How to activate and mobilize the new generation:
- Stimulate the new generation to learn about and own the knowledge and skills that carriers have.
- Convince and make the new generation aware that command of knowledge and skills is necessary for identity conservation, continuation and enhancement.
- Command of knowledge and skills is necessary when you want to revive important aspects of the intangible cultural richness, either changed or adapted to time.
Stimulation for the new generation:
- Give young people recognition and public support when they show interest in Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Give youngsters space to effectively build further on the basis constructed by the elderly.
- Give them support and recognition and create opportunities for them to present their knowledge and skills.
Contact between youngsters and the Living human treasure
- Bring the new generation in contact with carriers of culture. This can occur in:
- Schools
- Intramural institutes (boarding schools, prisons, rehab centers, etc.) [internat-prizòn-sentronan di rehabilitashon etc.]
- Community centers
- Family atmosphere
- Take the new generation to wherever the cultural pundit is.
Activities to pass knowledge to youngsters
Organize workshops, use television, radio and social media to:
- Teach youngsters traditional skills.
- Create a group of griots (storytellers, poets, troubadours, playwrights, lecturers) among local youngsters.
- Give oral history courses.
- Form Young Cultural Agents: offshoot agents.
- The carrier will help form the offshoot agents.
- Form Agents of light.
More activities to grab the interest of the new generation in Intangible Cultural Heritage and mobilize it:
- Organize tradition competition in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
- Organize festivals of Intangible Cultural Heritage.