K4 - Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
Professionals can coach voluntary helpers and professionals from other sectors involved in the cultural heritage sector and teach them the fundamentals by putting things in context.
K4 Challenges
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
- Ensuring heritage stakeholders have access to lifelong training
- Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
K4 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
Recommended courses of action for K4
- Organise training/initiation sessions – incentives for local guides, seasonal workers, trainees, service providers
- Develop sessions introducing the basics of identifying and assessing local heritage
- Introduce awareness-raising sessions for heritage owners
- Get professionals involved in passing on knowledge and skills
- Encourage heritage discovery with professionals
- Support mentoring of non-professionals by professionals
- Incorporate heritage and its specific features in emergency response plans