The Platform explored the intrinsic linkages between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, which is embedded in the living tradition of the city and which drives Kyoto's community engagement and deliberate commitment towards disaster-risk prevention in the future.
The exchanges covered issues from World Heritage Sites and intangible cultural heritage to education for sustainable development, including the role of Scotland's Creative Cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Joanne Orr, Chair of the UK National Commission for UNESCO in Scotland talks about the World Convention safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and an initiative to record ICH in Scotland using an online wiki style inventory.
The projects in need of funding today concern five main areas: World Heritage (cultural and natural), intangible heritage, movable heritage (museums, archives, libraries), cultural industries and cultural policies.
The centre to be opened in Sofia is one of six around the world that focus on Intangible cultural heritage.
Throughout the last decades, the world has witnessed several situations in which built or intangible heritage has been at the core of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
This future convention intends to deal with the risk of the impoverishment of cultural diversity and standardization that will result from the gradual loss of the oral and intangible heritage in several parts of the world.
It honours individuals, groups or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the development, dissemination and promotion of Arab culture throughout the world, as well as the conservation and revitalization of Arab intangible heritage.
It should be noted that the proclamation of Yakut heroic epos "Olonkho" as masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity represents an exceptional value for national and world culture.
Along with the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage this Convention is one of the pillars of the preservation and promotion of cultural diversity.
Between January and April 2011, UNESCO trained 65 facilitators from all over the world as part of its global capacity building strategy for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage.
The Conference will also involve representatives from the Intangible Cultural Heritage sector and will be preceded by a meeting of the Regional Memory of the World Committee for the Asia-Pacific Region (MOWCAP) on 17 and 18 February.
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