European year of cultural heritage

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As European Heritage Year 2018 was approved by the European Commission (English: under the motto "Sharing Heritage" share heritage ) proclaimed. Internationally, the event is known as the European Year of Cultural Heritage (ECHY 2018). Since 1983, the European Union has regularly dedicated a calendar year to a specific topic, which gives the European year in question its name .

history

2018 is the first year of cultural heritage . A similar event took place in 1975 with the European Year for the Protection of Monuments , proclaimed by the Council of Europe , which dealt with Europe's architectural heritage. According to the German Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs , the year of cultural heritage is primarily the result of a joint initiative by the federal government, the federal states and the central municipal associations.

In 2007, cultural heritage was given priority under the “European Agenda for Culture”. In particular, this calls for a "dissemination of the cultural heritage, especially by promoting the mobility of art collections, and supporting the digitization process, with the aim of improving public access to the various cultural and linguistic forms of expression".

On September 8, 2015, the European Parliament decided to suggest to the European Commission that it take an initiative to declare 2018 the “European Year of Cultural Heritage” (EU legal acts can only be initiated by the Commission).

Tibor Navracsics , EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, announced on April 19, 2016 at the European Cultural Forum in Brussels the intention of the European Commission to hold a European Cultural Heritage Year in 2018. The European Parliament approved the Commission's plan on April 27, 2017. With the approval of the European Council on May 11, 2017, the plan became legally binding.

The European Year of Cultural Heritage kicked off in December 2017 in Milan. In Germany, it was opened in January 2018 at an event in Hamburg's town hall .

Responsibilities

In the Maastricht Treaty , cultural policy was identified as a policy area of ​​common European interest. Art. 167 of the Lisbon Treaty gave cultural policy constitutional status . It says here that the European Union “contributes to the development of the cultures of the Member States while preserving their national and regional diversity and at the same time emphasizing the common cultural heritage”. However, the role of the EU is expressly limited to promoting cultural cooperation among member states or with countries outside the EU.

Ultimately, a large part of the EU's cultural and regional policy consists in promoting initiatives at national, regional and local level in the member states, in particular by co-financing such initiatives; because cultural policy is little communitized in comparison to other policy fields.

Within Germany, the German National Committee for Monument Protection (DNK) coordinates participation in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 in coordination with the federal, state and local authorities and public and private sponsors.

Purpose of the year

According to the EU Council of Ministers , the aim of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 is to raise awareness of European history and to strengthen the feeling of a European identity . The people should be brought closer to the history and values ​​of Europe.

According to the European monument protection association Europa Nostra , “cultural heritage [...] represents the inestimable fabric that holds Europe together - from Norway to Greece and from Poland to Spain. Understanding that Europe has a common cultural heritage helps us to grasp the full beauty and deeper meaning of the European project, but at the same time its complexity and fragility. "

To make the request in 2018 as the "European Cultural Heritage Year", the responsible rapporteur of the European Parliament, which established Romanian Mircea Diaconu with the words: "We want the heritage raise awareness of the public. It should receive the appreciation it deserves and strengthen our identity. At the same time we can rediscover what makes us Europeans. ”Tibor Navracsics also emphasized the central importance of cultural heritage for European identity. According to Matthias Wemhoff , the chairman of the National Program Advisory Board for the Cultural Heritage Year, this should make a contribution to questioning the idea of ​​a "national guiding culture " and thus fighting nationalism in Europe by showing people that the spirit, out of which they lived, a "European spirit" is.

The European Year also responds to the challenge of reducing public funding for the cultural sector, declining participation in traditional cultural activities, the environmental impact of cultural heritage sites, new value chains and digital change.

The European Council names the main objectives of this European Year:

  • Promoting cultural diversity , intercultural dialogue and social cohesion;
  • Highlighting the economic contribution of cultural heritage to the cultural / creative industries, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and to local and regional development;
  • Emphasize the role of cultural heritage in the EU's external relations, including conflict prevention, post-conflict reconciliation and the reconstruction of destroyed cultural heritage.

The report “Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe” shows that around 300,000 people in the EU are directly employed in the cultural heritage sector and 7.8 million people are indirectly affected by it.

Design

The German National Committee for Monument Protection called on public and private sponsors, citizens, custodians and mediators of cultural heritage to participate in the cultural heritage year. These included museums, memorials, archives, libraries, monument owners, associations and support groups.

150 projects are taking place in Germany with the aim of sensitizing young people in particular to European culture. The patron of the projects and events is Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier . Funding for projects in the context of the cultural heritage year is eight million euros across Europe.

Areas of work and funded projects

According to the Federal Chamber of Architects , the concept of cultural heritage includes archaeological sites , architectural monuments , arts and customs . These are resources left behind from the past in all forms and aspects - material, immaterial and digital.

In the context of the cultural heritage year, the main beneficiaries of public funding are projects that meet the following conditions:

  • Generally accessible exhibitions and other communication and information formats, such as the archeology exhibition Moving Times. Archeology in Germany in Berlin
  • Generally accessible events or series of events at nationally or European significant historical places of remembrance and evidence of building and cultural history
  • Generally accessible, transnational and European events or series of events such as congresses, meetings or workshops
  • Innovative formats that are suitable for strengthening European networks in terms of content, raising their profile or building new ones
  • Development and further development of innovative digital communication and participation formats
  • Innovative and media formats for broad-based development and communication.

Formats that serve the broad-based mediation or participation of children and young people should be given special consideration.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kultusministerkonferenz: European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 is proposed by the European Commission . April 20, 2016
  2. ↑ Council of the European Union : Council resolution of 16 November 2007 on a European agenda for culture (PDF)
  3. ↑ European Commission: European Year of Cultural Heritage proposed for 2018 (English)
  4. ↑ European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 is proposed by the European Commission Press release of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of April 20, 2016
  5. ^ Starting shot for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 on December 7, 2017
  6. ^ Daniel Kaiser: European Cultural Heritage Year starts in Hamburg on ndr.de on January 8, 2018
  7. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education : Cultural Policy of the EU . 2013
  8. ^ Friedrich Ebert Foundation : Europe creative? Requirements for a European cultural policy. Documentation of the conference of the Forum Berlin of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on June 27, 2014
  9. ↑ Leipziger Messe GmbH: ECHY 2018 as a project for European cohesion . 20th October 2016
  10. ↑ European Parliament: 2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage . April 21, 2017
  11. ↑ European Cultural Heritage Year 2018: “Europe needs a spirit from which it can live”. Matthias Wemhoff in conversation with Eckhard Roelcke . Deutschlandfunk . 20th March 2017
  12. ^ Federal Chamber of Architects: European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 ( Memento of December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ European Council: European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018): Appreciating the diversity and richness of Europe's cultural heritage . February 9, 2017
  14. ↑ Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe (CHCfE): Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe. Summary and strategic recommendations . June 2015. p. 19
  15. ↑ European Cultural Heritage Year 2018. Call for participation from March 2017
  16. ↑ The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media: Funding principles of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) for the funding of nationally important projects in the context of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 SHARING HERITAGE