Greece – Mrs Stavroula Fotopoulou, Head of Department of Museums of Modern Cultural Heritage Hellenic Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports

1. Implementing the ICH
Convention in Greece, 2012-
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Stavroula –Villy Fotopoulou,
Head of Museums Department in Modern
Cultural Heritage Directorate, Hellenic
Ministry of Culture

2. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
Resolutions that begin to bear
fruit
 Organizing the 6th Annual SEE Meeting in
Athens enhanced the visibility of the 2003
Convention in Greece
 Collaborations with other agents in the field
of the ICH were made easier
 Greece was elected in the
Intergovernmental Committee of the
Convention, Paris, June 2012

3. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
 Formation of the National Committee for
the Implementation of the ICH Convention
 MoC’s Website for the ICH: ayla.culture.gr
 Translation of the Operational Guidelines
 Development of the template for the
National Inventory

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The Template for the
National Inventory
 Identification of the element
 Identification of the community, group
 Description
 Transmission
 Safeguarding Measures

5. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
Guidelines for Inventorying
 Emphasis on the community participation in every
stage of the inscription on the National Inventory
 Balance between expert phrasing - analysing the
element and the community evaluation of it
 Collaboration with institutions that have been
active since the beginning of the last century in
field work (and possess extensive repositories of
ethnographic documentation)

6. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
 New inscriptions in the National Inventory
selected mainly due to their contribution to:
– Sustainable Development: traditional crafts
such as wooden shipbuilding, marble-sculpting,
ethnobotanical knowledge etc.
– Intercultural Dialogue in the SEE Region:
aspects of common heritage in music, dance,
food etc.

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 Monitoring of Best Practices such as:
– The annual meeting-festival of Folk
Aerophones (craftsmen and musicians together)
– The coordination between wooden shipbuilders
in an Association to promote their craft
 With a view to dissemination, by promotion
to national level

8. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
Awareness Raising Plan
 Awareness -raising for the value of ICH in
co-operation :
– the Network of Modern Cultural Heritage
Museums and Institutions that document ICH,
– Communities
– Other Public Authorities that implement public
policies in the fields of Education, Sports,
Health, Agriculture and Food

9. Hellenic Minisrty of Culutre
 Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the 2003
Convention:
– Hosting of meetings in 4 Regions of Greece (places
selected because of the ICH elements that are
particularly pronounced in the Regions)
– A series of concerts of traditional and popular music in
the garden of the Museum of Greek Popular
Instruments
– One-day event in Athens by the end of Autumn for the
promotion of the ICH and the 2003 Convention

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