Conferences

December 12nd to 14th, 2025

National Bread Celebration

NORRKÖPING, SWEDEN

October 24th to 26th, 2025

Behind Forme of Cheese Valleys

BERGAMO, ITALY

September 12th to 14th, 2025

UNESCO Creative Cities Network Tamba-Sasayama International Conference

TAMBA SASAYAMA, JAPAN

July 22nd to 23rd, 2025

UNESCO Food Atlas initiative, Food for Thought – Foodways and Partnerships for Sustainable Development Goals

PARIS, FRANCE

February 5th to 7th, 2025

UNESCO Creative Cities Sub-Network Meeting on Crafts and Folk Art

AL-AHSA, KSA

December 21st, 2024

Bread Creativity Event: a Celebration of Tradition, Innovation, and Cultural Dialogue

DOHA, QATAR

September 19th – 22th, 2024

“Carta è Cultura” Event

FABRIANO, ITALY

July 20th, 2024

“C/Art creatives in Dialogue” Event

CARRARA, ITALY

May 24th – 26th, 2024

Crafts & Folk Art Cluster Meeting

Ballarat, australia

January 12th – 14th, 2024

International Craft Summit

JAJPUR, INDIA

 November 24th, 2023

“LAB/HUB SAPERI IN MOVIMENTO” Event

CARRARA, ITALY

September 25th, 2023

GENOA INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW 2023

GENOA, ITALY 

September, 2023

“GASTRO DIPLOMACY” Boot Camp

POLLICA, ITALY 

July 2nd, 2023

“Sagra della Cipolla dolce di Plagnona e Fiera dell’agricoltura” 2022

VAL DI VARA, ITALY 

September 26th – October 4th, 2022

ICCROM Seminar ‘The UNESCO Creative Cities Network’

 

August 10th-14th, 2022

North American Creative Cities Forum

QUERÉTARO, MEXICO

June 29th, 2022

Foundation and Philanthropies Roundtable

KATOWICE, POLAND

November 5th-7th, 2021

XIX CONGRESSO GASTRONOMICO

POPAYÁN, COLOMBIA

 

October 26th, 2021

GASTRONOMY, INTANGIBLE HERITAGE TO THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE

BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL
Virtual Event

September 24th-26th, 2021

Creativity Forum: Carrara for the Creative Cities

CARRARA, ITALY

September 17th, 2021

Con-Vivere

CARRARA, ITALY

October 21th-23th, 2020

CONFERENCE ON HERITAGE CUISINE

PORTOVEJO, ECUADOR
Virtual Event

September 26th, 2020

XVIII INTERNATIONAL FORUM WORLD HERITAGE AND CONTAMINATION

NAPLES, ITALY
Virtual Event

October 30th to November 1st, 2025

Annual Assembly of the UNESCO Network of Creative Cities of Gastronomy

MERIDA, MEXICO

October 18th to 19th, 2025

FLAVOURS WITHOUT BORDERS – Cultural Dialogue Through Food: A Dialogue Between Saudi and Italian Culinary Traditions

VENICE, ITALY

September 10th to 12th, 2025

Usuki UCCN Focal Point Meeting

USUKI, JAPAN

June 24th, 2025

Partnership Corner of the Creative Cities Fair, XVII UCCN Annual Conference

ENGHIEN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE

January 30th, 2025

Bread Creativity Event: a Celebration of Tradition, Innovation, and Cultural Dialogue

JEDDAH, KSA

October 1st, 2024

“Heritage for resilient communities” Conference at Viljandi Heritage Festival

VILJANDI, ESTONIA

September 11th to 15th, 2024

Creative Cities of Gastronomy Exhibition

BURAYDAH, KSA

July 1st – 5th, 2024

XVI UNESCO Creative Cities Annual Meeting

braga, portugal

May 9th – 12th, 2024

City of Gastronomy Cluster Meeting

Phuket, Thailand

November 29th – December 4th, 2023

ICCROM Seminar ‘Pratical implementation of the The UNESCO Creative Cities Network – UCCN programme’

 

November 23th, 2023

“IN PUGLIA IL CIBO E’ CULTURA” Workshop

TARANTO, ITALY

September 20th-22th, 2023

REMTECH EXPO 2023

FERRARA, ITALY 

August 10th, 2023

“The Miracle of Padre Kino” Event

SEGNO, ITALY 

October 19th-21th, 2022

Crafts and Folk Art Cluster Meeting

JINJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA 

 

September 15th-17th, 2022

Gaziantep International Gastronomy Festival 2022

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY 

July 18th-22th, 2022

XIV Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network

SANTOS, BRAZIL

March 24th, 2022

DUBAI EXPO 2020

DUBAI, UAE

November 1st, 2021

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

STARTUP TUCSON, AZ

 

October 22th-24th, 2021

FORME FUTURE: antichi saperi e nuove conoscenze
Round Table: “ARTISANAL CHEESE”

BERGAMO, ITALY

September 23th, 2021

Hands at Work event

CARRARA, ITALY

August 25th, 2021

Food Film Fest

BERGAMO, ITALY

September 24th-26th, 2020

XLI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION (ICAF)

CÁCERES, SPAIN
Virtual Event

Papers

​February 2023

Publication of an article about the Creative Knowledge Foundation in the International Journal Of Crafts And Folk Arts

Jinju, Republic of Korea

October 30th, 2020

LEVERAGING THE CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE OF A COMMUNITY THROUGH THE UN2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

“Abitare la Terra Dwelling On Earth”

March 6th, 2020

THE UN2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND THE PARRHASIAN HERITAGE PARK

XVIII International Forum – World Heritage and Contamination

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The Creative Knowledge Foundation (CKF) reinforces the role of “Creative People“ - the living keepers of the Creative Knowledge of the world. Creative Knowledge (CK) is the “… contemporary evolution of traditional knowledge-based practices that have adjusted to the rules of nature and have learned how to work with it and not against it…”