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Europe and North America

Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente

Since its creation in 1996, the main objective of the organization Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente has been the sustainable development of rural areas, offering value and innovation to groups and sectors of different territorial ecosystems at the national level and in the Ibero-American community. Closely linked…
ICH NGO Forum
January 15, 2023
Konstelacio Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Konstelacio

Konstelacio has been working for 11 years to promote dialogue between cultures and diversity. Our nonprofit organisation talks about open-mindedness, respect of our differences, safeguarding of our intangible heritage, stereotypes and prejudice, discrimination... through educational workshops adapted to children and teenagers' needs as well as education professionals. Konstelacio forges ties,…
ICH NGO Forum
August 25, 2022
PARCUM: museum and centre of expertise for religious art and culture Europe and North AmericaNGOs

PARCUM: museum and centre of expertise for religious art and culture

PARCUM, museum and expertise centre for religious art and culture, was founded in 1997 as a non-profit organisation with the aim of taking care of the religious heritage of the different religions and worldviews in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium. PARCUM uses an integral and transversal heritage approach. Through an integrated…
ICH NGO Forum
August 24, 2022
Sozopol Foundation Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Sozopol Foundation

Sozopol Foundation: • Promoting public empathy of the environmental protection, preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Introduction of good practices and innovative methods in pursuit of these objectives; • Promotion of material and spiritual values, conducting training at levels relevant to all age groups and supporting international cooperation in…
ICH NGO Forum
December 3, 2021
Association Nationale Cultures du Monde Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Association Nationale Cultures du Monde

Conserver, utiliser et diffuser les cultures traditionnelles et populaires selon la définition de l'Unesco - Favoriser la recherche, la sauvegarde, la promotion du patrimoine immatériel - Promouvoir l'expression vivante des cultures traditionnelles et populaires - Favoriser les échanges sur le plan national entre les associations françaises de culture traditionnelle et…
ICH NGO Forum
November 22, 2021
Heritage Saskatchewan Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Heritage Saskatchewan

Through our research, leadership and community resilience, Heritage Saskatchewan informs new thinking about heritage. In turn, we sharing our knowledge with the people of Saskatchewan to strengthen our collective ability to lead, collaborate, develop, and promote living heritage and ICH in our province.Year of accreditation: 2020 Main domain(s) of the ngo’s…
ICH NGO Forum
March 10, 2021
Association of Croatian Amateur Cultural Clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Association of Croatian Amateur Cultural Clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objectives: Care to preserve original national costumes, requisites, instruments, customs, music, dance and the overall folk creativity; Stimulation, protection, promotion and supervision of the work of cultural clubs- members of the association; Care for and participation in organizing social events and competitions; Organizing the education of professional workers, activities on…
ICH NGO Forum
December 12, 2020
SAVE Foundation Europe and North AmericaNGOs

SAVE Foundation

SAVE Foundation acts as European umbrella organisation for the promotion and coordination of activities for the conservation of agricultural diversity and heritage throughout Europe. The traditional farmers’ knowledge is an important cornerstone of this work. An inextricable link lies between human culture and agrobiodiversity. This is taken into account in…
ICH NGO Forum
October 12, 2020
Traditional Arts Association Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Traditional Arts Association

Traditional Arts Association is a nonprofit civil organization established in 2007. It aims at ensuring the development of traditional arts in Turkey, spreading art awareness,contributing to its promotion, supporting education and production within this domain and gathering the practicing academicians, artists, students and other interested people in traditional arts under…
ICH NGO Forum
April 22, 2020
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)

The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) is a pluridisciplinary organization centered in the twin fields of ethnology and folklore in their various denominations, within the larger family of anthropological and cultural-historical disciplines. The principal mission is to gather scholars from its fields; to provide platforms for critical debate,…
ICH NGO Forum
December 18, 2019
Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN)

The Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN) is the only international organization of local governments and cultural organizations that aim to safeguard the world’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. The ICCN has been working to explore creative and effective policies for the safeguarding of local Intangible Cultural Heritage and its inseparable relation…
ICH NGO Forum
December 18, 2019
ICOM – International Council of Museums / Conseil International des musées Europe and North AmericaNGOs

ICOM – International Council of Museums / Conseil International des musées

ICOM is an international professional non‐governmental organisation which brings together museums and museum professionals from all over the world. Through its network, made up from more than 44,500 members representing 138 countries and territories, ICOM is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication of the world’s natural and cultural heritage,…
ICH NGO Forum
October 23, 2019
Association Île du Monde Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Association Île du Monde

Recherche Île du Monde association’s core expertise lies in safeguarding translocal Intangible Cultural Heritage (translocal ICH), meaning the ICH carried out by the migrant communities in their new urban environments, through a variety of tangible initiatives, from research-oriented projects to field work and cultural events. The association also conducts specific…
ICH NGO Forum
November 26, 2018
Norges Bygdekvinnelag – The Norwegian Society of Rural Women Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Norges Bygdekvinnelag – The Norwegian Society of Rural Women

The Norwegian Society of Rural Women (in Norgwegian: Norges Bygdekvinnelag/NBK) is a member based, non-governmental organization. Our objective is safeguarding women’s and rural populations cultural, social and economical interests, and we do this by bringing together women who recognize the importance of active rural communities. With our 13.000 members and over…
ICH NGO Forum
November 6, 2018
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

ICOMOS is an association of over 9 800 cultural heritage professionals present in over 100 countries throughout the world, working for the conservation and protection of monuments and sites -the only global non-government organisation of its kind. lt benefits from the crossdisciplinary exchange of its members - architects, archaeologists, art…
ICH NGO Forum
September 26, 2018
Cultural and Educational Association “Ponte… Nas Ondas” Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Cultural and Educational Association “Ponte… Nas Ondas”

The cultural and pedagogical Association Ponte...nas Ondas! ( hereinafter "PNO!" ) is comprised of teachers from Galicia and the north of Portugal who come from different education levels, ranging from compulsory education to University. Galician and Portuguese specialists in pedagogy, philology, anthropology and ethnography have collaborated on the Association's projects.…
ICH NGO Forum
May 21, 2018
Association for players and makers of the Irish ‘Uilleann Pipes’ – Na Píobairí Uilleann Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Association for players and makers of the Irish ‘Uilleann Pipes’ – Na Píobairí Uilleann

Instructor Bill Haneman demonstrating pipe-making techniques at the NPU PipeCraft training facility in Clonshaugh, Co. Dublin, 2011. (Photograph: Gerry Lyons) Na Píobairí Uilleann (NPU), the Society of Uilleann Pipers was founded in 1968 when there were less than 100 uilleann pipers remaining. Today NPU is a thriving arts organisation dedicated…
ICH NGO Forum
February 13, 2018
Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant

Le Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (CQPV) constitue l’ONG de regroupement national en patrimoine immatériel et traditions vivantes, reconnu par le ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec (Canada). Il rassemble et défend les artistes, artisans, chercheurs, individus et plus de 80 organismes à but non-lucratif dans le domaine des…
ICH NGO Forum
October 5, 2017