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10th Annual Meeting of the Regional Network of Experts on Intangible Cultural
Heritage in South-East Europe
Romania between Nature and Culture. Safeguarded Objectives and Challenges for the Future
World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Romania signs the 1972 Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on May, the 16th, 1990. Immediately after, 13 nominations are presented to the UNESCO commission, one succeeds approval on the following year: Danube Delta.
World Heritage List
1993: three more cultural items – churches from Moldavia, the monastery of Horezu and villages with fortified churches in Transylvania
World Heritage List
1999: Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, Historic Centre of Sighisoara and the wooden churches of Maramures
Romanian Tentative List grew in 2004, 2012 and 2015, it includes 15 sites
Public Consultation for the Revision of the
Romanian Indicative List
Roşia Montană – nature and culture
The next Romanian UNESCO Indicative List Nomination
7 kilometres of mining galleries, from the total of 80, date back to Antiquity. The site meets 5 UNESCO requirements. It is a cultural landscape with positive interaction between man and his natural environment.
Administrative Progress February 2016: the request was submitted to
the World Heritage Center;
March: a confirmation was received that the site meets the requirements from the Operational Guide and the submission will be analyzed by the World Heritage Committee WHC-16/40.COM/8A;
July 2016: the submission will be announced officially on the UNESCO web site, after the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee, in Istanbul.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Romania had until recently four elements on the list: Căluş Ritual [therapeutic group dance] (2008), Doina [traditional melancholic song] (2009), Craftsmanship of Horezu ceramics (2012) and Men’s group Caroling, Christmas-time ritual (trans-national file Romania – Republic of Moldova – 2013)
New Inscription: Lad’s Dances in Romania
December the 2th, 2015, decision 10.COM 10.b.25 adopted by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, gathered in Windhoek, Namibia from 30 November to 4 December 2015.
Academic Recognition
The Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Subsidiary awarded Zamfir Dejeu a badge of honour for his
successful work
Still a Challenge the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage, gathered in Windhoek, Namibia from 30 November to 4 December 2015 decided (10.COM 10.b.11) to invite Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova and Romania to resubmit the nomination of trans-national file Cultural practices associated to the first of March (No. 01093) for examination during a following cycle;
the working group has already finished the revision of the mártenitsa, martinki or mărţişor nomination and applied again at the end of March.
Further trans-national nominations in progress
Traditional wall-carpet craftsmanship in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, coordinated by Romania, submitted to UNESCO in March 2015.
Oina game (The Republic of Moldova)
The blouse with altiță (The Republic of Moldova)
Public Recognition of Living Human Treasures
November the 9th, 2015 – The Ministry of Culturethe National Commission for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and “D. Gusti” National Museum of the Village held “The Living Human Treasure Gala”. President Klaus Johannis himself offered decorations to creators declared “Living Human Treasures” from 2010 to 2015.
Making the Most Out of Opportunities
New Cultural Programmes Financed by the Ministry of Culture
ACCES supports cultural activities and projects from the following domains: visual arts/ architecture, written culture, cinematography/ audio-visual, theatre, intercultural dialogue, intangible heritage/ mobile cultural heritage.
CultIn is addressed to entrepreneurs from the creative and cultural industries: architecture, crafts, design, digital media
Administrative Shortcoming
The Crafts Law was initiated in 2007, the Senate discussed it but the regulation is still blocked at the Industries Commission while craftsmen struggle to resist a market flooded by Chinese
objects.
Intangible Cultural Heritage in “Young Romanian Hands”
Romanian Academy, Iaşi Subsidiary organizes a workshop each year in June, entitled “How and Why We Can Teach Traditional
Culture”
Thank you for your attention!