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The president of EAFF has shared knowledge
andexperience in the “Silk Road -
ICH Network 2020” Webinar
President of the European Association of Folklore Festivals, Mr Kaloyan Nikolov has shared his experience
and knowledge in the Webinar: Life, Environment, and ICH along the Silk Roads & Strategic Meeting on Silk
Roads ICH Networking.
Mr Nikolov was one of the twenty fifth experts from ten countries who have given recommendations in the field,
during the online forum that was held on 18th and 19th of November 2020.
The aim of the webinar is to create mechanisms to ensure the effective sharing of information related to ICH
safeguarding.
ICHCAP intends to undertake activities to enhance access to and the availability of ICH information and
strengthen information and networking capacity, targeting ICH stakeholders.
As part of these efforts, ICHCAP has teamed up with Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat and
IICAS to develop a survey about ICH festivals along the Silk Roads. This program is the first phase of a longerterm
commitment to extend the network to include other ICH forms in the future.
ICHCAP has supported
ICH networking in Central
Asia, the northern Silk Roads
axis, for the past decade. ICH-
CAP and Uzbekistan signed
a three-party MOU to activate
the Silk Road intangible
cultural heritage network in
2019, which was followed by a
Central Asia Sub-regional network
meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan,
2019.
Two-day program of the
webinar was live on the
YouTube channel of ICHCAP
in English, Korean and Russian
languages.
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