The European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance CHARTER, Erasmus+ funded project, has released a new report: “Who is not a stakeholder in cultural heritage?”.

Who is a stakeholder in cultural heritage? What roles do the different stakeholders play and how do they interact? What are their interests and influence on education and training systems? These are the key questions CHARTER’s new report addresses, looking at cultural heritage as an economic sector and labour market with interacting stakeholders, whose dynamics, skills and competencies will affect the quality of heritage.

Extensive mapping was conducted of stakeholders at internal and external levels through an online survey at the European level (1085 responses from 30 countries), internal surveys for the project’s partners, a review of policy and research background and documentation of the CHARTER’s regional workshops and in-depth interviews.

Key takeaways from the report include:

• That cultural heritage has transformed extensively in ways of thinking and working.
• Stakeholders can assume multiple important roles in Cultural Heritage.
• The importance of life-long learning (LLL) and continuous professional development (CPD) through training and education curricula. 
• The need to strengthen digitalisation and sustainability actions.
• The observation that cultural heritage research and education seem to have a stronghold outside the universities, or between university and practice. 
• That the coexistence of discourses is mainly in silos, but practices and policy initiatives do exist that foster broader stakeholder collaboration, which will be further explored by CHARTER.

Regions assume roles in all six functions of the CHARTER model (Management, Research & Development/Education, Governance & Policy Making, Preservation & Safeguarding, Engagement & Use, and Recognition) and have great potential to raise the dynamics between cultural heritage ecosystem stakeholders. This new report enters the ecosystem to explore the interaction and agency of stakeholders and corroborative functions, with the challenges and drivers that have an impact on the ecosystem at large.

Learn more by accessing the Full report.

About CHARTER

ERRIN is a partner in CHARTER, the European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance, which brings together and represents the whole range of the cultural heritage sector in Europe. The 47 project partners strive towards making apparent the value of cultural heritage and creating a resilient and responsive sector. CHARTER works towards creating a lasting, comprehensive strategy that will guarantee Europe has the necessary cultural heritage skills to support sustainable societies and economies. The Erasmus+ funded project maps the current and future needs of the sector to bridge the gap of skills shortages and mismatches between the educational and occupational fields.

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