GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Applications should also ensure that proposals targets all the following aspects:

• promote inclusiveness, diversity and equality in the field of cultural heritage, notably by addressing all people, and in particular young and elderly people through communication campaigns (online and offline), engaging and empowering projects as well as offering training opportunities
• advocate solutions which make cultural heritage accessible to all by removing social, cultural and physical barriers, taking into account people with special needs
• contribute to the green transformation and the fight against climate change and environmental degradation, notably by mobilising cultural heritage stakeholders to address the most pressing topics of environmental threats, climate change and cultural heritage, both as a threat to cultural heritage and as an opportunity to develop adaptation and mitigation measures;
• facilitate interactive online advocacy and develop a knowledge platform gathering relevant policy and project documents and news from cultural heritage stakeholders at all governance levels. If possible, this platform should be in more than one language
• to conduct research and analysis of important topical issues, emerging trends and phenomena with regards to cultural heritage to support evidenced-based policy-making
• to arrange capacity-building activities of cultural heritage organisations with regards, among others, to EU policies, programmes, funding opportunities as well as the green and digital transition
• to deepen the educational value and awareness of Europe’s cultural heritage ecosystem especially to younger generations during and following the European Year of Youth
• to contribute to the safeguarding of cultural heritage at risk, from sudden and catastrophic events as well as from gradual and cumulative processes.