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CIOFF^® is an Official Partner of UNESCO, accredited to the UNESCO ICH Committee. Created in 1970, the duty of CIOFF^® is safeguarding, promotion and diffusion of traditional culture and folklore.

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CIOFF® President, Mr. Philippe Beaussant, elected as chairperson of the new NGO-Liaison Committee 2017-2018.

Wonderful news for CIOFF®: our President, Philippe Beaussant, has been elected chairman of NGO-Liaison Committee for 2017-2018 on 13th December 2016 during the 2016 International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) which has been held from 12 to 14 December 2016 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The 2016 Conference focused on the theme “The challenge of the digital revolution for NGOs” and has been organized around four subthemes: “The digital revolution and its impact on the diversity of cultural expressions”; “The challenge of access to digital information”; “Does e-learning address challenges of education systems worldwide?”; and, “Science and the digital revolution: which ethical implications?”. The Conference has been a key forum in which UNESCO’s official NGO partners met to review the state of cooperation with UNESCO. This year’s Conference has been providing a welcome opportunity to examine collective NGO action carried out in 2015 and 2016, and is adopting the main lines of collective cooperation for 2017-2018. (Display the following...)

More than 350 persons belonging to 140 NGO’s from all over the world attended to this important Conference. Mrs. Magdalena Tovornik, CIOFF® Representative to UNESCO also attended the Meeting and she had an interesting speech during the Conference. This great achievement put CIOFF® in a more visible position at UNESCO: we are increasing more and more and we must thank the important job made by our President, the EXCO and all CIOFF® actors who work all over the world. Ad Maiora, Mr. President!