This event is a training of trainers’ workshop for incoming members of the Global facilitators network under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, notably from Europe and North America. The workshop is organized by UNESCO in partnership with the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe, and will be hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Albania, from 23 to 27 October 2023 in Tirana, Albania.

The five-day training workshop intends to equip the new facilitators with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully support the capacity-building programme for the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention at the local, national, and international levels. As recognized resource persons of the 2003 Convention, the facilitators will help to create links between the Convention and local actors of living heritage safeguarding.

Link to the event on the website of the Ministry of Culture of Albania: