Overcoming Knowledge Challenges through Recommendations
Below is a list of the knowledge challenges identified in Strategy 21.
Click on each challenge to find out more about the advised recommendations to enable policymakers, stakeholders and citizens to play their part in addressing these challenges.
Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- K1 Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K3 Encourage creativity to capture the attention of the heritage audience
- K4 Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
- K8 Guarantee the competences of professionals working on listed heritage
- K10 Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity
Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- D2 Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D10 Use cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- K1 Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K2 Implement measures to encourage young people to practise heritage
- K3 Encourage creativity to capture the attention of the heritage audience
- K4 Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- K6 Develop knowledge banks on local and traditional materials, techniques and know-how
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
- K8 Guarantee the competences of professionals working on listed heritage
- K9 Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
- K10 Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity
Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- D5 Encourage the reuse of heritage and the use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D10 Use cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- K1 Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K2 Implement measures to encourage young people to practise heritage
- K3 Encourage creativity to capture the attention of the heritage audience
- K4 Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- K6 Develop knowledge banks on local and traditional materials, techniques and know-how
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
- K8 Guarantee the competences of professionals working on listed heritage
- K9 Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
- K10 Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity
Ensuring heritage stakeholders have access to lifelong training
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D6 Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- K3 Encourage creativity to capture the attention of the heritage audience
- K4 Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- K6 Develop knowledge banks on local and traditional materials, techniques and know-how
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
- K8 Guarantee the competences of professionals working on listed heritage
- K9 Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
- K10 Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity
Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
- D2 Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D4 Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, development and infrastructure projects
- D8 Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- K4 Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- K8 Guarantee the competences of professionals working on listed heritage
- K9 Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
- K10 Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity
Supporting, strengthening and promoting intergovernmental co-operation
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- D6 Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- D8 Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D10 Use cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
Encouraging heritage research
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D8 Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D11 Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates
Enlisting the commitment of young people to heritage
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- K1 Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on