFCMS are actively involved in preservation and transmission of TCM culture. Currently, there are 201 WFCMS member societies from 58 countries and regions. They are dedicated to providing TCM health services to the public and spreading TCM culture to people all around the world. For instance, the documentary named "Traditional Chinese Medecine across the World" sponsored by WFCMS and filmed by China Central Television International, gained great supports from the member societies of WFCMS all over the world, which made it a successful program.
Cooperation:
In the course of the study of the Bilingual (including Chinese-English, Chinese-French, Chinese-Spanish and chinese-Portugese) basic nomenclature of TCM, WFCMS collaborates with the experts from more than 100 NGOs in more than 90 countries to accomplish the study. Moreover, it annually collaborates with NGOs from different countries or regions to hold world conference of TCM in different part of the world. It also cooperates with NGOs to undertake international training workshops and examination in the field of TCM, and to publish multilingual journal of World Chinese Medicine.
中国民俗学会
China Folklore Society (CFS) - CFS [en]
Beijing Normal University
No. 19 Xinjiekou Waidajie
Beijing 100875
CHINA
URL: http://www.chinafolklore.org/
URL: http://www.chinesefolklore.org.cn/
Tel.: +86-10-65513620

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2012 (Request: English) - No. 90089
Decision-making meeting: 4.GA - 2012

Evaluation Body mandates: 2015; 2016; 2017
Year of creation: 1983
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- Cultural space

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

China, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Viet Nam

Objectives:
New accreditation request:
The general objectives of CFS (under the Article 3 of the Bylaws of CFS) aim at uniting with and organizing folklorists and folklore fellows throughout the country, to investigate, collect, collate, and study folklore and folk cultural phenomenon among the people of all ethnic groups of the country, to facilitate scholarly exchanges and cooperation with its counterparts both at home and abroad, to gather, disseminate, and share academic information and resources, and to further the discipline of folklore studies.

The professional objectives of CFS are (under the Article 6 of the Bylaws of CFS):

(1) to collect and collate folklore materials from multiform literatures and field investigations, and then gradually build up an information resource database for preserving China's folklore and cultural traditions;

(2) to stimulate studies on basic theories and conduct specific research projects in folkloristics with an emphasis on encouraging and organizing fieldwork in folklore in all its aspects;

(3) to compile and publish folkloristic books, field study reports and periodicals, and at the same time to enhance translations from and reviews of overseas works in folkloristics.

(4) to train talents and discover qualified personnel by all the means, such as holding workshops, launching online forums, and carrying out field study practices, as well as facilitating other appropriate channels;

(5) to organize and participate in domestic and international conferences in order to reinforce scholarly discourses and academic exchanges;

(6) to participate in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage with professional spirit and initiative;

(7) to strengthen the website construction of the China Folklore Network, keep it up to date and well maintained, and make it become a home for all the folklore fellows and folk culture amateurs.

Over the past three decades, CFS has been fostering a comprehensive understanding of folklore and traditional culture that conceptualize the core notion of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH). With the implementation of the Convention, the society's professional practices and various activities provide a solid basis for further achieving the above integrated goals that are consistent with the spirit of the Convention.

Old accreditation request:
(A) to collect, sort out and study Chinese folklore; (B) to strengthen the studies on theoretical folklore and applied folklore in order to realize the social function of this discipline; (C) to edit and publish books, journals, picture collections and resources, to translate, introduce and comment the foreign folklore works; (D) to cultivate the folklore research fellows by holding training class and proceeding fieldwork; (E) to accumulate the folklore materials and hold folklore exhibitions; (F) to proceed the scholarly exchange with foreign scholars and attend folklore activities worldwide.


Activities:
New accreditation request:
Created in 1983, CFS has registered 1695 members thus far across the country; the vast majority of them have either folkloristic professional backgrounds, or come from other relevant disciplines, e.g. cultural anthropology, sociology, ethnology, history, literature and art, and the like.

CFS's governance is implemented by its Executive Board, Professional Committees and by its Secretariat, primarily through organizing conferences, publications, training, promoting folkloristics from theories to practices, enhancing multilateral cooperation, strengthening capacity-building, all of which ensure that CFS maintains a recognized competence in specialization,

CFS possesses a consultative status to both the public and governments at all levels, Since 2003, a number of CFS senior experts, as deputy directors or active members in the National Expert Committee for Safeguarding ICH, have been commissioned to provide consultation services, formulate safeguarding measures, instruct training workshops, develop projects, programmes and activities, as well as inspect the implantation of the Convention as requested; meanwhile, many CFS scholars have participated in a series of fundamental tasks in cooperation with other stakeholders. The CFS Secretariat, in conjunction with its 6 Professional Committees and 5 Field Study Bases, and with the active experts and members, has carried out a series of activities for safeguarding ICH in China and beyond. The main practices are summarized in the following aspects.

(1) Participation in developing ICH-related policy, regulations and legislation:

2003-04: the drafting and formulation of the Provisionary Measures on Nomination and Evaluation of National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, including the Guidelines for Submitting Candidatures.

2004-08: two surveys on Chinese traditional festivals and national legal holidays, contributing to the Decision of the State Council on Amending the Regulation on Public Holidays for National Annual Festivals and Memorial Days, which enabled Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon-boat Festival and Mid-autumn Festival to be added to the new scheme.

2004-11: the legislation on safeguarding China's ICH-Law of the People's Republic of China on Intangible Cultural Heritage, which entered into force on June 1, 2011.

(2) Playing a visible role in key projects and programmes at national and local levels:

2003-13: participating in the National Project for Safeguarding Folk and Ethnic Cultures;

2005-09: instructing the First Nationwide General Investigation of ICH;

Since 2006: aiding the establishment of the Four-level Inventory System of China's ICH;

Since 2006: identifying the Representatives of Traditional Bearers and Practitioners of National ICH Elements;
2007-11: selecting and monitoring 11 Pilot Areas for National Eco-cultural Reserves;

Since 2008: making assessment for locating Pilot Bases for Safeguarding Traditional Handicrafts y Means of Continuity-in-Productivity;

Since 2009: advising the establishment of ICH theme museums, folklore museums and ICH raining and transmitting centers;

2008-11: assisting in preparing nomination files to the Lists and Register of the Convention.

(3) Carrying out theoretical study and developing methodologies for ICH research

CFS and its members have been active in related areas of safeguarding ICH, from perspectives in scientific research and cultural policy-making, primarily through providing expertise in folklore and specialized advices, establishing ethical codes, conducting field survey and case studies, undertaking key projects, training graduate students, mobilizing formal and non-formal educational programmes, publishing monographs, field reports, and paper collections, delivering keynote speeches, lectures and seminars, accepting media interviews, developing ICH columns on CFN and disseminating information through its influence worldwide. CFS's commitment to ICH research has been reflected in the thematic panels of its National Conferences in 2006 in Beijing and in 2010 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, as well as in every session of CFS Annual Meeting since 2008; not to mention, the society has organized or co-sponsored various symposia and multiform events regarding current ICH topics.

(4) Conducting professional practices at regional and international levels

CFS has extended its long-standing efforts for developing international cooperation and exchange. It has stable professional relationships with renowned folklorists, academics and institutions in Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, India, USA, Germany, Finland, Russia, and Tunisia. In particular, the Society has been engaged in specific partnerships with Folklore Society of Japan (since 1989) and American Folklore Society (since 2007), with a intention to strengthen regional and international cooperation.

CFS also benefits effectively from the opportunities and mechanisms created by the Convention. As active members of the Expert Group for Chinese governmental delegation, CFS Board members deepened their understanding of the Convention via attending Sessions, Assemblies and working group meetings of the Committee since 2006; Dr. Gejin Chao participated in the examination of nomination files for inscription in 2009; our scholars as ad hoc observers were involved in the whole process of the first workshop devoted to 'training of trainers' in January 2011 in Beijing.

Old accreditation request:
Since CFS was set up, it has published 11 issues of The Newsletter of CFS, an periodic journal for exchanging information about folklore researches and activities of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding, and hosted 6 sessions of national folklore congress. From 1997, it began to publish the CFS Yearly Book, on which there are papers on folklore theories, methods and fieldwork. It organized cooperations with scholars from Japan, South Korea, United States, Finland and Vietnam.


Cooperation:
New accreditation request:

CFS has since its inception developed an ethical code of practice to adhere to the PRINCIPAL OF MUTUAL RESPECT in close collaboration with tradition-bearers, community members, native scholars and local organizations concerned, always practicing 'STANDING ON COMMON GROUND WITH FOLK,' which enables scholarship to be always community-based.

CFS has established 5 community-based field study bases. As a result, a series of fieldwork projects covering a wide range of ICH topics have been conducted, bringing forth a number of ethnographic writings, which in turn not only provides local communities with constructive consultations for safeguarding and transmitting their ICH, but deepens mutual understanding between CFS and its partners-in-knowledge.

CFS encourages and supports long-term targeting co-research with individuals, groups and communities concerned. Jiang Fan, an executive director, has been studying Tan Zhenshan, the late master storyteller in Liaoning Province, for more than 20 years; Director Yongchao Chen has the female master Guiying Lu's name as copyright-owner printed on their co-textualized book from her oral performance; some CFS scholars have their follow-up case studies located in villages or in ethnic tribes with the aid of communities. Such examples abound.

CFS functions as a bridge to link traditional practitioners with higher educational institutions and universities, introducing ICH-bearers into classrooms to share their knowledge, skills and Iifehistory with the faculties and the young; and in the meantime, taking teachers and students into the situated contexts, to experience, collect, record, and study ICH in its living life-world with a stress on 'PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST.'

CFS provides diversified intellectual support for the sustainable development of local communities. For instance, we implemented an ethnographical investigation of the life-style of Han immigrants and indigenous Mongolian herdsmen in Alshan, Inner Mongolia (supported by SEE in Alshan) in 2005. This study in general provides folkloristic solutions to handling grassland desertification in western China.

CFS also makes its own contribution to rural cultural life by developing ICH readings. For instance, the Series of Chinese Folkloric Cultures, 50 volumes in all, has entered into thousands of 'Farmers' Reading Rooms' in the countryside, and received an award from the government for its substantial efforts.

Old accreditation request:
CFS played a key role in the national survey of folklore and publication of its results as three series of books in the early 1980's, and its members took part in local programs of folklore collections. Since 2001, Professor Liu Kuili, the president of CFS has been leading the projects of ICH safeguarding organized by the Ministry of Culture of China, and its members have been very active in establishing national and provincial entries of ICH, working on a list of national representative ICH items.

무형문화연구소
The Center for Intangible Culture Studies - CICS [en]
285, Gwonsamdeuk-ro
Dukjin-gu,
Jeonju-si
Jeonbuk
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
URL: http://www.ichpedia.org
URL: http://www.minjung20.org
Tel.: +82 632774098

Next report due 2025
Renewed in 2021 (Activity report: English)
Accredited in 2016 (Request: English) - No. 90336
Decision-making meeting: 6.GA - 2016

Year of creation: 2008
Domain(s):

- oral traditions and expressions
- performing arts
- social practices, rituals and festive events
- knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
- traditional craftsmanship
- other
- cultural landscape

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization

Main countries where active:

Republic of Korea

Objectives:
The Center for Intangible Culture Studies (CICS) was established in order to enhance researches and promote safeguarding actives of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). CICS puts special efforts for finding measures for protecting and preserving ICH with academic concerns and in-depth understanding of its distinctive characteristics. Due to the complicated and rapid transformations of Korean society and culture, ICH is continually facing in disappearance and distortion. CICS has been involved in many fruitful tasks such as research, inventorying and publishing. Furthermore, CICS is also developing the educational program for safeguarding ICH and its creative applications for the undergraduate and graduate students. CICS is now moving forward to ICH Initiatives in Korean academic and public arenas.
CICS has recently established another special field; ICHPEDIA, a web-based ICH encyclopedia in collaboration with Cultural Heritage Administration of Korean Government. The purposes of establishing ICHPEDIA and archives are (1) to collect basic information to draw up National ICH inventory (2) to provide communities, specialists, and general users with easy access to our digitalized ICHPEDIA, (3) to encourage active participation of those who have interests in ICH, (4) to enhance cultural diversity.
As such CICS has so far endeavored to develop diverse programs from collecting primary sources of ICH and constructing the best web-based ICH inventory to developing the educational programs and application programs. CICS is standing in the forefront of the world’s ICH research institutions.

Activities:
Recently, the main activity of this research center has been safeguarding efforts of intangible cultural heritage through inventory projects. In particular, in order to encourage participation in the inventory process by those who possess intangible cultural heritage-individuals, groups, communities, NGO's, etc.-we have made an online system (ICHPEDIA) and are helping with the recording in which they are directly participating.
The recent activities of our research center can be divided into the following four areas. First, we are carrying out a public service through the gathering of indigenous traditional knowledge by collaborating with residents from Korea's farming, fishing, and mountain villages. Through this activity, we are promoting the utilization and protection of traditional knowledge as an intangible cultural heritage.
Begun in 2010, this is our fourth year doing this work. Secondly, we are operating Korea's first 'Intangible Cultural Heritage On-line Inventory', based on the guideline recommended by UNESCO. Starting in 2010, there are currently 30,000 elements inventoried. Our third area of activity is the conducting of theoretical and methodological research for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
Senior, full-time researchers and doctoral candidates are actively publishing papers in national and international journals. Our fourth activity is the participation in international cooperative activities related with the safeguarding Intangible cultural heritage. Senior researchers along with the Korean government and International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP), have been actively collaborating in various activities such as holding workshops, conferences and constructing an intangible cultural heritage information network for Bhutan and five Central Asian countries.

Cooperation:
From Oct. 26th - Nov. 25th, 2012, we held an exhibition and educational practicum program along with bearers of intangible cultural heritage-masters of the traditional fan (buchae), writing brush (but), musical instrument (geomungo), embroidery (jasu), and straw crafts (jippul gongye). Children, students, and residents became spectators and apprentices, and, while hearing the life stories and seeing and feeling the craftsmanship of the masters, were able to learn the value of their knowledge and skill.
From April to December of 2013 we visited individuals, organizations, and communities designated by the national or local governments as intangible cultural heritages scattered throughout Gyeongsangnam province. We heard directly about the conditions of their preservation and discussed future directions for preservation, and published our findings as a book. The story of 60 intangible cultural property holders and communities are collected in this book. This content will be included in future suggestions for the direction of national policy for the safeguarding of intangible cultural properties.
From April until December of 2014, we have been planning and carrying out a program to support volunteers the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. We hold 4 workshops during the year to facilitate the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage by around 60 volunteers gathered from around the country, and are providing advice regularly for regional activities. This work is being carried out by our research center's full-time researchers and graduate student researchers.
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