Recommendations

Commission

Green Deal

• Develop a concerted approach, in dialogue with the sector, to fully harness the power of culture in the Green Deal, mobilizing culture’s capacity to raise awareness and empower people to create a sustainable world; • Propose a comprehensive strategy on culture and sustainability in local and regional communities; • Facilitate the building of a Culture for Climate Coalition to co-create a participatory community to support the changes needed for a climate-neutral society; • Invite member states to share their national experiences in greening the cultural sector under the Recovery and

Resilience Plans, and identify good practices; • Together with partners, develop a ‘Team

Europe’ approach to preserve and promote cultural sustainability around the world.

Digital Europe

• Assess the digital competitiveness of the cultural sector, and identify gaps and priorities; • Support the cultural and creative sectors in countering the risks of algorithmic biases inherent in global platforms; • Include the cultural sector in all digital policies and instruments, including the

Digital Education Action Plan, the Digital

Skills initiative, the Artificial Intelligence

Strategy, and the Digital Innovation Hubs; • Invite Member States to share their national experiences in digitizing the cultural sector under the Recovery and

Resilience Plans, and identify good practices. Economic policy

• Include the competitiveness of the creative economy in the coordination of the national Recovery and Resilience

Plans and the Country-Specific

Recommendations under the European

Semester; • Propose a European strategy to promote sustainable cultural tourism; • Include culture’s contribution to health into the EU Health Union and the

EU4Health Programme; • Propose measures to improve the status and working conditions of artists; • Improve coordination between EU financial instruments and enhance transparency; • Develop a new legal and fiscal framework for European philanthropy.

External relations

• Propose an EU Action Plan to promote the role of culture as an enabler and driver of sustainable development (social, economic, environmental); • Create a European Forum for Culture and the Sustainable Development to enable a regular dialogue with cultural organizations and experts; • Review the effectiveness (impact) of EU policy and legislation to combat illicit trafficking in art and antiquities.

European way of life

• Develop a comprehensive approach to skills development in the cultural and creative sectors; • Revitalize EU policy with respect to citizen education; • Mobilize the power of culture in EU policy to combat racism and promote inclusion; • Propose an EU strategy to combat

Islamophobia and foster Islamic life.

New push for European democracy

• Use all legal and financial powers to defend and promote media freedom across the EU, including in response to undue media concentration and abuse of state advertising; • Speak out against infringements of cultural rights such as academic and media freedom in individual EU member states.

Horizontal aspects

• Develop an integral approach to culture across policy areas; • Improve policy visibility online; • Invest in independent evaluation of project impacts; • Clarify the legal definition of cultural and creative industries; • Strengthen outreach to and concertation with cultural and creative sectors.

EEAS and Commission

• Integrate cultural policy into the new

EU Strategic Compass for security and defence (2022); • Propose a Joint Communication on

Freedom of Cultural Expression and prioritize diplomatic and financial support for cultural rights around the world; • Invite EU ambassadors to host public events celebrating International Days relevant to cultural freedom.

Council and Commission

• Propose a broad-ranging and innovative

Cultural Heritage Partnership with Africa, based on cooperation among equals; • Speak out against China’s dual strategy of blocking and censoring European cultural expressions in China while interfering with cultural freedoms in Europe.

European Parliament

• Encourage sectoral Committees as well as Delegations to regard culture as a transversal concern.

Member States

• Increase support to EUNIC and invite national EUNIC members to devote at least 10% of their annual budget to

European cooperation.