Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - 2027 · Safeguarding & transmission of intangible cultural heritage

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: • Enhanced understanding of the state of play of the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), in the Context set by the 2003 UNESCO Convention, and an overview of successful methods for documenting and ensuring the transmission of ICH, including digital, audio-visual, and advanced technologies. • Recognition of the significance and value of ICH in different social, cultural and economic…

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to 'the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills-as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces' that are 'transmitted from generation to generation' and are 'constantly recreated' - as defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH Convention)[1]. ICH is an essential part of a…