SESSION 2 Eighth Annual Meeting of the South East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage 15-16 May 2014. Limassol, Cyprus Authors: Emilio Cabasino and Stefania Baldinotti, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism DISCLAIMER The ideas and opinions expressed in the above presentations are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the documents do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city of area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

1. Eighth Annual Meeting of the South
East European Experts Network on
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Limassol, Cyprus 15-16 May 2014
Italy - Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
General Secretariat Unit I - Coordination and Studies
by Emilio Cabasino, Stefania Baldinotti
and Elena Sinibaldi

2. Purposes of the ICH Convention and Definitions of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
( Articles 1-2 of Convention 2003)
PARTICIPATION, art.15
ACCESSIBILITY, art.13, d) ii
Transmission by
Creation and Safeguarding
Non-Formal
Formal
EDUCATION to ICH, art.14
Italian Codex of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, art.7 bis
No National Guidelines for Education at IHC, but several programmes / activities
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3. … the expressions of collective cultural identity
covered by the UNESCO Conventions for the
Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
and for the protection and promotion of cultural
diversity ... could be protected only if they are
represented by material evidence and features
like the article 10 (of the Codex – such as: 50
years old, historic value, etc.)
Italian Codex of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, art.7 bis
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4. Non-Formal
Cultural living Expressions
Safeguard without freezing
Learning at Schools
AspNET – Hig Professional Schools
Learning at Universities
Academic degree
Post degree Schools
Masters Post degree
Professional Experts of ICH
Formal
Learning with the communities
Specific educative training connected with the territories, communities and cultural agents
( Experts, Museums, Universities, NGO, Associations, Arts Workshop, Firms…etc.)
Trained Learning in living expressions
(by cultural local Associations, guilds …)
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spontaneous and unintentional
acquisition by living cultural
expressions

5. Network of Italian Schools linked to National
Commission of UNESCO following the
Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet)
About 80 schools each year working on
educational projects on UNESCO topics like:
Topics %
Peace Education 9
Human Rights 12
Interculture 14
Sustainable Development 48
Cultural Heritage 4
Intangible Cultural Heritage 14
Location of Schools %
North 16
Centre 26
South 49
Islands 9
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6. In addition to the Italian examples cited in the working papers of
the meeting
•The Artisan Craft - Welcome to my shop! (Venice / Association of Cfraftsman with Unesco
Regional Office
•over 3,500 students (over the last 5 years) from elementary, middle- and high-school levels in learning crafts:
•blacksmithing,
•boat building,
• shoe-making
•hairdressing
•pastry-making
• Officine UNESCO, by Foundation Aristide Merloni and the Italian National Commission for UNESCO (Italy)
to train 40 young unemployed persons with a view to developing cultural and creative enterprises based on paper-
making. (Italian people, but 12 come from other countries including Armenia, Israel, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Georgia,
Tunisia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangladesh and Ghana. In this project education is instrumental in
safeguarding ICH as it promotes and revitalizes economic activities centred on the paper sector.
I will tell you some other examples selected from our institutional
activity as a Unit of national Ministry involved in promoting and
applying the UNESCO 2003 Convention in the field of EDUCATION
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7. ISTITUTO CENTRALE PER LA DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
Educational programs – The art’s craft – Printing with Stamps
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Topics
• traditional learning
• learning by doing
• cultural heritage of the
Museum (stamps) used as
tool to improve personal skills
on arts and abilities
Tools
• laboratories for young scholars

8. Italy
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www.almuseocon.beniculturali.it
Topics
• welcoming / friendly Museum
• new technologies
• immigrants, students,
disabled persons
• experience shared by many
partners : University –
Polytechnic of Milan, Schools,
ICOM-IT – Commission for
Accessibility, Association of
Civil Society - e.g.Ass. deaf
People, Association of
immigrant communities
Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” - Rome
“To tell Cultural Heritage”
by different eyes / visions
Tools
Visits Museum using a tablet presenting
different stories about particulars objects

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http://www.pigorini.arti.beniculturali.it/progetti-europei.html
http://www.soggettimigranti.beniculturali.it/index.php
Topics
•exchange of experiences and best
practices among museum curators
and diaspora associations
• Museums partners :
- Museé du quai Branly / Parigi
- Musée royal de l’Afrique Centrale /
Tervuren (Bruxelles)
- Museo Nazionale Preistorico
Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” – Roma
- Museum für Völkerkunde – Vienna
•Associations
- Associna
- Buudu Africa
- Comunidad Mexicana di Roma
- Comunidad Peruana di Roma
- Kel’Lam Onlus
Subjects migrants :
cooperation agreement
between some of the most
important ethnographic
museums in Europe
Activities
- Meetings
- Exhibitions
- Competition of ideas / projects

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Topics
• from India, Thailand, Indonesia and
China and important specimens of
the Italian tradition
• Partner : Ministry of Education,
Embassy of India, Embassy of
Turkey, International Union of
Marionettes
Marionettes and puppets between
East and West from the collection of
Maria Signorelli
Tools / Activities
• Guided tours and laboratories
• Model of shadow to cut out and
assemble
• Creation of templates for animation or
paper cropped

11. Italy
• It’s a summary of the folk
tradition of Northern Italy.
Protecting the Party in the yard
means protecting the traditions
that tell of rural Italy yesterday
and today
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Working in progress of ICH02 - Party in the yard
Application for inscription on the Representative
List proposed by a
Primary School of San Pietro in Cerro 2013/14

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Education through Community-based documentation
According to Article 11 of the Convention, and to the UNESCO impulse in an
involvement of communities, groups and relevant NGOs in the identification and
definition and safeguarding of elements of the ICH
We are testing two Inventorying programmes from bottom-up level, focused on
the participation between different agents such as
• professional anthropologists
• regional cultural institutions
• academic students
• local associations
• communities and groups and individuals
1. “Rito Cocullese di San Domenico dei Serpari”, Cocullo territory (Abruzzo)
2. “Festa delle Passate o Barabbata”, Marta territory (Lazio Region)

13. Italy
I will try to answer the questions posed in the working papers:
• Form ICH02 as a fundamental tool for shared work between
institutions / professionals / Universities / Civil Society /
Schools
• We are now working to write National Guidelines for
application of ICH Convention with section dedicated to
Education
• Good relationships by individuals
• Sharing experiences by professionals also working in
contiguous area, like “cultural diversity” (cfr. OMC Groups by
EU, and Reports) or the others International instruments, like
Convention of Faro (2005) leaded by Council of Europe
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION
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Final “Thoughts”

14. Italy
Italy - Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
General Secretariat
Unit I - Coordination and Studies
Mr.Emilio Cabasino – Mrs.Stefania Baldinotti
Via del Collegio Romano, 27
Italy – 00186 Roma
Tel.+39.06.67.23.26.82 / Fax +39.06.67.23.25.47
emilio.cabasino@beniculturali.it
stefania.baldinotti@beniculturali.it
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15. Annexes
- Institutional Framework
- Inventorying and Cataloguing
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16. ISTITUTO CENTRALE PER LA DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
Ministero dei Beni delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo
Ministry of the Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
Commissione
Nazionale per
l’UNESCO
SEGRETARIATO GENERALE
Servizio I, Coordinamento e Studi
Unit for UNESCO Conventions
1972 – World Heritage
2003 – Intangible Heritage
2005 – Diversity of Cultural Expression
2010 - Underwater Cultural Heritage
OTHER MINISTERIES INVOLVED
• Foreign Affairs
• Education
• Agriculture
• Peer Opportunities
• Environment
Local
Administrations
REGIONI (20)
PROVINCE (100)
COMUNI (8.100)
CIVIL SOCIETY
ISTITUTO CENTRALE PER IL CATALOGO E LA
DOCUMENTAZIONE
Central Institute for Cataloguing and
Documentation
ITALIAN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK ON ICH
UNIVERSITIES
Academic
Courses / Schools of
Specialisation in Cultural
Anthropology
General Directions,
Arts,Munuments, etc.
Regional Directions
Sectorial Soprintendenze
Following about
UNESCO Nomination
General Directorate for Promotion of CH
educational programs
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ISTITUTO CENTRALE PER LA DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari

17. Two levels of Inventory
• Inventory card, has 4 important items
• DEFINITION OF CULTURAL ELEMENTS
• WRITING ABOUT THE CARD
• LOCALIZATION : GEOGRAFICAL- ADMINISTRATION
• OCCASION /RECURRENCE
• Cataloguing card (more articulated – it needs a scientific study, a very good
documentation, and a cooperation in field work between Researchers and Communities)
If you are interesting about http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it
http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/254/beni-etnoantropologici
•The desiderability of adhering more closely to the requirements of the Unesco
Convention, including its requirements that the communities themselves
partecipate, suggested the adoption of an alternative tool, more responsive and
lightweight, which is currently under development by ICCD as MODI.
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18. INVENTORY
Italy has a public Office devoted to scheduling (operating with the local
Authority) all type of Heritage and since 1978 use cards for Intangible
Cultural Heritage.
The card for Intangible Cultural Heritage (BDI) has a peculiar items,
like :
• ceremonies and rituals
• ethnomusicology
• social practices
• religious practices
• traditional knowledge (handicraft and artisanship)
• body expressions (theater and choreography)
• Masterpieces of the Oral Intangible Heritage of Humanity
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19. In Italy there are also another Public Institution from the Ministry:
• Since 1928 we have the Discoteca di Stato, now Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed
Audiovisivi - ICBSA (Central Institute for Audio and Audiovisual Cultural Heritage)
300.000 Supports of audio and video and an important and unique Collection of Play
Machines
• and, from 2006 a Legal Depot of audiovisual products
(To know more : http://www.icbsa.it )
There are also other local inventories consisting of databases of various kinds
compiled in accordance with regional laws and managed by regional and local
authorities. These includes:
• Lazio Region- SIT ( Territorial Information System for Cultural Heritage);
• Lombardy Region- REIL ( Register of Intangible Heritage of Lombardy);
• Piedmont Region- ( Atlas of Folk Festivals in Piedmont);
• Sicily Region-REIS ( Register of Intangible Heritage of Sicily);
• Veneto Region ( Database of cultural heritage);
• ECHI-( Italian-Swiss Ethnographies Portal for Enhancing the Appreciation of Intangible
Heritage).
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