Value of Cultural Heritage for Society: past meetings

Forum: Cultural values for Europe

Closing event of the two-year project Cultural Identities, Shared Values and Citizenship - Council of Europe and Cinema l’Odyssée, Strasbourg, 3 December 2007

The defence and promotion of human rights, democracy and the rule of law are the principal aims of the Council of Europe. How can culture and the understanding of heritage contribute to a better awareness in Europe of these fundamental values and encourage their implementation in order to live together more harmoniously? A group of experts has outlined responses to these questions on the relations which could be established between “cultural identities, shared values and citizenship”. This work has led to texts presented and discussed on 3 December 2007. The forum involved specialists who have contributed to this project and speakers from the sectors of culture, education, human rights, social affairs and youth.

The Programme of 3 December ended with a Round Table on multiple cultural affiliation: an opportunity for Europe ? open to the public at the Odyssée Cinema, bringing together artists and intellectuals from different backgrounds who discussed the themes dealt with during the day. It was organised with the cooperation of the magazine Les Saisons d’Alsace.

Programme of the Forum

European Manifesto on Multiple Cultural Affiliation

Handbook on Values for Life in a Democracy

Workshop: Europe on the move: sharing histories, sharing places

Timisoara, Romania, 26-28 April 2007

The workshop took take place in Timisoara, Romania, from 26-28 April 2007. It was organised in cooperation with the Intercultural Institute in Timisoara. About 50 participants took part. The workshop was led by Professor Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper of the Technische Universität in Berlin.

Five groups were set up to look at the following questions:

• exercises in style;

• Religion and culture;

• Non-allocated property;

• places of oppression and resistance;

• the heritage of the Roma.

Programme of the workshop

Colloquy: Central and Eastern European aspects of cultural identities, shared values and citizenship in present-day Europe

Budapest, 14-15 December 2006

The Colloquy on Central and Eastern European aspects of cultural identities, shared values and citizenship in present-day Europe, a contribution to the Council of Europe Project on Cultural identities, shared values and citizenship was organised at the European Youth Centre in Budapest, on 14-15 December 2006. The Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture helped organise the Colloquy and the Japan Foundation made a financial contribution towards it.

The aims of the Colloquy were to:

• discuss national, regional and European identity as it appears in Central and Eastern Europe;

• look at citizens’ attitudes to identity and heritage;

• review identity crises and their impact on social cohesion;

• contribute to the Project on "Cultural identities, shared values and citizenship" and open the way to further colloquies which will go in more depth into the question.

Final report of the Budapest colloquy

The Faro Convention

Presentation

Text of the Convention

Explanatory report

Parties to the Convention

Publications

Handbook on Values for Life in a Democracy

European Manifesto on Multiple Cultural Affiliation  

Heritage from elsewhere, heritage of others

Dividing lines, connecting lines: Europe's cross border heritage

Contact

Jeroen Schokkenbroek (ad interim)
+33 388 41 22 79

Other conventions

Workshop: Gateway to Europe and the Mediterranean. Interpreting the heritage

Marseille, 27-28 November 2006

Programme of the workshop

Contributions to the workshop :

• Estaque neighbourhood

• Belsunce : interpreting the heritage

• Heritage of Cookery

• Places of worship in Marseilles – studies of representativeness in the city

• The traces of colonialism (in French only)

Seminar: Identity, citizenship and cohesion

Bucharest, 4-5 May 2006

The Council of Europe and the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania organised the seminar on Identity, Citizenship and Cohesion within the framework of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. It brought together 50 participants from Romania and other parts of Europe. The aims of the seminar were to :

• Discuss the next stage in the work on the Project Cultural Identities, shared values and citizenship;

• Hold a preliminary discussion on the Conference on “Central and Eastern European aspects of cultural identities, shared values and citizenship in present-day Europe” to take place in Budapest in December 2006.

Final report of the seminar