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The Norwegian Crafts Institute – a centre of intangible cultural heritage
• The Norwegian Crafts Institute was established in 1987. Its objective is to safeguard
traditional crafts and raise awareness of and respect for craft traditions, in accordance
with UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.
• The institute:
– has worked as a UNESCO-accredited NGO since 2009 and plays a key role in
the ICHNGO forum and the online magazine Heritage alive. Both activities are
strongly linked to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage from an international
perspective.
– was elected in 2016 as a four-year member of the Evaluation body for the
Intergovernmental Committee of the 2003 UNESCO Convention.
– runs projects for documentation and training in traditional crafts with funding
from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture. The projects span
from food production and textile handicrafts to boatbuilding and housebuilding
techniques.
– runs most of their projects in Norway, but also has broad experience from international
projects run in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, Scotland, Bulgaria,
Georgia and Iceland, The restoration of the wooden old town in Kuldiga
resulted in the Europa Nostra prize in 2013.
– administers the pilot project NordNet ICH with the objective of establishing
a communication platform for the exchange and discussion of good safeguarding
practices between the Nordic countries. Representatives from Finland,
Sweden, Iceland and Greenland – mostly NGOs – constitute the project
group.
– administers related activities, such as the National Register of Craftsmen, the
Secretariat of Rare and Protected Crafts and the network Advancing the Crafts.
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