List of activities

17-03-2023/31-12-2023 Online (-)

Wiki Loves Living Heritage

In 2023, we celebrate living heritage around the world!
Wiki Loves Living Heritage celebrates living heritage on the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
In more than 180 countries across the globe inventories put the living heritage in their country into overview. Each year a number of these elements are also inscribed on the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Heritage. However, living heritage is not limited to elements inscribed on the lists or inventories, there is much more to celebrate!
This year, the Wiki Loves Living Heritage campaign calls on everyone to get involved in:

Documenting Living Heritage
Online campaigns with thematic or regional focus
Local activities
Collecting data about the heritage elements and making it available in hundreds of languages

Unitelma Sapienza University in Rome, Italy 09-01-2023/31-12-2023 Online (Italy)

ICH 20 Years – 20 Dialogues. 2003-2023: twenty years after the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH

How has the protection of cultural heritage changed? A Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) with experts from around the world discussing it in 20 dialogues, in English or French.
The UNESCO Chair has produced a series of 20 virtual dialogues, each about 30 minutes long, to verify the impact of the UNESCO Convention on intangible cultural heritage in 19 different countries. The dialogues will be followed by anyone, in open source, freely and for free.

For those who wish, a certificate of participation can be issued to those who follow all the dialogues in MOOC version. To obtain it, it is necessary to send a registration email to unescochair@unitelmasapienza.it by Jan. 30, 2023, indicating one’s personal data, educational qualification, and the email address at which to receive communications and from which to access the dialogues.

Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO 03-03-2023 Düsseldorf (Germany)

10/20 years of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Double Anniversary of the 2003 Convention in Germany

UNESCO’s General Conference on October 17, 2003, in Paris adopted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which the Federal Republic of Germany ratified ten years later, on April 10, 2013. In 2023, we thus celebrate the 20th anniversary of the international treaty as well as the 10th anniversary of its implementation in Germany. Conferences, exhibitions and further activities will be held in honour of this occasion at various locations, both nationally and internationally, to highlight the importance of the practitioner communities, strengthen cultural heritage networks and promote creativity.
The launch event of this anniversary year will take place on March 2, 2023, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. The event is aimed at cultural heritage practitioners, representatives of cultural policy, cultural administration and non-governmental organizations, researchers, students as well as other interested citizens. This is intended to explore and communicate ways in which the goals of the Convention, the safeguarding and appreciation of intangible cultural heritage as well as international cooperation, can be achieved ever more effectively. The programme includes presentations on the status of the implementation of the 2003 Convention, on cultural law and a case study from China. This will be followed by a panel and plenary discussion and workshops on topics such as intangible cultural heritage and migration, crafts, transmission of knowledge and skills - especially to and by young people.