UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy and Law is established with the support of institutional partners both in Latvia and abroad – the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO, the Latvian National Centre for Culture, the Institute for Political Social Sciences (ISP, France), the International Society for Research on Art and Cultural Heritage Law (France), and the Heriot-Watt University (Scotland, the United Kingdom). Partnerships with other institutions are being established for certain activities carried out by the UNESCO Chair.

The UNESCO Chair has also received support expressed individually by scholars cooperating with researchers of the Latvian Academy of Culture on common projects and initiatives, or within international discussions on intangible cultural heritage policies – Dr. Harriet Deacon, Honorary Research Fellow, The Open University (the United Kingdom), UNESCO Expert on Intangible Cultural Heritage, prof., Dr. Marc Jacobs, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Critical Heritage Studies and Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Director of FARO, Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage (Flanders, Belgium), and prof., Dr. Kristin Kuutma, Professor of Cultural Research, University of Tartu (Estonia), Chairperson of the Board of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO, Co-Chairperson of the Working Group ‘Cultural Heritage and Property’ of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF).