Cultural Heritage & Climate Policy Engagement

The British Council is a partner in the EU Horizon funded European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage.

The European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage aims to enhance the preservation of cultural heritage while addressing the impacts of climate change and promoting sustainable practices. It aligns with the European Green Deal and the Creative Europe programme, facilitating research on heritage resilience and sustainable management.

The British Council is leading two strands of this EU Horizon funded partnership programme:

Accelerating transfer to policy and society: a living labs approach which positions Living Labs as both a testing ground for emerging findings across the partnership and a long-term participatory infrastructure for embedding cultural heritage within relevant climate change and sustainability and green transitions.

Fostering international collaboration which focuses on Cultural Heritage and Climate Policy Engagement including the developing an international engagement strategy for the Partnership and engagement with policy platforms.

The purpose of the British Council’s Research and Insight (R&I) function is to systematically generate useful new knowledge that will achieve impact for our mission and for UK and overseas stakeholders.

We support the British Council to be an organisation guided by evidence, knowledge and insight, one that is confident in its voice as a cultural relations thought leader and a credible partner, and one that is generous in sharing its knowledge and insight in core areas.