Cultural Heritage sector dynamics across Europe: Exploring gaps and needs in professional development

Continuing the 3-webinars series in partnership with CHARTER - the European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance, funded by Erasmus+, the second ENCATC Members Talk will focus on sharing insights into processes of mapping and analysing dynamics of cultural heritage professionals and other stakeholders’ engagement, synergies and skills in terms of needs and shortages in the cultural heritage sector.

The Members Talk will allow to learn on different ways to cross-analyse cultural heritage professional systems in regard to education and training supply to improve gaps and needs in skills and competences derived from the digital shift to sustainable green and blue growth and social and territorial dynamics.

Who is a stakeholder in cultural heritage? Which roles do different stakeholders play and how do they interact? What are their interests and influence on education and training systems? Findings to these questions will be addressed by speakers, introducing an understanding of cultural heritage as an economic sector and labour market with interacting stakeholders in anticipated roles, whose dynamics, skills and competences will affect the quality of heritage as a resource and common good.

Connected to this point, participants will be introduced to the CHARTER Alliance’s forecast of possible gaps and needs in education, training, and labour market for heritage professionals. Speakers will shed a light on how these gaps and needs might affect the development of professional activities within the field of heritage and propose possible solutions, such as recognising the value of non-formal and informal learning methods.