Ethical custody of Intangible Heritage
We document, preserve and transmit cultural, ritual, spiritual and sound traditions through informed collective consent, durable custody, and research-grade documentation.
A structured institute — with a clear baseline
The institute’s current operational framework begins in 2026. We prioritize respectful safeguarding: permissions, classification, custody and long-term continuity. We measure success by what is safeguarded — and by how respectfully it is safeguarded.
Core pillars
Ethical governance
Protocols built on Informed Collective Consent, with clear scope, documentation, and enforceable limits defined with tradition-bearers.
Intergenerational continuity
We preserve both content and method — especially the teaching pathways that keep transmission alive across generations.
Custody & access tiers
Materials may be public, restricted, or protected. Classification is documented and governed over time with integrity logs.
Projects
Each card opens its project page. Some are in preparation.Explore, participate, or support safeguarding work depending on the project scope and access tier.
Partner pathways
Choose the pathway aligned with your mandate. Each option can open a dedicated page (or email inquiry) when you set URLs.
Universities & academics
Fellowships, supervised access under consent, joint publications, ethics collaboration.
Open pathway →Foundations & philanthropy
Fund missions, preservation workflows, training, and safeguarding infrastructure.
Open pathway →Public institutions
MoUs, capacity building, archival alignment, documentation standards interoperability.
Open pathway →Corporate & CSR
Sponsor equipment, storage, scholarships or infrastructure with ethical guardrails.
Open pathway →🇨🇦 Canada–France Institutional Corridor
Ben Yeshoua Institute is establishing a distributed Canada presence through hosted pilots, research partnerships, and custody infrastructure collaborations. This corridor framework enables regional specialization while maintaining methodological coherence and ethical governance continuity.
Vancouver Node
Focused on intangible heritage documentation, custody models, access-tier governance, and community-centered preservation workflows. Designed for collaboration with cultural institutions, Indigenous-led organizations, and heritage research partners.
Toronto Node
Dedicated to care-adjacent research, applied cultural wellbeing models, sensory environments, and institutional partnerships within healthcare, philanthropy, and arts & health ecosystems.
Western Node (London, ON)
Anchoring ethical frameworks, protocol design, music cognition, sensory studies, and interdisciplinary research collaboration aligned with scholarly integrity and methodological evaluation.
France Source Node
Maintaining institutional continuity, ethical governance architecture, documentation standards, and long-term custody models supporting transatlantic knowledge exchange.
What we need right now
Year one focuses on essential tools for fieldwork and safeguarding. Equipment and pro-bono services accelerate delivery.
Audio recorders
Portable field recorders for missions (4 needed)
Archival hard drives
6TB+ secure drives for archival ingestion (6 needed)
Cloud storage
Backup capacity for multi-project custody
Translation services
Arabic / Amharic / other languages (pro bono or funded)
Build the foundation with us
University, foundation, public institution, company, or community — there is a structured pathway to support ethical safeguarding.