17th session of the Intergovernmental Committee
28-11-2022/03-12-2022Rabat (Morocco)
Training of Trainers on periodic reporting for the Africa chapter of the facilitators network
26/31-10-2022Online (France)
Intangible Cultural Heritage Community-Based Inventorying: Training and Activities
17/26-10-2022Banjul, The Gambia (Gambia)
Fifth meeting of the 17.COM Bureau
04-10-2022UNESCO Headquarters (France)
Event Presentation of the UNESCO Publication on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Social Inclusion in Uruguay
31-08-2022/01-09-2022Universidad de la República (UDELAR) de Uruguay (Uruguay)
Second workshop on capacity-building for intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding for youths
01-08-2022/05-09-2022Online (China)
On 5 September, UNESCO Beijing Office and the International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) successfully concluded the second workshop on capacity-building for intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding for youths, as part of the joint three-year strategic plan that kickstarted in 2021. The workshop was participated by almost 150 young participants and observers aged between 18 and 28, coming from 32 universities in China, Japan, Mongolia and Republic of Korea.
Director of UNESCO Beijing and UNESCO Representative to China, DPRK, Mongolia, Japan and ROK, Professor Shahbaz Khan, and CRIHAP’s Director-General Liang Bin attended the opening session of the training workshop.
Prof. Shahbaz Khan emphasized the great importance that UNESCO has paid to youth in recent years, and recalled a number of youth-targeted programs that have been developed to encourage youth to play a role in fulfilling the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Mr. Liang Bin highlighted the rationale for the three-year training program to help youths explore ICH elements in their daily life and actively participate in ICH transmission and safeguarding.
Running between 1 August and 5 September, the workshop built upon the successful modality used last year. Following the online classes led by two UNESCO 2003 Convention accredited facilitators, Ms. Deirdre Prins-Solani (South Africa) and Ms. Linina Phuttitarn (Thailand), the participants conducted a two-week fieldwork to discover, select and record intangible cultural heritage elements, ICH-related events and personalities. The fieldwork component aimed to establish a connection between the youth and ICH, to deepen their understanding of ICH and to raise their awareness and enthusiasm to safeguard, promote and inherit intangible cultural heritages through various types of interaction. The participants benefited from technical guidance and expertise of international facilitators, as well as support from local coordinators. After the fieldwork, the participants submitted 50 videos, covering important themes under the 2003 Convention such as ICH and transmission, ICH and creative industries, ICH and education, and ICH and new media.
In addition to the provision of new knowledge and skills on the importance of living heritage, its contribution to sustainable development and safeguarding measures, the workshop has also created an exchange opportunity and established a communication platform among the youth for the future. As youth remains an important target group for the work of the United Nations in general and UNESCO in particular, future capacity building opportunities will be organized by CRIHAP and UNESCO Beijing during the last few months of 2022, including an ICH safeguarding workshop in Mongolia and an ICH and climate change workshop at the Asia-Pacific region.
Call for proposals - team of experts/evaluators to carry out a renewal evaluation of the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe
07/31-07-2022Online (-)
9th session of the General Assembly
05/07-07-2022Paris (France)
Fifth extraordinary session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
01-07-2022Online (France)
Extended deadline: Call for expression of interest - ‘Supporting the resilience of Ukrainian school children through enhancing awareness of their living heritage’
27-06-2022/10-07-2022Online (France)
Information and exchange meeting on proposed revisions to the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly (31 May 2022)
31-05-2022Online (France)
Elaboration of Intangible cultural heritage Policy in the United Arab Emirates -
Online workshop
10/12-05-2022online (United Arab Emirates)
Open-ended intergovernmental working group in the framework of the global reflection on the listing mechanisms (Part III)
25/26-04-2022Online (France)
Inter-regional inception workshop for the project ‘Capacity-building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in emergencies in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and the Caribbean’
07/08-04-2022Online (-)
Presentation of International Assistance for the African, Arab and Central and Eastern European regions
29-03-2022Online (-)
Bringing Living Heritage to the Classroom in Asia-Pacific to Promote Transformative Education
25-03-2022Online (Thailand)
Presentation of International Assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean
24-03-2022Online (-)
Presentation of International Assistance for the Asia and Pacific region
22-03-2022Online (-)
Arab States region kicks-off training on periodic reporting at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage
21/25-03-2022Hybrid: in Sharjah and online (United Arab Emirates)
ResiliArt Webinar: Information and Communication Technologies (TIC) as a tool for ICH safety
24-02-2022Online (-)
Information session of country local focal points from the Arab region
15-02-2022Online (-)