To create the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria, an Ddvisory Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage was set up when Austria ratified the Convention in 2009.
The Advisory Committee takes decisions using a criteria catalogue for the acceptance of the presented example of intangible cultural heritage in the National Inventories or in the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices by nominating components on national lists to international lists. Furthermore, the Advisory Committee can motivate NGOs to apply for accreditation as an advisory organisation at the intergovernmental committee.
Composition of the Advisory Committee :
- Representaties from five federal ministeries
- one representative from the culture departments in each of the nine federal states
- ten experts on the five areas of intangible cultural heritage set out in the Convention
Members of the Advisory Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (in alphabetical order)
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- Mag. Ursula BRUSTMANN
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research - Mag. Alfred GRIESHOFER
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism - Mag. Martin PAMMER
Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs - Dr Anna STEINER
Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport - Dr. Friederike ZECHMEISTER-MACHHART
Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
FEDERAL STATES
- Dr. Pia BAYER
Office of the Government of Burgenland - Dr. Isabel BIEDERLEITNER
Office of the Government of Upper Austria - Mag. Susanne FINK
Office of the Vorarlberg Government - Mag. Martin GRÜNEIS
Office of the Government of Lower Austria - Mag. Susanne HAYDER
Office of the Viennese Government - Mag. Evelyn KOMETTER
Office of the Styrian Government - Mag. Igor PUCKER
Office of the Carinthian Government - Mag. Eva VEICHTLBAUER
Office of the Government of Salzburg - Mag. Karl WIESAUER
Office of the Tyrolian Government
EXPERTS
- Dr. Christiane FENNESZ-JUHASZ
Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna - Prof. Dr. Ulrike KAMMERHOFER-AGGERMANN
Salzburger Landesinstitut für Volkskunde [Salzburg Institute of Ethnology] - Mag. Wolfgang LOBISSER
Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science - Mag. Elisabeth NIEDERMAYR
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna - Univ.Prof. Dr. Thomas NUSSBAUMER
Department of Musical Anthropology, Mozarteum University Salzburg - Mag. Dr. Hannes SCHEUTZ
Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg - Dr. Thomas TRABITSCH
Theater scholar and former director of the Austrian Theatre Museum, Vienna - Prof. Mag. Maria WALCHER
independent expert on intangible cultural heritage