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Memoar – Norwegian oral history organisation Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Memoar – Norwegian oral history organisation

Safeguarding oral heritage by collecting, documenting, archiving and disseminating oral history interviews. We work together with community projects and institutions, local history societies and museums. We build infrastructure for cooperation in oral history projects, and we teach oral history interviewing, documenting and dissemination.Year of accreditation: 2026 Main domain(s) of the…
ICH NGO Forum
September 25, 2026
Asociacion Cultural Baizara Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Asociacion Cultural Baizara

To foster an inclusive and respectful society where cultural diversity and intangible heritage are recognized, protected and valued as fundamental human rights, promoting social cohesion and sustainable development.Year of accreditation: 2026 Main domain(s) of the ngo’s activities: Performing arts; Social practices, rituals and festive events Main safeguarding measures: a) identification,…
ICH NGO Forum
September 25, 2026
UN Etxea – Basque Country Association for UNESCO Europe and North AmericaNGOs

UN Etxea – Basque Country Association for UNESCO

UN Etxea – Basque Country Association for UNESCO is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 to promote the principles, values and programmes of UNESCO within Basque society. It brings together individuals and institutions committed to advancing human rights, cultural diversity, peace and sustainable development, fostering connections between local action and…
ICH NGO Forum
September 24, 2026
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale

RILM is committed to documenting, safeguarding, and preserving the world’s knowledge about all musical traditions, and to making this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide via digital collections and advanced tools. RILM’s collections aim to include the music scholarship of all countries, in all languages, and across all…
ICH NGO Forum
September 24, 2026
The National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies Europe and North AmericaNGOs

The National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies

With almost 90 regional and local handicraft societies across Sweden and 14,000 members we present our selfes as Hemslöjden, a movement that continuously have worked with intangible cultural heritage for over 110 years. Through courses, handicraft gatherings, exhibitions, seminars and different projects we pass on knowledge and invoke interest, in…
ICH NGO Forum
September 24, 2026
Association Européenne de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels (AEJeST) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Association Européenne de Jeux et Sports Traditionnels (AEJeST)

The European Association of Traditional Sports and Games (AEJeST) was founded on 28 April 2001 in Lesneven, France. It brings together federations, associations, cultural or sports organisations, academic institutions, and other entities and individuals whose common goals include education, management, promotion, and safeguarding of traditional sports and games (TSG) across…
ICH NGO Forum
November 14, 2025
Pearl Rhythm Foundation AfricaNGOs

Pearl Rhythm Foundation

Pearl Rhythm Foundation (PRF) is a Ugandan music and grassroots creative organization created in 2012 and incorporated in 2015 under the laws of Uganda, to champion the cause of marketing and popularizing indigenous music and instruments through art. The Pearl Rhythm Foundation aims to strengthen the music scene in Uganda…
ICH NGO Forum
August 21, 2025
TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland)

TRACS is a co-operative network which champions Scotland’s shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Scottish Storytelling Forum (est. 1992), the Traditional Music Forum (est. 2004), and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (est. 2014). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness…
ICH NGO Forum
April 4, 2025
Douzan Art and Culture Arab StatesNGOs

Douzan Art and Culture

Douzan Art and Culture is a cultural organization launched in 2019 to enable Syrians to build their contemporary cultural identity through preserving cultural memory, providing spaces for interaction, building capacities, and enhancing solidarity and cooperation to build our cultural future between heritage and modernity. Douzan Art and Culture experiments with…
ICH NGO Forum
October 22, 2024
Ethnographic Society of Slovakia (Národopisná spoločnosť Slovenska) Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Ethnographic Society of Slovakia (Národopisná spoločnosť Slovenska)

Ethnographic Society of Slovakia is a voluntary civic association bringing together ethnologists/ethnographers from various academic and non-academic institutions, museums, non-formal education institutions and other. lt is a society of people interested in preservation and cultivation of living heritage. The Ethnographic Society of Slovakia organizes conferences, exhibitions, competitions and focuses as…
Gabriele Desiderio
May 22, 2023
Asociación Tejeteje Latin America and the CaribbeanNGOs

Asociación Tejeteje

Weaveweave Association is a civil, non-governmental and non- profit organization located at the department of Magdalena, Colombian Atlantic Coast. Since our creation in 2005 we are committed with the strengthening of cultural heritage, preserving environment and sustainable development of the country´s rural and indigenous communities. We Provide services and consultancy…
Gabriele Desiderio
May 11, 2023
Abaim AfricaNGOs

Abaim

Abaim is a non-governmental organisation in existence for the past 40 years now. While still being attentive to the issue of integration of partially-sighted and Blind Persons in society which was it main focus at its origin, the sphere of action of the organization had focused on community-based overall child…
Gabriele Desiderio
April 7, 2023
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
Embodying Reconciliation / Cuerpos para la Reconciliación Latin America and the CaribbeanNGOs

Embodying Reconciliation / Cuerpos para la Reconciliación

Embodying Reconciliation-Cuerpos para la Reconciliación, is a non-profit organization that works in five lines of action: peacebuilding, reconciliation through Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), corporalities, interculturality and memory. We are a specialized team that works in the areas of: dance anthropology, social anthropology, psychology, social communication and technological development. Since 2016,…
ICH NGO Forum
August 25, 2022
Cross Arts Cultural Association Arab StatesNGOs

Cross Arts Cultural Association

Cross-Arts Cultural Association, NGO registered in Lebanon as No.43/2010, was founded in order to develop Youth, Children and Women capacities in self-expression, dialogue and citizenship through arts and cultural activities (especially thru Arts and ICH). Its projects and activities aim to mitigate all forms of violence, raise individual and collective…
ICH NGO Forum
August 25, 2022
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