Culture Related Category 2 Centres and Institutes

Culture Sector

1. International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS), Samarkand, Uzbekistan

2. International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations (IISNC), Ulan Bator, Mongolia

3. Nordic World Heritage Foundation (NWHF), Oslo, Norway

4. Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latin America (CRESPIAL), Cuzco, Peru

5. Regional Centre for Book Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC) Bogotá, Colombia

6. International Centre for Underwater Archaeology (ICUA), Zadar, Croatia

7. World Heritage Institute of Training and Research Institute for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITR-AP), China

8. African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), South Africa 

9. Institute for African culture and International Understanding Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

10. International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia and the Pacific Region, China

11. International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, Republic of Korea

12. International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, Japan

13. Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), Bahrain

14. Regional Heritage Management Training Centre, Brazil

15. Regional Research centre for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in West and Central Asia, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran 

16. Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sofia, Bulgaria

17. Regional World Heritage Institute, Zacatecas, Mexico 

18. Regional Centre for the Living Arts in Africa, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

19. Vigdis International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding, Reykjavik, Iceland

20. International Museum for Women in the Arts (IMWA), Amman, Jordan

21. Regional Centre for Contemporary Art, Doha, Qatar

22. International Center for Rock Art and the World Heritage Convention, Spain

23. International Centre on the Economics of Culture and World Heritage Studies, Turin, Italy 

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