Overcoming Societal Challenges through Recommendations
Below is a list of the societal challenges identified in Strategy 21.
Click on each challenge to find out more about the advised recommendations to enable policymakers, stakeholders and citizens to play their part in addressing these challenges.
Living in peace
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
Improving quality of life
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
- D1 Promote cultural heritage as a resource and facilitate financial investment
Contributing to people’s well-being and good health
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
Preserving the collective memory
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
- D3 Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- K1 Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K6 Develop knowledge banks on local and traditional materials, techniques and know-how
- K7 Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on
Establishing good governance
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
Promoting participatory management
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D11 Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates
Optimising implementation of the conventions
- S2 Make heritage more accessible
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S6 Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action to promote and manage their heritage
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
- D6 Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
Promoting an inclusive approach to heritage
- S1 Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S3 Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 Assess citizens’ participation practices and procedures
- S7 Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- S10 Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects
- D2 Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D5 Encourage the reuse of heritage and the use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D7 Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D11 Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates
