Over the past three years, the CHARTER project has worked intensively to deepen the understanding of regional cultural heritage ecosystems in Europe. The project will hold an online webinar on 26 April from 14:00-15:30 to explore "How can heritage skills unlock the full potential of European regions?". 

This online webinar will present the findings of six regional case studies on regional cultural heritage ecosystems that were conducted by five ERRIN members from the Cultural Heritage & Tourism Working Group: the Basque Country (Spain), the Free Hanseatic State of Bremen (Germany), Alentejo Region (Portugal), Tuscany Region (Italy), and Västra Götaland Region (Sweden) and the Sibiu County (Romania), during the CHARTER EU Skills Alliance for Cultural Heritage project. 

These case studies have provided CHARTER with a wealth of information showcasing each region's unique heritage specificities. They also highlight a diverse array of approaches in responding to skills needs deriving from sustainability, digitalisation, and the circular economy and how they impact cultural heritage. The webinar will also showcase how to better align the education and training offer with the labour market needs to equip future-ready skills and traditional heritage skills, especially in the realm of crafts, among many other facets.

Additionally, the webinar will introduce the conclusions and findings from the final report on regional cultural heritage ecosystems, which will be issued later this month and will feature the full assessment and analysis of CHARTER’s regional cases.

Participants can look forward to gaining insights and on-the-ground information regarding crafts and traditional skills, industrial heritage, maritime heritage, digitalisation, volunteering, funding, intangible heritage, skills intelligence observatories, built heritage, and much more. 

For the detailed programme and the registration, please click here. 

About ERRIN's role in CHARTER 

Five of ERRIN’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Working Group members will play a key role in the regional roll-out of the initiative: Alentejo, the Basque Country, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Tuscany Region and Vastra Gotaland. The member organisations are, committed to reinforcing the regional dimension of the Sectoral Skills Strategy on Cultural Heritage, the sector-integrated collaboration within the regional cultural heritage ecosystem. 

In addition, ERRIN is co-leading the work on ‘Alliances, Sustainable Strategies, and Policy Recommendations. This will be the place to reflect on how to reinforce the regional roll-out of all Blueprints for Sectoral Skills Strategy funded by the European Commission and how to better coordinate actions at regional and national level in the respective Member States, securing a stronger voice for the regional activities.