Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

By clicking on the inscribed elements listed below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

You may also experience a conceptual, visual and interactive navigation through ‘Dive into Intangible Cultural Heritage’ interfaces which demonstrate the thematic interconnectedness between all the elements inscribed and their relation to nature or to threats.

The designations employed in the texts and documents of the nomination presented by the submitting State Party or States Parties do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Committee nor UNESCO concerning a) the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, b) the legal status of its authorities or c) the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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Results : 13 elements corresponding to 3 regions and 13 countries

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2023
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Nyckelharpa network, an innovative dissemination of a music and instrument-building tradition with roots in Sweden	Sweden
2020
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional skills, techniques and knowledge for the conservation and transmission of wooden architecture in Japan	Japan
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Polyphonic Caravan, researching, safeguarding and promoting the Epirus polyphonic song	Greece
The Martinique yole, from construction to sailing practices, a model for heritage safeguarding	France
2016
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum	Croatia
Oselvar boat - reframing a traditional learning process of building and use to a modern context	Norway
Regional Centres for Craftsmanship: a strategy for safeguarding the cultural heritage of traditional handicraft	Austria
Safeguarding of the folk music heritage by the Kodály concept	Hungary
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian calligraphy	Mongolia
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife	Brazil
Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona	Italy
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2011
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Programme of cultivating ludodiversity: safeguarding traditional games in Flanders	Belgium