NICHE

Intangible Cultural
Heritage

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is the practice, representation, expression, knowledge/skills considered by UNESCO to be part of a place’s cultural heritage...

NICHE

Intangible Cultural
Heritage

...It comprises nonphysical intellectual property, such as folklore, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge and language. EU official papers confirm that Intangible Cultural Heritage is crucially important for socio-economic development

Intellectual outputs

Provided tools

Mapping

NICHE gives concrete answers to the need of defining a precise skill-set for people involved in Intangible Cultural Heritage. The lack of tailored training in this field is underlined by the EU Commission Report of June 2019...

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Training

NICHE Training includes training content and materials accompanied by sources and resources (like operational examples, cases studies, good practices, guidelines and taxonomy)...

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Blueprint

The “NICHE Blueprint for Uptake” are operational guidelines for other organisations (VET providers, ICH associations and organisations, policy makers) of the ICH ecosystem to advance and improve the ways ICH...

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About NICHE

NICHE Project

PROJECT

EU official papers confirm that Intangible Cultural Heritage is crucially important for socio-economic development:

Council of EU “Conclusions on Cultural Heritage as a Strategic Resource for a Sustainable EU”
EU Commission “Towards an Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage for EU”
EU Commission “Getting Cultural Heritage to Work for EU”

ICH is more important for the EU economy than the entire automotive sector: over 300,000 people work in the EU cultural heritage sector. Almost 8 million jobs in the EU are indirectly linked to heritage (tourism, interpretation, security). For each direct job, the heritage sector produces 26.7 indirect jobs. This compares with 6.3 indirect jobs created for each direct job in the car industry.

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