Francesc Pla: "The aim of the Faro Convention is that citizens should also be the main actors in heritage management"



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## Francesc Pla: "The aim of the Faro Convention is that citizens should also be the main actors in heritage management"

18/07/2022 |
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Heritage and people have become the focus of the second day of the course "ODS 8 Culture. Strategies for employment in the cultural sector" framed within the UJI Summer University 2022. The intervention of the programme manager of the Faro Convention of the European Council, Francesc Pla, made it clear that "within culture, one of the important parts to develop is heritage", as stated in the principles of the Faro Convention, a programme adopted by the European Council in 2005.

The expert emphasised the human aspect, which he considers "fundamental" for the development of the initiatives of the Council of Europe's programme, an aspect that "differentiates it from other more neutral cultural manifestations where people are only spectators". According to Francesc Pla, "the aim is for people to be the main actors in the management of heritage through heritage communities", although the delegation of responsibility can sometimes be complemented by the public administration.

Pla pointed out that "we have to make people understand that heritage is not something that can only be managed from above, but that it has many possibilities for being worked on from below". In this sense, the manager of the Faro Convention's programme valued the work of different projects in which "it has been civil society that has made it possible to preserve and enhance heritage", an element that "is not a dead thing, but is an element of the present and future, and perhaps very important in contemporary societies".

In his speech, Pla presented the main principles of this European programme and stressed "how these principles can encourage sustainable development and also increase people's quality of life". The Faro Convention was very innovative in 2005, and today, many initiatives that are being developed throughout Europe are in line with its objectives.

In this sense, it has to be said that Spain has already been ratified as a member of the Faro Convention and "we are already working with the Ministry of Culture to see how this agreement can be translated into concrete projects for society", concludes Pla.

The course brings together different points of view of specialists that allow us to observe with greater precision what is and what should be the focus of cultural projects in the future. Among them is the honorary director of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policies, Alfons Martinell, who stated that "there can be no sustainable development without investment in the cultural system". The expert in cultural management maintains that "when cultural conditions improve, social development improves". Martinell considers "transversality in culture to be necessary, as it completes its direct action, while at the same time it is a way of thinking in favour of transformative development".

In this sense, Martinell explained that "funds to invest in culture do not have to think in terms of a closed, endogenous cultural system, and the 2030 Agenda obliges us to dialogue and take into account aspects such as the environment, gender equality or the digital divide, a fact that will allow culture to leave our ghetto".

The day continued with a round table discussion on "The European dimension of culture. Strategies and funds", in which different cultural initiatives and projects at European level were analysed. Participants included Augusto Paramio, coordinator of the Creative Europe Programme at the Ministry of Culture and Sport; Francesc Pla, manager of the Council of Europe's Faro Convention programme; Silvia Rodríguez, from the Sub-Directorate General for the Management and Coordination of Cultural Assets at the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and Roberto Ramos, from the Association for Cultural Cooperation Multilateral.

The afternoon will have a more European character with the participation of Francisco Antunes de Paiva, executive director of Covilha's candidacy for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, who will speak about local creative projects in Portugal; Lluís Bonet, director of the Cultural Management Programme of the University of Barcelona, who will give a lecture on "Effectiveness and hybridisation between levels of government of cultural policies in Europe in the face of the cultural employment crisis".

The day and the course will conclude with a panel discussion on cultural experiences being carried out, such as PAX-Patios de la Axerquía (Córdoba), to be presented by Carlos Anaya; the Almasani Association (Serbia), to be presented by Violeta Derkovic, and the ODS PEU project of the Universitat Jaume I, to be presented by Ángela López, from Arae Patrimonio y Restauración.

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