K7 - Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
Knowledge and skills involved in heritage are a legacy of European culture. Ensuring and guaranteeing their transmission can encourage young people and create sustainable jobs and activities.
K7 Challenges
Knowledge
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
- Ensuring heritage stakeholders have access to lifelong training
- Enlisting the commitment of young people to heritage
Societal challenges
- Preserving the collective memory
K7 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for K7
- Support master craftworkers to ensure transmission of knowledge and skills
- Adopt measures to facilitate workshops being taken over by younger people
- Help firms to take on young people
- Organise exhibitions and demonstrations
- Promote incentives through competitions
- Showcase manual crafts (in schools, the media, etc.)
- Develop the teaching and practice of manual operations (sketches, measurements, etc.) along with computer-assisted design
- Support the creation and expansion of training centres for heritage crafts
- Support the European Foundation for Heritage Skills (FEMP)