Category Archives: Training Tool

Registering a cultural element in the Representative List of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity involves a lengthy and rather arduous process. Particularly in the initial phases, a great deal […]

The Mediterranean Diet, which was discovered in the twentieth century but is in fact an ancient practice among Mediterranean populations, had three important early literary allies that introduced the Diet […]

The beginning of the Mediterranean Diet’s “discovery” can be traced to Ancel Keys’ 1951 arrival in Rome, Italy. He had been sent by the FAO (the UN Food and Agriculture […]

Strangely enough, the Mediterranean Diet was discovered by an American named Ancel Keys, who in 1951 became particularly interested in healthy way of eating that he’d discovered in Italy. Keys […]

The Convention for the Safeguarding of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage provided the following definition of an emblematic community: “Communities, groups, and, where appropriate, individuals that create, maintain and transmit cultural […]

How is intangible cultural heritage protected? It is easy to imagine how to protect the material heritage: a monument, a physical place, if it is in ruins, must be restored, […]

This video lesson will address the question of dual UNESCO heritage, that is, a physical site and an intangible element. These two forms of UNESCO recognition resulted from the Convention […]

In order for a cultural element to be included in the Representative List of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, it is necessary to complete a nomination file demonstrating that […]

What is the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Convention was formally established in 2003, and from September 29 to October 17 of 2003 was signed […]

UNESCO and the international protection of cultural heritage. What is UNESCO? What are the conventions, activities, programs, initiatives that this United Nations agency puts in place? The word UNESCO is […]