
Report on the implementation of the Convention
n Bearers’ is an educational programme designed to integrate teaching about intangible cultural heritage into school curricula. Launched in 2010 by the Artistic Education and Intangible Cultural Heritage Sections of CNCA, it aims to disseminate knowledge and experiences of living practitioners to young people by creating spaces, developing strate...
Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation, transmission, exchange and awareness-raising
sociation. Transmission is promoted by several educational initiatives, of which the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen is the oldest and largest. The primary objectives of the programme are to preserve the components of historic carillon culture (practices, repertoire, instruments, music, oral and written history), and to ensure the continuity and...
BelgiumPractices and expressions of joking relationships in Niger
on and research fields, including the design of teaching materials on joking relationships aimed at school children, youth and the general public as well as the development and dissemination of a code for joking relationships in Niger; the proposed measures reflect a wide participation of concerned communities and the submitting State’s commitmen...
Niger19.COM 1.BUR : Examination of requests for International Assistance up to US$100,000
ge through community-driven development interventions. It is further expected that the project will inspire school administrators to support youth in visiting local living heritage bearers. Further takes note that this assistance aims to support a project implemented at the national level, in accordance with Article 20 (c) of the Convention, and...
5 March 2024>UNESCO Headquarters
es, is proposed to ensure the viability of the element, notably the development of a cultural centre, the inclusion of songs in the local school curriculum, and the establishment of an artists’ association; R.4: The element has been identified and nominated in a process that has widely involved at all stages the local authorities and the comm...
2 October 2009>Abu Dhabi
Survey of technical and vocational education and training institutions in Central Asia
all college students in Kazakhstan study ‘Oral Folk Literature’ as part of their general education. A secondary school in Kyrgyzstan offers rehabilitation courses for visually- and hearing-impaired students, providing an opportunity to integrate ICH-related inclusive education across the curricula. Meanwhile, TVET institutions in Uzbekistan hav...
Benefitting country(ies) : Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan1 July 2018 - 1 December 2018>
shioning and restoring violins, violas, cellos and contrabasses. Violin-makers attend a specialized school, based on a close teacher-pupil relationship, before being apprenticed in a local workshop, where they continue to master and perfect their techniques – a never-ending process. Each violin-maker constructs from three to six instruments per y...
7 December 2012>Paris
s, folklore and customs. However, with the acceleration of modernization and the standardization of school education, the Hezhen mother tongue is now endangered. At present, only the elders can speak their native language. This loss has become a major obstacle to the promotion and sustainability of the Yimakan tradition. Only five master storytelle...
Chinall as on public occasions and at festivities. Children learn the songs from their parents and neighbours, in school and other settings. Professional art troupes in Pyongyang perform different forms of Arirang, while safeguarding societies play an important role in enacting, preserving and transmitting local versions. Arirang folk songs reinforce so...
28 November 2014>Paris
within Korean families, measures are proposed to strengthen its safeguarding including formal education in school curricula and adoption of legislative provisions on measures for its promotion, as well as measures to mitigate industrialization of kimchi-making; R.4: Korean communities at three different levels – general public, local governme...
7 December 2013>Baku