WORLD HEALTH CONGRESS 2025 PRAGUE
4TH
WORLD HEALTH
CONGRESS 2025 PRAGUE
3-5 October 2025
Held under the auspices of the Capital City of Prague
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WORLD HEALTH CONGRESS 2025 PRAGUE
4TH
WORLD HEALTH CONGRESS
2025 PRAGUE
3-5 October 2025

World Health Congress 2025 Prague >> Members of the Presidium

Prof. Mag. Maria Walcher

Prof. Mag. Maria Walcher - Austria

Expert for Intangible Cultural Heritage

Born in Vienna, 1960. Study of Ethnology and Musicology in Vienna.

Since 1980 researcher and cultural mediator in the field of Austrian folk music, 1989-2003 managing director of the Austrian Folk Song Association.

2012 – 2015 lecturer for folk music at the Music University Mozarteum in Salzburg.

2006 – 2016 head of the National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Austrian Commission for UNESCO. Significant involvement in the development of the topic "Intangible Cultural Heritage" in the European context. Focusing on the field “knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe” as per UNESCO Convention 2003 resulted in new approaches especially in the issue of Traditional European Medicine.

International contacts in this area, f.i. membership in the UNESCO facilitator network for intangible cultural heritage.

Numerous publications on folk and Viennese music, on folk-cultural topics and on intangible cultural heritage.

Awards:

Austrian Award for Folk Culture 1999
Decoration for Achievements of the Republic of Austria in Silver 2004
Priessnitz Medal of the German Naturheilbund 2010

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Institute for TCIM/CAM
Congress Organizers:
ITCIM - Institute for TCIM/CAM

Congress Co-organizers:
ANME - Association for Natural Medicine in Europe e.V.
EUAA – European Ayurveda Association
LUMEN international foundation
SANÁTOR - Professional chamber Sanátor
Foundation of Josef Zezulka
Institute for TCIM/CAM
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