Hoi An Center for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation is under the directnadministration of Hoi An City People’s Committee. The Center was founded by Quang NamnProvincial People’s Committee at the request of the Hoi An City Chairperson and the Director ofnQuang Nam Province Department of Home Affairs.\nThe Center is responsible for administratively managing, researching, preserving, and promotingnthe values of Hoi An cultural heritage. The Center also jointly manages the Cu Lao Cham – Hoi AnnWorld Biosphere Reserve.

As one of the most complete surviving historic city centers with a multicultural living heritage on the Straits of Malacca, George Town was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2008, together with Melaka. To manage, monitor, and promote the George Town World Heritage Site, George Town World Heritage Incorporated (gtwhi.com.my) was established in 2010 by the state government of Penang.\nGTWHI works closely with the council and community to overcome day-to-day challenges with regard to promoting sustainable tourism, revitalizing traditional trades, remodeling local market ecology, redefining the use of space, and driving residents back to the city center. We also accumulate baseline data through systematic and scientific research to develop mid- and long-term heritage conservation programs and policies. Our approaches are highly organic and community based, and we take serious commitments to sustain the coexistence of diversity, which is divided according to geographical area, linguistic groups, religious identity, and social status.

The Hue Academy of Music is an educational institution that provides training and conductsnresearch and musical performances in the regions of Central and Central Highlands of Vietnam. ThenAcademy has a mission to train human resources in the field of music at post-high school, college,nuniversity, and postgraduate levels; to conduct scientific research; to perform all kinds of musicalngenres; to adopt the essence of world music; to promote the values of musical heritage in order tonmeet the cause of preserving and developing the musical art of the country, especially of the Centralnand Central Highlands regions.

The Cultural Heritage Association of Vietnam (CHAV) is a social and professional organization thatnbrings together organizations and individuals engaged in professional activities or passionate aboutncultural heritage, contributing to the protection and promotion of its values. Established throughnthe Decision No. 28/2004/QD-BNV by the Minister of Home Affairs on 23 April 2004, CHAV worksnacross the country under the administration and auspices of the Ministry of Culture andnInformation. Within its mandates regulated by law CHAV regularly establishes collaboration withnnational and international organizations and individuals. The initiative of establishing annassociation advocating for the preservation of monuments and museums dates back to the earlyn1990s when the Department of Conservation and Museology, currently the Department of CulturalnHeritage, first drafted the operative regulations of the association. Especially after the promulgationnof the Law on Cultural Heritage in many seminars and in the media, numerous researchers andnenthusiasts of national culture expressed their wish for prompt establishment of the association. Innearly 2004, the Mobilizing Committee for the establishment of CHAV was officially accredited by thenMinistry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism).

\nAssociation of Vietnamese Folklorists (AVF), established in 1967, is an organization focusing onncollecting, researching, and promoting folklore cultures in Vietnam. The Association aggregatesnofficial and unofficial folklorists across the country and cooperates with governments at differentnlevels to establish programs and projects that aim at promoting values of traditional culturalnelements of different ethnic communities in Vietnam. In addition, AVF also consults governmentnand non-government organizations in activities and programs related to folklore. AVF has 78nbranches in different locations of which there are 48 branches in the North and 30 ones in the Southnof Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Academy of Music is an institution under the Ministry of Culture, Sports andnTourism. The academy provides training programs at undergraduate, graduate and lower levels innmany professional musical disciplines. The academy has the mission to train music personnel andnartists in music composition, performance, research, criticism (musicology), and pedagogy.

The Center for Scientific and Cultural Activities Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam belongs to the Hanoi CitynDepartment of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The Center has the mission of managing, preserving,nand organizing activities related to the national monument Temple of Literature and thenVietnamese ancient system of competitive examinations.

The Center for Research and Promotion of Cultural Heritage (CCH), an affiliate institution of thenCultural Heritage Association of Việt Nam, a non-governmental organization (NGO) accredited bynUNESCO in 2011, has been officially operating since 2010. In pursuance of study objectives basednon the community within the framework of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the safeguarding ofnthe intangible cultural heritage, CCH has carried out dozens of ICH projects and study themes fornthe past 8 years. One of the principles of CCH is to be chiefly connected to the study of communities. This has helpednin bringing about good achievements and sustainable development in study projects of CCH.\nLeaders of the Center are specialists in the field of intangible cultural heritage involving in thenimplementation of the 2003 Convention for the past 15 years. The number of projects and programsnimplemented by CCH each year constantly increased with new ones. CCH has become a truly usefulnbridge, linking state management bodies with communities; an organization that always assistncommunities in the safeguarding and promotion of their intangible cultural heritage. CCH isncurrently the leading organization under the Vietnam Association for Cultural Heritage in thensafeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. It has closely collaborated with a wide range ofnorganizations and institutions, especially local communities, in safeguarding projects that involveninventorying, heritage education, preparation of nominations, and exhibition.

The Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) is a non-profit Vietnamese NGO working with disadvantaged and poor people, especially ethnic minorities, to improve their livelihood and maintain their traditional ways of life. SRD has three main areas of work: sustainable forestry, climate smart agriculture, and mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Founded in 2007 by three former employees of ‘Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité CIDSE’, a now-defunct Belgian NGO in Vietnam, SRD has inherited their experience as highly skilled practitioners who are still working for the organization.

Kalamandir Saksham SHG Federation is run by artisans and is a registered society. It has been promoted to market and sale artifacts, paintings etc through a unique showroom at heart of the city of Jamshedpur. It is a place where every tourist, educationist and corporate executives visit. It is a self sustained enterprise being run since 2007 under the guidance of 117 active artisan members. Kalamandir is an organisation that believes in preserving and restoring tribal art and culture. Kalamandir is engaged in nurturing a sense of aesthetics about tribal art among individuals, communities, organisations and social groups. The target groups of Kalamandir are tribal artisans/ artists/ women and youth. All these groups are deprived and have no voice or any kind of social or political platform. The multi-cultural, multi-lingual vibrancy of tribal communities residing in the state of Jharkhand is being eroded due to mining, deforestation, lack of political will, corruption and administrative apathy.\nKalamandir operates with a vision to foster necessity and accessibility of arts and aesthetics in our day to day social life. We are engaged in constantly supporting, nurturing and disseminating the finer aesthetic sense among individuals, communities, organisation s and social groups. Countering the mono culture, we look for a creative, dynamic and diversified environment for the young minds among tribes and non-tribes of Jharkhand - who are full of finer senses.

The Asia Dance Culture Institute, under the Department of Ethnic Dance at Gyeongsang National University, staged a Korean traditional dance performance on November 11, 2019, which consisted of taepyeongmu (dance of great peace; Korean National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 92), salpurichum (exorcism dance; Korean National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 46), Dongnae hallyangchum (playboy dance of Dongnae; Busan Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 14) and Jindo bukchum (drum dance of Jindo; Jeollanam-do Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 18). The conceptual theme of the performance was to envisage the prestige of Korean traditional dance and facilitate its encounter with artificial intelligence (AI) robots in the coming era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.\nIt was regarded in dance circles as the first experimental performance of a traditional dance involving an AI robot in Korea. nSince its launch in 2007, the Asia Dance Culture Institute has identified, inherited and developed Asian dance, and furthermore, disseminated it widely in Korea and abroad with the aim to promote the greatness of Asian choreographed arts. It also endeavors to develop cultural contents for Asian dance through academic conferences and education projects. This year, we ventured to perform “Dialogue Between Dance and Robots” as a regular performance of the Asian Traditional Dance Company. Our time-honored dance that has been inherited from the distant past through the lasting accumulation of time is said to be a product into which the past and the present have been condensed and converged. The moment such traditional dance encounters engineering science, we can cautiously begin to anticipate the upcoming future. In the not-so-distant future, perhaps we will feel that AI and robots are our close companions in life, as opposed to simple tools, as we enter into the era of the fourth industrial revolution. It would not be an exaggeration to speculate that this work of collaboration between humans and robots on stage represents a new world that awaits us. The Asia Dance Culture Institute will continue its efforts to create new content that will be born from the convergence of intangible cultural heritage and artificial intelligence.

The National Intangible Heritage Center (NIHC, Director Hong-dong Kim), a national institution under the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea, was officially opened in the city of Jeonju, Republic of Korea, in October 2014.\nIntangible cultural heritage is a valuable form of cultural asset that contains greater internal meaning than is visible on the surface, and its importance continues to grow every day. However, due to the non-physical nature of intangible cultural heritage, there are challenges to safeguarding and transmitting it, especially since the cultural element itself can be lost when its bearer passes on.\nCurrently, there are 132 state-designated elements of important intangible cultural heritage in Korea with 174 bearers, and 38 of these have been identified as being in a vulnerable state of viability with poor foundations for transmission or insufficient numbers of bearers.\nThe NIHC fulfills comprehensive functions for safeguarding and strengthening transmission foundations for intangible cultural heritage, including vulnerable elements, while supporting the independent viability and revitalization of traditional arts and crafts.