Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Culture, welcomes the official launch of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 today at the European Culture Forum in Milan.
The European Year of Heritage is an initiative proposed by Germany and supported by France whose ambition is to reaffirm the cultural unity of Europe.
The European Year of Cultural Heritage, will be based on a principle of labelling projects that promote economic dynamism, social and environmental cohesion of heritage both at national and European level.
The label will be awarded by each country.
In France, the Minister of Culture wanted the labelling procedure to be decentralized to the regional cultural affairs directorates.
It also insisted that all fields of heritage be concerned: industrial, archaeological, intangible, cinematographic, audiovisual, artistic, musical, etc.
The Ministry of Culture is launching a website dedicated to the European Year in France: patrimoineeurope2018.fr
Project promoters will find an application form for labelling, and the selected events will be presented
Recurrent national events organized or supported by the Ministry of Culture each year will be under the theme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, including:
- All at the opera (May 5 and 6, 2018) ;
- the European Night of Museums (19 May 2018) , including the the Class, the work can be declined in Europe.
- the See you at the Gardens(June 1, 2 and 3, 2018) The theme for 2018 will be “Garden Europe”, which for the first time this year expands to five European countries (Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia);
- the Festival of Music (June 21) ;
- the European Heritage Days (September 15 and 16, 2018) which will take place under the theme of “The Art of Sharing”;
- National Architecture Days (October 19, 20 and 21, 2018) https://journeesarchitecture.culturecommunication.gouv.fr
- National Archaeology Days (15, 16 and 17 June 2018)
The European Heritage Conference announced by the President of the Republic will be organized. All these projects, events and events will be an opportunity to highlight the work of all heritage stakeholders and professionals in Europe. It will also launch a pilot project on the mobility of heritage professionals.
All of this is part of a proactive European strategy for France, particularly with regard to heritage, which, as the President of the Republic recalled in his speech in Athens last September for the refoundation of Europe, “… is one of the common foundations of European civilization”.