The 46 Member States of the Council of Europe adopted on 20 May 2022 a Recommendation on the role of culture to address global challenges. The Recommendation affirms culture’s transformative role in sustainable development and calls for the full recognition and integration of culture into relevant policies.
Culture - notably through rituals, celebrations and performances - is a strong trigger of universal emotion (fears, anger, happiness, pride or desire), which in turn drives motivation to do things and guide our thoughts and decisions. Artists and cultural workers can play an important role in generating the collective will to act and the solidarity required to address global challenges and to “imagine’ a world that makes sense.
The Recommendation calls for a new understanding of the contribution of culture and its transformative capacity. It proposes various policy objectives and measures aimed at fostering a local approach (to empower people and communities) as well as a global approach (to encourage international cooperation) in order to generate a collective ambition based on empathy and solidarity.
Read the recommendation
here.
