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Creation/création : 1950 Domains/domaines : - performing arts Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - promotion, enhancement - revitalization	Established in 1950 and celebrating its 57th anniversary this year, the National Theater of Korea (hereinafter referred to NTOK) has been a leading performance hall, promoting the nation’s performing arts. In conjunction with its four resident companies - the National Drama Company of Korea, the National Changgeuk Company of Korea, the National Dance Company, and the National Orchestra of Korea - the National Theater strives to globalize Korean traditional arts and recreate it with a modern interpretation. The challenge of…	Republic of Korea / République de Corée	00377
National Theatre, National Troupe of Nigeria [en] National Theatre Complex Iganmu Lagos Lagos state P.O.Box 6347 SHOMOLU Nigeria	Domains/domaines : - oral traditions and expressions - performing arts		Nigeria / Nigéria	00683
National University of Cultural Heritage [en] (323-812) 430 Habjeong-ri KYUAMMYEON Buyeo-gun, Chungchungnam-do Republic of Korea http://english.nuch.ac.kr [phone]	Creation/création : 1996 Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - promotion, enhancement - transmission, (non-)formal education	The establishment of the Korean National University of Cultural Heritage was justified by Presidential Decree 14982 and found in 1996 under Cultural Heritage Administration. The Korean National University of Cultural Heritage is a special institution for higher education established under the CHA to train heritage specialists in the scientific and professional management of cultural heritage. In particular, the University, which is specially designed to foster professionals in the fields of both tangible and intangible heritage, has systematically implemented a…	Republic of Korea / République de Corée	00399
Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation - NTDC [en] Federal secretariat Area One Garki ABUJA Nigeria http://www.tourism.gov.ng/			Nigeria / Nigéria	00697
Nigerian Folklore Society [en] Nigeria	Creation/création : 1980	Cooperation/coopération: The Society is assisted by the governement. Folklore	Nigeria / Nigéria	00209
Nihon Kogeikai [en] Tokyo National Museum 13-9 Ueno Park Taito-ku TOKYO 110-0007 Japan http://www.nihon-kogeikai.com [phone] [e-mail]	Creation/création : 1998 Domains/domaines : - traditional craftsmanship Participation in statutory meetings/aux réunions statutaires : 2.COM	NIHON KOGEIKAI intends to preserve the intangible cultural assets and train successors, conforming to the spirit of the law, by promoting further relations between artists and technologists to train the technique, making a profound study of traditional art crafts, as well as preserving and applying it to be improved, so that we would contribute to the improvement of culture. To popularize Japanese traditional art crafts, it holds some annual exhibitions by every branch office and section as well as by…	Japan / Japon	00093
Nike Art Gallery [en] Chief Mrs. Nike Davies - Okundaye Nike Gallery 4 Augustine Anozie Street (formely RD.11c) Off Admirally Way Lekki Estate Phase I Lekki Peninsula - LAGOS Nigeria http://www.nikeart.com/artcenters... 234 12705964 / 12705965 / 8033036969 / 8034096656 [e-mail]; [e-mail]	Domains/domaines : - performing arts - traditional craftsmanship		Nigeria / Nigéria	00695
Norwegian Crafts Development - NHU [en] [Norsk Handverksutvikling] Maihaugen Maihaugveien 1 2609 LILLHAMMER Norway http://www.nhu.no [phone] [e-mail]; [e-mail]	Creation/création : 1988 Domains/domaines : - knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe - traditional craftsmanship Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - preservation, protection - revitalization - transmission, (non-)formal education	Objectives/objectif: To protect, preserve, pass on and develop crafts as skills and knowledge, as expression and as a profession. NHUs aims to maintain and strenghthen crafts that are concidered to be rare and worthy of protection. Activities/activités: 1- Register of Craftsmen: Since 1987 the NHU has been responsible fDr a national Register of craftsmen/women. Today the register of Norwegian Craftsmen/women is searchable on the web. It provides craftsmen and craftswomen with an excellent marketing channel and gives documentation of their activities/skills. The register secures historical important information about craftsmen/women. 2- Projects Concerning the transfer and documentation of crafts skills and knowledge: Through a large number of projects we ensure that tradistional crafts are passed on. A particular emphasis is… Cooperation/coopération: One of the main tasks of NHU is cooperation and identifying practiconers of commmunities, groups and intangible heritage practiconers within a wide variety of endangered crafts. NHU has a policy of taking both male and female traditions into consideration and is at present looking into the possibility of identifying and strengthen crafts within traditional ethnic minorities. Through the whole history of NHU working with local communities and practiconers from the whole country has been the policy. Thus projects have…	Norway / Norvège	00097
Organisation pour la promotion des médecines traditionnelles - PROMETRA [fr] BP 6134 Dakar-Etoile Senegal http://www.prometra.org (221) 33 832-2850 [e-mail]; [e-mail]	Domains/domaines : - knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe	Objectives/objectif: PROMETRA International est autant un organisme de recherche culturelle, de pratique médicale et de diffusion scientifique qu’un instrument panafricain d’intégration et de relations internationales à travers la revalorisation des médecines traditionnelles, des religions anciennes, des savoirs endogènes et de la spiritualité universelle. PROMETRA International a 23 représentations à travers le monde dont 17 en Afrique et jouit depuis 2004 d’un Accord de Siège qui lui confère une reconnaissance diplomatique au Sénégal, pays abritant son siège. Les activités menées par… Activities/activités: PROMETRA International bénéficie d’une expérience de plusieurs années d’organisation et de mobilisation des dépositaires de savoirs et de savoir-faire traditionnels, pour la réhabilitation des valeurs de la civilisation de l’Afrique, de sa diaspora, et celle des humanités en général. En dehors de son antenne basée aux USA, toutes les représentations nationales de PROMETRA International établissent des relations de partenariat, de respect mutuel et de confiance réciproque avec les dignitaires de la culture et de la sagesse des groupements communautaires… Cooperation/coopération: PROMETRA International a des expériences multiples, multiformes, pluridisciplinaires, multisectorielles et spécifiques par rapport à ses représentations nationales et aux groupes ethniques selon les pays concernés. Voici quelques cas de figures illustrant les relations avec les praticiens du patrimoine culturel immatériel de pays pris à titre d’exemples. - Au Sénégal Le Xoy est une séance de voyance publique traditionnelle que PROMETRA International organise chaque année avec les Saltigi grands maîtres voyants de l’ethnie seereer. Pratique immatérielle de très haute portée, le…	Senegal / Sénégal	00295
Orpheus Cultural Connections [en] Suite C36B Commerce Plaza Area 1 Garki ABUJA Nigeria [phone] [e-mail]			Nigeria / Nigéria	00685
Osmangazi University Folklore Research and Training Center - HAMER [en] [Osmangazi Üniversitesi Halkbilim Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi] Meşelik Kampusu 26480 ESKISEHIR Turkey 222.239 37 50 (10 Line) /1454 [e-mail]	Creation/création : 2001	Objectives/objectif: HAMER opposes data collecting from an archivist’s point of view and aims to publish research results both at national and international levels. Also it aims to comment on their results by the help of modern approaches and transmit them to the analytic phases.	Turkey / Turquie	00227
Oxlajunti’ S.C. Avenida Zinacantán No. 2 Colonia Erasto Urbina SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS Chiapas - CP 29217 Mexico 01 967 87676 [e-mail]	Budget : US$1000 Domains/domaines : - knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe - oral traditions and expressions - social practices, rituals and festive events Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - promotion, enhancement	Oxlajunti’SC es una organización integrada por indígenas hablantes de las lenguas tseltal, tsotsil, ch’ol, tojolab’al, zoque y mam de Chiapas, México. A partir de la experiencia adquirida en diversos campos y espacios de trabajo de manera individual a lo largo de más de 20 años, se logró el 10 de marzo de 2006 articular todas estas experiencias en el trabajo de recopilación, escritura, traducción, difusión y publicación de tradiciones orales; asimismo realiza actividades de promoción de la escritura e…	Mexico / Mexique	00233
Padmashri. Gayatri Sankaran, A/G4, Mahaveer Apartments, 4, East Coast Road, Thiruvanmiyur, CHENNAI - 600 041 India			India / Inde	00390
Parc naturel régional de la Narbonnaise - PNR [fr] Domaine de Montplaisir 11100 NARBONNE France http://www.parc-naturel-narbonnai... +33 (0)4.68.42.23.70 [e-mail]		Activities/activités: Le Parc est composé de 29 communes de l’Aude	France / France	00065
Patronato Nacional del Misteri d’Elche [es] [Patronat del Misteri d’Elx] Carrer Major de la Vila, 27 03202 ELX Spain http://www.misteridelx.com 965 456 112 [e-mail]	Participation in statutory meetings/aux réunions statutaires : 3.COM		Spain / Espagne	00194
Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation - PFF [en] [Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα] 1, Vassileos Alexandrou str., 21100 Nafplio Greece http://ipml.ee.duth.gr/pli/ [phone] [e-mail]	Creation/création : 1974 Domains/domaines : - performing arts - traditional craftsmanship Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - promotion, enhancement	Objectives/objectif: The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation "V. Papantoniou" (PFF) has been compiling, arranging, preserving and publishing different elements of the Greek and foreign folk culture which is an important part of the intangible cultural heritage. The foundation wishes to stress the connection between anthropology and cultural studies, in order to project the aspects of contemporary social reality. A collection involves things, but the actual process of collecting presents relationships, between people as subjects, and between things as objects. So we come to… Activities/activités: Research Center: The PFF’s programmes of scientific activities include projects being conducted throughout Greece with the objective of recording and studying the folk culture, costume, music and dance, pre-industrial technology, children and children’s toys. National Traditional Costume Archives: In 1989 the PFF in collaboration with the Museum of Greek Folk Art as part of the Ministry of Culture set up a research team, which, in the same year, started a pilot project on the study of the particular features of costumes in… Cooperation/coopération: The PFF has organized many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, trying to maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage. The most important of which are the following: -Nafplion 1981, the exhibition devoted to the production, elaboration and use of natural fibres in Greece mid 19th to mid 20th c. was the starting point of the interest in museology shown by all the small and many of the large museums in Greece. the pff won the European museum of the year main award…	Greece / Grèce	00074
Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria - PMAN [en] PMAN International Headquarteres 18 Adegbola Street Off 1 Obafemi Awolowo Way , Anifowoshe Ikeja LAGOS Nigeria http://pmanonline.net/index.html [phone] / [phone] [e-mail]	Creation/création : 1982 Domains/domaines : - oral traditions and expressions - performing arts	Objectives/objectif: - To organize an Association of musicians who are engaged in the employment of the services of musical instrumentalist, producers, entertainment managers, arrangers etc in the performance of their duties, under a virile, strong and united body for their mutual benefits and welfare. - To promote the study, practice and dissemination of the knowledge of music and musicology throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria. (i) To establish the machinery for negotiations between the Association and the representatives of…	Nigeria / Nigéria	00690
Petra band for popular folklore [en] Maan Governorate Petra Region Jordan			Jordan / Jordanie	00569
Point of support for industrial and scientific heritage - SIWE [en] [Steunpunt Industrieel en Wetenschappelijk Erfgoed vzw.] Stapelhuisstraat 15 3000 LEUVEN Belgium http://www.siwe.be [phone] [e-mail]	Creation/création : 1996 Budget : US$124110 Domains/domaines : - industrial and scientific heritage Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - preservation, protection - promotion, enhancement - transmission, (non-)formal education	Objectives/objectif: - SIWE vzw stands up for the preservation, the study and an increased accessibility and revaluation of industrial and scientific patrimony in Flanders and Brussels. - SIWE vzw wants to acquire or receive in loan all objects or archives that document the evolution of knowledge and techniques in industry and science. - SIWE vzw makes an inventory and restores all representative objects and documents, whether we own them or receive them in loan. - SIWE vzw organises educational programmes, meetings, visits… Activities/activités: SIWE vzw stimulates collaboration between heritage participants. Siwe vzw is on one hand a platform for everyone involved in industrial and scientific heritage in Flanders and Brussels : - Studying, saving, cataloguing and restoring industrial and scientific heritage relics. - Supporting and informing organisations and everyone concerned with industrial and scientific heritage: exhibitions, lectures and meetings (also in situ), a study- and documentation centre, advising, ublication of a newsletter and a magazine, dducational activities, building a heritage-network. Cooperation/coopération: On the other hand SIWE vzw is a member of several Flemish organisations: Contactforum voor Erfgoedverenigingen (VCM) , Flemish Centre for Popular Culture (VCV), and international organisations: The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). SIWE also participates at international seminars concerning industrial en scientific heritage.	Belgium / Belgique	00127
Popular Heritage Regeneration Society [en] DAMASCUS Syrian Arab Republic		Located in Damascus, it has branches in Syrian governorates and it is member in Syrian Net of Civilization Dialogue in the world	Syrian Arab Republic / République arabe syrienne	00237
Popular Heritage Vivification Society in Damascus [en] Barzeh Al-Um Tichreen Hospital St Jadet Al Turath Syrian Arab Republic 5110415	Creation/création : 2003 Domains/domaines : - knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe - oral traditions and expressions - performing arts - social practices, rituals and festive events - traditional craftsmanship Measures/Measure : - identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) - promotion, enhancement		Syrian Arab Republic / République arabe syrienne	00622
Popular and theatre arts [en] Alkarak Governorate Jordan	Domains/domaines : - performing arts		Jordan / Jordanie	00565
Profesionales de la Cultura en Aragón A.C. - PROCURA [es] ZARAGOZA Spain http://www.procura.org/ [e-mail]	Creation/création : 2003	Objectives/objectif: a) Cooperar en el desarrollo y mejora de la Cultura en Aragón en todas sus manifestaciones y aspectos favoreciendo la renovación de los medios tradicionales de planificar, comunicar y organizar programas culturales, así como de generar nuevas ideas que activen los procesos de creación cultural y su difusión. Aragón, en razón de sus endémicos atrasos, debe realizar un gran esfuerzo para normalizar el sector de la cultura creando polos de referencia más dinámicos y con…	Spain / Espagne	00183
Protection Center of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China [en] Jia No. 1, Huixinbeili, Chaoyang District Beijing China 0086-10-64927631 / 64813390	Creation/création : 2006 Domains/domaines : - knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe - oral traditions and expressions - performing arts - social practices, rituals and festive events - traditional craftsmanship	Objectives/objectif: Under the guidance of China’s legal documents and the “Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage”, the Research Center has launched many projects to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage with the aim of ensuring the succession of the intangible cultural heritage, improving awareness of the Chinese people and even people from Asian Pacific Region on the importance of the intangible cultural heritage. It has played and will play an active role in promoting dialogues and respecting human… Activities/activités: Under the guidance of China’s legal documents and the government, we take on the works on safeguarding China’s intangible cultural heritage, such as participate in drafting the legal papers on the protection of first-class national intangible cultural heritage; establish the list of national masterpieces of intangible cultural heritage; appraise the representative successors of national masterpieces of intangible cultural heritage, investigate and evaluate the “Ethnical Cultural Ecological Reserves”. We also fulfill the obligations as one of the founders of “Convention… Cooperation/coopération: We establish sound cooperation with nongovernmental organizations and universities like China Folklore Society, China Nationalities Society, China Society for the Study of Folk Literature and Art, Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Tibetology Research Center, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Central University for Nationalities, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Normal University, China Conservatory. We also set share system with more than 1000 management…	China / Chine	00419
Punjab Arts Council - PAC [en] Sector-16 CHANDIGARH