Ramon de la Combé is a Master student of Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam and freelancer for various organizations in the field of cultural heritage. His interests include intangible heritage safeguarding practices, modern heritage and sportshistory. ramondelacombe@gmail.com Emily Drani is one of the founder members and executive director of the Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda. CCFU is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting culture as essential for equitable and sustainable development in Uganda. She is in charge of much of the Foundation’s research, its advocacy work and its strategic development. emily@crossculturalfoundation.or.ug Veronika Filkó is MA in History, Ethnography and Folklore Studies (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities) and teaching history and ethnography (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Budapest). She is PhD student in International relations, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Currently she works as the rapporteur of the Department of ICH at the Hungarian Open Air Museum. Research topics: implementation process of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the ICH; coat of arms on medieval stove tiles. She holds memberships of the Hungarian Society for Heraldry and Genealogy and the Hungarian Ethnographic Society, in which she works as a secretary of the Section for Ethnic Minorities since 2012. She participated and presented papers in several conferences and workshops
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on ICH (in Bratislava, Vienna, Olsztynek, Brussels and Ljubljana). The author was invited as an expert on the expert meeting and workshop on the implementation of the UNESCO-SCBD Joint Program on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity in the European Context in Florence, which resulted in the adoption of the Florence Declaration on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (Florence, April 11, 2014) filko.veroni@gmail.com Marc Jacobs is director of FARO. Flemish Interface for Cultural Heritage (www.faronet.be) and holder of the UNESCO chair on critical heritage studies and the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (www. vub.ac.be). He holds a MA in History from the University of Ghent (1985) and a PhD. in History from the VUB (1998). Marc Jacobs has been involved in drafting, elaborating, implementing and analyzing the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage since 2002. He was/is part of the Belgian delegation in the Intergovernmental Committee of that Convention between 2006 and 2008 and between 2012 and 2016. He is a member of the Flemish UNESCO Commission (2006-2016). Marc.Jacobs@faronet.be Ellen Janssens graduated from the department of Archeology at Ghent University in 2007. She gained her practical experience in the cultural heritage field working as a communication- and project assistant at FARO, the Flemish interface center
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