Reinforcing cooperation on cultural heritage in the EU Neighborhood South
British Council London, United Kingdom
(October 22-23, 2018)
The CReW event in London is coming in perfect timing. First and foremost, 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH). Besides, on May 22, 2018, the European Commission has proposed a New European Agenda for Culture. The New Agenda “…provides the framework for the next phase of cooperation at EU level, which will start in 2019”. The Agenda has three strategic objectives, with social, economic and external dimensions (Cfr. A new European Agenda for Culture, COM(2018) 267 final, p. 2).. The core of the external dimension rests on the strengthening of international cultural relations, whose third workstream, reinforcing cooperation on cultural heritage, will be at the centre of our event. Moreover, while most actions in the New Agenda contribute primarily to one of the three objectives, protecting and valorising cultural heritage is a cross-cutting area of policy actions at EU level.
The Commission’s engagement on cultural heritage “will result in recommendations, principles and toolkits to ensure the positive legacy of the Year and contribute to the New Agenda.” (Ibidem, p. 8). In particular, at the conclusion of the EYCH, the Commission will “present an Action Plan for Cultural Heritage and ask Member States to draft similar Plans at national level” (Ibidem, p.8).
Taking advantage of such a prolific moment, our participants -both local and non-local cultural diplomats, practitioners, policymakers, and academics- together with distinguished keynote speakers will deal with the third work stream of the joint communication “Towards a EU strategy for international cultural relations” (JOIN (2016) 29 final): reinforcing cooperation on cultural heritage. In doing so, they will devote special attention to the development of the Action Plan and its implications for the implementation of the EU Strategy, keeping an eye on the EU Neighborhood South.
British Council (photo by Ed Reeve)
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- Ms. Miki Braniste shares her experience as a curator for the Cultural Management Academy (CMA)
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- From left to right: Prof. Janet Blake, Shahid Beheshti University; Dr. Simon Dancey, CEO Creative and Cultural Skills; Prof. Richard Higgott, VUB – Institute of European Studies; Prof. David Mattingly, University of Leicester
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- Mr. Alexis Mocio-Mathieu, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: French Government Initiatives to Protect Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Abroad
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- Parallel workshops on how to enhance European cooperation in EU’s external action on cultural heritage
