K7 - Ensure that the knowledge and skills involved in heritage trades are passed on

Knowledge and skills involved in heritage are a legacy of European culture. Ensuring and guaranteeing their transmission can encourage young people and create sustainable jobs and activities.

K7 Challenges

Knowledge

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
Enlisting the commitment of young people to heritage

Societal challenges

Preserving the collective memory

K7 Target audience

local
regional
national
European

Recommended courses of action for K7

Support master craftworkers to ensure transmission of knowledge and skills
Adopt measures to facilitate workshops being taken over by younger people
Help firms to take on young people
Organise exhibitions and demonstrations
Promote incentives through competitions
Showcase manual crafts (in schools, the media, etc.)
Develop the teaching and practice of manual operations (sketches, measurements, etc.) along with computer-assisted design
Support the creation and expansion of training centres for heritage crafts
Support the European Foundation for Heritage Skills (FEMP)