Topic: cooperation

in April 2027 the Artefacta conference focusing on Sustainability and Heritage is held in Estonia. Co-organised by the UNESCO Chair.

In the EU funded CULTURALITY project, two years of mapping and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage has resulted in the creation of the Rural Crafting Archive, which is now available on the Virtual European Rural Artisans Platform (VERA).

The UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage dis marking the International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage with the inaugural lecture of Elo-Hanna Seljamaa.

Perspectives of Intangible Cultural Heritage, series of the UNESCO Chair

The roundtable Living Heritage as Resource was organised in Viljandi on October 18 by the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage (University of Tartu).

On 17 September at 18, the Opera Studio of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre presents Alessandro Scarlatti’s opera L’honestà negli amori (“Honesty in Love Affairs”, 1680), reconstructed by Estonian composer Eduard Tubin, at the University of Tartu’s assembly hall. This is the first time the opera will be performed in Estonia.

What does literature know, and how does it know it?

For Estonian museums a practical info kit on living heritage is going to be published in June. To this end, the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage (University of Tartu) collaborates with the Estonian Museum Association and the Estonian Folk Culture Centre.

Students are invited to apply for the blended intensive programme (BIP) Kaustinen ICH Academy taking place in Finland in July 2026. Participants will recieve an Erasmus+ grant.