S1 - Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
Citizens involve individually or collectively in projects, from simple awareness-raising to active participation. They can collaborate with local authorities and associations in processes to identify, interpret, study and promote the heritage.
S1 Challenges
Societal challenges
Improve quality of life
Preserve the collective memory
Promote participatory management
Promote an inclusive approach to heritage
Development challenges
Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
Knowledge challenges
Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
S1 Target audience
local
Recommended courses of action for S1
Organise discovery visits run by local inhabitants and heritage professionals: to neighbourhoods, villages, towns, craft workshops, museums, libraries, etc.
Encourage demonstrations by local craftworkers to discover and promote local skills and know-how
Organise events incorporating aspects of the vernacular heritage (bakers’ ovens, oil mills, steam engines, local museums, music, dance, legends, traditions, etc.)
Sound out social demand to identify people’s expectations, interests, likes and dislikes (young people, pensioners, newcomers, etc.)
Increase awareness of digital tools for heritage promotion and sharing
Introduce a publications policy: booklets, brochures, scientific works
Produce audiovisual and digital programmes involving the population: television and radio programmes, sharing of projects online or competitions (press, etc.) to encourage active citizen participation
Develop participatory heritage identification projects and development projects incorporating heritage
Recommended courses of action for S1