Digital meets Culture

Elaborated by #Culture2030goal campaign

New report on ‘Culture in the localization of the SDGs: an analysis of the Voluntary Local Reviews’

The campaign #culture2030goal, formed by global cultural networks united to advocate for the role of culture in sustainable developmen, in April 2020 started the elaboration of a strategic framework within the context of the UN Decade of Action. Its main goals include:

a stronger place for culture throughout the implementation of the current global development agenda (the UN 2030 Agenda)
the adoption of culture as a distinct goal in the post-2030 development agenda
the adoption of a global agenda for culture.

The campaign, after the 2019 report “Culture in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda”, has recently issued the new report on ‘Culture in the Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : An Analysis of the Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs)’.

The first report assessed the progress on the SDGs and United Nations 2030 Agenda, through analysis of VLRs submitted by member states, discussing the policy developments and the global conversation about culture in development.

This second elaboration highlights the great diversity of how local and regional governments (LRGs) address culture in their sustainable development policies and reporting. Culture is included at various levels of policy and action presented in the majority, but not all, VLRs: the mainstreaming of culture in sustainable development in many of these is partial, instead, ideally, it should feature in VLRs as a main policy driver, recognized at a higher level of planning and policy. On the other hand there are a great number of replicable good practices in the existing VLRs and these should be promoted and adopted within the community of practice of local SDG implementation.

The full version of the document is available at https://cultureactioneurope.org/files/2022/01/af_culture2030goal_2021.pdf

Further information on the campaign:
#culture2030goal is conducted by a core group of major networks working on cultural issues which contribute time and expertise in support of Campaign Goals and activities, working to engage their own networks in support of Campaign Goals. The current members are: Arterial Network, Culture Action Europe, International Council on Monuments and Sites , International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity , International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions , International Music Council , Culture Committee – Agenda 21 for Culture.

Learn more on the campaign on culture Action Europe website at http://culture2030goal.net/

The “Fagan fragment” comes back to Athens

The Italian Antonio Salinas Regional Archeological Museum returns Parthenon fragment to Greece

The Antonio Salinas Regional Archeological Museum in Sicily has returned a fragment from the Parthenon temple to the Acropolis Museum in Athens, where it will remain on long-term loan.
The renowned “Fagan fragment” which depicts the right foot and part of the dress of the Greek goddess Artemis, has been added to the Acropolis Museum’s frieze, which combines both original marbles as well as plaster copies of displaced fragments and the slab was unveiled in a ceremony at the Acropolis Museum the last January 10.

In exchange for the fragment, which will be on loan to the Acropolis Museum at least for the next eight years, the Italian museum will borrow a statue of Athena from the 5th century BCE and one from the 8th century BCE amphora.

Since many pieces of displaced Parthenon art are scattered in various institutions throughout Europe, this return is particularly relevant: on one hand in the prospect of a permanently (sine die) residence, following the initiative launched by the Independent Regional Authority of Sicily towards the Italian Ministry of Culture; on the other, as the Acropolis Museum’s director hopes, it could also have much greater repercussions by encouraging other European institutions to make similar moves.

Learn more about the loan at https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/exhibition-programs/first-return-parthenon-sculpture-abroad-new-acropolis-museum

Information and photos of the ceremony are also available at
https://www.facebook.com/Museo.Archeologico.Antonino.Salinas.Palermo/

Re-exploring and revisiting traditions through a new lens can benefit communities and mobilise them: this is the ECHO goal that resonates as relevant for WEAVE too.

WEAVE collaborates with project ECHO II

Efforts to sustain communities in the engagement with their tangible and intangible heritage are always welcome and a priority for EC and the European Union at large. For this reason, various projects are funded that deal with protecting, engaging and disseminating local heritage. One of these, which recently WEAVE met for establishing mutual cooperation, is ECHO II.

“Allegro”. 2021. Artist: Remzije Lloga. Source: ECHO II website. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

ECHO II: Traditions in Transition is a project co-founded by Creative Europe Culture which emanates from a deeper need to support and realize the concept of the EU motto “united in diversity”. In particular, traditions constitute parts of local identities that are defined by the use, re-use, change and transformation of traditions in the course of community life. These traditions shape and are shaped by the group and significantly determine their culture. The existence of significant traditions is a common element among European people. Re-exploring and revisiting traditions through a new lens can benefit communities and mobilise them in order to reconsider existing perceptions of static traditions that need to be protected and reintroduce these traditions in their group life. ECHO II focuses on Traditions in Transition, as an alternative viewpoint to the established concept that tradition is fixed and in need of protection and as such we have to preserve it as an object of musealisation. Alternatively, ECHO II sustains that in order to keep alive local traditions that are important for the ingroups, it is more fruitful to understand and accept their changing, dynamic character according to the each- time needs of the communities. ECHO II aims at tightening and promoting the link between artistic creation and local traditions, enabling contemporary artistic creation based on cultural elements from different European communities

Website: https://echo-ii.eu

Finance, Learning, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights for CCIs

FLIP: the preparatory action to build a stronger resilience of the cultural and creative sector

From the achievements reached by Pilot project Creative FLIP (2019-2021), co-funded by the EU, “FLIP – Finance, Learning, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights for CCS” was arose; this new phase of Creative FLIP will be running from 2021-2023 with the goal of building a stronger resilience of the cultural and creative sector, by further strengthening their overall ecosystem.

The Preparatory Action Creative FLIP (2019-2021) had the main objective to support healthy and sustainable ecosystems for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) with respect to the four key policy areas: Finance, Learning/Skills, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.

The work was carried out with the purpose of:

improve the finance and patenting ecosystem to strengthen CCIs’ capacities for growth and development through improved access to finance , value recognition, and capacities to capture value from Intellectual Property for actors in the CCI
promote the transversal relevance of skills and connect CCIs with other sectors through support of skills development and promotion of creative skills.

The next phase of the Creative FLIP (2021-2023) was launched in September 2021 and has the main objective of realizing a stronger resilience of the cultural and creative sector, by further strengthening the overall CCIs ecosystem and supporting the capacities of its actors in the fields of Finance, Learning / Skills, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.
This general objective will be pursued through the implementation of 12 specific objectives and different activities (research, focus groups and development of tools) and ensuring synergies between the different project themes.

Further information:
Pilot project Creative FLIP (2019-2021)
Creative FLIP next phase (2021-2023)

project's coordinator Prof. José Mª Martín Civantos is invited speaker at the winter school taking place in Cyprus in February 2022

INCULTUM is part of a winter school on Digital Cultural Tourism and Diplomacy

The 2022 Winter School of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, is dedicated to investigating how ICTs designed to enhance the tourism experience can help in preserving and transmitting living heritage and bring people to work and live closer together, while at the same time promoting forms of tourism (cultural, historic, religious, gastronomy, wine, etc.) that go beyond traditional “sun sea and sand”, and can verifiably serve as a vehicle of cultural diplomacy.

In the valuable programme of the winter school, lectures and talks, visits to UNESCO World Heritage Sites and other places, experience of unique local traditions, hands-on exercises, and a range of formal and informal activities will allow participants to understand how to leverage smart digital technologies for sustainable tourism and cultural diplomacy in order to preserve and transmit living heritage.

Among the invited speakers, INCULTUM coordinator Prof. José Mª Martín Civantos will deliver teaching activites to illustrate, among other key topics, the research ongoing about sustainable tourism and partipatory approaches in tourism management that is currently taking place at INCULTUM project.

About the winter school: https://www.unescochair.usi.ch/cyprus-winter-school-2022

Citizen Heritage project organized a Dream Team session at the important ECQI congress on 2nd February 2022

Empowering communities and citizens in heritage research

This session, organized by the Citizen Heritage project, wanted to entice an interactive discussion with the audience, focused on understanding the approach methodologies, the various roles and challenges of technology in enabling an inclusive engagement with cultural collections that empowers citizens and community representative organizations in the reappropriation of their heritage. In particular we focused on methods for Citizen Science in this regard.

Wednesday 2nd February h. 9-10.30.

The session was supported by the use of an interactive enviroment based on a MIRO Board. View the Citizen Heritage MIRO board HERE.

The Dream Team session will serve as a point of departure for a joint publication in which contributors will be duly credited.

About the ECQI 2022

The congress theme of the 5th edition of the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is “Qualitative Inquiry in the online technological realm“.

Organized by KU Leuven, this edition was a virtual event with a large programme of keynotes, presentations, workshops and posters.

More about the symposium: https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/european-congress-of-qualitative-inquiry-ecqi-2022/

15-16 March 2022, Paris

Symposium: ‘Heritage for the future/Science for heritage, a European adventure for research and innovation’

Heritage science brings together the human, social, fundamental, digital, and engineering sciences and deals with the study of cultural heritage, contributing to the identification, understanding, preservation, restoration, and transmission of cultural heritage, be it tangible, intangible, natural or digital.

Next 15 and 16 March 2022, in Paris at the Louvre and the National Library of France, a symposium dedicated to heritage science in Europe will be held organized by the Foundation for Heritage Science, with the European Commission and in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the universities of Paris-Saclay and Cergy Paris.

The event is part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2022.

This event will be the opportunity to highlight the diversity of heritage science in France and in Europe, to show how it contributes to safeguarding heritage and also to introduce some of the most innovative results of research and innovation, their application on the ground and to discuss the future prospects.

The symposium will be focused builds on four main themes:

A reflective heritage for a resilient society
Sustainable management of cultural heritage
Cultural heritage in a changing context
Cultural heritage facing climate and environmental change

Further information and updates at https://twitter.com/FSP_Patrima and https://www.facebook.com/fsp.patrima

Exarc Conference, 19-20 May 2022

Call for Papers: A Sustainable Revolution for Open-Air Museums

The second call for papers was launched by Exarc for the conference “A Sustainable Revolution for Open-Air Museums” that will be held at Butser Ancient Farm in southern England next 19-20 May 2020.

The conference, organized by EXARC (the ICOM affiliated organisation for Archaeological Open-Air Museums, Experimental Archaeology, Ancient & Traditional Technology and Interpretation & Education) together with Butser Ancient Farm (UK), will explore the future for Open-Air Museums with presentations from a range of speakers.

Among the main topics:

how to develop the strength of open-air museums by building partnerships with other organisations
how open-air museums can become leaders in sustainable solutions
how museums can adapt to digital change

The event, organized to coincide with the Butser’s 50th anniversary, will be a hybrid event: some talks and workshops will take place on-site, another part will be broadcast online as open access.

The deadline for this second round of abstracts is January 15, 2022, notification of acceptance will be given by February 15.

Further information about the call are available at https://exarc.net/meetings/2022-sustainable-revolution

About EXARC:
EXARC’s mission is to make the archaeological past widely accessible facilitating both research and education.
It intends to create opportunities for researchers and practitioners to collaborate, exchange information, and share best practices in archaeological open-air museums, educational and presentational tools and demonstrations of cultural heritage .
EXARC’s goal is to bring people together and make them more professional.

Commission steps up support to the cultural sector by offering more guidance and dissemination for cultural and creative sector funding opportunities

CulturEU: an online guide on EU funding

press release – text and image by the European Commission.

Recently, the European Commission launched a new interactive guide mapping all funding opportunities available at EU level for the cultural and creative sectors. CulturEU, a one-stop shop for EU funding, gathers a total of 75 funding opportunities from 21 different EU programmes, from Creative Europe and Horizon Europe to structural funds and InvestEU. In just a few clicks, the interactive online tool can direct any European cultural entity to the most appropriate EU financial support available to it.

Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, said: ”Artistic freedom, creativity and cultural diversity are emblematic of our European way of life. Europe is a cultural powerhouse which needs its creative and cultural sectors to thrive. Alongside Next Generation EU, we are launching today a new online tool to enable our artists, creators and culture professionals easily navigate and choose the most relevant support schemes at EU level. Together we can achieve a sustainable recovery for the creative and cultural sectors across Europe.”

Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel said: “Cultural and creative sectors have the unique power to improve lives, create community bonds, generate jobs and growth and to inspire other sectors of activities. It was high time to accompany cultural actors in their search for European funds and to gather in one single guide all the funding opportunities the EU offer them. This unprecedented mapping allows all cultural actors to find the best European funding for them among 75 opportunities in just three clicks. I trust that this guide will further contribute to making our funds more accessible to all cultural organisations and help them on their way to a sustainable recovery.”

image from EC press release

The guide was developed to help all types and sizes of partners working in the cultural and creative sectors to navigate the EU funding landscape, to understand which opportunities are available to them, and ultimately help them to access EU funding more easily. Interested parties can automatically filter relevant funding opportunities based on their needs, their sector and the type of organisation they represent. It is supplemented by inspiring examples and best practices. CulturEU will be regularly updated with the most recent information on new calls coming out, and will be available in all EU languages in early 2022.

The cultural and creative sectors have been hit hard by the wide-ranging restrictions, set in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, the Commission has taken numerous measures to address the consequences of the coronavirus crisis on the creative and cultural sectors, by complementing and supporting actions by Member States: financial support, cooperation at EU level while respecting national competences, and investment.

Actions taken at EU level until now to support the creative and cultural sectors include:

Increasing EU financial support to the cultural and creative sectors, with almost €2.5 billion from Creative Europe, and close to €2 billion from Horizon Europe dedicated to cultural, creative and inclusive projects from 2021 to 2027;
Dedicating funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Approving national aid under the State aid Temporary Framework for a total amount of over €420 million;
Publishing EU guidelines on the safe reopening and recovery of the sector;
Launching a dedicated platform, Creatives Unite, for artists, performers and other cultural and creative professionals to share information and initiatives and exchange ideas. This platform now has over 43,000 users.

The Commission continues to coordinate and facilitate exchanges at EU level to reflect on the current challenges and opportunities faced by the cultural and creative sectors.

For More Information: CulturEU funding guide

HUB-IN, EU H2020 project

Hubs of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Transformation of Historic Urban Areas

HUB-IN is an EU H2020 project focused on the transformation and regeneration of historic urban areas (HUAs) while preserving their unique cultural and social identity and environment.
The project identifies different HUAs:

Historic town or city centres
Historic areas which are outside of the town or city centre
Historic areas that focus on the wider urban values that define the identity and character of the town, city, or place.

8 pilot cities will work on a selected historic area of their territory and transform it in a “Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”.

The selected HUB-IN cites are: Belfast, UK; Brasov, Romania; Genova, Italy; Grand Angoulême, France; Lisbon, Portugal; Nicosia, Cyprus; Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia; Utrecht, The Netherlands.
They are very different but share the same values and vision:
innovation and entrepreneurship are key catalysts for promoting and implementing the transformation and regeneration of HUAs; this transformation must be achieved by preserving the identity and the unique cultural and social values of each historical area.

The project intends to adopt a human-connected approach, that has long-term impacts. Purposes are:

the revitalisation of historic heritage
the creation of new sustainable opportunities for local traditional businesses
the development of new creative skills and jobs

Discover more on HUB-IN here.

For More Information: CulturEU funding guide

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