#1 Policy Recommendation Area
Anchor cultural heritage institutions’ public mission in the digital realm
1.2 Create and expand existing capacity building opportunities for cultural heritage institutions, empowering their operations in the digital realm
Target Stakeholders
Policy makers at the EU and national level
Heritage Networks
Recommendation
Further tailored capacity building opportunities should be introduced and financed at the European and national levels, allowing cultural heritage professionals to fully embrace the challenges and opportunities tied to digital transformation and the potential innovative role of cultural heritage institutions in the digital operational mode. Capacity building should reflect the fact that digitisation is a cross departmental issue that needs to be recognised and addressed at all the operational levels. The main focus of capacity building efforts, especially through funded training for CHIs, should seek to achieve:
- New knowledge, competencies, skills and behaviours in cultural heritage institutions, empowering them to be fully operational in the digital realm in line with their public mission and in connection to all the relevant communities;
- Set of skills and awareness on how to use copyright to fulfil the public mission of the cultural heritage institution, empowering the reuse of their collections, especially in the digital realm;
- A mindset shift among cultural heritage professionals, promoting more agile, public interest led, democratic and community-focused, and if adequate also community-driven, operational models.
Capacity building should not be limited, however, only to CHI professionals. It must also involve education and empowerment of the stakeholder communities.
