Traduction de «Groupe de travail sur le patrimoine culturel » (Français → Anglais) :

Discussions, for instance, are under way to create chairs in social entrepreneurship in our universities, to develop requests for proposals on social cohesion and community development, more evaluation projects on our social programs, targeted research on the social and economic determinants of health, on the changing nature of work and our cultural heritage, and on Canada's place in the changing world order, etc.

Although the protection and conservation of common European culture should belong to our priorities, economic figures presented at the Forum show a different model: "It is alarming that, for example, the car industry in Europe has 12 million employees, but institutions responsible to take care of the cultural heritage have only 8 million employees," stressed Terje Nypan, Chairman of the Working Group on EU legislation and its impact on cultural heritage. He also pointed out that this sector can provide environmental benefits and has e ...[+++]xceptional employment possibilities as well.

1. pursue the initiatives it has already launched to contribute more effectively to the protection of the Member States' cultural heritage and to the effective functioning of the mechanisms set up by Regulation (EEC) No 3911/92 and by Directive 93/7/EEC and develop, if necessary, other initiatives, for example a work programme, in the context of the Advisory Committee on cultural goods.

Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations: - Workshop on the conservation of cultural heritage (preparatory workshop to the Bologna Conference on cultural heritage), on 9-10 February 1996 in Arles - Workshop on the access to cultural heritage (preparatory workshop to the Bologna Conference on cultural heritage), on 23-24 February 1996 in Berlin - Workshop on the heritage as a factor in sustainable development (preparatory workshop to the Bologna Conference on the cultural heritage), on 22-23 March 1996 in Amman - Ministerial Conference on cultural heritage, on 22-23 April 1996 in Bologna - Conference on relations between the Islamic ...[+++]world and Europe, on 10-13 June 1996 in Amman - Conference on contemporary Islam, on 17-18 June 1996 in Copenhagen Fight against Drug and organized crime: - Officials Meeting on drug trafficking and organized crime, on 11-12 June 1996 in Taormina INSTITUTIONAL CONTACTS Institutional contacts were envisaged in the work programme defined in Barcelona to contribute to a better understanding of the issues relevant in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

A jury of independent experts shortlisted 126 projects from the 935 submitted to the Commission.1 The projects selected fall into the following categories:2 - contemporary artistic creativity (theatre, dance, music, literature, plastic arts and any multimedia artistic expression); priority is given to workshops developing cooperation within the Community or with non-member countries; - familiarity with Europe's cultural heritage; this covers projects to raise awareness and promote research ...[+++]aimed at preserving the cultural heritge in the broad sense. Restoration is excluded since it is covered by the Community's architectural heritage programme.

I was part of the Working Group on Cultural Policy for the 21st Century, organized by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and that group recommended—and I can condense this—that the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Sheila Copps, continue her efforts to develop broad international consensus with governments of our international partners to adopt measures to affirm cultural sovereignty in Canada and beyond, to secure cultural pluralism ...[+++]in a globalized world, and to harness the powers of new technologies as tools.