The focus of this theme is on the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of people and communities to participate in cultural heritage. Under the Council of Europe’s Faro Convention, everyone has the right to their own cultural heritage and a responsibility to respect the heritage of others. Achieving these objectives requires measures that increase the visibility and awareness of cultural heritage. The three objectives of the theme emphasise involvement in promoting cultural heritage, recognising its diversity, and the significance of cultural heritage as a resource that supports society and wellbeing.
1.1. Everyone’s right to cultural heritage is realised. Cultural heritage is actively promoted
- Everyone’s equal rights and opportunities to participate in and influence cultural heritage will be supported. Especially the realisation of minorities’ rights to cultural heritage will be supported.
- Cultural heritage actors’ competence in equality will be strengthened.
- The realisation of the rights of different groups to cultural heritage will be monitored during the strategy period.
- Tensions and conflicts related to cultural heritage will be identified and analysed. Interactive and conciliatory operating models will be created for dealing with them.
1.2. Recorded and protected cultural heritage reflects a diverse society
- Different operating methods will be developed in the documentation, recording, preserving and transmission of culturally diverse cultural heritage.
- Cultural heritage will be used diversely.
- The availability and accessibility of cultural heritage services and contents will be ensured in the whole country.
- Digital recording and technological choices will be used to ensure long-term preservation, usability, availability and accessibility of cultural heritage data.
1.3. The broad societal significance of cultural heritage has been recognised. Cultural heritage is a resource that increases everyone’s wellbeing
- Public, third and private sector actors in the cultural heritage sector and the science community will distribute information on the societal impact of cultural heritage.
- Multidisciplinary cooperation will be used to increase knowledge of the impact of cultural heritage on wellbeing and to develop operating models for taking advantage of them.
- The up-to-dateness and development of the economic, administrative and legislative operating conditions will be ensured.
- Alongside the national development of the measures protecting tangible and intangible cultural heritage and cultural property, Finland will participate in international cooperation of the sector in the key forums.