K9 - Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
Multidisciplinary research is needed at national and European level to satisfy the increasingly more complex demand for sustainable transmission to future generations. It should reflect the realities and needs of the sector, while ensuring that the independence of academic research is preserved. The results must be disseminated, shared and discussed.
K9 Challenges
Knowledge challenges
- 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
K9 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for K9
- Identify relevant leads for these research studies and topics (top-down and bottom-up approaches)
- Encourage an interdisciplinary and international approach to heritage
- Study how heritage can help meet the needs of other sectors
- Disseminate the results of studies and research to professionals, decision makers and users
- Evaluate and ensure the sustainability of studies and research
- Introduce thematic study programmes in several regions
- Develop outreach programmes (lectures, courses, radio and television programmes, publications for specific readerships, etc.)
- Open research centres to the public
- Organise public meetings between professionals, researchers and users (heritage issues and debates)
- Highlight topics linking the disciplines (sciences and heritage, innovation and heritage)
- Support network-based European and international research co-operation
Good practices for K9
Preservation of underwater archaeological sites, European project coordinated in Copenhagen
- Strategy 21 - Knowledge and education (K)
- K1 - Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
- K2 - Implement measures to encourage young people to practise heritage
- K3 - Encourage creativity to capture the attention of the heritage audience
- K4 - Provide optimum training for non-professional players and for professionals from other sectors with a connection to heritage
- K5 - Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
- 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
- K8 - Guarantee the competences of professionals working on the listed heritage
- K9 - Develop study and research programmes that reflect the needs of the heritage sector and share the findings
- K10 - Encourage and support the development of networks
- K11 - Explore heritage as a source of knowledge, inspiration and creativity