On 22 June, the Board of Directors of the European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR) held its Board meeting at the Cultural Centre of Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg.

Mr. Christian BIEVER, EICR President; Ms. Barbara ZECHES, Vice-President and Councellor to the ministry of Culture of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and Mr. Robert PHILIPPART, Unesco Site Manager and representative of the ministry of Culture of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg attended the meeting on site. Mr. Eladio FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO, Special advisor of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme and Mr. Gianluca SILVESTRINI, on behalf of the Directorate of Democratic Participation of the Council of Europe joined the meeting via videoconference. Mr. Stefano DOMINIONI, EICR Director, represented the Secretariat of the European Institute of Cultural Routes.

The Board members discussed updates relating to current activities, communication matters, the 2021 Annual Advisory Forum (Kutaisi, Georgia), the 2021-2022 Cultural Routes certification cycle, and the 1^st Academic Conference on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.

The European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR) is the technical agency of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme set up in 1998 as part of a political agreement between the Council of Europe and the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (ministry of Culture). It assists the EPA on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in the certification cycles of certified Cultural Routes and candidate networks applying to the "Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe" certification.