This chapter summarises suggested ways of modern heritage management, recommended strategies for heritage organisations to safeguard monuments and organise both the public access and involvement of the communities to the processes of this preservation work.
The chapter introduces the 'European Cultural Heritage Strategy For The 21st Century' adopted by the Council of Europe in 2017, the document that works as a compass for European policy makers, heritage professionals when thinking about the future of cultural
heritage. In three further separate sections we are examining the three types of challenges that the Strategy can identify and we are summarising all the recommendations that the Council provides as suggestable answers. Parallel to the texts of the
recommendations the chapter also analyses the intersecting areas of the challenges and summarises the ultimately coherent and complex nature of the Strategy. ... MORE >>
The Council of Europe adopted the document titled the 'European Cultural Heritage Strategy For The 21st Century' on 22nd February 2017 and since then it has been the main collection of guidelines for the member states in connection with their cultural and cultural heritage-related policy, by forcing and suggesting joint actions for the European countries. ... MORE >>
Social (S) challenges identified as part of the strategy are as follows:
Political, socio-cultural challenges which are in connection with good governance:
S1. Living in peace
S5. Establishing good governance
S6. Promoting participatory management
Quality of life and well-being related challenges:
S2. Improving quality of life
S3. Contributing to people’s well-being and good health
Improving the relations of societies to their own heritage:
S4. Preserving the collective memory
S7. Optimising implementation of the conventions
S8. Promoting an inclusive approach to heritage ... MORE >>
Territorial & economical (D) challenges identified as part of the strategy are as follows:
Challenges aiming well-being and prosperity of the society:
D1. Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
D2. Developing Europe’s prosperity by drawing on its heritage resources
D3. Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
Challenges aiming a sustainable, ecological and productive use of heritage:
D4. Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
D5. Ensuring that heritage is taken into account in sustainable spatial development strategies and programmes
D6. Developing the ability of public services to address sustainable spatial
development issues by means of better use of heritage
D7. Preserving and developing the ability of public services to address heritage issues
D8. Increasing the use and reuse of heritage ... MORE >>
Knowledge & educational (K) challenges identified as part of the strategy are as follows:
Challenges with a focs on the society:
K1. Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
K2. Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
K3. Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
K8. Enlisting the commitment of young people to heritage
Challenges with a focus on heritage managers and professionals:
K4. Ensuring heritage stakeholders have access to lifelong training
K5. Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
K6. Supporting, strengthening and promoting intergovernmental cooperation
K7. Encouraging heritage
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Financing is a key in the realisation of any heritage management models or schemes and the starting point of all actions delivered at any level. Naturally financing alone is not enough for any good results, but it has to be paired with valuable professional knowledge, a thoughtful management and elaborated programmes which create undisputed synergies and values in the field of cultural heritage, resulting in a good maintenance of heritage sites and objects or a meaningful development of these in the form of renovations, restorations or adaptive re-use. ... MORE >>
Edinburgh World Heritage Trust is a charitable organisation based in Edinburgh, Scorland. Its main role is to conserve, enhance and promote the city's World Heritage Site which was designated as 'Old and New Towns of Edinburgh' in 1995. The individual
body of the trust was created from the donations of Historic Scotland and the City of Edinburgh. The institution has two predecessors: the Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee had been functioning since 1971, providing maintenance grants for
the home owners in the Georgian New Town, while in the Old Town the Edinburgh Old Town Committee for Conservation and Renewal (later the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust) had been operating since 1985. These two bodies were joined together finally
in 1999 and the new trust was established. ... MORE >>
CRAterre is an international research centre founded in 1979 in Grenoble, France, within the National Superior School of Architecture (ENSAG). The name 'CRAterre' refers to the longer form of the name: 'International Center for Earthen Construction'.
As its name suggests it promotes the sustainable, eco-friendly construction technology and building practices of earthen architecture (rammed earth, cob, wattle and daub, adobe, etc.) and the preservation of cultural heritage by promoting. CRAterre
has led UNESCO's “Earthen architecture, construction cultures and sustainable development” branch since 1998. The interdisciplinary team of around 30 researchers, professionals and trainers seeks for a progressive approach that always tries
to analyse the full context, looking for synergies between the engineering and the cultural aspects, as well as the ecological and societal ones. ... MORE >>
Rempart union is a French heritage network with more than 180 local associations working on the preservation, restoration and promotion of heritage sites. The name Rempart is an acronym for 'Réhabilitation et entretien des monuments et du patrimoine artistique',
meaning 'Rehabilitation and maintenance of monuments and artistic heritage', while the word 'Rempart' itself means a protective wall or embankment (rampart) used in fortification architecture. The organisation was set up in 1966 by Touring Club de
France, which was originally an old cyclist association dealing with the development of tourism. Two years later Rempart was turned into a union and kept this form until recent times with a number of member associations being active in 14 of the French
regions (all 13 European regions + Martinique). The union had been supported by the Ministry of Culture from the very beginning and later important co-operations started with the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs as well as the Ministry of Youth
to help the growth of the international network and the involvement of young volunteers. Since 1982 it has been acting as a public body. ... MORE >>