S4 - Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
S4 Challenges
Societal challenges
- Living in peace
- Improve quality of life
- Contribute to people’s well-being and good health
- Preserve the collective memory
- Establish good governance
- Promote participatory management
- Optimise implementation of the conventions
- Promote an inclusive approach to heritage
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
- Supporting, strengthening and promoting intergovernmental co-operation
S4 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for S4
- Highlight the history and value of the place in public areas and monuments in order to preserve, create or recreate the continuity of the agora
- Encourage urban development incorporating cultural heritage to foster the use of public areas as meeting places
- Support and promote public and private initiatives using cultural heritage as a place of reflection, exchange and creation
- Develop narratives highlighting the intercultural values to be found in the movable, immovable and intangible heritage
- Participate in the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities programme
Good practices for S4
