Urban Agenda for the EU | Partnership on Culture/Cultural Heritage

Adopted in May 2016, The Pact of Amsterdam launched the Urban Agenda for the EU, an EU-wide urban policy initiative concerned with multi-level governance: an umbrella for all urban policy initiatives. It enables cities, Member States, the European Commission and other key stakeholders to come together to jointly address urban issues within the regulatory framework of the EU and provide the EU with more on-the-ground data. Most actions under the Urban Agenda for the EU are delivered through partnerships, each made up of a variety of members. The aim of the Partnership on Culture/Cultural Heritage is to enable municipalities, Member States, EU institutions and interest groups, NGOs and Partners from the industry to work together on an equal footing to find solutions that improve the management of the historic built environment of European cities, promote Culture, and preserve the quality of urban landscapes and heritage. By increasing their knowledge about current and future trends/challenges linked to Culture and social inclusion (this can be about intercultural dialogue, about participation to Culture, about participatory governance of Cultural Heritage etc.), cities will develop policies that have more impact on the targeted population. There will be one peer learning visit (online or on-site, depending on sanitary conditions allowing traveling or not) to test the methodology. The visit will focus on a specific topic linked to Culture and social inclusion. Topics that could be covered during the peer learning activities (to be decided with members of the Partnership) include, among others, also: developing new Partnerships at local level within the Culture sector and other sectors, including social inclusion, health and wellbeing, migration and integration The final scope is to provide a specific tool that can be used also by other initiatives at EU level, specifically dealing with the topics mentioned above.
The Partnership has several strategies, including one for enlarging and enhancing the role of cultural urban services to strengthen the well-being of citizens (Strategy 5).