D2 - Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
D2 Challenges
Development challenges
- Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
- Developing Europe’s prosperity by drawing on its heritage resources
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
- Ensuring that heritage is taken into account in sustainable spatial development strategies and programmes
- Developing the ability of public services to address sustainable spatial development issues by means of better use of heritage
- Preserving and developing the ability of public services to address heritage issues
Societal challenges
- Promoting an inclusive approach to heritage
Knowledge challenges
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
D2 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for D2
- Support relations between the heritage sector and the bodies in charge of the economy and employment
- Use the heritage sector to promote vocational integration and re-integration
- Facilitate access by very small and small and medium-sized enterprises to public procurement
- Inform the public and tax payers, elected representatives and decision makers about the economic and social impacts of heritage
- Support ministerial heritage departments responsible for research and skill maintenance
- Introduce intersectoral policies enabling heritage to make a contribution to other sectors
- Support the development of cultural heritage with services and work which are based on research and know-how
Good practices for D2
