European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 - Aims of the year

The European Year of Cultural Heritage aims to:

• encourage people to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural heritage
• celebrate, understand and protect its unique value
• reflect on the place that cultural heritage occupies in all our lives

European cultural heritage allows us to understand the past and to look to our future. By highlighting cultural heritage in 2018, we will emphasise:

• how it builds stronger societies
• how it creates jobs and prosperity
• its importance for our relations with the rest of the world
• what can be done to protect it. More...