K5 - Diversify training systems for heritage professionals
The heritage sector needs generalists and specialists in cutting-edge fields in order to ensure excellence. Updating knowledge and skills require lifelong training to adapt to development and new needs.
K5 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
K5 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for K5
- Provide information on existing systems and incentives, at national and European level
- Evaluate: carry out an analysis and put forward proposed improvements to the training of professionals
- Ensure the sustainability of appropriate measures
- Support the widespread use of personal training accounts
- Enhance co-operation between universities, schools and training centres
- Ensure co-ordination between training systems and professional networks
- Organise in-house training sessions with support from experts (thematic, technical and specific matters, current situation, interdisciplinary or intersectoral dialogue, etc.)
- Introduce grants for professionals
- Take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Erasmus + programme
- Support exchanges of good practices and mobility, both national and international: apprentices, young professionals, lifelong training
- Support mentoring in Europe