The CHARTER project presents proposals to increase professional skills in the field of cultural heritage
The University of Barcelona will host on Thursday 28 November the closing event of the European project CHARTER (European Alliance for Cultural Heritage Competences). The conclusions and recommendations reached after four years of work to increase professional skills in the cultural heritage sector and to overcome gaps in education and training systems in relation to the needs of the labour market will be presented. The session will be opened at the UB by the rector, Joan Guàrdia; the professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business and coordinator of the CHARTER project, Lluís Bonet; Barbara Stacher, from the European Commission, and Sonia Hernández, Catalan Minister of Culture.
The University of Barcelona will host on Thursday 28 November the closing event of the European project CHARTER (European Alliance for Cultural Heritage Competences). The conclusions and recommendations reached after four years of work to increase professional skills in the cultural heritage sector and to overcome gaps in education and training systems in relation to the needs of the labour market will be presented. The session will be opened at the UB by the rector, Joan Guàrdia; the professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business and coordinator of the CHARTER project, Lluís Bonet; Barbara Stacher, from the European Commission, and Sonia Hernández, Catalan Minister of Culture.
Specifically, the CHARTER project has identified educational and professional opportunities in areas such as the sustainability of heritage buildings and landscape, cultural policy design, handicraft production and the digital environment of cultural heritage, among others. To take advantage of these opportunities, the CHARTER project puts forward up to twelve recommendations. These include counteracting the loss of skills, for example in the fields of crafts, traditional building techniques or landscape maintenance, understood as heritage; complementing professional skills linked to heritage with others of a transversal nature; ensuring learning based on professional development and continuous lifelong learning, etc. Areas with significant potential are identified, such as tasks to involve the community in heritage knowledge and conservation, landscape and infrastructure planners, or jobs linked to craftsmanship and heritage management in the digital domain, among others.
In addition to the session at the UB, members of the CHARTER project will meet on the 27th at the Museum of History of Barcelona to reflect on the results of this research and learn more about the situation and policies of Catalan heritage. Finally, on the 29th, the conference will close at the Museum of Music. The three days will focus on key learnings, as well as exploring ways forward for the cultural heritage sector. In this framework, debates will be held with members of the CHARTER project, as well as dialogues with local Catalan heritage stakeholders.
The CHARTER consortium, which is coordinated by the UB and funded by the Erasmus+ programme, consists of twenty-eight members, including universities and various actors in the cultural heritage sector from all over Europe. The implementation of the CHARTER project’s competence strategy should ensure the viability of the heritage sector and increase the visibility of the contribution to social, economic and environmental sustainability on the European continent. The conclusions of the CHARTER project are addressed to the European Union, EU member states, regional authorities, education and training providers, as well as institutions and companies in the heritage field.
To attend the event, you need to register online.