On 5 September, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) published a report demonstrating the diversity and contributions of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, and inviting citizens to rediscover Europe’s cultural diversity through projects and cooperation.
The EACEA thus affirms that heritage is not only preserved, but is also continually recreated by communities, helping to build European identities that are constantly evolving.
‘Sectors covered’ and ‘Themes covered’ are the two main parts of the publication, which takes this dual approach to projects.
The first develops the artistic and cultural sectors – from music to the performing arts, the visual arts, textile crafts, gastronomy and architecture – and the second focuses on a multitude of themes – cultural itineraries, forgotten stories, the memory of wars or the role of education – to present heritage in a dynamic way and make it both a legacy and a vector for transformation.
As the report details, in 2018, 29 European cooperation projects were supported by the Creative Europe programme, thanks to an amount of €4.8 million.
The aim was to achieve two objectives. On the one hand, to strengthen the feeling of belonging to a common European space and, on the other, to promote heritage as a source of inspiration for contemporary creation. This aim has been pursued in 2019 and 2020, with 29 additional projects funded to the tune of €14.5 million.
Read the publication: https://aeur.eu/f/ifx (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)