SDG Detail

Living Heritage and Sustainable Development

MOOC

Project description

The course draws on their longstanding expertise, the experiences of communities engaged in transmitting their living heritage and ten years of implementing UNESCO�s global capacity building programme for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

Year 2021

Location United States

Organization SDG Academy X

Project aims

Gain a better understanding of intangible cultural heritage and its relationships with sustainable development, exploring examples and experiences of communities from around the world.

Project outcome

Learn about - Knowledge about living heritage and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage; - The role of communities in keeping their heritage alive; - The relationship between intangible cultural heritage safeguarding and relevant development areas such as gender equality, cultural diversity and creativity, education, health, income generation and natural disasters and peacebuilding; - The interdependence between the safeguarding of living heritage and sustainable development; - Communities� experiences of safeguarding their living heritage for sustainable development in diverse cultural contexts.