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Report available of the European Maritime Day.
6/30/2009

The second workshop had as title: Raising awareness of common maritime heritage as a cultural pillar of the integrated maritime policy.

Three key messages included on the reporting slide for the last plenary session • The variety of individual projects all over Europe proves that there is a common maritime heritage which could be used as the cultural pillar of an integrated maritime policy. • However, only a small part of the projects are visibly labelled as European and thus are not perceived by the European public as a genuine European maritime heritage. Others are either too specific or too specialised to be perceived by a larger public as of general European importance. Especially the latter deserve more and more widespread recognition – a task which could be fulfilled by European institutions. • Taken into consideration that the European institutions should not act normatively it seems reasonable to focus on a few but carefully chosen projects related to our common maritime heritage. Here the European Commission could e.g. provide for a framework in which a network of projects could be embedded. The projects accepted should be carefully selected and fulfil certain criteria like quality, European dimension, public interest to safeguard both standard and sustainability.



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