In addition, the conference will offer the opportunity to discuss on the way to streamline the different cultural cooperation platforms at the ministerial level existing in the South-East European region, in order to improve their coordination and to devise possible forms of convergence.

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This English-language workshop is one of the key components of the Capacity-Building Programme of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which is being piloted in Africa in order to support the implementation of the 2005 Convention at the national level and to boost the potential of the dynamic cultural sector for sustainable development in the region.

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He also stressed that among the major topics to be discussed in the meeting are the ratification of the Convention, the implementation of the normative instrument at the national level, the preparation of nominations for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and of inventories of expressions of the intangible cultural heritage.

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Advanced university degree, at least at the Masters level, in subjects linked directly with cultural or natural heritage conservation and management.

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The strategic emphasis of the Office in the coming years will lie on strengthening capacities of different stakeholders to safeguard intangible cultural heritage at the national level, and to benefit effectively from the opportunities and mechanisms of international cooperation created by the 2003 Convention, now successfully ratified by all Member States of the SEE region.

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